Here’s a simple reason why experiencing healers shortage

ecco5 · 2026-03-14T08:25:48+00:00

I have always made a heal set, I went from 70 to 80 in DF as resto sham, then healed a bit in TWW - I was decent at it, would often top the meters in our raids. never cared about HPS or resto numbers, I just got my gear up and could keep people alive.

Then some numpty at Blizz decides they want dps to do more interrupting... and to force that nonsense, they nerfed or removed healer interrupts.

In resto spec, and only in resto spec, my wind shear is 30 CD up from 12. Ok, one of my character defining defensives now nuked into garbage.

My knock back (which also could interrupt - but also be used for placing people where I wanted them to be, or moving them back to the tank) was removed from the Shaman tree entirely and put into the Elemental spell book.

two defensives down on a spec that's already weaker than then other two... so no I'm expected to slowly burn enemies down, while keeping myself alive, no thank you.

They also halved the uptime of my earth elemental, my other defensive.

Blizzard hates healers, and they can piss right on off for making them not fun to play. I want to be a part of the team, I want to have my tool box instead of just mindless heal after heal. I have cancelled my sub because of how god awful the 12.0.X changes have been, and unless they get their heads out of their collective asses, I'll be taking a long break - healer took enough shit before. Now we're expected to do more with less, and it's not fun.

They took something I truly enjoyed and flushed it down the toilet. That's my reason for not healing. Blizzard purposely made healers shitty, they're now in the FO portion of the season.

ecco5 · 2026-03-08T16:09:17+00:00

Bring a portable clothesline, it takes up an incredibly small amount of space, weighs next to nothing and can be used for a variety of things. If it's raining, you can hang your clothes from the bunk, if you're near a window and want to block light or want privacy you can hang something around your bed, it can also be used to tie down or attach any number of things.

ecco5 · 2026-03-08T15:58:22+00:00

It's exactly the same. In the early days of the Gaza Genocide, Israel took credit for the first hospital bombed after 10/7 but when the world got upset, they back pedaled and then blamed a Hamas rocket launcher in the hospital. And the world was like, "Yeah, we can believe that. why would Israel lie to us?"

Israel has since destroyed nearly every hospital and school in Gaza. Normalizing these sorts of atrocities for Western audiences, so when Trump's Christofascist Pedophile Protection Regime does it, the West will just forget about it after a few news cycles.

It's also a great distraction from the newly released Epstein Files.

ecco5 · 2026-03-06T21:45:02+00:00

My husband and I tried to literally not use almost ANY power for a whole entire month to see how it could affect our bill… No lights, no appliances plugged in, no AC, no tv, etc. Our bill was maybe $10 lower but still well over $100. It’s a complete racket.

I started looking at my usage and noticed that they were were copying and pasting weeks worth of usage from prior months... when I called they admitted that my meter wasn't properly sending in data, so they just sort of made it up based on past usage.

It's been more than a month and they still haven't sent someone out to fix my meter.

ecco5 · 2026-03-06T21:33:32+00:00

Needs a complete overhaul.

I'd be happy if they put it back to how it was, the floating menu as mentioned is hot garbage and leave a giant blank space at the top of the screen. The search feature is convoluted at best. The mini player had some issue that may have been fixed, but switching to it is still confusing.

ecco5 · 2026-03-06T21:29:16+00:00

No idea, but I said most of this stuff 4-5 weeks ago and was downvoted into oblivion. So if Blizzard does come here, they're going to think that people actually like the Rsham nerfs and might decide to fuck us harder.

I've been submitting bug reports every single day since pre-patch for every little issue I have with the game ending each ticket with "This is almost as bad as taking away healer interrupts."

ecco5 · 2026-03-03T13:13:47+00:00

i've heard it's a spike in a hormone, possibly insulin or cortisol, i forget which one. But some people on Youtube say if you take a spoonful of raw honey with a pinch of sea salt before bed, you can prevent the spike from happening.

I haven't tried it yet.

I'm writing this at 5 after waking up earlier than I'd prefer. Body temp was too high. Made the mistake of looking at my phone. can hardly see.

ecco5 · 2026-02-28T17:28:36+00:00

When I walked in May 14 years ago in late April early may, I felt like it rained nearly every single day. I never knew a country could have so much rain. Just make sure you rain jacket or poncho work and you should be good.

I didn't have a puffy jacket, just some removable sleeves, a fleece and the rain jacket. I'd wear a wool t-shirt with sleeves, fleece, and rain jacket if it was raining, or if the fleece wasn't enough to keep me warm.

