Quickie WoW post

[thistlechaser]

There's a blog post from Ghostcrawler up, talking about how hard Cata dungeons are. I disagreed with the logic of a lot of it, but as I don't do them myself, that's not all that important. This line is:

"We also know that plenty of players like the changes and find healing more enjoyable now."

I'm on a number of WoW comms, I read a whole bunch of WoW LJs and blogs. I have not seen one single healer who is happy with how things are now. Healers are generally in tears or in rages over the changes (and over things like DPS and tanks still in WotLK mode). Since the moment Cata dropped, I have not seen even one post from a healer saying they are happy with how things are.

I'm not a healer myself, I have no personal stake in this, I'm just curious as to if they honestly think there are happy healers out there (which there may be), or if they just added the line in to support their own decisions.

Edit: Also, ha! On our debate the other day about if the dungeons will eventually be nerfed or not. "We also just tend to nerf content over time because the original players hitting that content have moved on, so we want to open it up to a wider audience."

Comments

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

Healing was not more difficult than dpsing in Wrath, particularly when in five mans rather than raids. The only difficult thing was staying awake. By the end I spent more time dpsing as a healer because an earth shield or PW:S was enough to keep the tank up most of the time. Not that dpsing was hard, but at least there was something to do other than stare at bars that would never move and jump on them if they happened to change just a sliver because then you had something, anything to do.

I haven't healed heroics yet, but from what I can tell, the problem is people still in Wrath mode rather than the actual healing. When people run off without letting me get mana, it's very bad.

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

When my Shaman hit 80 my guild took him to an alt run of ICC. He had like 2900GS at the time and they took him because they knew I knew what was going on and they just needed some more heals for the raid. I would literally throw Earth Shield on a tank and then then smash chain heal until I oomed. And it worked out very very well heh. XD

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

I geared up a couple of alts in a similar fashion. It's especially easy with shamans with so little competition for gear. I got something like seven pieces the first night I took mine in including my ring. Not all resto gear, of course, but it was ridiculous how fast she geared up. And it made me want to cry to see her hps in mostly blue gear chain heal spamming was higher than my disc priest and about the same with absorbs factored in. Chain heal spam was ridiculous.

[peppygrowlithe.livejournal.com]

I'd say healing was more difficult than DPSing in raids, but you're right about five man heroics at WotLK. I would usually just go DPS and throw out the occasional heal near the end of it, they got so easy.

[livarot.livejournal.com]

even 5 man heroic bc, i would always dps (i'd often be #3 on the list. so yes, that meant 2 dps were below me. which always made me want to cry.) and just throw out the occasional heal. and the tank would literally go out for a smoke for some fights and come back, and we'd still be ok. it's always gotten easier as time goes on, people learn the fights and gear gets better.

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

Depends on what kind of healer we're talking about. Shaman raid healing was pretty much spamming chain heal and throwing riptide in here and there and disc raid healing in 25's was just shield spam. Squeezing out good dps from a suboptimal spec was a lot harder than either of those things.

ETA: In contrast, there were hard things. I simply couldn't two heal BQL or Sindy as disc paired with a pally. We just didn't have the aoe throughput to deal with the constant damage from the auras in addition to the active moves the bosses were doing. The same situation as resto wasn't hard, though. Back to chain heal spam!