A Healer's 1.2 Grievances: The story of why healers are upset

I've said this a couple of pages back, or probably in a different thread altogether, kinda forgot, but my main point is that PvP and PvE is different. In PvE content, your objective is to go through the whole run/mission/dungeon without getting a wipe, on easier dungeons a single or a few death is generally okay and won't affect much, but usually you need to keep basically everyone alive at all time throughout the whole ordeal. The same cannot be said for PvP, especially when the mechanics are respawning (instead of e.g. round based where people die once per round, or stuff), in which dying IS the point of the mechanic of respawns. You can't expect the team healer to be able to keep everyone alive everytime, and things would become ridiculous if the other team plans to do the same thing.

And no, I've been running with a healer friend of mine, and I'm not seeing cases where people died without getting on a single heal if possible. That people died in a single GCD is an over-exaggeration.

Loving 1.2. This thread is the longest list of whining I have ever seen.

healers were greatly overpowered pre 1.2

no wonder you enjoyed it. Now admittedly they are overnerfed.

Somewhere in between would have been a better solution.

healers were greatly overpowered pre 1.2

no wonder you enjoyed it. Now admittedly they are overnerfed.

Somewhere in between would have been a better solution.

I have seen good healers post 1.2 who have made a difference in Warzones, who have handled being attacked by Marauders, and Bounty Hunters, and have healed and turned the tide. The fact that you can't do it doesn't speak ill of your class, it only speaks ill of your ability to play a healer.

Before 1.2 Healers simply could not be killed, period. in huttball they could carry the ball from one end to the other and never go below half health with the entire opposing team wailing on them. THAT is unbalanced.

Yes pre 1.2 patch 8 healers > any other combo outside of a more skilled 8 healers. You can "argue" that they wouldn't have enough dps to kill anything for an offensive...but you'd be wrong. 8 healers means an invincible team (literally unkillable) meaning they can slowly dish out numbers (that wouldn't be healed by the enemy team).

Wrong.
8 dps working together like the 8 healers in your fiction scenario would kill a target in a single GCD cycle. You can't heal through damage that happens that fast even if you had 100 healers.

Sorry, you fail.