How to have fun healing in normal content?

[Minarisweet]

I often find myself falling asleep during boss fights where no damage is going on until next raidwide and whm is my favorite aesthetic in the game but im not always doing high end so im wondering if anybody does anything special to make healers more fun in there

[Supersnow845]

Play another role

Unironically, we’ve been fighting a losing battle around healer design since ShB

[Valence]

Play another role

Unironically, we’ve been fighting a losing battle around healer design since ShB

I've tried but they all feel equally bad. And I don't even play healer. I used to back in HW though.
So by now I just stopped doing pve altogether for the most part except when I really have to. It sucks.

[Kandraxx]

Play another role

Unironically, we’ve been fighting a losing battle around healer design since ShB

TBF, I'd rather spam 1 button than a redundant and absolutely brainless 100% scripted back and forth rotation that does nothing but make my hands hurt. It's not with healers, the whole game, class and combat system needs a huge overhaul.

[hydralus]

I maintain my sanity by casting glare with my one free hand. I made a game of it. See how many times I can cast glare in an instance and then trying to break that record.

[PyurBlue]

Healer engagement in casual content is mostly up to chance. An experienced party won't need much healing while a group of first timers might. You could try to join first timer PF's or setup PF's for challenge, be it undersized party or min ilvl.

I sometimes set a goal to go above and beyond in healing to make things more interesting as well, but there is only so much that you can do. Doing mechanics the wrong way, like healing through AoE's for DPS uptime, can be interesting but I've found that the party doesn't always have enough trust to go along with it even if I explain ahead of time.

[RenkoBernkastel]

As a DPS doing mostly level 100 content, I really don't need you. Idk how healers keep enjoying the game. I mean, about a year ago I started eating avoidable damage to "have more uptime" and to literally give you guys something to do. My plan for 8.0 is to actually run the entire expansion without a healer, since SE made you guys 100% obsolete in casual content.
Idk, just ask DPS to eat as much avoidable damage as they can so you can feel alive again.



This is an interaction between me and a healer in "The Underkeep" pretty much 5 minutes ago. Just so this poor WHM could stop casting glare for a second. But again, even if they didn't heal me before the next raid wide, I could've just popped the 800 potency second wind or bloodbath and be back at full HP long before the next raid wide happens...


I know phys ranged dps have a LOT to complain about, but nobody got fucked over worse than you guys. Healers in normal content are just... unnecessary at this point. I'd honestly just switch to a different job at this point.


Edit to add: Actually, I just looked at forbidden knowledge and I DID pop bloodbath when I took the hit out of reflex. "I shouldn't punish the healer for my own failings" is my thought process. Honestly? I think bad players and players who INTENTIONALLY take damage in normal content are REWARDING healers by giving them something to do. I feel so sorry for you, I wish you were needed in casual content. But because SE caters to the worst players in the world you get to cast your one damage spell and your DoT every 30 seconds and that's it. Wanna heal? Play Savage or Ultimates, otherwise I hope you enjoy pressing 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 over and over and over.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Trick question: you don't.

On a more serious note, the only time I had any fun in normal content are usually in rare Alliance Raids where people tend to forget mechanics and start eating stuffs. On RARER occasions, I'd get 18+ clowns together forming a clownfest. Yes, that's when I would had any fun at all, in normal contents. The downside of this, you're going to spend more time on waiting more than actually playing the game because AR roulette really favor CT raids over everything else.

[...]Actually, I just looked at forbidden knowledge and I DID pop bloodbath when I took the hit out of reflex. "I shouldn't punish the healer for my own failings" is my thought process. Honestly? I think bad players and players who INTENTIONALLY take damage in normal content are REWARDING healers by giving them something to do. I feel so sorry for you, I wish you were needed in casual content. But because SE caters to the worst players in the world you get to cast your one damage spell and your DoT every 30 seconds and that's it. Wanna heal? Play Savage or Ultimates, otherwise I hope you enjoy pressing 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 over and over and over.

If only that's true. It's still a lot of 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1. On all four healers.

The current healers are designed to help job dev think less of the job so they can look for another job to gut duty finder queue pops above all else so that Warrior, Black Mage, and Viper can press their buttons.

[hydralus]

This is an interaction between me and a healer in "The Underkeep" pretty much 5 minutes ago. Just so this poor WHM could stop casting glare for a second.

Bad healer because they should have 2 or 3 oGCDs to take care of that.

[Absurdity]

Bad healer because they should have 2 or 3 oGCDs to take care of that.

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people forget to press those because after the 50th Glare in a row you just turn your brain off completely.

I occasionally had it happen on Warrior. Savage fight on farm (like 20th weekly kill farm), rotation only requiring marginally more brain power than Glare spam, completely zoned out from boredom, didn't press Arm's Length because I was mindlessly spamming 1-2-3-1-2-4-Fell Cleave and went flying.