Been seeing a lot of doomsaying in forums/in-game lately

[Jeeqbit]

Healer engagement is always determined by how badly other people are playing even in other games. Even if the design forces you to heal by doing constant raid-wide damage, there are times where most of the team die to their own mistakes and as a healer you turn that around and it feels good.

[Rolder50]

Healer engagement is always determined by how badly other people are playing even in other games. Even if the design forces you to heal by doing constant raid-wide damage, there are times where most of the team die to their own mistakes and as a healer you turn that around and it feels good.

Problem being that many of the mechanics in raids these days are "You mess it up and everyone dies, the end" so there is no potential to save anything.

[Jeeqbit]

Problem being that many of the mechanics in raids these days are "You mess it up and everyone dies, the end" so there is no potential to save anything.

That is true in savage but in other content such as extreme, normal, alliance raids or dungeons there is a lot of opportunity for it.

[Deceptus]

That is true in savage but in other content such as extreme, normal, alliance raids or dungeons there is a lot of opportunity for it.

I was in a Castrum Marinum EX (emerald) yesterday. LOTs of new folks in the party.

The first mechanic about 30 seconds in requires pairs of people to soak orbs and rotate to a different color set.

Too far away from your partner when that happens? Instant party wipe, and the tolerance of just how far you can be from your partner is razor thin.

We spent a good 15m trying to herd that group of cats to get them to understand that 2 people had to move at the same time and be in the same spot.

We eventually cleared but that's just a single example. There was zero way a healer could recover from that. And that was just the first major mechanic of that fight.