Hey everyone so I’ve been reading some cool stories and heard from people in videos etc, that a tank and healer duo is one of the coolest pairings to find and make. As in doing so you form a bond/trust in one another that the healer will keep you alive in them tough situations and the healer in turn will expect you to keep threat and protect the group.
Me myself I’m a guardian Druid recently switched over to the spec and class and loving it! My goal atm is to find a dedicated healer player on EU servers who is active daily like myself!
And that brings me to my main point other tank mains. If you have a healer buddy who you duo with how did you find your duo?
What is your story of how you met? And how do you find playing M+ with your healer duo vs a random pug duo.
What are some of the things you look for from the get go? Meta healer specs? Raid buffs? Etc.
I’m curious in hearing others stories and experiences as well as getting some advice and pointers from you all.
And my final note the bear dance is the best thing in game and it makes me smile lol.
Ahh, you see, this is the issue. Healers run away from bears since they are big and scarry.
I have like 5 healers that I play with. Some of them I added myself as friends because they played very good and some added me since I started playing better.
My suggestion is to spam M+ with pugs until you find the healer that you like and ask him/her if you wanna do M+ together.
I used to raid with Fail Train EU community group where I encountered my healing partner. He simultaneously was able to push out incredible numbers on one boss, and monk roll off the platform the other.
A small group was formed to try the raids as a 10 man group where both myself and him was invited to. We ended up looking around to find a mythic raiding guild together.
Sadly he stopped playing WoW due to the power situation in South Africa.
As for advice I recommend joining M+ communities and just do content with the groups in there. If you find a healer you click well with ask them if they are interested in pushing higher together.
My tank is my IRL partner. If you have a spouse, ask them to heal you. M+ is a bonding activity!
That said, the rest of my M+ group is all IRL friends. Maybe see if you have some buddies who would like to give WoW a try? I feel like it gives extra incentive to log in and do activities if it means you get to spend time with your friends doing something fun.
When I PUG healed in M+, I’d occasionally add people to my friend list, both good tanks and good dps. With a few of them I started to play more frequently and ended up with sort of a premade. Unfortunately, Remix pulled these new friends away from retail and so that fell apart just when it started to get good (this is why I pretty much stopped playing my shaman early in S4).
I do have an older friend group to play with, though - I’ve known most of the people in my guild for nearly twenty years and we still play together. The problem here is that there are several people who only want to play one role, and all the time, which is an issue when there are 6-8 of us online and three people want to heal. It’s difficult to push or learn together when the groups are always a bit different and social tension emerges when there are skill gaps or there are more people who want to play than there are slots.
That turned me a bit away from healing, so in TWW I’ll probably just play my DK, either as DPS or as a tank. I’d enjoy tanking more (which I find a lot more intimidating than healing!), but I definitely would like to find my own healing buddy(ies) for that too. I’ll probably do that by pugging and adding healers to my friends list or be more active in the “No Pressure” and “Chill Streak” Discord communities.
But who knows, maybe I’ll play the shaman again and heal. Still a few weeks to decide!
Hmm. That’d be my friend I’ve been playing with since day1 of me playing.
At first I was the demon hunter who was fel rushing through the map which made him happy. He was the druid with some self doubts that was slowly but surely becoming amazing at his role and group support with his skills.
Then he became the healer we needed for our raid while I was flying around with the hunt from one wall to another. He was becoming leader material there.
Then he became the best tank I’d known at the time, supporting me in my self doubts. I was slowly starting to become a healer. He pushed me to do my best.
Then I started doing things I’d never done before as a dps or a healer with him being my faithful tank who’d do awesomely always.
So… how do you ask? Sometimes it’s luck. You find people you think dislike you but for some reason stick around till you’re their favourite. Sometimes you just find people while playing and create an awesome friend group with them. Sometimes that doesn’t last and you get discouraged yet you keep trying. Sometimes you seek people and find nothing. Sometimes you’re discouraged and give up, so people find you instead. Sometimes you burn out and take a break only to return and have an even better time finding those you were meant to.
Naturally it’s all just my experience but putting yourself out there is the least you can do to find the people you want to find. Just don’t become desperate.
I met most of my m+ friends through pvp actually. I was playing RBG 90% of the time and often made my own groups. Alot of people joining my groups had high pve experience, but limited pvp exp, so at the start we just swapping on healing eachother in our own prefered content, and over time became friends to started playing regularly together from that our friend groups just slowly merged over time, which gave a bnet list full enough to always have people to do content with
