It’s funny, in OW I want them to call supports healers because of the dps moira. In WoW it’s the opposite, should be called supports in mmo based on player behaviour.
Healing would be way too stressful if it wasn’t balanced around having to heal big moments, maintain basic healing on tank with something like a HoT, and dealing damage most other times. If content was designed around only healing, imagine how fast and frequently health bars would have to drain. Healing isn’t an easy role no matter what, so I’d rather have my stressful big heal requirement moments balanced out with simple damage rotation moments.
As a healer it really really does not take that much effort to hit SWP and holy fire in free time, namely when the pull starts and there is nothing to do.
Healers are not drowning in super complex builds and abilities, most of my spells don’t get touched.
Standing around watching the dps take 0 damage and the tank mitigating all the damage they take on the boss
“Nope, I’m just gunna stand here in case I need to throw a renew on someone, it’s a good thing for me to do nothing for 2 minutes because I am only here to heal”
No one is asking you to dot them all, no one is saying you have to play a perfect DPS rotation. The argument is more along the lines of ‘healer is active 35-45% of the fight… why are they not doing anything?’
Healers have CC and debuffs, they can throw those out, it is like healing as it stops the party from taking damage. But if pressing SWP is too much for someone I can’t see them knowing how to chastise the big caster as a kick, saving on having to dump a healing CD.
Outgoing damage is high because of the melee meta. The best compositions in keys are three melee. But it’s felt more at low levels because mediocre melee get hit by a lot. Mediocre rdps usually don’t take nearly as much damage as mediocre mdps.
Hopefully, as people learn the dungeons, the crazy avoidable damage mdps are taking decreases.
If PWS = 1 GCD
And there is 1 mob - sure fine…use a GCD to dot the mob
But if there are several - like the ones in the tree boss Alegth’ar - then you would be wasting GCD’s try to dot all those whilst considering there is the possibility of significant damage going on.
What do you do then? use PWS when the mob is like almost dead? wasted GCD at that point - could be topping off the group
It’s those types of decisions that healers can do with out because it’s their job to heal.
Alright, lets think logically. Why would I press PWS when the fight is done? Why would I use a proactive shield to heal? Logically I would throw out a divine star or start moving ahead to the next trash pack as the others have it handled and being a slower class I don’t hold people back and can even drop feathers.
You are also trying to use nuance in a very terrible way. Of course you don’t dot a mob that is about to die, you would use a more solid upfront attack. Again, throwing out a SWP and holy fire in your free time on the boss and the add is not some crazy task.
I am a healer, and I would honestly quit this game of boredom if 100% of my time in group content was only pressing buttons 40% of the time. My job is to heal, but just like a job it’s not so cut and dry from a title, I am expected to CC, to help burn down an add, to do mechanics during my free time. Like imagine taking pride in doing as little as possible, when I play a game I want to play, not look for how little I can play.
Yea, let me ask you how will mistweaver and disc priest coz they heal when they do damage. So does that mean we should never ever run with a mistweave and a disc priest?
If they don’t do damage then dps and tank should not have to use their def CD, interrupt mobs, or get out of avoidable damage, not using any hp pots right. Coz is the healer’s job to hear everyone.
if you cant understand context you probably should just not be on the internet
healer please dps= healer do damage when the party is healthy. nobody is telling you to tunnel vision dps they’re say throw a dot cast smite, crusader strike ect when you have free gcd’s cuz if youre standing their casting nothing waiting for someone to take damage your wasting everyones time your playing with.
You don’t DoT all of them, you do it case-by-case.
Ideally, you first get PW:Shield and Renew on your tank, then do the Support Checklist™:
Is my Tank in dangerous health or about to die from a tankbuster?
Is any member of my group (including myself) at dangerous health levels or about to take party/raid-wide damage?
Is there an upcoming mechanic that will require big healing throughput to get everyone healthy afterward, or something I need to try and stop by myself (Chastise)?
Is the answer to all of those ‘no’? Then throw the SWP or Smite or Holy Fire. Then, after that cast, do the Checklist™ again. Rinse and repeat. You don’t decide ‘I’ll spend the next 10 GCDs DoTing up the enemy mob’ because unless your tank and DPS are amazing at mitigation that’s how you wipe.
Case-by-case, people.
Why do you care about topping off the group? Your tank will be at or near 100% by the time we reach the next group of enemies, so toss damage out there. As long as everyone is above 0% at the end of the fight, you did your job right.
No, you’re support. Your job is to make sure the party clears the content, just like every other member of the group, by using your entire kit, not just the ones that produce green numbers.
Words do have meaning. You are now not allowed to do ANYTHING AT ALL IN WOW except for hunting demons, because you are a demon hunter. You are not allowed to gather, use professions, raid anything that isn’t a demon, kill anything that isn’t a demon, do any quests that don’t involve hunting demons, or use any part of your skillset that doesn’t directly involve hunting demons.
