SE FINALLY ANSWERED THE HEALERS COMMUNITY LONG ANSWERED QUESTION

[AFuzzyMu11in]

I agree there is a gate, but it isn't the devs that don't allow further access. Want to guess who is actually doing that? I'll give you a hint. It also isn't you if you think that is where I was going.

For most healers, their journey towards becoming more experienced and advanced ends somewhere in casual content. Healing is easy until it isn't, and each healer has to get past a discouraging experience if they are going to progress. That bad experience is the afore mentioned gate, and it is entirely up to the healer confronted by it to step through it. This gate is not locked. There are no guards. There is no barbed wire. It's the mind of the healer that places those things there.

If you want to raise the skill floor, which in turn will allow the ceiling to also be raised, you have to encourage the game's healers to push past the gates they set up in their own minds. The devs do try and do this, but a lot of assistance is needed from the playerbase and is relied upon. There are TONS of videos out there on how to improve as DPS and Tanks. Content on how to be a better healer? Not as much. Not even close.

Also, sadly to be a better healer requires you at the bare minimum to have a tank that is level 80, because part of healer problems come from not understanding when you are underperforming and when the tank is under performing. That alone causes a lot of problems.

[Gemina]

Also, sadly to be a better healer requires you at the bare minimum to have a tank that is level 80, because part of healer problems come from not understanding when you are underperforming and when the tank is under performing. That alone causes a lot of problems.

No. To be a better healer, and a better player in general; it only requires the desire to be better. Seeking the knowledge, trial and error, leaving comfort zones, getting past criticism (especially your own), understanding your tools and their applications, improving reaction time, DPS uptime, encounter memorization and optimization; all predicated on that one concept. None of it can happen without actually wanting to be better. It starts there, and once it does, everything just starts falling into place and the player gets better as a result.

One of the most difficult trials a healer will face when gaining experience is a Tank's over pull, resulting in a wipe. These are the toughest when you are an inexperienced healer as you are not sure why things broke down. The tank pulling too much, is only one of several things that went wrong. An inexperienced healer will either point the finger at someone, or place all the fault on themselves. An experienced healer knows that a wipe on a dungeon pull began before even the first enemy was engaged.