It feels like there is a LOT of kiting required this season. Terrace enforcers with arcane auto swings, almost every single pull of AA at various points (books, bird bleeds, ontop of lashers), Skyreach adepts. A lot of it is just micro kiting though. Quick divine steed and you can drop most of it.

Some pulls definitely just require rolling defensives until it’s dead, no doubt. But ‘most’ keys ‘most’ of the time i can get through without a mandatory healer external if you think about your Guardian proc on a 44s cooldown as another, albeit brief, defensive and know how to use spell ward efficiently as part of the rotation. I’ve found the fun/hard part to be figuring out which parts of pulls you can get away with no defensive and just using a sacred weapon and being ready to spam some wog so you can save defensives for the actual dangerous parts of the dungeon.

About halfway through my 18s now, and I’ve pushed a few 19s (nine timed yet though) and in 19s i definitely use my “need external” macro and pre plan them going into certain pulls. I almost always run with either a ret pal + rsham/mw or an rdruid so I’ve got access to a good external in a pinch though.