I didn’t have the mana to cast Healing Rain on CD, so I had to be more careful with its use. Early tier 14, when we were undergeared and pushing Heroic progression, felt amazing. This was most apparent for me in my 25-player raid – perhaps because the healing game in 25s is always inherently skewed toward AoE healing as the best course of action, making half our toolkits irrelevant – but I did feel it to a lesser extent in my 10-player raids.Īctually, at first it was great. While encounter design has been fantastic, and the focus on making personal responsibility a more integral part of success in raiding has definitely improved the end game, healing itself has felt rather shallow and, at times, unfun. Those of you who have followed me for a while now are probably not surprised to hear that I have not been exactly enamoured of the healing game in MoP. Nothing’s Quite the Same as the Healing Game So this may sprawl out to a huge number of posts, but hey, I have a lot of thoughts 😛
This is going to be a pretty huge undertaking! I’d like to consider a number of topics from the perspective of the entire healing milieu, laying down the groundwork and base assumptions behind my opinions, and spend a post on each healing spec really drilling in to their performance throughout MoP and my hopes for WoD. The posts will focus primarily on the 25-player raid-healing experience, since Warlords of Draenor is skewing towards larger raid groups with its flexible content and 20-player Mythic modes, but I will spend some time on 10-player issues as well. I’ll tell some stories, take a look back at the trials and tribulations of each healing class, talk a little about what worked and a lot about what didn’t, then take a look forward into the future – or past? – of the next expansion. Those of you who come here seeking math and data, well, there will be some of that, but most of what I’ll focus on in this series of posts is my opinion, and a lot of that is predicated on how I feel about the healing game. I also have never thought quite so much about healing, especially in regards to the “big picture”, as I have in MoP! And since I like to write, I’m afraid I’ve ended up with a healer manifesto, of sorts, which I will share with you over the next few weeks. This has been the first expansion in which I have completed all of the content “pre-nerf”, as well as my first expansion with a serious progression guild – and the most I’ve ever raided in 25-player mode – so the whole experience has been exciting and new.
Except wait, we all need mounts.Īs this expansion comes to its denouement, with Heroic Garrosh vanquished and a long wait until Warlords of Draenor is released, I’d like to take some time to reflect.
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