Since its basically like WoW M plus - the game. How do tanks and healers compare?

[Pozzy Vibes GGHF :)]

How do tanks and healers feel in this game compared to retail wow in dungeons? Do tanks have to deal with constant tank buster attacks? Do healers have multiple aoe heal checks per fight and require pre-shielding to prevent people from dying to single target damage?

[Cogsworth]

I've only played the early game so far so I can't speak to how it scales but I have no tools to pre-shield or even pop a defensive for myself so far. I can't even spam direct heals. I have 2 hots, a buff I can move to individuals to increase my healing on them, and 2 roughly 1min CDs. The rest of my time is spend DPSing as there's literally no further throughput I can add after my HoTs are up.

All of that is to say my burst throughput is very limited. The fights have been less burst damage and more sustained healing. I've never felt like a player is going to take a massive chunk of HP in one go. Again, this is only very early gameplay though.

[Redevil1111]

Ive only played healer and gotten up to +5 dungeons so far, I have seen a few mechanics that ive had to bubble someone before they got hit and another where ive had to bubble them and heal them like crazy to ensure they dont die from a spell that goes on for quite a few seconds. I'm sure theres more mechanics added in higher up that test your abilities but that's what ive seen so far

[Sere]

@Cogsworth Try playing the dwarf priest. Sylvie is unfortunately very lacking compared to him in pretty much every way other than her aoe burst damage from those boomshrooms. Maybe this gets fixed with higher level abilities but at least early on, he is just a much better healer since he doesn't exclusively rely on HoTs.

[Cogsworth]

Originally posted by Sere:

@Cogsworth Try playing the dwarf priest. Sylvie is unfortunately very lacking compared to him in pretty much every way other than her aoe burst damage from those boomshrooms. Maybe this gets fixed with higher level abilities but at least early on, he is just a much better healer since he doesn't exclusively rely on HoTs.

Honestly I'm enjoying playing her currently. I don't mind the style and in many of the groups I've been able to top DPS on a lot of pulls lol. I can see as it scales how her kit might just hit a brick wall later on but for now it's fine.

[Twistedtouch]

yea the hots healer is bad. if they gave her 1 castable heal that wasnt a hot it would be great. the priest is way better but sitting in que for 5 mins as a healer cuz no one i splaying any of the pos dps classes no thanks game is DOA if they dont fix how bad dps classes are imo.