What am i doing wrong?(mythic healing)

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I’ve been playing wow for about 16-19 years, depending on how you count. Started late vanilla, went through BC, WotLK, Cata and MoP, then it became an on and off thing, more on the off side if i’m being completely honest. Back when i started wow, i really enjoyed raiding and dungeons, it was fun and challenging, but didn’t feel too pushed. As the game matured, PvE became a worship of progress, my friends whom i used to play with slowly stopped playing, so i was more and more pushed to playing with pugs, which brought that cursed progress above all else mentality on my head as well. As such, i gradually shifted away, first from PvE, then from WoW completely.

I came back at the end of DF to start playing, had my main focus on PvP, same old casual style, not sweating it too much, and recently i felt i would try PvE once again. So i geared up a pally, wanted to get a taste of all 3 roles to decide which is the one i want to pursue later on, but mostly leaning towards healing, as it was always the thing that felt the most fun and rewarding for me. So enter mythics, i am a holy pally with 600 something ilvl, assemble a group and get into my very first m0 and holy fudge was that frustrating. Even if i was doing “just healing”, i would have felt quite overwhelmed because people tend to get oneshot on trash mobs, but if you just heal that’s not enough, you should also take your slice from the dps pie. So i somehow had to juggle attention between keeping everyone alive, doing dps, and reading what on earth is happening around my character because visuals are just waaaay overloaded. There’s so much stuff happening at the same time, that my brain just starts to melt.

Now that i ranted about my quite unpleasant experience, here comes the question, what is the thing i’m doing wrong? How is the healing role enjoyable for people? Am i just too casual to play that role(i can accept that, although it would feel a bit problematic and painful)?

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I really don’t know if you’re really doing anything wrong. At this point in the season, everyone who knows what they’re doing will generally be firmly in the higher brackets. Pugging lower level mythics can actually be way harder than something at +7 or higher. In general, you’ll have to hope that both the tank and DPS are carrying their weight. If they’re taking damage because they’re not using active mitigation, because AoE spells get through, because they’re standing in stuff, then there’s really only so much you can do as a healer. And as for your DPS, a healer that can do a lot of damage is nice, but that can only happen if the DPS and tank are doing their part, making sure they’re not taking unnecessary damage.

Your best hope would be to get into a dungeon running community that’s friendly to new players, and see if you can find someone with some healing experience that’s willing to run with you. Having an extra set of eyes on you can help you identify the places where you’re struggling, and whether those struggles are because of something you could do better, or if it’s simply other players giving you more than you can handle in terms of incoming damage.

And finally, look up the Method mythic dungeon guides. Those are a great resource starting out, showing you every mob in the dungeon in the order you’ll encounter them, plus the bosses. Everything is broken down in terms of what has to be interrupted, stunned, and so on, and where the big damage is coming in. Knowing that is very useful, as when you can anticipate where the damage spikes are and should be, you’ll feel more in control as a healer. It will also help you identify those moments where things go wrong because something wasn’t interrupted.

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Hard to say, it could be anything (or nothing).

People in low keys and mythics at this stage of the expansion can be very, very bad.

I’ve done less healing in some +10’s than in their equivalent +4’s just because in the +10 people did things right.

While you’re getting used to things remove your dps from the equation (unless you need to hit to generate resources). Think about mechanics first, then what you have to deal with them. Once you’re comfy with that work on min-maxing damage.

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