The death of savage raiding and SE's lack of action

[Catwho]

I would have been happy to be a Savage healer, but my static already had two healers, so I had to learn how to tank when my tanks both quit in 6.4. (P6-8 broke them. P10 almost broke me, so I get it.)

Guess what, everyone. You have the solution to the problem. IT'S CALLED LEARN TO HEAL SAVAGE JUST LIKE I LEARNED HOW TO TANK SAVAGE!

To that person who swapped over to the shield heal to fill in the gap, that's exactly what SE wants people to do. See a need and fill it in. Too many people aim for BiS on their favorite job and then quit for three months until the next tier comes out.

Better to go ahead and gear up two different roles, be able to flex wherever you need to, and make friends in the community.

We've got half our team able to flex - I can flex over to shield heals if we can get our backup tank. Our other shield healer can flex over to DNC if we're short a ranged DPS. A caster DPS can flex over to SAM. Etc.

I think this also has to do with gear, most people will get dps or tank gear first , and then you cant find a healer because they dont meet the item level requirement to join groups. I would join as a healer a lot more but i only got 711 ilvl , so i cant join most parties

This is a very real problem, too. Sometimes if you send a PM to the person who is running the PF and say "hey I don't quite meet your iLVL but I cleared this already on DPS and I want to clear it on healer to help gear up too" they'll be happy to let you in.