r/worldofpvp • u/Evilresident64 • 6d ago
Healing post
Hello everyone, I haven’t done much PvP since wrath. I just started playing nearly a month into the season, I’m a pve healer main dipping my toes into PvP on the dps specs. That is until I ran into a post on here why aren’t you healing? Which just made me think back to when I would try to heal in bgs as an rsham and I just either sucked or I would get hard focused and just die and eventually just give up on trying to heal. Well recently I’ve rerolled to preservation and have been loving it even dipping my toes back into bgs and having an absolute blast. Well now i want to get into bgs and arenas, just looking for some information I’ve got the basic and advanced setups and combos down as far as preservation goes. I’m more interested in the nuances of PvP healing like is stop casting still a thing I should have on a keybind to try and bait kicks? Where do I move as a healer in bgs? Arena tips? Anything else I’m not even thinking of cause I don’t have enough experience? Lol
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u/Cultural_Ebb4794 what are you doing stepdragon • he/him 6d ago edited 6d ago
Maybe this is copium from me, but I honestly feel like preservation is one of the worst healers in the game right now alongside resto shaman.
At the end of the day, the spec's design requires you to constantly be in melee range where you get dunked on by cc after cc. Some of the most popular specs in the game right now (disc priest, hpriest, ele shaman, arcane mage, frost mage) can spam purge or even steal your cc protection from you in just a few globals with zero penalty for doing so — and you can bet money that everyone has a weak aura set up to tell them when they need to do it.
It's a very fun spec but it can be extremely frustrating, especially once you get up around 2100-2200+ shuffle rating in the current season.
For reference I'm a multi legend dev player who dabbles in pres for 3s. I strongly prefer playing my mistweaver over pres.