They only mistake that I often made last week is to trust I can keep the party unattended for 2 second meanwhile I do the Afflicted Soul affix. Ohhhh boy, that was not the case.
I play resto druid and I feel the same. I pug almost 90% of time and if I go cat form for 2s it's gonna be full party out. People don't care to learn about mechanics at all
I was in a +20 with a shaman.. he had poison cleanse totem.. I had to dispel one.. then heal up the other because he did not press it.. and if I dispelled one, and had to heal the group.. the other would just go off, and they complained about it after..
Meanwhile as a dps player I have to dispell fucking everything (not just help out) because the healer is eating glue in the background. I hate this affix
@@alihorda its not even that big of a deal to deal with as a tank or dps. i literally do it easily on feral without sacrificing anything. tanks more so. I mean yea the affix is annoying and dumb but dps dont even have it that bad.
Another tip I would add, and I'm not sure how many people need this but is it's ok to prioritize yourself sometimes - a dead healer is no healer. Sometimes I just feel bad if I need to use pain suppression on myself for example lol
My best tipp ever was: Use ur Cooldowns! A Stasis for example has 1:30 Min CD, u can use it on nearly every second pull.. Theres no need to have CDs 10 minutes not used.. except u know there is a boss or so coming next where u need it.
It also helps a lot with mana management. Popping a CD and throwing a few heals manually, uses much less mana than trying to do the same throughput with only manual healing. Which also may save time from drinking, etc.
Agreed. As a MW, I know shielun, chiji, and bubble have super shorts cds and use them constantly. Even when emergencies happen, I feel like a CD is always available. Took me a while to get into that mindset
This is a big one. I loved to hold on to my cooldowns when I started healing. Had to consciously use them more often. Even as a new healer, I'm able to parse decently high now and the only thing I feel I'm doing is just using my abilities when they're up. Nothing special at all. Simply just pressing my buttons.
Exactly, this is what gives you consistency. On my evoker I kinda always have a CD to go for extra spikes. It will be back by the time the next boss rolls around anyways.
It's so insane that all "topplayers" keep telling healers they should spec into damage talents to help out in M+, because "EVERYONE should be helping in a group" (as if keeping said group alive isn't very very helpful) and when healers do so they're being yelled at for not healing enough. Why are there such high expectations? And why are people suprised healers are hard to find?
I agree that expectation management is a really significant thing that doesn't get spoken much about in WoW. When pugging there's often someone in the group who is surprised that the other people in the group are not playing 100% as they expect (running different talents, not knowing skips, not being on top of all interrupts/mechanics, etc). It's a huge source of anger for them and is the root of a lot of toxicity in the game. That's not to say that people should lower their standards - absolutely not! Aim to play with great players at your own level who you can have fun with! But when pugging with total strangers I think there does need to be more forgiveness and flexibility as standard.
i used to be in the top ten healers on my server a few years ago , when people tried to tell me how to play my character , i stopped healing . i just switched toons and went with DPS instead . it gets tiring listening to other people who have never healed anything , telling me how to heal . yup im not down for THAT bs . now im a happy DPS player ( still get told im playing my class wrong , but oh well its my toon ill play how i want ) also i used Healbot , one button healing , made it SOOOOO easy to heal and keep everyone at 100% while still able to put out a bit of DPS . but no more . im now a solo player and refuse to do dungeons .
So true, your point about consistency. In SL I ran with a tank who was constantly "experimenting" and wanting to try different strategies even when what we had done in the past was working perfectly well. This led to many keys being busted that could have been timed. It was stressful and frustrating for me as a healer, and led to me not running with that tank anymore in DF.
One particularly good trick is to drop all the meters. They are there for when the key is done. This makes it easier to focus on keeping the party alive. My own advice is that you need to get a grip on what keeps your attention. You only have so much time to react, and if you focus on the wrong things, then it gets a lot harder. Most encounters are orchestrated and will have things happening in a certain sequence. If you understand this, you get a far larger attention window and this improves your gameplay a lot. It's mandatory for the more proactive healers out there, but the more reactive healers benefit as much from this understanding. "Attention Management" keeps the party alive.
First step to fixing a problem is realizing that there is a problem. We need more of these video's I'm gonna work on networking even for pvp thanks jak !
