I haven’t healed since WoTLK so I am completely new to retail healing.
And I must say, I was hating both dps specs of shaman, but then I tried resto and it feels good. The class doesn’t sound like a chain of explosions every time I press a button, it feels pleasant to play.
Resto felt so easy to pick up, The gameplay is super fun, your DPS rotation is ranged, players generally know to stand in rain near my totems I noticed so that is good. Resto is great. And from someone coming into the spec with no experience with it, it feels complete. I heard it was victim to major pruning…doesn’t feel that way to me.
Can’t say the same about Enhance and Elemental.
We had some pretty intense pulls last night in timewalking. I had a DH that did not stop and it was a great check for me. I love my cooldowns they feel good to use. It makes me curious to try other healers so I started a Monk.
Great perspective. I for one am in the camp that healing specs should have an easy back oven path in the talent trees, and a more complex one rewarding higher level of play through effort and understanding.
I dislike it when the community states holy priest, resto shaman are entry level healers .. it shouldn’t be this way. It’s an inverse of the vanilla hero classes, where they had the expectation of being more advanced and powerful through the proficiency of the player
Especially now with the addon changes. I’m already seeing longer ques because tanking and healing is becoming less tolerated by the players.
It’s not just more difficult because of us without tools to navigate the encounters, it’s DPS not knowing, and being punished by mechanics.. healers have to work even harder now to make up for the lack of performance of everyone
You realize that if a spell is there, nobody is forcing you to use it, right?
Resto Shamans lost Thunderstorm for example. It was a talent, so you didn’t even need to pick up the talent. But it was there if you wanted to. That was nice.
Now it’s just gone, and yes, the specialization is worse for it.
Yeah, it’s really evident who has not played classic in a long time/ever. MoP is the most complex of the classic expansions and it is similar if not a bit simpler even after the pruning. Before the pruning, pretty much every spec in retail was more complex than any spec in MoP.
