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Is my healing gear very bad
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kennystar
I would say thats its the dps. but that depends on how well u play ur class. but shaman is ez mode. spam 1 button (chain heal) and ur pro.
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irishsnout
according to imba you are geared well enough to do naxx 25. in my noobish opinion i think it was someone elses fault
edit: yea imba is just a guide and gives a rough estimate of where you could be. see the post below me.
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skribs
I'm so confused by this. How does DPS doing below 1000 have anything to do with healing? Unless they're dead of course.
You'd actually be surprised how much good DPS helps healers out.
Good DPS means less heals spent per mob, because mobs get less damage out during the time they're alive. This results in more mana for the healer.
Good DPS means you can burn through enrages quicker. A lot of heroic bosses will enrage or frenzy at 25%. For a high-DPS group, this is a time where the healer and tank can simply blow cooldowns. For a low-DPS group, this is a time where you blow your cooldowns and then struggle when they wear off.
Some fights, it even boils down to the tank just trying to survive while the boss gets burned down (e.g. first boss in CoS if the healer is the target that keeps getting stunned).
Good DPS means you can burst down high-damage adds quick, thus either reducing the pull from 4 to 3 or taking out totems/snowflakes which do a lot of damage. The less mobs you have to deal with, the better it is for the healer.
Good DPS is also good because it's more likely they know what to do. People who rock 1050 DPS in heroics are probably not going to be interrupting, remembering to rebuff, staying out of nono-spots (e.g. void zones, blizzard, whirlwind), etc. The last one especially forces the healer into triage: which do you heal more? The tank or the DPS who's making your life difficult? If you let the DPS die to save the tank, it's likely that they'll QQ.
Just remember that most people in-game tend not to blame themself when things go wrong, and are convinced they know their class (and usually everyone else's class) inside out. I've had a lot of people tell me "I know how to play my class" when they're doing half the healing of other healers (on fights not suited for the other healer) and I've had people try to tell me how to play my class when they don't even have a clue. So it's not surprising the DPS blamed you.
*note that this is to say you'll never be wrong, sometimes people blame you because you really do suck. But from what I can tell - e.g. your gear and your armory, you're doing fine.
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Jaspah
1100 DPS on all of them? That's pretty damn bad... I was doing that kind of DPS as an Elemental Shaman at level 70.
Through my own healing experience, I've definitely had cases where DPS was so slow that we wiped from me going OOM from healing the tank for 5 minutes on a boss fight. You are decently geared... so unless you're really bad at healing -- and you don't like you are -- it's the DPS's fault for being bad at the game.
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