The only thing with the networking for someone like me is I don't want to end up being friends with people and they go looking for me every time I get on game. I want to have the freedom of logging on and not worrying about getting hit with whispers from people I met in pugs. I am a healer and I do get some invites to friends list after a run however I decline them. I think it's great if you have that time to do that, however, for some of us older folks with 60 hour jobs and family life, just don't want that added pressure of I have to help them since they sent me a message. I hate to be rude to people and not answer or tell them every other day I don't have the time. Just easier for me not to friend people. I know it sucks but I guess that is life.
I normally just tell the group, "When I type X that means use your CDs." That way it's super fast and everyone knows what that when they see the letter X they have to keep themselves up.
I tried many times sticking with people i felt worth playing with, added many of them, asked them day after day if they wanna play but its just impossible to build connections, make friends to play with if everyone insta leave the dungeon after its finished. Yeah i get it not everybody playing to make friends/connections to play with but its just not worth trying anymore, its just better to join a guild or a community.
I'm in a pretty small guild with the majority of players pushing past 20s at the moment and even then it's hard to build connections there since almost all my guildies already have their own groups they run with. I go out my way to get the small minority of guildies who pug keys like me to form a group with each other whether it is through guild chat, discord, or even whispering in-game but I had no success so far. So far the only way I really built connections with people in this game is doing lower level content (relative to what I usually do/what my goals are), finding chill players there who are always looking to improve and helping them through higher level content. I actually did this in back BFA season 2 and made two friends that I pushed with consistently. They even both ended up surpassing me significantly in IO at the end of season 4 but they don't play WoW anymore unfortunately.
Like many things in life it's a numbers game. You're probably not going to get the first job you apply for, not everyone you ask out is going to say yes, etc. During Legion I was a shadow priest (awful m+ spec at the time) on a dead server trying to push m+ and nobody on my server cared about it. I brought as much utility as I could to offset the downsides of my spec such as making call outs for interrupt order in discord if the tank wasn't handling it. When I'd run with people I enjoyed running with I'd try to add them as friends. A lot of them turned me down but I eventually got to the point where my friend list was 100% full and I'd have to find people to delete in order to add new friends. The first people I'd delete would be the people who were never available. I eventually grew to the point where a lot of the people I'd added early on weren't capable of doing the key levels I wanted to do, I still tried not to remove them and to occasionally run things with them but I did start adding a section to my friends list of people to delete next and I eventually purged some of those to make space.
I just started playing Discipline Priest for the first time since I started play WoW from the very first day O' so many years ago. I appreciate the tips, they really help as I learn to play this class/spec.
Thank you for these valuables advices once again! I really like the music you put in your videos background every time, could you tell me what's the name of this music please ? (I looked in the description first)
One boss I don't seem to get to grasp with is the first boss of halls of infusion. How do you heal that fight on a high(ish) tyrannical key when you've got some potentially low geared people in the group?
What heal spec are you? Use your utility skills like tiger lust so they can run away, feather on priest or yoink them out of the way, or use rescue on evoker for example. Also, I still am using a 389 trinket from s1 bc it still puts out a good 7-10 Million healing passively which saves me a lot of mana. I tried using it with 424 trinket I have this season & it is 6k hps loss. You won't find it recommended on any guide sites, but don't sleep on the primal ritual shell.
the tip about networking is huge. NA has this INSANE gatekeeping culture behind keys and right now if you dont have a 5 man to run with in NA, youre not doing keys. Its miserable. I played on EU for a bit and pugging was actually enjoyable. Add the good people in your keys, throw the "Doing the [next level key here]?" in chat, sometimes they will other times they wont. But having no one to play this game with is literally no ones fault but your own
Dps need a way to gain DPS by doing things like dispelling/healing and healers need a way to gain healing by doing things like dispelling/dpsing If you do this good enough, then it won’t be a problem for DPS to help out with utility/DPS/mechanics because it will benefit their DPS. Similar to how DH gain 20 fury on silence and evokers gain damage from healing. Reward good gameplay and people will perform good. Dps only care about DPS so if a DPS casts a heal/dispel/utility or interrupts their DPS to perform a M+ mechanic then they should be rewarded with ways to do more DPS because of it. Same for healers.
To a point that's true, but if you regularly play with some people and you notice someone repeatedly making the same mistake it can be useful to point it out to them.
My best tip as a healer who's gotten KSM every pack since it's been added is the following: don't go in looking to have fun. You are a healing bot. Reroll mage.
