How bad are they on your server for dps on heroic instances? I know healers/tanks pretty much get insta queues. What do you do to pass the time while waiting for the queue? I'm totally enjoying my mage but the queue times are 45+ minutes. I tried tanking on my warrior but don't have the gear/patience/skill for it. I find it (tanking) very stressful.

50ish minutes for horde on deathwing....atrocious to say the least

As far as eating up queue time, I fly around ganking people trying to collect resource nodes.

 

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Never had to expirience that, I made a healer and then a tank.


To pass the time though, I would either gather resources, fish, or .. quest I guess.

 

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I'm half heartedly working on the Loremaster achievements. I do have an 85 pally that I briefly thought of making into a healer but, with all the healing horror stories I've heard lately, it's made me hesitant to do so. How are your healing experiences, Sy? Good or bad? What class healer do you have?

82 Shammy healer. To be honest my healing expirirnces have been pretty good.


On the release day of Cata I went into the Throne of Tides as a brand new 80. My gear was level 80 quest greens and blues. It was a guild run, and my guldies did have good gear, but I was horribly under geared.


I was quite hard, I was thankful the tank was a pally and had some of his own healing abilities, we made it through but it was a challenge to be sure. I knew though that most of the challenge came from my gear, or lack there of.


At 82 I did Stonecore which again I was undergeared for, we only wiped a couple times on the last boss, again I think if I would of had the proper gear we would of done just fine. So the difference in healing is there, I can feel it, but it is easy enough to adapt to.


So is it really really hard? No. Is it fun? Not sure, I was sweating through most of the boss fights and they ended just as I was about to throw my hands up int he air because I didn't have any more tricks up my sleeve, I felt I was getting by, by the skin of my teeth. Some of this was a gear problem, but the style of healing is certainly different.


I enjoy a challenge, but it might be closer to tedious rather then challenging, hard to tell. At any rate, I switched over to tanking after that.

 

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The shaman healers I've come across have been so outstanding that they inspired me to make a shammy of my own. He's still just a baby but they made healing look so fun and effortless.

I do really enjoy healing with him, he's fun. I think what happend to me is I tried so hard to get him to 80 before the xpac hit that when it hit I was burnt out. Just didn't want to do it anymore. I've stopped logging in altogether right now. I'm kind of torn, I really enjoy the game, there is just something subconsious keeping me from logging in.


I just bought Mass Effect 2, I am going to finsih it and then log back in to see if I am refreshed.


I also have a mage on the go..

 

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The queue times on my server have changed me from a mix pvppve player to a full pvp player. I've given up on heroics --> raiding at this point. On a positive note, I have great pvp gear.

 

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On Lightbringer:
DPS time is about 48-58 minutes
Tank time is less than 15 seconds

 

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I'm still seeing 5-10 minute queues as a healer. For all the talk of healers quitting, it seems that tanks are still the bottleneck when it comes to forming a group.

 

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