se does not understand scholar

[EaMett]

These sch threads wouldn’t be even seen if sch kept its entire dps kit. In 4.0 all I saw sch doing 90% of the time was casting dps skills and leaving the healing to their fairy and co healer. I can’t tell you how many times I was paired with a sch in 8 man and 24man raids on my ast and they barely did any healing. I’m seeing the same thing now with whm. Most of the ones I’ve been grouped with are doing dps 90% and using only afflatus, plenary and assize to get to misery. All I’m saying is there are healers out there who love the changes and being more healer oriented. However they get bullied and harassed. It’s ok if you find the changes boring. That’s ok. If someone wants to stand there and only heal then it’s ok. It’s doesn’t mean you have to harass and bully them and make them feel horrible because in your mind healers should have a dps rotation. That’s not how it works. It’s not right and it’s not fair to them. “But you’re not utilizing your entire kit that SE gave you so that makes you bad” come on really? When has SE ever said healers are required to dps. They aren’t. It’s not included in fights even savage. It’s bonus yes and that’s fine. “But if you’re just standing there you aren’t doing anything. People pay to play this game and have fun. Point blank period. As a healer I have to utilize my entire kit but the same doesn’t go for tanks and dps? Wall to wall pull and I’m struggling to keep the tank alive because they aren’t using defensive cds much but we have a rdm and the rdm just continues to dps when they have vercure to help me out. The tank dies. Paladin loses aggro and sees I’m taking allot of damage but doesn’t use clemency or cover, I die. They didn’t utilize abilities in their kit. Makes them baddie? Ex primal fight going well. Had some deaths but it’s ok and Everyone dps even healers and still get to enrage and can’t kill it. Must be dps fault since they couldn’t have been using their entire kit to make their damage stronger. SE makes healers more pure healer “oriented” and all I’ve been reading is healers are boring and they suck now. They took away all the dps skills and now they are boring. Well news flash. Some people actually like it and don’t want it to return to the way it was. Some like not having to fish for balance, some like having a powerful dps skill they are rewarded for using their lilies. Some like sch being able to heal allot better and doesn’t mind the dps got gutted. Some don’t like to dps as a healer, some love to dps. Some paladins don’t use clemency or cover and some rdm don’t use vercure. Flooding the forums with SE doesn’t know what they are doing with healers etc... I’m not saying the devs are perfect and I’m sure they will adjust jobs as they see fit. Bringing back all those dps skills to sch will only revert it back to 90% dps as it was and as whm is now. It’s nice to have feedback but when you just straight up harass and bully others to your mindset it is just wrong.

A lot of misinformation here. First of all, to play devils advocate here. If you’re the type of healer who needs HP bars to be full right after damage hits, your sch is going to let you solo heal everything. Even in savage during SB the fairy is something like 30% of your total healing output and that’s when you heal more than your co-healer. The thing is, sch toolkit is designed around healing party up right before the next incoming damage, not right after. A good sch will let the fairy do everything and right before damage hits will top-off/shield. How many times do I run content with healers that crush my fairy HoTs or heal people up right after we take damage, they can solo heal all the content if they’re so desperate, and definitely shouldn’t come here and complain.

Equally, if a whm with the current content is using his Afflatus skills and ogcd heals every chance he gets. He’s pretty much solo healing the content, that’s a far cry from them not healing and only dpsing.

Second piece of misinformation. Healer dps is required during prog and many other situations. Yes, SE test clears content without healer dps but that’s at the average ilvl for the content (not min ilvl) and what I’m assuming to be average skill level (50 percentile). This creates a lot of scenarios where healer dps is so beneficial it’s almost mandatory. (Aka If you’re under-geared or your party skill is more on casual end. It’s hard to complain about your dps contribution being low when your healer dps contribution is nill)
Incidentally, groups that perform well enough that they could get away without having any healer dps contribution would be offended by their healer’s APM and would very much expect them to DPS.


No longer than yesterday was I with friends “farming” ex trials. We had a healer replacement that didn’t dps one bit. The party is a mixed bag of skills but overall the raid dps was pretty low. The healer in question was lovely and none of us felt like boxing him into having to do dps since he voiced he just didn’t want to. Out of 10 runs 7 hit either add or boss enrage. Sure, mistakes were had but it would’ve been 10/10 clear had he participated even only 2k of dps (which is basically keeping dot uptime and throwing a few glares right and left). Although we enjoyed his company and it’s fine for him to play the game as he sees fit (no point paying for a game you don’t enjoy) we most likely will not invite him back without asking him to contribute more.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. If you’re a healer that is either relatively novice, gets overwhelmed, doesn’t enjoy or care for optimization (because casual or other), or simply doesn’t want to dps, then the changes in 5.0 will not affect you much. They might even simplify things for you.
If you’re experienced and/or care to optimize your play (aka are a main/career healer) these changes are a serious nerf to your enjoyment of the role. You can talk all you want about how some people enjoy healers but census and the current healer drought speak volumes about what the player base thinks of the healer changes.