Dealing damage as a healer in a 5 man is just so weird to me having resubbed a few months ago....because I was so used to having mana issues 5-10 years ago, lol.
The M+ Meta is a joke tho. As Holypriest i´m right now at worldrank 30ish, did everything on 22 and for the last hour, did not get a single invite for any 23 key.
I'm one of those "PUG heroes". I've managed to time 18 keys with pugs. I'm deaf though, and that isn't something that people are receptive to. I guarantee you I'd be higher than 18's if people were. People are always looking for "VC", and if you say no, then you're done-zo. Zero engagement after that, as if being in voice is the one single factor that brings you success. They want nothing to do with you. It doesn't matter if you know your class like the back of your hand. It doesn't matter if you know you have fantastic spatial awareness. It doesn't matter if you AOTC, or if RaiderIO tells you you're top 100 of your class on your server; if they think you can't play the game, then you can't play the game, and then you don't get to. It's not only about content either. I'm on an RP server and at one point myself and a friend were looking to join a big PvERP guild and the GM had asked us to join VC for a "get to know you" session. My friend had pointed out that I was deaf and he'd responded to her with "That's okay. Some people just don't work out for the guild, but you can still join." Everyone is looking for a reason to gatekeep you. Always.
Minor nitpick, PUG means Pick Up Group so PUG group is Pick Up Group Group. It's like ATM Machine (Automated Teller Machine Machine) or PIN Number (Personal Identification Number Number).
Jak, as a squishy hunter, what can I do in pug keys to make things smoother for the healer and the group? Is it helpful to learn about healers CDs and ask for them at the start of a run, or just trust the healer to know when they need to use one on you? If the former how do I do so without if seeming like I'm trying to tell them how to do their jobs?
use hp pet when lust is on cooldown, if u have a lust on your team use hp pet always, bm with hp pet is pretty tank, lots of hp, if u are a mm thats a rip.
Automatic depleting of keys was a bad decision and only encouraged the general playerbase to act the way they do. Failing at timing a key is punishment enough.
Honestly It's just not a good mindset to have, there's enough healers out there already who refuse to bind their dps abilitys. For example; last boss on Brackenhide... if your not absolutely slamming that totem as the healer then your totally throwing. Healer damage is VERY important in a lot of these dungeons.
@@tyice8730 stop thinking in extremes. The option to do damage or not isn't Yes or No. Some healers mana regen relies on dps abilities. He said it himself, if you have time then dps. Trying to decide to get one more smite out instead of using a CD on a dying dps is silly and are mistakes by noobs who think they can play like a R1 healer who's always in a team full of other R1s. Just heal when needed and dps when it isn't lol
Jak, question. I'm running your vuhdo profile export. The unitframes look different however compared to the ones in your recent vids. Specifically the unit frame borders flashing on low health. How do I get mine to do that as well?
LMAO. I thought I said that you can play M+ like a single player game v easily in EU cuz there’s a larger pug network while NA you get capped hard if you don’t find a set squad But yea EU was great times for being a lone wolf
As a "casual hardcore" player doing 5-10 dungeons per week last season, I quite easily managed to PUG all of them at +20 on EU by the end of the season, so yeah can confirm it's BIS lol. Edit: Did it as Holy Priest, too, without ever being told to go Disc! EU❤
Doing enough M+, you will be able to grasp what goes wrong in a deplete. Either a tank doing idiotic pulls, 1 dps doing half the dmg of the others, or you screwing up CD-s, falling behind or similar. Know when it's your fault, and don't be afraid to admit it, but also don't let people who fail and automatically look for someone else to blame to bring you down. It can be hella demoralizing to think you are a bad healer because someone auto-blamed the healer. Also, don't stress about depleting pug keys. It happens.
Hardest thing about been a healer, Toxic pug environments. Biggest mistake a pug healer makes??... Healing pug groups. Biggest mistake i make... I try to do 5 things at once, with mods that dont work half the time... who do i blame??... Blizzard saying we dont contribute enough "give the finger"
Smoothest dungeons are when the healers just heal. When they don’t the dps loss dps because they are trying not to die. 😂 same with tanks being the tankest possible is best not a weak dps. 😂 easy to time just do the mechanics.
