Because in previous expansions healers could have been afk 3/4 of time in m+ to the point that they were constsntly crying that they are expected to dps instead watch Netflix on 2nd screen.
Especialy the ones who were just joining +15s for gv and never healed anything higher .
Moral of this lesson is be careful what you whine about.
No, I’m maining holy priest this season, what’s wrong with doing 20 last season? I really don’t care and just going to do my pase, it’s also a big improvement from my 2k ratings previous seasons, starting in late SL, not having a guild and I’m pugging too 
you are such a mean panda, plain toxic, gonna ignore you, classic personal attacks, stirring the pot (:
I’m doing +16 with 455 as a new healer, so idk what’s your problem, I will go higher dw. My husband doesn’t carry me 
good try. I’m too Aries for getting carried and playing the keys over my level
So this is why when I list my +12-16 key as a healer - almost instantly I get million applications from both tanks/dps’ers?
I guess tyrnical+bursting week is not the easiest one to heal:
There is such an easy fix to bursting - give each bursting stack different debuff instance, and make it no longer stack/refresh on new stack. This way we wouldn’t have situation when you suffer 3s of 5stacks only it to be reset and leveled up to 6stacks and so on…
Ive thought about this very issue in depth. And let me tell you that healer difficulty is not the core problem here.
The core problem, in a nutshell is:
I could go on about this and explain with more detail, but I will resume everything with the “new player experience” from Exiles Reach.
You start a level 1 char… you spend 10 levels killing mobs, using DPS skills, and learning to be a DPS. Like… Oh… im low on health… let me use this defensive heal to top up my life… typical DD stuff…
Then you end Exiles Reach at level 10. They offer you a specialization, including Healer. If you do choose healer, they just give you some “Flash Heal” spells and throw you off in the world to figure it out on your own.
Any healer needs Click on Party Frames. Its just so powerful you cant play with out it.
So 1 change in the right direction would be for Blizz to have a default healer UI. With default click over macros already coded. And all the addons/weakauras you can install should be ONLY to customize that default UI. Like what happens to the DPS actually…
But its not the case. Yet. And because of this, I 100% understand why DPS that try healing get let down. Because if you try to heal with a DPS UI you will fail big time.
Good point, they at least implemented “edit mode”, I don’t use add-ons for healing, I use macros and in built party frames. Other add-ons same as for my DPS classes, expect omnicd.
On the other hand you also need add-ons if you want to be a good dps, so it’s not that different.
Correct. What I meant by addons is precisely this.
You CAN get the blizz party frames, start coding macros for it, and use Plater to make it look how you want. A healer buddy does it like this, and he spends like 2 days getting this up and running every patch.
OR, you can download VooDu that does the same thing but requires less work.
But FYI: Mouse over macros is something super recent from DF. For 20 years you relied on things like Heal Bot and VooDu addons to achieve the same thing.
A step in the right direction, but it has to be much more obvious. For a DPS, they have “default” keybinds: 1234567890. Healers should also have “default” mouse over macros.
So that at-least people can begin to discover healing. And then progress at their own pace.
And to be honest, the bar is really low for this hypothetical “default” healer UI. It does not have to look nice, or be the most efficient.
Just: Randomly select 2 spells to bind (Renew and Flash Heal for example) and place party frames as boxes in the middle of the screen, a bit to the Left. And show a (?) “help box” icon with a bit of tutorial text and a direct link to the Mouse Over Macro page in the wow Options.
DONE. Nothing fancy.
Huh? No, you’ve been able to do mouse over macros forever. My macros that I’m using right now have been with me for almost a decade at this point.
From the options page directly? Like changing a key-bind from 1 to F? Nope.
You had to literally go to the macro pages. Google what macro code was the one to use, and use up your LIMITED (because they used to be limited) macro slots for this.
Common. You COULD, but it was definitely far from obvious.
I mean common. Your a DD. With your default 1234 keybinds and some RFQE keybinds you changed within the Options Menu.
You wanna try healing. What is the first thing you do? You keybind healing spells to 1234, RFQE. Thats what you do.
And you fail. Miserably. Because apparently you need special macros to heal and nobody said needed them. That is my point right there.
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That’s not a macro.
Mouse over macros have been a thing since forever. It’s not something recent with DF.
OK I get the confusion here.
Mouse over macro is NOT the same as Mouse Over RAID/PARTY frames Macro.
