Is MMO raiding as complex as it looks?

Is MMO raiding as complex as it looks?
I never understand a thing going on in raid streams but the ambience feels comfy.

It's only complex when you have retards in your guild who stand in fire or kill the whole raid with a bomb on them.

It's pretty much always simple but they throw in a gimmick or 2 to confuse complete retards.

The hard part is the retards in your group

Depends on your class.
DPS is easy, tanking is tough and healing can get insane.

>Healing
>See a bar go down, click it
>See a lot of bars go down, use AOE spell
derp

Depends on the game, depends on the class.

DPS and heal is braindead, you are just an attention whore. Tanking requires you to pay attention and I could never do that while drunk so fuck that.

It's not that simple, though.
Take vanilla for example,you have to manage CD 's, know what number heal to use in each mana situation and of course fear when necessary.

It is easy to us but I have seen intelligent people fail horribly at it.

Managing pots, runes, decurses and watching healthbars can get hectic, man.

>vanilla
>dps not running out of mana or having to manage CDs
Now you are just talking out of your ass.

Same shit can be said about DPS you dum dum.

>Have to manage CDs, know what skill to use in each resource situation and of course [insert shit here] when necessary

Jesus christ healers these days thinking they're any better than the DPS. HUE.

>Butthurt meatshield detected.

I have tanked Karazan on five stamps, three xanax, one joint and drinking Lord Calvert the entire time.

The hardest thing is knowing which enemy to hit when your vision splits.

I just told you I don't tank, I don't like paying attention. Braindead healer detected.

dps is most complicate, not because its hard but rather you never get fucking healed and you have to worry about dodging everything while still doing damage

You don't decurse shit and are totally dependent on the healer for survival.

You attack one target and spam abilities.
Such skill many complications!

>only 3 rouges in the entire 40man

Life truly was he'll for them

You are totally dependent on DPS for clearing the boss before enrage timer

We attack every single target we need to, whether it's just one or fucking 30+. Mobs need to be CC'd, debuffs have to be managed on all those mobs.

>Healing cuck thinking he's hot shit
Just suck my fucking dick already.

>tanking is tough
No. There are a very few rare fights where tanking is tough. Otherwise it's quite literally usually the easiest role in the game.

>move around so boss follows while running a simple aggro rotation
>position in fights with adds to be able to pick them up quickly enough when they spawn
>hit cooldowns when something that needs/you want mitigated is about to happen

It's so fucking brainless easy. This is coming from a realm-first Illidan all the way through fucking Heroic Deathwing realm-first paladin -> deathknight tank.

People usually raid 20:00 to 00:00 and it's hard for all 25 (or 40) people to be fully focused all at the same time for 4 hours late at night, especially when they've worked for like 8-10 hours that day already and wake up early

Furthermore many raid bosses have "gear checks" and since you're usually not geared in that raid's tier when it first unlocks, it's often a struggle and a small mistake or sub-optimal performance ruins the attempt.

In my 6 years of raiding in WoW, however, I was always amazed that once we killed a boss once, after wiping a hundred times on it, we'd basically one-shot it every time after that without fail.
It's as if we all slowly learned how to do it right and then it's smooth sailing every time.

DPS is the hardest role, not because it's mechanically hard, but because 90% of DPS players are mouth breathing mongoloids

Blah blah blah
>I attack target guis it's hard!

While you're spamming three keys I'm using the entire number bindings.

You suffer from delusions of grandeur.

>tauren paladin

MMOs are fucking casual tier mode.
thats why its so popular and there are lots of girls into WoW
You just mash buttons and see big numbers pop up.
Also , GOOD mmo players are pretty fucking non existant , join any guild in wow , and you´ll see people just right click and mash buttons to deal damage , ignoring any tactics on a boss , no matter how basic.
And WoW boss tactics are barebones easy.

I've been a raid healer since Vanilla, and I can tell you from experience it's the easiest role. You just stand there and play wack a mole until you get a bomb on you, or you have to move out of fire. Sometimes I'll even alt tab to check emails or whatever. DPS is slightly harder because switching targets and having to restart your rotation can be a huge pain in the ass. Tanks, you have to be focused 100% of the time.

Apparently.

Felt easy to me, but 99% of the playerbase still managed to do something wrong.

Most people are going to say it's easy anyway, despite actually sucking at it, since people tend to overestimate their own skill. Didn't top DPS? It's because my gear/class is bad.

for cutting edge progression its mostly a test of endurance. casual raiding is not.

RUNNING a raiding guild is an entirely different matter

You ever do pre-nerf M'uru bruh? 0 light Yogg? Light of Dawn? Suck my cock you casual shitter.

Have i offended you?
Sorry for telling the truth.

>truth
LAMO
GIT GUD

>being a medic in planetside

Your post indicated that you have no fucking idea what you're talking about. Of course any game looks easy when you only ever meander around the bottom 50% of the curve. Try getting a glad title or a top 50 mythic kill.

>fight Kilrogg in HFC
>constantly wipe because DPS players can't handle complex mechanics like "shoot adds instead of the boss" or "stand in the green circles"
not saying any other role takes particular skill, but the average DPScuck is literally retarded

All these niggers arguing if DPS or Healing is harder. Try playing Hybrid classes in vanilla and having to do both. playing Ele/Resto Shammy in BWL and AQ40 was the most fun I ever had playing WoW.

I know what im talking about. played WoW for years.
But i can understand you tryign to defend this shitty casual game.

>wowbabbies think their raids are even on the same level as Wildstar or FFXIV complexity

>played WoW for years
Yeah, as a shit-stain casual shitter like 99.9% of the fucking awful players of that game. How many realm first boss kills did you get? How many times did you rank on healing/damage on fights? You're so fucking awful LAMO

You mean you played as a bottom feeder for years, doing pugs and an occasional regular guild raid. I'm a different guy, but yeah, you're a complete retard.

Not anymore
Used to be pretty intricate where everyone had a specific role. Especially the first time your guild attempted it.
Now raids are designed to be able to be pugged

>establish aggro
>sit still for 10 mins

It's not as hard as it looks, you just have to know your own class and the boss pattern, then you do your flowchart shit while your teammates do theirs, it rarely boils down to anything more than this

>die from the mechanic inserted to force you to swap tanks

>Such skill many complications!
wow feel free to leave any time