Awesome video. I would love to see WOW punish dps for bad mechanics instead of always making it a Healers problem. Instead of a dps takinga hit 98% of their health, why dont you nerf their damage by 90% for a few secs. Messing with these kids numbers is all they care about.
I think your tipps are great for a high skill level, but these mistakes are actually valuable habits at lower keys (say below +20). You are not 100% needed as a healer there and should absolutely practice doing damage. When you are doing
Mistake: Login during Incorporeal and Affliction. I will never heal this garbage affix again. There is so much wrong with these 2 affixes, it's sad they went live. Who the f#€% thought this is fun? How is this "less impactful"?
I love how these top players live in a world of illusion. What are you talking about? level 24+ stones? Time left on level 24 stones? Can you understand that 97% of players in this game don't even reach level 20 stones? dps focused healer? My dear, 60% of healers can't even deal with Brackehide's first boss dots, let alone dps. Wake up brother, you're not talking about the overwhelming reality of most players, you're in a bubble of 3% of the top players in this game. Talk about exploring new strategies??? Who does this to pugs??? Do you really think that the majority here play with closed groups and organized by audio?
No need to watch a 10min video. Wanna be the "best healer"? Join the best group. The group's performance is far more impactful than anything a healer can do. Seriously though. Experiment. Imagine encouraging people not to experiment. "Just do what has already been done" sheep. It's definitely one way to stay in front; telling others to follow.
At least in my book, hard carrying means the group could just as well run without that player and they wouldn't be much worse off. I know healerless runs are a thing now, but only for a very specific group composition. Unless you're talking about that, I suppose you have a somewhat hyperbolic definition of "hard carrying". And, before the suspicion is even raised: No, I'm not a 1k dps healer trying to justify my own failings or something like that. :p - I'm just not a fan of statements that devalue the healing portion of the healer role.
@Christian Knuchel It's just not really how WoW works.The bottleneck for a lot of these dungeons isn't really healing this time around. It's mostly your team's ability to burst down a priority add or totem that spawns. Any GCDs you're spending on unneeded healing is just wasted damage, which can be far more impactful. The healerless runs do kind of demonstrate how little is actually required.
Top tips 1. Don't play wow 2. Don't play mythic and think you're good at anything but fighting the computer 3. Try and realize that mplus pushing is for turbo nerds with no motor skills.
Sure, because the pillar hugging game mode where the win goes to the team that manages to perma-CC the other team's healer first offers a that much greater range of sophisticated skill expression.
Networking is just not possible in EU either. The good people are already playing with each other, I gave up on s2 altogether. I'm so sick of pugging as a healer I never want to touch m+ again
They only mistake that I often made last week is to trust I can keep the party unattended for 2 second meanwhile I do the Afflicted Soul affix. Ohhhh boy, that was not the case.
I play resto druid and I feel the same. I pug almost 90% of time and if I go cat form for 2s it's gonna be full party out. People don't care to learn about mechanics at all
I found myself dealing with a lot of them last week as a ret pally.
I was in a +20 with a shaman.. he had poison cleanse totem..
I had to dispel one.. then heal up the other because he did not press it..
and if I dispelled one, and had to heal the group.. the other would just go off, and they complained about it after..
Meanwhile as a dps player I have to dispell fucking everything (not just help out) because the healer is eating glue in the background. I hate this affix
@@alihorda its not even that big of a deal to deal with as a tank or dps. i literally do it easily on feral without sacrificing anything. tanks more so. I mean yea the affix is annoying and dumb but dps dont even have it that bad.
Another tip I would add, and I'm not sure how many people need this but is it's ok to prioritize yourself sometimes - a dead healer is no healer. Sometimes I just feel bad if I need to use pain suppression on myself for example lol
Agree, I've seen some healers let ppl die because they are looking at dps meters and commenting on their dps. Great points jack .
My best tipp ever was:
Use ur Cooldowns!
A Stasis for example has 1:30 Min CD, u can use it on nearly every second pull.. Theres no need to have CDs 10 minutes not used.. except u know there is a boss or so coming next where u need it.
It also helps a lot with mana management. Popping a CD and throwing a few heals manually, uses much less mana than trying to do the same throughput with only manual healing. Which also may save time from drinking, etc.
Agreed. As a MW, I know shielun, chiji, and bubble have super shorts cds and use them constantly. Even when emergencies happen, I feel like a CD is always available. Took me a while to get into that mindset
I am so guilty of not using CDs, it's not even funny. I really need to use them more regularly and proactive.
