After healing a +16 Nexus Point I have a new appreciation for good healers
TLDR: As a long time DPS player, healing high keys can be very rough and I just wanna say thanks to all the healers who do it and make it look “easy”. It is a much different game compared to DPSing and imo it’s A LOT harder.
To be clear, it’s not that I didn’t already appreciate a good healer, because I definitely always have, but that key just made me appreciate them even more lol. We did end up timing the key (with 6 seconds left lmfao), but it was fucking TOUGH.
For a little more context I’ve primarily been a DPS player for the ~18 years I’ve played this game. I’ve mained a healer/tank a few times but never in any content that was too hard. I’ve also always considered myself fairly above average at the game. For the most part I parse 90+ most of the time when I’m on a raid team. Healing though? I just don’t have much experience. I healed a couple 18-19s in DF before the m+ squish and they were fairly hard but not TOO bad as far as I can remember.
This season I’m playing Ele and Resto fairly equally and have different gear sets that I swap for each. Both specs are set up pretty well and I’ve done 15-16s as both specs. That nexus point just felt different though for some reason lol. The first boss in particular was the primary culprit to my stress lol (the boss on the left). When the big explosion happens you have to heal off big heal absorbs in a short time had me STRESSING. I was struggling pretty bad on it and it had me questioning how the hell people are doing that in 20+ keys lmao.
I was however playing Farseer the whole expansion so far because I had never played Totemic before and I was being too lazy to learn the differences in playstyles. Idk how much easier it is on Totemic, but either way that dungeon motivated me to learn Totemic finally lol. I did a few 10-12s today before work as Totemic and while I’m not fully used to it yet (no surprise there), I can definitely tell already why it’s played a lot more than Farseer currently. I’m excited to learn it more and I will 100% be healing another Nexus 16 (maybe 17?) as Totemic when I’m more used to it and see how it feels comparatively haha.
Anyway, all that to just say thank you to the goated healers that are healing 16+ keys and making it look fairly “easy” haha. I am definitely better at just zug zugging, but I do find healing to be very fun and a much different challenge as well. I haven’t tanked any 15-16s yet, I do have a tank alt though so I’ll get around to it, but I’d already say healing high keys is the hardest role for sure.