Hey Guys,
What do you think is harder to be played in arena, healer or dps?
Also who has more outplay potential aka big brain moves?
I’m asking because I want to play either one of them, only healer or only dps, but it should be a challenge and hard to do.
Greetings
Its like 60%healer 40%dps
You cant win if one of them is 100% brain dead
Healer is 100% harder. But you can also get carried way eassier as healer than as dps imho.
Also way more opurtinities to play, since theres not enough healers around.
I wouldn’t really say that. That’s only true when there’s a dps so insanely overtuned that they do 80%+ of the work in 2v2, or when there’s a comp in 3v3 so insane that you win no matter what you do as a healer.
Entirely depends on the comp you’re versing. Some games, its marginally easier to be a healer. Some games, you’re going to tear your eyes out if you’re the dps.
Like for me as a rogue, when I play dps with a healer vs lets say, r-druid destro lock, I don’t feel as if its remotely close to possible to even play the game by the time i’ve eaten triple dr fear, coil, swapped from thorns, been rake stunned/bashed/rooted only to then finally try to catch one of them only to find out i haven’t actually caught one of them (since its probably either mugambala or blades edge arena or ruins of lordaeron where you just are likely left to end up eating most of the damage with 0 los offered).
also some comps just out right play themselves and require little actual coordination between you and your partner like hunter priest where every trap is a kill go since it doesn’t DR with fear iirc.
for me healing is more demanding than playing a dps. might just be me being more used to dps since I’ve played it longer? one of my friends in-game says the exact opposite. might be down to personal experience I guess.
healer and dps can likewise get carried by their counterpart, imo
healing is much harder, especially in current zug zug speed fiesta meta
This usually depends on class/spec, however the problem I met with healers in arena is that they think that they should “just heal” and if I cant zug zug the enemy faster than the enemy zug zugs my heal it’s my fault because they “did their job”.
Especially big issue it is with druids and paladins. Mostly druids, who never use their CC, the only think they do is press thorns and hardcast their heals.
And since classes like Druid are designed about doing a lot of CC, priests for doing damage etc, this is where people usually lack skill and it’s a big issue. Healers need to be very proactive.
As DPS unless enemy is playing well or outgear you all you have to do is to press your PvE rotation, sometimes use stun, interrupt or CC. So overall I consider playing a healer more difficult at least at lower mmr because half of your job is not healing.
cant say one or the other is harder.
If one of them is bad you wont have a good time.
if your healer eats every cc you die quickly
if your dps run across the map behind pillars and you need to follow and then eat every cc in the world the dps also die quickly
1 is bad healer 1 is bad dps
ultimately it boils down how comfortable you are with the spec.
e.g. i am decent with my priest healer but awful with my shaman healer, at least it feela like that
I’ve played both for as long as I’ve played the game (which is longer than this account), but I’d argue playing healer is generally the toughest role (with exceptions ofc, depending on season), but it has nothing to do with how hard it is to press a button or anything like that.
It’s only because healers are always the most likely target to be interrupted/CCed most, and they’re always the most likely target to be swapped to at the slightest mistake in positioning.
You could say a difficult part of healing is reading the pace of damage and knowing when to expect heavy damage, but to reach high ratings I’d argue it’s just as important to know how to do that as a DPSer. In other words, the awareness level is equally as important as a DPSer as it is as a healer.
Then there are specific matchups where a specific class/spec becomes much harder than playing as a healer, for example being trained as an affli lock vs. a meleecleave has generally always been the toughest role in that specific matchup. But in wizards vs. wizards then the weight falls on the healer once again even if there’s an affli lock or whatever in the matchup.
Simple logic.
Playing healer is much easier than playing dps in pvp/arenas,and this is something not many healers are going to admit,but that’s how it is.Everyone wants to feel speical,and everyone consider themselves a ‘‘pro’’ that’s why most healers gonna say playing healer is much harder…LOL
As healer,you can literally pve heal to high ratings…and im playing healer myself.Played priest,pala and shaman.
EVERY TIME, EVERY SINGLE TIME
Both are super hard, because a good dps will always take care of positioning and defensive play, so not dieing in CC on healers.
While healers need to coordinate defensive CDs healing, but also engaging in cc and kills.
Healers are just way more stressful in low rating with bad dps, that only play offensive and use CDs blindly
I have played heal in pvp since 2009, with 2.5 max XP and I can tell you.
Playing with good dps makes healing way way way way easier.
Sub 2k people use trinket offensiv all the time, they don’t kite DMG while healer is cc’ed they don’t use cc or hold on to cc to reduce DMG, they use it for kills only.
Yeah sure go to cast 20 yards clone trough shaman shear/grounding. warriors spell reflect and in same time risk getting HOJ from ret against shama.warrior/ret when you partner can die in 2 globals.
Druid probably can cc in mage or rogue compa but most mages and rogues play with priest this day (not sure if RMD is even a thing) and shaman is better in all other comps.
Rdruid is the best healer in-game by far. If you got trouble healing or finding opening to cc, it’s not the class
Play Feral Druid and you can be both at the same time 
You meant TBC?
Because now best healer is resto shaman by wide margin
thank god as dps you cant pve to high ratings, for example bm hunter needs to do a lot like drink coffee before the arena etc
What is holy priest then?
1,8k is not high tho 
If you can pve heal to “high” rating, I would like to no what comb and healer. No way in hell you pve heal anything above 2.2