Who has the most important/stressful job.

[Onahail]

In all honesty what do you all think?

In my own personal opinion I think the healer has the most important job. Maybe I'm just biased as I am a healer but this is what I feel. Yeah the tank is important but in the grand scheme of things what do they do? They run in and take the smacks, pick up any stray adds, and keep them at bay. But then on the other side of the coin there's the healer. They are the ones who have to keep everybody alive. It's our job to keep the tanks topped off, heal up any dps low on hp, and in general just keep the entire raid alive. Knowing you are the only thing between a kill and a wipe is very stressful. Plus those heavy raid damage fights... please shoot me. I'm staring at Grid playing whack-a-mole with 25 health bars praying to god I can get my heal off before they die.

Why do I torment myself. I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment. Solo healing Onyxia 10 because the other healer ate a cleave during the initial pull... that was, interesting, to say the least.

[seam]

Having done all three, healing.

By Far.

[Baldeshlong]

Healer by far. You have to pick up the slack and heal anyone that takes a huge FailHit. DPS is nice but as long as they stay out of shit and pull 4k+ they don't really do anything crucial. To be fair, if a tank dies they can /point and /blame their healer.

[Neza]

It really depends on how a player plays their class, as well as the fight. On some fights, where the tank merely has to hold aggro, and it is a single tank fight (no swapping between tanks), obviously the tanks are not under much stress.

Healers consistently have to watch everyone's health through out all the fights, but things such as Grid and Healbot make this much easier and in all it ends up being much less stressful.

Dps is a just another fight situational thing. If there are many moves to do so you don't get hit with AoE, or interrupts for spell casts, or phases where you have to hold back burst to not reflect dmg back and kill yourself, etc, dps has quite a bit more stress than any other because they cannot miss a slight tweak in a fight or it will mess up there rotation, get off a huge hit on the tank, or even potentially wipe the raid.

Stress is a situational factor for any fight. Some are more stressful, some are less.

[Onahail]

It really depends on how a player plays their class, as well as the fight. On some fights, where the tank merely has to hold aggro, and it is a single tank fight (no swapping between tanks), obviously the tanks are not under much stress.

Healers consistently have to watch everyone's health through out all the fights, but things such as Grid and Healbot make this much easier and in all it ends up being much less stressful.

Dps is a just another fight situational thing. If there are many moves to do so you don't get hit with AoE, or interrupts for spell casts, or phases where you have to hold back burst to not reflect dmg back and kill yourself, etc, dps has quite a bit more stress than any other because they cannot miss a slight tweak in a fight or it will mess up there rotation, get off a huge hit on the tank, or even potentially wipe the raid.

Stress is a situational factor for any fight. Some are more stressful, some are less.

This may be true but barring maybe one or two certain fights, almost every single wipe can be brought back to the healers not being able to keep people alive. That's the part that sucks

Best fight to observe this would be Faction Champions. Anybody besides a healer get's CCd or silenced, it's not a game breaker and the dude still ends up dieing. A healer on the other hand who get's CCd or silenced at a bad time and people start dieing. You have no idea how stressful it is knowing if you get CCd, chances are people will die.

[GrieverXIII]

Depends of the fights, most of the time healing is more stressfull, but sometime tanking is too, heroic anub add tanking for example, you screw 1 interupt, you wiped you raid.

[Hexus]

Healing, although I'm afraid I may be biased.

On the other hand, Tanking seems like something of a leap of faith. Kind of like that trust exercise where you fall backwards and trust that the guy behind you is going to catch you. Apparently its something they get used to.

[sleekit]

healer

i actually have problems with stress related illness and cant play one in raids.

[Sås]

This may be true but barring maybe one or two certain fights, almost every single wipe can be brought back to the internet heroes standing in the fire. That's the part that sucks

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[Onahail]

Depends of the fights, most of the time healing is more stressfull, but sometime tanking is too, heroic anub add tanking for example, you screw 1 interupt, you wiped you raid.

Heroic Anub is one of the fights that is the exception to this. Every job is as important as the others. Tanks can't miss interrupts or it's a wipe and they need to get on a frost patch, DPS need to switch to the adds RIGHT AWAY or they won't die quick enough causing not enough DPS to be on Anub, and Healers need to make sure they immediately switch to those with Penetrating Cold or the person will die pretty quick. And then there's the spikes... nothing much needs to be said. If you've done the fight you know what I mean lol.

[phyrix]

Generally speaking, considering all raids and instances, the healers definitely have the most stressful job.

Second spot would be tanks, because there are some, if not a lot of fights where the tank just stands there and holds aggro.

DPS is important too, especially on hardmodes, but a slight fuckup of a dps'er won't really have any consequences, a slight healer fuckup could result in somebody (or the entire raid) dead.
A tank fuckup could mean a loose mob or even boss, wich almost certainly ends in multiple deaths or a wipe.