This is a big one. I loved to hold on to my cooldowns when I started healing. Had to consciously use them more often. Even as a new healer, I'm able to parse decently high now and the only thing I feel I'm doing is just using my abilities when they're up. Nothing special at all. Simply just pressing my buttons.
Exactly, this is what gives you consistency. On my evoker I kinda always have a CD to go for extra spikes. It will be back by the time the next boss rolls around anyways.
It's so insane that all "topplayers" keep telling healers they should spec into damage talents to help out in M+, because "EVERYONE should be helping in a group" (as if keeping said group alive isn't very very helpful) and when healers do so they're being yelled at for not healing enough. Why are there such high expectations? And why are people suprised healers are hard to find?
I agree that expectation management is a really significant thing that doesn't get spoken much about in WoW. When pugging there's often someone in the group who is surprised that the other people in the group are not playing 100% as they expect (running different talents, not knowing skips, not being on top of all interrupts/mechanics, etc). It's a huge source of anger for them and is the root of a lot of toxicity in the game. That's not to say that people should lower their standards - absolutely not! Aim to play with great players at your own level who you can have fun with! But when pugging with total strangers I think there does need to be more forgiveness and flexibility as standard.
i used to be in the top ten healers on my server a few years ago , when people tried to tell me how to play my character , i stopped healing . i just switched toons and went with DPS instead . it gets tiring listening to other people who have never healed anything , telling me how to heal . yup im not down for THAT bs . now im a happy DPS player ( still get told im playing my class wrong , but oh well its my toon ill play how i want ) also i used Healbot , one button healing , made it SOOOOO easy to heal and keep everyone at 100% while still able to put out a bit of DPS . but no more . im now a solo player and refuse to do dungeons .
A good healer can do dps while healing. Takes practice and sometimes your dps is gonna take a hit, but it's doable
@@JohnDoe-bo5yk can do and want to do are 2 different things, that's why the role isn't popular.
So true, your point about consistency. In SL I ran with a tank who was constantly "experimenting" and wanting to try different strategies even when what we had done in the past was working perfectly well. This led to many keys being busted that could have been timed. It was stressful and frustrating for me as a healer, and led to me not running with that tank anymore in DF.
One particularly good trick is to drop all the meters. They are there for when the key is done. This makes it easier to focus on keeping the party alive.
My own advice is that you need to get a grip on what keeps your attention. You only have so much time to react, and if you focus on the wrong things, then it gets a lot harder. Most encounters are orchestrated and will have things happening in a certain sequence. If you understand this, you get a far larger attention window and this improves your gameplay a lot. It's mandatory for the more proactive healers out there, but the more reactive healers benefit as much from this understanding. "Attention Management" keeps the party alive.
Great point!
First step to fixing a problem is realizing that there is a problem. We need more of these video's I'm gonna work on networking even for pvp thanks jak !
The only thing with the networking for someone like me is I don't want to end up being friends with people and they go looking for me every time I get on game. I want to have the freedom of logging on and not worrying about getting hit with whispers from people I met in pugs. I am a healer and I do get some invites to friends list after a run however I decline them. I think it's great if you have that time to do that, however, for some of us older folks with 60 hour jobs and family life, just don't want that added pressure of I have to help them since they sent me a message. I hate to be rude to people and not answer or tell them every other day I don't have the time. Just easier for me not to friend people. I know it sucks but I guess that is life.
I normally just tell the group, "When I type X that means use your CDs." That way it's super fast and everyone knows what that when they see the letter X they have to keep themselves up.
I tried many times sticking with people i felt worth playing with, added many of them, asked them day after day if they wanna play but its just impossible to build connections, make friends to play with if everyone insta leave the dungeon after its finished. Yeah i get it not everybody playing to make friends/connections to play with but its just not worth trying anymore, its just better to join a guild or a community.
I'm in a pretty small guild with the majority of players pushing past 20s at the moment and even then it's hard to build connections there since almost all my guildies already have their own groups they run with. I go out my way to get the small minority of guildies who pug keys like me to form a group with each other whether it is through guild chat, discord, or even whispering in-game but I had no success so far. So far the only way I really built connections with people in this game is doing lower level content (relative to what I usually do/what my goals are), finding chill players there who are always looking to improve and helping them through higher level content. I actually did this in back BFA season 2 and made two friends that I pushed with consistently. They even both ended up surpassing me significantly in IO at the end of season 4 but they don't play WoW anymore unfortunately.
