Comparing Healing Before & Now With Theun - Problematic Power Creep in Dragonflight?
Famed Restoration Shaman and Wowhead Class Guide Writer, Theun, compares the differences between past and present healing to identify some of the causes of the current issues with healing.
Specifically, he explores how the prevalence of throughput and defensive cooldowns combined with the lack of constant raid-wide damage encounters has changed the landscape of healing in Dragonflight.
If you've been following past articles, then it's no surprise that healers aren't happy with the current state of healing in Dragonflight leading to shortages of the pivotal role in a variety of content.
But what exactly are the root causes?
In an episode of the PoddyC, hosts discuss the proliferation of defensives and how defensiveness is king for high level raiding and Mythic+. Mechanics feel like their designed to bait out defensives in order to live instead of players having to rely on their healers.
Theun explores this topic further by reflecting on the power creep of defensive and healing throughput cooldowns of a few classes before and after Dragonflight potentially leading to some of the no-healer compositions that have been seen in recent weeks of the MDI.