[Onahail]

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You're an idiot and have brought nothing to this thread. Stop trolling for the sake of trolling and go back to your parent's basement where you belong.

[Yocrunch]

Actually I would say that DPS has an equal amount of stress if not more.
DPS has to fight against enrage timers (hard and soft)
Good DPS need to max everything they can to do more damage, make sure they survive, move in and out fire and various other obstacles, DPS and switching quickly and efficiently to adds and back to boss (something like twins stands out)

Being a healer back in TBC i can honestly say healing is the one thing that stays constant, you fill up the health bars, manage your mana and survive the fight you the next thing.

Being a melee dps i think of a lot of fights that puts stress on me more so then healing, but i am not going to get into comparisons.

All in all its a personal thing, also i have played a tank but i have an understanding for all classes and class roles and i think you have over simplified the role of a tank and dps a little to much, i think anyone could continue to add a load of things that could say "my role is harder", and someone can just reply back with "no mine is harder because of this".

/shrug?

[GrieverXIII]

Heroic Anub is one of the fights that is the exception to this. Every job is as important as the others. Tanks can't miss interrupts or it's a wipe and they need to get on a frost patch, DPS need to switch to the adds RIGHT AWAY or they won't die quick enough causing not enough DPS to be on Anub, and Healers need to make sure they immediately switch to those with Penetrating Cold or the person will die pretty quick. And then there's the spikes... nothing much needs to be said. If you've done the fight you know what I mean lol.

I did in 10man, not in the main roster of my guild atm, (they killed Heroic anub 25 tho).

[phyrix]

I forgot to mention I've filled all 3 roles at some point, so I know what i'm talking about.

[Yocrunch]

Generally speaking, considering all raids and instances, the healers definitely have the most stressful job.

Second spot would be tanks, because there are some, if not a lot of fights where the tank just stands there and holds aggro.

DPS is important too, especially on hardmodes, but a slight fuckup of a dps'er won't really have any consequences, a slight healer fuckup could result in somebody (or the entire raid) dead.
A tank fuckup could mean a loose mob or even boss, wich almost certainly ends in multiple deaths or a wipe.

maybe, a dps dying on a hardmode is pretty much the end of that also.
I guess it just depends on what content you doing, chances if its normal then it shouldn't be that stressful anyways.

[Onahail]

healer

i actually have problems with stress related illness and cant play one.

That sucks dude. Stress aside I feel that healing is extremely fun and rewarding. The best thing I like about it is that, unlike Tanks or DPS we don't have a set thing to do. We need to adjust as the situation calls and know what heals to use and when to use them. Plus having to be able to manage our mana properly on heavy raid damage fights and being able to keep your mana up while still healing the raid. I feel very pleased with myself at the end of a very difficult boss fight for knowing I was able to push through, keep people alive, and all the while not run oom =P.

But don't even get me started on arena healing. Those who do it, you know what I mean and for those who don't, I'd suggest not doing it if you want to keep your sanity in tact.

[Sås]

You're an idiot and have brought nothing to this thread. Stop trolling for the sake of trolling and go back to your parent's basement where you belong.

Jeez, someone clearly woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning... and yes I do live in my parents basement 8)

OT: Tried all three, I would say it's situational, thou on the majority of fights I'd guess it's the healers.

[blahism]

Healing, although I'm afraid I may be biased.

On the other hand, Tanking seems like something of a leap of faith. Kind of like that trust exercise where you fall backwards and trust that the guy behind you is going to catch you. Apparently its something they get used to.

That is tanking to the T.. you charge in and hope for the best. You know you have your stats, you know you have your rotation and you know what to do to keep the targets on you but you have to have faith in your healers to heal you and your DPS to not mess up the grooming you have done on the mobs or boss. (ie pull threat, break packs/cc so on and so forth)

Healing on the other hand is entirely unique and random.. stressfull indeed.

[Deimien]

Having a character of every class being above level 76, I think Healing is the most -important-
But IMO I also think Tanking is the most stressful.

Unless you're mega geared, tanking can be a pain in the ass, with everyone being able to blame you at every pitfall, or the Melee DPS jacking your tanking gear. Not many people know how to watch aggro / stack these days, so I find myself switching targets like mad, because 3-4 hits on them and they die then bitch.

Healing on the other hand, lots of the healers have a spam button that they don't really need to think about. Flash of light, Chain heal, Wild Growth, Penance/Renew/PoM

I occasionally heal on my Pally / Druid, and I play Solitare sometimes during the pull (Depending on how geared the tank is / what we're doing), paying some attention to the health boxes behind the application; and I have yet to wipe.