2.8k resto shammy here EU draenor lfg. Reach out if you're trying to push into that end tier m+ content ❤
Like many things in life it's a numbers game. You're probably not going to get the first job you apply for, not everyone you ask out is going to say yes, etc. During Legion I was a shadow priest (awful m+ spec at the time) on a dead server trying to push m+ and nobody on my server cared about it. I brought as much utility as I could to offset the downsides of my spec such as making call outs for interrupt order in discord if the tank wasn't handling it. When I'd run with people I enjoyed running with I'd try to add them as friends. A lot of them turned me down but I eventually got to the point where my friend list was 100% full and I'd have to find people to delete in order to add new friends. The first people I'd delete would be the people who were never available. I eventually grew to the point where a lot of the people I'd added early on weren't capable of doing the key levels I wanted to do, I still tried not to remove them and to occasionally run things with them but I did start adding a section to my friends list of people to delete next and I eventually purged some of those to make space.
I just started playing Discipline Priest for the first time since I started play WoW from the very first day O' so many years ago. I appreciate the tips, they really help as I learn to play this class/spec.
Thank you for these valuables advices once again!
I really like the music you put in your videos background every time, could you tell me what's the name of this music please ?
(I looked in the description first)
One boss I don't seem to get to grasp with is the first boss of halls of infusion. How do you heal that fight on a high(ish) tyrannical key when you've got some potentially low geared people in the group?
You don't. Dont do high keys with low-geared people. Especially not on Tyrannical. That's suicide bud
What heal spec are you? Use your utility skills like tiger lust so they can run away, feather on priest or yoink them out of the way, or use rescue on evoker for example. Also, I still am using a 389 trinket from s1 bc it still puts out a good 7-10 Million healing passively which saves me a lot of mana. I tried using it with 424 trinket I have this season & it is 6k hps loss. You won't find it recommended on any guide sites, but don't sleep on the primal ritual shell.
the tip about networking is huge. NA has this INSANE gatekeeping culture behind keys and right now if you dont have a 5 man to run with in NA, youre not doing keys. Its miserable. I played on EU for a bit and pugging was actually enjoyable. Add the good people in your keys, throw the "Doing the [next level key here]?" in chat, sometimes they will other times they wont. But having no one to play this game with is literally no ones fault but your own
Dps need a way to gain DPS by doing things like dispelling/healing and healers need a way to gain healing by doing things like dispelling/dpsing
If you do this good enough, then it won’t be a problem for DPS to help out with utility/DPS/mechanics because it will benefit their DPS.
Similar to how DH gain 20 fury on silence and evokers gain damage from healing.
Reward good gameplay and people will perform good.
Dps only care about DPS so if a DPS casts a heal/dispel/utility or interrupts their DPS to perform a M+ mechanic then they should be rewarded with ways to do more DPS because of it.
Same for healers.
"I know we can rely on little Jimmy to get us through" LUL
most important tip: u can only improve yourself, not other players. dont look what other can do better, look what u can do better
To a point that's true, but if you regularly play with some people and you notice someone repeatedly making the same mistake it can be useful to point it out to them.
Hope you’re feeling good Jak
Yea much better ty
My best tip as a healer who's gotten KSM every pack since it's been added is the following: don't go in looking to have fun. You are a healing bot. Reroll mage.
Its unfortunate. Ive never run another dungeon with people I've added on btag since bfa. Social interaction 💯
Dealing damage as a healer in a 5 man is just so weird to me having resubbed a few months ago....because I was so used to having mana issues 5-10 years ago, lol.
The M+ Meta is a joke tho. As Holypriest i´m right now at worldrank 30ish, did everything on 22 and for the last hour, did not get a single invite for any 23 key.
Exactly the same as resto druid in EU (farming all 22 took me nearly a full time job also xd)
I'm one of those "PUG heroes". I've managed to time 18 keys with pugs. I'm deaf though, and that isn't something that people are receptive to. I guarantee you I'd be higher than 18's if people were. People are always looking for "VC", and if you say no, then you're done-zo. Zero engagement after that, as if being in voice is the one single factor that brings you success. They want nothing to do with you.
