Heya guys now with the new WoW announcements I'm thinking of starting to play again but I have a dilemma

Heya guys now with the new WoW announcements I'm thinking of starting to play again but I have a dilemma.
Is healing a good role for a man? I always liked to dps but now I'm thinking of getting into healing and it seems that the general zeitgeist regarding healers is that they're sissies that should be played by women.
Is there any truth to this or are healers actually the manliest spec?

I have raided top level for every expansion except cataclysm and I hate to say it, but only one female could handle the "hard for healers" bosses in our raids. We had many, but the others left on their own or got culled for bad performance, which of course let to much drama.
Maybe it's just the natural reflection on the low female percentage in WoW, though.
I admit I have not tracked how many males got canned.

So there are fights where healers are actually taxed instead of the dps? I was thinking that all fights are wholly dependent on dps not fucking up and eating unecessary damage while doing enough dps to beat the enrage timer.

I can tell you what's NOT manly: letting your choices be dictated by "zeitgeist" memes.

In general that is of course still the case, a dps that avoids damage makes our life easier, though
there are fights that can be troublesome even if the dps do everything right.
Like when heals have to arrange cooldowns due to heavy unavoidable AoE damage paired with
random "you must run" or "you can't cast right now" mechanics. When the heals that are appointed
can't do it other heals have to react fast, sometimes faster than just hearing it over voice chat.

This is new?

The main difference is that healing is reactionary. There's a greater margin of allowed fuckup for DPS.

it's the same person

No, sorry. Try again next time.

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sure thing

I'm the OP, what do you mean?
So healing is more challenging then? Never thought that'd be the case unless we're talking about pvp.

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>So healing is more challenging then? Never thought that'd be the case unless we're talking about pvp.

It really depends on the fights. Especially farm-status bosses get boring fast if you're not
aiming for some good HPS parses, though you need to arrange those with the other heals anyway since you can only heal as much as everyone gets damage.

One of our heals sometimes asks for us to tone it down so he can get a good parse on warcraftlogs.

Healing is much more fun compared to dpsing tbqh

>I have raided top level for every expansion except cataclysm and I hate to say it, but only one female could handle the "hard for healers" bosses in our raids.
that's weird because every female healer i've ever had the "pleasure" of raiding with was absolutely god-awful
the makeup of most top mythic raiding guilds also suggests most competent healers are male

So you agree with me?

oh shit you're right, i'm retarded, misread that

No Problem.
I wonder why this is though. Generally females are ought to be better at multi-tasking. Maybe it's because healing can quite stressful compared to dps. When I play dps I never feel as "stressed" as when I heal.

the few healers i've met who are good at the game have been dps. the one in my guild rn is a dk and she's one of our top dps and i had one in the guild i was in during mists who was our top dps as lock and ended up becoming gm after the old gm left, although by then the guild was already collapsing (not her fault, she did the best she could with a shit situation).

i have never had a good female healer and i have no idea why. i switched to resto druid main around february or so because i was sick of prot warriors getting fucked over every single expansion (it's clear no one on the dev team actually plays them as a main) and while resto druid's probably one of the easier healing specs, i still just don't understand how people can fuck it up.

it's funny because people who don't know how to heal for shit will tell me shit like "you need xyz ui to be able to heal effectively" and here i am with stock frames and no mouseover macros or anything and me and the other top heals were carrying the fuck out of our team when we actually had enough people to do mythic progression.

This is a silly thread. It's a video game. If you are my healer and you're performing well I will love having you around whether you're a weird healslut fetishest or just a bro that sensually massages your very essence into my tenderized tank body.

>the few healers
the few females, rather

>"you need xyz ui to be able to heal effectively" and here i am with stock frames and no mouseover macros or anything

Ha, I'm the same in that regard. I have no heal-addon's and I don't really see the benefit of them.
When I did some Discipline Priest heal I had to get mouse-over macro's though, because it's a huge time save to just
have the enemy in target all the time.

yeah i heard it's worse for some specs, but as a resto druid i've never experienced that.

Before I quit Legion, this raid came out where you have to defeat some underworld bitch.

The first fight was a huge DPS check.
The second fight was a mechanics check.
The final boss was a tank and healer fight, where if you stopped casting for half a second it was over.

That shit was brutal but showed Blizzard was getting better at designing fights tailored to roles.

I hated Helya as a healer, depending on how intelligent your dps were the transitions were draconian. Some heal CD's were nearly useless because you had to stay still for them and the fight just wouldn't allow it.

Lmao if you don’t have good healers you’ll never make it anywhere in any raids. I’d even go as far to say that for almost every single fight, all three roles are equally important. Of course there’s your occasional meme encounter that tests one specific group.

Patchwerk is a good example of this. If your DPS can’t beat the enrage tiler you’re done. However, if your tanks can’t handle the massive damage he outputs, you’re also done. And if your healers can’t handle the massive damage he does, you’re done.

This game has always been about maximizing DPS so you can take as few healers as possible, but a consequence of that is your healers need to be much more competent to make up for it.

I think it is the stress. When I first started WOW I played a rogue. I always felt raiding was just fun and frustrating when we couldn’t kill bosses. Then in WotLK I started playing healer, and I knew what stress was. You feel partially responsible for every wipe. Every time the tank dies you feel like shit, and that had you done something different you would have been able to get off one more heal.

I’ve done it for so long that I’m used to it. I enjoy it though, because it’s rewarding. Especially if you’re in a bad pug, you feel like you’re literally carrying he entire team, which is satisfying.

I played with one Druid healer who was a girl. She was the only good female healer I met, but part of it was she wasn’t an attention whore and rarely spoke at all, meaning she was actually playing because she enjoyed WoW. Almost every other girl I’ve met in this game was just using it as a social outlet, and wasn’t really concerned about being the best anyways

tov was short and tough which is exactly how i like it
tos is long, obnoxious, and will make you hate the game and everyone you raid with. it's awfully designed and i can't wait for antorus to come out so we never have to do it again.

it was a fun fight imo but yeah it was pretty tough

>I’d even go as far to say that for almost every single fight, all three roles are equally important.
excluding on mythic, where everyone actually need to do their job properly:
if your tanks fuck up, good healers can usually carry. dps has nothing to do with this
if your dps fuck up mechanics, good healers can usually carry. tanks have nothing to do with this
if your healers fuck up or aren't up to snuff, everyone will die even if they are doing everything perfectly. nobody else can cover them.
i played tank for years but it took me switching to healer main to realize how much they can carry and how much shit relies on them. as a tank, there are basically two conditions: either you are doing your job right or you aren't; there's not really much chance to shine, only chance to fuck up. as a healer, you can be godlike and carry people through shit.
only time dps matters is for making dps checks. if you have really good dps, you can beat certain timings in certain fights and skip parts that are normally a lot tougher. that's really about it; that's about all the much that dps matters in a fight.

>but part of it was she wasn’t an attention whore
this
universally, the females i've met who are good at wow aren't there to seek attention, they're there to play the fucking game. most of them are at least 30+, usually 40+. older women are very frequently good at wow because they're not there to string men along and get free shit and attention.

milfhunter detected.

In all honesty though, I agree with you both.

>milfhunter detected.
i'm not attracted to older women at all and for a while was exclusively attracted to younger women, but it doesn't change the fact that 40+ women are far less cancerous and enjoyable to be around