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The Dragonflight Healer Divide - AutomaticJak Discusses Healer Issues Affecting Raid & Mythic+ Differently
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2023/08/01 at 5:08 AM
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This week veteran healer and Wowhead Class Guide Writer, AutomaticJak, addresses some of the issues impacting healers in Dragonflight Season 2. Spike damage has permeated throughout both Mythic+ and Raid but have lead to some confusing conversations about whether healers are too strong or too weak in the current meta.
In Raid, overhealing runs rampant to the point where players never really drop low for very long leading to a yo-yo style of healing. While health pools are similar to those in Battle for Azeroth, the amount of healing players are putting out comparatively is significantly greater. Healers are stepping on each others toes leading to many raiders suggesting healers are too strong.
In Mythic+, that same spike damage profile pervades in order to continue to challenge healers in dungeon content. However, without any additional health buffer healers are struggling to spot heal allies before the next mechanic leading some players to suggest healers are too weak.
These opposing viewpoints have lead to some confusing conversations about how to fix healing in Dragonflight and whether it's even possible with the balance of each content type so inherently linked.
What do you think about the state of the Healing in Dragonflight? Does healing in Mythic+ and Raiding need to be balanced separately? Do you think Blizzard can address these issues in Patch 10.2's Season 3 or will healers have to wait for the next expansion?
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Anise
on 2023-09-13T06:05:48-05:00
Healers are constantly crying it seems. They cry when they actually have to heal as is the case right now and they cry when there are little healing requirements and they have to dps constantly so only the highest dps healers are meta.
Do you even heal at all? If so, then what class and at what level? Post your characters armory.
As resto since the last days of WOTLK i can say that when i got DF the healing required all of a sudden went through the roof. I was already nearly using every single GCD when healing as resto's cannot not heal as we rely on HoT's. So either they have HoT's or die due to the spikes. I found DF healing requirements to be insane. I no longer play and this is in part due to the "new healing". I was never the one who just sat on their ass. I was using spells all the time.
My guess is that you are just one of those dps that relied on healers when you make a mistake it seems.
Whne i say as resto that even with all hots, rejuve, regrowth and wild growth going at once on all and dual LB leggo the damage profile is too spikey i mean it. I left the game in part due to that. The story being boring was another matter. I did middle ranged keys up to 15 with %100 pugs. I almost never went to keys with guildies as i liked doing dungeons. So i am fairly experienced in the middle key range.
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