Like what this guy 4 years ago was asking in Reddit (cant link stuff apparently):
I’m looking to make a macro for [Purify]. I have Raid-style frames enabled for 5 man parties. I’d like to be able to hover my mouse over the health bar of a party member and press a mouse button to use [Purify]. This is similar to how HealBot handles spells. is there any way to do it without HealBot?
EDIT: To clarify, I dont want to click the character model. I want to click the raid frames with a different mouse button bound to a spell.
The answers he was getting 4 years ago were: Not possible with wow macros. You need Healbot, Clike, VooDu… to do exactly that.
I hope I explained myself better now.
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I have been playing with just ElvUI and Little Wigs (which are both not esclusive for healers).
Oh, you meant click casting. Yes, that wasn’t possible in the past without addons.
I still don’t use that though, I’m using elvui just fine with mouseover macros. I don’t feel like it has ever held me back from doing whatever content I want to do.
I have a WA for PvP that shows me the balance of dmg/healing with ray of hope and I have a WA to notify me of when guardian spirit procs, because you can’t see that without addons or WAs. Other than that, there’s nothing I don’t use as a DPS.
edit: Oh, forgot my PWL WA but it’s moot at this point because you can’t use PWL on someone above 35% any more.
OK. Hard to beleive that you have the exact same UI setup in ElVui for DPS and for Healer. Especially when ElVui has default unique DD,healer,tank layouts that you have to CHANGE to your liking. But that is not my point here.
Taking into consideration that most people don’t use ElVui and instead use default Blizz UI even as a DD.
Try healing with 0 macros. Only 1234. And 0 ElVui. With party “frames” being portrait circles to the left of the screen (default UI). Just like that. See how far you get.
My point is not why veterans don’t heal. Im sure you up for the challenge, and knows enough about the game to configure your UI to make it usable.
Its about why new people dont heal. Thats the key issue here.
It is true that healing does require a bit of an annoying setup, more than than the two other roles.
At least, it’s also probably the one that has the lowest requirements to get accepted. You just need heal enough.
Dps are just replaceable pawns that will get Thanos-snapped if they do not appear on Dps meters, and tanks have quite high responsibilities , and it will be obvious to everyone if they screw up, although tanking has probably been made easier in DF.
But I can see why it is hard to get into it when the beginning starts outside the game, with addons and stuff.
There’s various reasons.
I have a friend that wanted to try healing, he’s only really played DPS. He wanted to play holy priest and asked me to explain how to heal.
I explained holy words, how you recharge them and right there he started feeling aversion towards it. He asked why it has to be so cumbersome to use the big heals.
Then I watch him play a bit. He’s using renew, I tell him it’s not even worth pressing because it plain sucks - only time you should really press it during combat is if you’ve got nothing else to cast and you’re on the move. He asks why it even exists if you’re not supposed to press it.
I notice he’s using pw:shield as well - I tell him the only time you should really be pressing it as holy is if you want to up someone’s durability beyond their max HP or they would die if you don’t(but there’s really few times this will happen).
I notice he’s never using guardian spirit - I tell him he’s supposed to use it to boost his healing, it has a 1 min CD if it doesn’t proc. He then goes on about how he’s saving it in case the tank is about to die, I tell him to not do that.
He didn’t continue playing holy priest. He just went back to his DPS.
Exactly. And as a healer, the quality of your UI has a direct impact on how much you can heal. Or how fast you can dispel that debuf.
Unlike a DD. You can do very good dps with out any fancy UIs, and 1234 RFEQ is more than enough. No fancy macros required.
Actually you don’t need macros for this anymore. Either the base UI or bartender (not sure which) allows me to simply drag spells on the actionbar and it will cast it on mouseover (if it exists and matches hostility of the spell), then tries the target if it exists, then action target, then self.
Works for raid frames, unitframes, directly units etc.
I only use macros for binding together multiple spells or items.
Your point being?
I tried Elemental Shaman in S2. And I was doing less DPS than the tank…
Because you have to cast X before Y, because ZZZ spell is only usable in K circumstance. If more than X targets its this spell, if less its that other one… And a long list of stuff…
Results: I said F this… Whats your point here? Want more anecdotes?
That there’s different reasons for people not healing?
It’s not down to macros, addons or UI in many cases. It’s just a deep aversion to how the healing is done.
Like I said. A step in the right direction. Now make it by default if you change to healer spec. And put a party frame in the middle of the screen with boxes. Not circles with portraits.
DONE.