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Reflection: the Eternal Palace

From the amount of disc and glimmerdin stacking to the benthicc dps tuning and not-so-healery fights, TEP was a pretty weird tier. I enjoyed the tier as a whole, but not as a healer. In fact, I felt more like a utility dps on multiple progression kills. Essences gave us the ability to diversify but also created designated healers and off-healers based on who is running crucible major. Healer parses are even more meaningless than usual this tier since you’re essentially comparing logs across players who are investing very different amounts of priority on hps vs. dps. The fact that the endboss Azshara had very little to heal and was more about LOS and mechanical coordination also made it pretty unfun to progress on as a healer.

I do have to give credit to this tier for bringing considerably more attention to healers contributing dps, which is something that I feel hadn’t been openly valued or discussed enough in the WoW raiding community. Unfortunately it was done in a heavy-handed way which led to the stacking of discs and glimmers as opposed to encouraging healers of all specs to weave dps into their filler gcds. I would love to see some encounters in the future that are more like the healer mage tower challenge from Legion or bosses with separate realms/rooms like Norushen, Kilrogg, Dragons of Nightmare, etc. where it’s less about the spec and more on what you actually do inside that room.

I have made no other posts this tier because I genuinely have nothing else to say. The healing didn’t get much more complex than simply setting up cd rotations for Ashvane’s waves, Orgozoa P1, Court and Za’qul dreads. For everything else.. it was mechanics and getting your dps pushes to line up correctly. I am looking forward to the announcements at Blizzcon this year and have high hopes for the next tier.

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