It doesn't matter if you know your class like the back of your hand. It doesn't matter if you know you have fantastic spatial awareness. It doesn't matter if you AOTC, or if RaiderIO tells you you're top 100 of your class on your server; if they think you can't play the game, then you can't play the game, and then you don't get to.
It's not only about content either. I'm on an RP server and at one point myself and a friend were looking to join a big PvERP guild and the GM had asked us to join VC for a "get to know you" session. My friend had pointed out that I was deaf and he'd responded to her with "That's okay. Some people just don't work out for the guild, but you can still join."
Everyone is looking for a reason to gatekeep you. Always.
Minor nitpick, PUG means Pick Up Group so PUG group is Pick Up Group Group. It's like ATM Machine (Automated Teller Machine Machine) or PIN Number (Personal Identification Number Number).
healers might be in high demand, but lately... nobody invites anything except holy pala
Jak, as a squishy hunter, what can I do in pug keys to make things smoother for the healer and the group? Is it helpful to learn about healers CDs and ask for them at the start of a run, or just trust the healer to know when they need to use one on you? If the former how do I do so without if seeming like I'm trying to tell them how to do their jobs?
use hp pet when lust is on cooldown, if u have a lust on your team use hp pet always, bm with hp pet is pretty tank, lots of hp, if u are a mm thats a rip.
I like it how you mention as goals geting 20s or 0.1%, like you know that anybody who is watching you isnt struguling to get ksm. All top dogs here :)
True! Only the best gamers watch my content :)
If the meta can trickle down and impact ksm groups, so can good tips!
man i hate m+ but will keep these in mind the next time i hate myself enough to do it lol.
Automatic depleting of keys was a bad decision and only encouraged the general playerbase to act the way they do. Failing at timing a key is punishment enough.
Thank you. So true about the dps. Thank you for pointing that out. You brought out some great points.
Honestly It's just not a good mindset to have, there's enough healers out there already who refuse to bind their dps abilitys. For example; last boss on Brackenhide... if your not absolutely slamming that totem as the healer then your totally throwing. Healer damage is VERY important in a lot of these dungeons.
@@tyice8730 stop thinking in extremes. The option to do damage or not isn't Yes or No. Some healers mana regen relies on dps abilities. He said it himself, if you have time then dps. Trying to decide to get one more smite out instead of using a CD on a dying dps is silly and are mistakes by noobs who think they can play like a R1 healer who's always in a team full of other R1s. Just heal when needed and dps when it isn't lol
Jack, Do you find that leaning into DPS in the trink department can be good for Disco healing?
Damage trinkets dont convert into atonement
Jak, question. I'm running your vuhdo profile export. The unitframes look different however compared to the ones in your recent vids. Specifically the unit frame borders flashing on low health. How do I get mine to do that as well?
Its a weakaura in the description
"Networking" :
"This kinda works in EU" : let's goooooooo EU is BIS
LMAO. I thought I said that you can play M+ like a single player game v easily in EU cuz there’s a larger pug network while NA you get capped hard if you don’t find a set squad
But yea EU was great times for being a lone wolf
As a "casual hardcore" player doing 5-10 dungeons per week last season, I quite easily managed to PUG all of them at +20 on EU by the end of the season, so yeah can confirm it's BIS lol. Edit: Did it as Holy Priest, too, without ever being told to go Disc! EU❤
Doing enough M+, you will be able to grasp what goes wrong in a deplete. Either a tank doing idiotic pulls, 1 dps doing half the dmg of the others, or you screwing up CD-s, falling behind or similar. Know when it's your fault, and don't be afraid to admit it, but also don't let people who fail and automatically look for someone else to blame to bring you down. It can be hella demoralizing to think you are a bad healer because someone auto-blamed the healer. Also, don't stress about depleting pug keys. It happens.
As a tank i time all my mouvements in fights and do like 10 time FH in a row until i know what i need to do by heart
whats your kui nameplate set up? it looks sweet
Linked in the description, all my UI stuff on my site :)
What add on is that? That shows the health at the lower bottom of the screen instead of the side?
Vuhdo. All my addons in the description
I love to heal 22 keys with pugs when they never use def cds or use healing potion.
Defensives. Defensives. Defensives.
