Comments on: 5 Barriers of a Raid Healer – Part 5: Healing Against Your Will

By: anonymouse

anonymouse — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:38:00 +0000

Even disregarding spec some healers (and tanks) have the “I feel guilty when I say no” complex and put a lot of pressure on themselves, or imagine they are being pressured by others. This can lead to burnout.

People like that need to be aware of it and take care of themselves first. Don’t overcommit to schedules they can’t keep, have a plan when they log in to just say “sorry I’m busy with x” when they want to do x, etc.

By: Kilm

Kilm — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:06:47 +0000

“I also enjoy healing, but what I donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t like is not being able to solo with a healer spec. ItÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s retarded and quite annoying when you have to solo anything, like dailies or farming mats for a profession. Granted, it would be overpowered if healers could kill stuff as quickly and effectively as a rogue or hunter. But as is, itÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s just painful.”

I’m assuming you play a druid; I spec 11/0/50 for insect swarm and I throw on spell damage gear (you can even really do this in healing gear since they redid the conversion on heal->spell power) – can I do dailies as fast as a pala/mage aoe grind? Probably not, but its more than acceptable to get the farming done in a timely fashion which I need to get done.

By: Kilm

Kilm — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:04:10 +0000

“Players that have DPSÃ¢â‚¬â„¢d their entire WoW career undergo a period of adjustment. They need to get familiar with spell cast sequence, positioning, healing strategy and so forth.”

This in particular is one of my largest pet peeves when it comes to RLs asking non healers to heal; its not so bad when great patience is exorcised – but when a RL asks dps players to do this with overexpectations of success is when I get annoyed.

Healing is a pretty distracting task and most people really don’t realize the effort and experience it takes to be an exceptional healer in meaningful progression.

Anyone can be a spare donut tire on a car – but you’re not going far for long without 4 solid wheels.

By: Agrona

Agrona — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:29:13 +0000

“IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m a worldclass healer”…you can heal?

By: Mama Druid

Mama Druid — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:55:50 +0000

I also enjoy healing, but what I don’t like is not being able to solo with a healer spec. It’s retarded and quite annoying when you have to solo anything, like dailies or farming mats for a profession. Granted, it would be overpowered if healers could kill stuff as quickly and effectively as a rogue or hunter. But as is, it’s just painful.

By: Matticus!

Matticus! — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:58:43 +0000

Doug: Then there’s no issue here at all. Some people like to do a bit of everything. The point is if you’re asking a Shadow Priest to switch holy for the sake of needing a full time healer and he doesn’t like it, then that’s a bad thing.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:12:21 +0000

What if you love all a(spec)ts of your class, from PVP disc, IDS Holy, CoH Holy, to Shadow DPS?

This is the situation I’m in: Pre BC, I was a healer. I leveled as a healer, and cleared everything except AQ40 and Naxx. After BC came out I went shadow to speed up the leveling process. Then my priest was my only 70 toon, so I stayed shadow to farm. I started raiding as shadow mostly because that was my current spec. When not raiding, I worked on leveling a lock to 70. Raided as shadow into BT/Hyjal, then my guild was looking for more healers, but as a ‘well geared shadow priest’ (1300 unbuffed shadow damage) with a half decent healing set, they were concerned about my ability to just jump into healing T6 content. Well, I’ve made the jump back to healing and am loving it. I dont NEED to be DPS spec, because I can just have my lock cover all of my farming needs. Since I was ‘undergeared’ for healing, I picked up some spell haste gear and am able to keep up with the rest of the healers. Now I just need to work on watching more than green bars.

By: Matticus!

Matticus! — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:11:49 +0000

Zahrah: Can’t say I know what you’re going through =(. I absolutely LOVE healing. But I can imagine what you’re missing: The awesomeness of dealing 4 digit numbers.

Nauloera: Yes, you’re absolutely right. That does apply for certain specs. But do not forget that there are some bosses which could be immune to fire or frost damage, for instance. Although in the case of a mage, a DPS spec is still a DPS spec =).

By: Zahrah

Zahrah — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:24:36 +0000

I’ve been asked to respec for 10mans – and have done it, and Hated every moment –
I don’t mind healing for some stuff – like trash – as a support/emergency healer – and will do that without being asked. If a main healer is down, and the tank is dying – its easy to step up and make sure as many survive fight as possible, but I am not comfortable as a healer full time – I always feel like Im missing out on something.

By: Amandine

Amandine — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:00:08 +0000

I love healing. I want to roll holy/resto of all the healing classes, but I have a shadow priest as well as a holy one. My shadow priest is nowhere near raiding — She just got shadowform and level 40 tonight after a level 70 friend said Damnit Emmy you’re going to be 40 tonight and ran me through SM cath from one bubble into 39 til I dung…

BUT every time I go to do an instance at level I heal. Even if theres a Druid or shaman in the mparty or in one memorbale case a HOLY PRIEST (the holy priest thought it was his job to MC things).

I Love healing but when I heal on Emoni I feel gimped… and I don’t want to change her spec caus e I love her for dps/future mana return.

So.. the whole being forced into a role cause it’s “needed” doesn’t lead to happy players, doesn’t lead ti stable gulds, leads to broken raids and burnt out humans.

Actually, my level 70 warrior friend has the same issue — she’s fury spec and gets OMG Warriors can’t dps respec!