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Right now damn near no one runs OOM, DPS or otherwise...

 

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DPS really won't run out of mana in Cataclsym either ... Healers will still be able to heal for awhile but if they make bad choices they WILL run out of it in raids or 5 man heroics


Basically for whatever reason however much we are healing now at 80 doesn't change much at 85 from what i've seen i think thats where it gets sh**y

/pops in without reading thread


/makes the following comment:


Went through a series of instances with a 76 blood DK tanking this weekend. Was healing with Disc Priest and then with a Resto Druid. Only time I healed the tank was on final bosses. Yes. I was bored.


But I was bored in TBC healing as well with a well-geared tank. So bored, as I've said before out here, I was able to knit while doing heroics.


/leaves thread after making stupid healing-related statements


Just because I believe in GC's style of posting.

 

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I'm guessing GC hasn't actually clocked a ton of hours healing.

 

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what's the mystery? he can do what he wants when the game has 12 million players and unless MILLIONS leave the game because of changes he makes, it won't matter. i mean, even if 1 million people left because of a change he directly made, it probably wouldn't matter... we're talking like 4 million+ people would have to quit over something he does before the higher up really take notice as to why.


but this has always been how wow is.. it's never been "what do you want" it's been "here's how we think things should be, take it or leave it" and we all take it because it's still better than most else available to us.

 

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Stop bitching and heal. That's all you healers are good for.

I agree - in general.


And I think most cata changes are due to some "feeling" some designer had and have nothing to do with what players want.


However, when it comes to healing, I agree.


I've played healers since EQLive and DAoC, where you usually had to actually think while healing and use appropriate spells and manage your mana well.


In WoW, especially this expansion, any moron with healbot could spam away and heal.


I consider myself an excellent healer and kinda get sick of trade chat mouth breathers even doing half as well as me because of an addon and infinite mana.


So, I agree with what he's saying, and think the change is a good idea for ME - but it's really dumb to do a flip like this for WoW overall. You can't just make the game ultra easy mode such that morons with 10 year old intellects (insulting some 10yo, I know) can thrive then strip it away.


It's kinda the same as putting CC back in instances. I'm fine with it - I've been playing MMORPGs forever and used to have no choice but to do intelligent strategic pulls back in the day. But once you make WoW an AE slaughterfest that any moron with semi-decent gear can tank and morons with no concept of threat can DPS, you can't just strip it away - you'll crush 50% of your players because they're too stupid to handle anything beyond coloring book difficulty.

 

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That's the thing. Blizzard subscription number dramatically expanded due to the "ease of use."


All these crap changes are going to backfire on them when the mouth breathers can't get dungeon and raid groups any more

 

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Everquest the original had healing down. It took mana management and a bit of sense to heal your party.

It was this way in WoW vanilla as well. The Lich king just got stupid easy. I am unsure if the right solution is in place for Cata, but at least they recognize the problem.

 

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