Especially players from Azralon, Quel'thalas, Ragnaros
The worst players I’ve ever met were from Illidan and Stormrage
@@CedrikTalosKazzak (EU) by a mile :^)
Hardest thing about been a healer, Toxic pug environments. Biggest mistake a pug healer makes??... Healing pug groups. Biggest mistake i make... I try to do 5 things at once, with mods that dont work half the time... who do i blame??... Blizzard saying we dont contribute enough "give the finger"
Smoothest dungeons are when the healers just heal. When they don’t the dps loss dps because they are trying not to die. 😂 same with tanks being the tankest possible is best not a weak dps. 😂 easy to time just do the mechanics.
There is a voice chat?
Most mistakes 99% people make is thinking they need add ons for key runs..
First mistake is doing mythic plus in the first place. everything after that is moot
i agree. practice practice practice and handle your CDs
First step is great, no one cares about your damage if you can't keep the group alive.
there are soooo many toxic players man, networking isn't easy... 🙄
A common mistake will be now to play Evoker in afflicted week lol.
What? lol we have such an easy time with afflicted?
Great video thank you
Everyone has an ego. that's the prob with pugging solo.
Awesome video. I would love to see WOW punish dps for bad mechanics instead of always making it a Healers problem. Instead of a dps takinga hit 98% of their health, why dont you nerf their damage by 90% for a few secs. Messing with these kids numbers is all they care about.
Is still playing the game as a healer one of them? Everyone's self healing is beyond broken for multiple xpacs now.
If i wanted to dps, id play dps
If you ever need extensive footage of HOW NOT TO DO KEYS AS A PRIEST, HMU.
I think your tipps are great for a high skill level, but these mistakes are actually valuable habits at lower keys (say below +20). You are not 100% needed as a healer there and should absolutely practice doing damage. When you are doing
Hi Jimmy
69 deaths on the thumbnail, nice.
Tip: Don't be a dick in keys.
Mistake: Login during Incorporeal and Affliction. I will never heal this garbage affix again.
There is so much wrong with these 2 affixes, it's sad they went live.
Who the f#€% thought this is fun? How is this "less impactful"?
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Doing it?
Game has become way too pug unfriendly...
I love how these top players live in a world of illusion. What are you talking about? level 24+ stones? Time left on level 24 stones? Can you understand that 97% of players in this game don't even reach level 20 stones? dps focused healer? My dear, 60% of healers can't even deal with Brackehide's first boss dots, let alone dps. Wake up brother, you're not talking about the overwhelming reality of most players, you're in a bubble of 3% of the top players in this game. Talk about exploring new strategies??? Who does this to pugs??? Do you really think that the majority here play with closed groups and organized by audio?
Seems to me you didn’t even listen to the video?
No need to watch a 10min video. Wanna be the "best healer"? Join the best group. The group's performance is far more impactful than anything a healer can do.
Seriously though. Experiment. Imagine encouraging people not to experiment. "Just do what has already been done" sheep. It's definitely one way to stay in front; telling others to follow.
Yeah you really didn’t watch the video 😂
Just get good. If your sitting at 1k dps the whole run as the healer then just know your team is hard carrying you. Don't be that guy.
At least in my book, hard carrying means the group could just as well run without that player and they wouldn't be much worse off. I know healerless runs are a thing now, but only for a very specific group composition. Unless you're talking about that, I suppose you have a somewhat hyperbolic definition of "hard carrying".
And, before the suspicion is even raised: No, I'm not a 1k dps healer trying to justify my own failings or something like that. :p - I'm just not a fan of statements that devalue the healing portion of the healer role.
@Christian Knuchel It's just not really how WoW works.The bottleneck for a lot of these dungeons isn't really healing this time around. It's mostly your team's ability to burst down a priority add or totem that spawns. Any GCDs you're spending on unneeded healing is just wasted damage, which can be far more impactful. The healerless runs do kind of demonstrate how little is actually required.
Top tips
1. Don't play wow
2. Don't play mythic and think you're good at anything but fighting the computer
3. Try and realize that mplus pushing is for turbo nerds with no motor skills.
Sure, because the pillar hugging game mode where the win goes to the team that manages to perma-CC the other team's healer first offers a that much greater range of sophisticated skill expression.
please stop doing the thing i dont like, please, it upsets me and makes me insecure when you do the thing i dont like, please
Networking is just not possible in EU either. The good people are already playing with each other, I gave up on s2 altogether. I'm so sick of pugging as a healer I never want to touch m+ again