Disheartened healer annoyed with Shadowbringers' difficulty

[Xelanar]

This goes to show how much previous expansions focused our healer mindset towards DPS. Shadowbringers is but a step towards making things 'right' again by having healers actually heal.

I can tell this much however: I had more trouble healing while still leveling than I have now on expert dungeons. People are not only geared better, they also know how dungeons flow, when to use mitigation cooldowns ect. It still is more demanding that stormblood was, but no longer to a point where I feel overwhelmed by all the incoming party damage, specially on tanks during big pulls.

So don't get discouraged by feeling underpowered in comparison to Stormblood. Also If you feel uncomfortable with tanks pulling too much - ask them to slow down.

[Beelhi]

This goes to show how much previous expansions focused our healer mindset towards DPS. Shadowbringers is but a step towards making things 'right' again by having healers actually heal.

Tell that to the 90% dps uptime in extreme trials.
Even in leveling dungeons I spend most of my time dps'ing because there is so little healing requirements except for a few bosses that dish out some decent aoe damage but that's more of a "not outgearing content anymore" issue than them actually changing anything.

[Videra]

This goes to show how much previous expansions focused our healer mindset towards DPS. Shadowbringers is but a step towards making things 'right' again by having healers actually heal.

Shadowbringers hasn't done anything, it's just that the vast majority of the sudden influx of tanks are hot garbage. Healing is still the same 'Press Glare 98% of the time' role.

[HyoMinPark]

This goes to show how much previous expansions focused our healer mindset towards DPS. Shadowbringers is but a step towards making things 'right' again by having healers actually heal.

I feel like this statement doesn’t apply to WHM at all—I spend more time casting Holy than I do using healing GCDs/oGCDs in dungeons. With AST, you’d maybe have a point, as they do have to work harder to heal trash packs in dungeons compared to the other two healers. But on single-targets, there’s still a lot of down time for healers to DPS, just as there has been the last two expansions. I don’t find the healing any more or less difficult, personally.

[Urthdigger]

This goes to show how much previous expansions focused our healer mindset towards DPS. Shadowbringers is but a step towards making things 'right' again by having healers actually heal.

Spoken like a true DPS main

[Shurrikhan]

This goes to show how much previous expansions focused our healer mindset towards DPS. Shadowbringers is but a step towards making things 'right' again by having healers actually heal.

There's a difference between merely healing and playing a healer well. There is, however, absolutely no difference in how healers, on the whole, work between this expansion or any prior iteration of the game. We see merely a continuation of the usual trend: as healer oGCDs are added to or power-creeped, we need even fewer GCDs of healing.

If you want to spend the majority of your actually healing, I suggest you go find some min ilvl Extreme ARR content and solo-heal it so that you can at least go 50/50 on the healing to damage ratio.