The idea that we need to DPS must go.

[Dogempire]

No. You're only saying that because you want to stand around and wait for people to take damage.

Nobody wants to do that except for really bad healers who are too scared to dps during downtime in fear of the tank suddenly using superbolide and then canceling it.

[Alistaire]

We should focus our raid performance on not overhealing and ensuring that we are able to keep our comrades alive throughout encounters. In doing so, we are bolstering community performance and promoting the dev team's ideals of pure healing. I believe this will increase communication and cohesion of the three roles.

You're absolutely right! And why stop there!?! If you want ...cohesion? (I think you used the wrong word there that is definitely not the right word) of the three roles then why are tanks allowed to dps?!? Their job is threat management! They shouldn't do damage! If you wanted to damage mobs you should be on a dps!

[Dogempire]

You're absolutely right! And why stop there!?! If you want ...cohesion? (I think you used the wrong word there that is definitely not the right word) of the three roles then why are tanks allowed to dps?!? Their job is threat management! They shouldn't do damage! If you wanted to damage mobs you should be on a dps!

Why are ninjas allowed to dps? People only bring them for their trick attack, so they should just stick to standing around the boss and only using trick attack every 60s.

[Alistaire]

Why are ninjas allowed to dps? People only bring them for their trick attack, so they should just stick to standing around the boss and only using trick attack every 60s.

Too soon...

[ColaSama]

No. You're only saying that because you want to stand around and wait for people to take damage.

Are you assuming that EVERY healer is like that ??!! You FOOL !

Some healers don't want to dps because they just LOVE their healing spells duh. It reminds me this "great" SCH I had the other day : he was ONLY spamming Physick. That's it. Even when I had 98% of my hp as the tank. What a dedicated healer huh ? See ? He was not lazy at all !

[Wawachume]

What content and class was this, exactly?

Mostly holy priest in normal/heroic dungeons. Which was probably part of the problem---the mechanics did so little damage that everyone mostly ignored them, which made the fights less "strategic problem-solving" and more "constant drip of incoming damage". It might well have been different at other difficulty levels.

Honestly, though, I might have a better opinion of WoW if it wasn't for my own issues. There's always been a disparity between how well my brain works and how fast it works. Like, in school I was smarter than the other kids and knew a bunch of stuff they didn't, but when it came time to learn anything I didn't already know, it seemed like they'd get it right away and I'd still be struggling to understand it. I just do not process information quickly at all. I have slow reaction times, and to this day I cannot even understand spoken language without repeating it in my head first.

So a large part of my issues with WoW may have stemmed from the 1.5-second GCD. The fights I was doing were so easy that I was bored out of my skull, but simultaneously provided faster sensory input than I could cope with. From my perspective, FFXIV is like "if boss does A, do B; if boss does C, do D," but WoW was like, "PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW PEW!...Did we win?" I would win almost every fight, but would have no idea how I'd done it because it was all just a blur.

Maybe, in theory, Mythic+ or something would have given me an opportunity to play more strategically. But the truth was that even the Normal/Heroic dungeons were too fast-paced for me to do properly---it was just that they were so easy that it didn't matter if I did everything wrong.

So I started playing FFXIV instead. The content I'm doing requires more thought, but is slower. And more importantly, the glamours are better.

But I still wonder if that cheating b-st-rd Medivh would have been so cocky if I'd been allowed to challenge him to actual chess.

[Dogempire]

Are you assuming that EVERY healer is like that ??!! You FOOL !

Some healers don't want to dps because they just LOVE their healing spells duh. It reminds me this "great" SCH I had the other day : he was ONLY spamming Physick. That's it. Even when I had 98% of my hp as the tank. What a dedicated healer huh ? See ? He was not lazy at all !

Damn, if only he decided to bind his physick to his mouse wheel and simply scroll the entire dungeon while targeting you

[Misutoraru]

i want pure healing, i mean at least 80% healing instead of 80% dps, we are healer not some DPS with heal spell
everyone is talking about using all our kit, the truth is we seldom use our GCD heal anymore

[DBriggs304]

Every healer is different. On my healer, I am there to keep you alive. Period.

[Voilyn]

I have recently tried savage content for progress in party finder. I tried ALL DAY yesterday to find a practice group that was close to the kill. IN EVERY SINGLE GROUP I found the other healer was obsessed with DPS-ing. Diffrent healer every time. I BARELY EVER saw any healing casts, only Broil, Malefic or Gleam. It felt like i was the only one focusing on keeping 8 people alive for progress. When I mentioned it in the chat most of them claimed they had everything on CD. SO USE SOME SKILLS THATS NOT ON CD!!!!!!!!!!!!! Like............... IDK................. an actual healing skill as well?????
On dead times, where people dont need heals IDM doing DPS but come on! Ifyoure on a healing job then do your freaking job. I was so angry at the end of the day