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I call BS flag. This is flat out not true even in Normals unless you grossly outgear them. Damage is still spiky in the extreme and healers have a crappy tool set filled with useless, expensive, anemic heals to work with.

Triage is making the tough decisions to let someone live that is going to live for sure with medical help versus someone that is probably going to die even if you work on them. If triage is what is needed, then someone is going to die anyway which is pretty much how it is now except if a DPS is making a mistake, they are dead even if you try to spam heal them out of it.

There is a sticky on the "healer role" official board from a company shill spouting the same crap. It is utter propaganda and their new system sucks ass. Once you outgear an instance, it is total cheese and more boring than WOTLK. But if you don't, you are ineffective and grossly underpowered compared to DPS or tanks.


TLDR: New healer mechanics suck. "Triage" is the new FOTM term being tossed around by company shills at Blizzard. Don't believe this BS, mechanically, healing is in bad shape unless you grossly outgear the content.

 

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Agreed, "triage" is corporate spin for "healers are impotent."

To make matters worse, every time people start settling in to the new paradigm they make some drastic change that forces people to change the way they heal again. Holy pallies for instance have had their play style changed with every patch since the xpac came out.

It is kinda humorous. Way back when, when people like me were saying that GC would destroy the game, we caught hell for it. Now, every week more and more people are seeing that he is destroying the game.

 

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This

 

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Omg, it's perfectly clear! WHY did we not see this before????


Ghostcrawler must have worked for Microsoft.


If you create a flaw in the system, promote it as a feature!

 

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Awesome sauce.


From the tip:


"It takes practice but eventually you get used to it."


Or, I eventually, and eventually meaning months ago, I switch and play something that's, you know, more fun.


I've played healers in most MMORPG's released since EQ1. Well actually I healed in The Realm. Healing can be fun and challenging (CoH, CO, AoC), this is garbage, to use the scientific term.

 

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Actually I think this is a decent tip. Changing my mindset was key to getting used to Cataclysm healing. I hated healing at first until I stopped spazzing out about keeping everyone at full health. I went back to all my vanilla instincts about healing and started enjoying the challenge much more. I really could just tell the DPS to buzz off if they died for dumb reasons like standing in the fire.

/shrug

 

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They should make that a Tip of the Day for VN posting.

Imagine that, the person who okays the bot to post tips thinks a tip is good.

Personally, I don't think I have seen the bot post an actual helpful tip yet. It has all been easily paraphrased by saying: Don't be dumb. With the exception of this tip which can be paraphrased as: *Bleet* Play the way GC wants you to play *much grass* *bleet*.

In fact, I can't recall ever seeing Ashella post here.

 

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