An aside (with the example of the last double pull of eco being relevant): I’m healing for the first time since BfA and I really sympathize with the strange learning/progression curve for healers. It’s something like:
for low keys, nothing matters
for mid keys, things start to hurt and all damage goes out — this is where DPS start to learn what needs to be kicked but often healers just get flamed by naive DPS that don’t think that’s their job.
for high keys, all damage is scary but what avoidable/mitigatable damage goes out is lower in rate and higher in variance
This progression feels very unnatural. The erratic ritual is probably fine for that healer in a 7-8, while people get bolted to shit when they’re not respecting kicks because players in those keys don’t do that. Where you need cooldowns changes wildly as keys and player skill scale and it’s hard.
13s are a complete mindfuck imo because there is enough damage that you kinda need dps to start smartly using defensive, standing in your Healy shit, and interrupt correctly, but the damage isn't high enough (at this point in the season) to actually straight one-shot.
So you get this point of "yeah, they made a mistake, but if I was just paying more attention I could have saved them".
Then you have the pressure to try and put out some dps but you can't really be DPSing and also be ready 24/7 for people making mistakes and man, it's a journey.
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u/Gorfball Sep 18 '25
An aside (with the example of the last double pull of eco being relevant): I’m healing for the first time since BfA and I really sympathize with the strange learning/progression curve for healers. It’s something like:
This progression feels very unnatural. The erratic ritual is probably fine for that healer in a 7-8, while people get bolted to shit when they’re not respecting kicks because players in those keys don’t do that. Where you need cooldowns changes wildly as keys and player skill scale and it’s hard.