Why has healing been nerfed into the ground?

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Ret could probably press BoP, Divine Shield, Shield of Vengeance, and Divine Protection, and use a health potion and a healthstone instead of spending HP on WoG and you killed the boss faster

Spriest healing is really passive, pressing VE twice and Halo 3x is going to create a lot of healing. Should have been 40k HPS in that fight easily. On top of what Devouring Plague already gives them back with their refillable shield. Also has 2x dispersion which almost negate Earthshards entirely

That’s before you even get to Shamans healer CDs.

Did you guys stun the boss so it could stop spamming Earthshards or did you wait for it be 100 energy each time

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wrong boss, Halls of infusion, not uldaman.

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Oh thats my fault. Ice Lady is mostly a basic healer check but good DPS should be killing her shortly after the third ice nova or w/e it is called.

Those 3 parts should give everyone a personal def to use during the rot damage. Any longer and healer is just gonna OOM

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I don’t know if it’s as much that they nerfed healing, but completely abandoned the traditional trinity, it’s dependencies and made a different game.

Tanks now heal, DPS now tanks, and the game is more a dance dance check than a healing, DPS, or mitigation check. And if anything goes south everyone but the tank dies and the tank will sit there fighting a boss solo for a couple minutes, hopefully not wasting everyone’s time by dying at the end.

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I understand what utility we have.

I also understand she does 208,459 dps in a 20 Tyrannical.

Depends on kill times, but looking through logs the #5 shadow parse on the planet for that dungeon in a 20 on the same affix week that had similar times on the run and kill time of the boss and it was 30k hps.

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People get mad when Blizz ignores players and they get mad when they don’t. No way for them to win.

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Ehhh idk about this. Ret is pretty much invincible but we’re kind of an outlier…I think

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A lot of people don’t log M+ there’s plenty of better runs that just dont have data

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I guess we just can’t keep up with you and your 2550 and 2600 ratings from S1 and S2.

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I’m reminded of Naowh’s (member of Echo) tongue in cheek comment about making DPS do anything outside of pushing dps buttons is too much to expect.

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If i wanted to be higher I would. There is essentially no difference between 2600 and your 2700 ret.

Especially when you are in a M Raid guild and presumably have a group to play with. I exclusively PuG M+.

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Lol anyone can say that.

Whats the difference between 2950 and 2550?

I’ve pugged quite a bit. Plenty of people pug to 3k as well.

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I didn’t believe it when people said healers are rare now. But every time I log on to any character that is a healer in Valdrakken, if I stand around long enough, regardless of if my gear sucks, someone always ends up whispering me to come heal a key for them. It’s absolutely wild, I’ve never had that happen before this season.

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I think that’s a realm issue, I don’t have this happening.

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This is on Area 52. Granted, the people whispering me are usually not on Area 52 though.

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On Stormrage Alliance and haven’t experienced it. Still think that it’s literally one person as opposed to something en masse.

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fellow stormragian, whats your mains name? you play ret right

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Fauxstrasza preservation evoker.

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Very simple. M+ pushing the whole healers need to help out by dealing dmg is the source. M+ gets to the point when mistakes are instant kills so healers don’t get to do anything but dps. so we aren’t doing the intended roles because of the threat.

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that’s why there’s tons of rot damage now combined with instant kill mechanics

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