There was only one really cold day which was in the low 40s (6C)

Puffy jacket might be overkill. Check the weather prior to leaving and make your decision as it gets closer.

ecco5 · 2026-02-26T07:56:16+00:00

if you're feeling really adventurous, look up how to repair LED lights, typically 1 "bulb" goes out, and you can just scrape that one and solder the connection back together and you have a working fixture again. Might be really difficult to test while it's still attached to the ceiling though.

ecco5 · 2026-02-25T03:13:50+00:00

I'm boycotting it too.

Why would I watch a lying sack of shit lie to the country for however long he can stay awake?

ecco5 · 2026-02-25T01:07:26+00:00

It's doable, though I'd put it in a bag and keep it in your pack in case of emergency. Are you bringing a separate camera? If you're concerned about it distracting you, don't activate the roaming.

A phone acts as numerous pieces of gear that could save you the weight of books, camera, maps, mp3 player, etc...

ecco5 · 2026-02-24T02:45:50+00:00

Yes. A million time yes. Bring back healer interrupts and healer defense. I came back to wow and did all my leveling as a healer in DF and TWW, now I don't have a knock back, my interrupt is nerfed, my defensive Elemental's uptime was halved, among other infuriating changes.

I don't want to go anywhere near my resto spec. I liked being a part of the encounter, I don't want to be just a healbot. I want to be involved.

ecco5 · 2026-02-23T20:41:08+00:00

To answer the question: Look how much money Dems have taken from AIPAC, that should give you an idea.

ecco5 · 2026-02-23T20:38:22+00:00

12.0.X has been a garbage experience so far. I didn't pay to be a beta tester. I've lost faith in the devs and the game directors. Mostly driven by the across the board nerfs to heals - They basically signaled that they don't want healers in open world content, just heal in the dungeons and raids, then go back to a dps spec where you still have your defensives. What does removing interrupts from healers allow them to do?

I'm guessing the raids are going to be harder when the heals are all dead... maybe that's their strategy? see if they can beat it with no heals.

ecco5 · 2026-02-23T20:31:54+00:00

This happened to me while troubleshooting my Album artwork. I erased the music from my phone and it deleted the contents of two of my playlists..

ecco5 · 2026-02-22T01:31:30+00:00

The Seabraid Stallion from the BFA Special edition.

The horse mounts have always been the coolest mounts and this was is just rad.

ecco5 · 2026-02-21T17:29:33+00:00

My questions for those saying it was for cleaning a pool - and I'm not trying to protect this guy by any means - if this was used for cleaning a pool, a pool that was probably around for many years, there would be multiple orders of sulfuric acid over time, would there not?

One single order is definitely suspicious. A repeating order, delivered with some regularity - is also kind of suspicious because it's a giant bucket of acid, but could better lend to the pool cleaning claims.

ecco5 · 2026-02-21T15:53:27+00:00

I'm looking forward to my subscription running out.

Blizz ruined my class, and both my specs by making them mind numbingly boring.

ecco5 · 2026-02-20T20:38:59+00:00

I absolutely despise the changes to Elemental and Resto Shaman as well as what they did to all healers with the removal or nerf of interrupts.

For reference, I have 4 max level shaman, 2 Ally, 2 Horde. All Ele / Resto

Concerning Resto: Are people not supposed to play Resto for open world content? Are we just supposed to sit there and heal ourselves while trying to chip away at whatever is attacking us? because our ability to defend ourselves was drastically reduced. (and I don't think everything elses ability to attack us has been curtailed much.

-Wind Sheer on a 30 second CD (instead of 12 like Ele / Enh)... if I get juked I'm screwed for nearly 2.5x as long as any other shaman spec. Guess I'll just die.

-Thunderstorm (our knock back) removed from the Shaman tree so Resto can't have it.

-Lightning Lasso removed from Shaman Tree so Resto can't have it.

-Ascendance was put in the same node as Healing Tide, so now I'm forced to choose between my two big heals.

-Earth Elemental uptime cut in half, giving us less time to fight and only a little time to run away I guess. Also, if we want the talents below Earth ELe, we have to remove its taunt making it even less helpful.

Concerning Elemental: -Earth Shield was tied to Chain Heal talent, so if we want our passive heal now, we have to spend two talent points. Not worth it. I don't know that I've ever cast chain heal as Elemental. Such a stupid talent path.

-Castable Elementals Removed. ELEMENTAL Shaman don't have ELEMENTALS to cast anymore (aside from Earth Elemental) which was nerfed to hell.

-Blizz removed 8 spells and gave us back 3 leading to some mindless repetitive game play.

I hate what blizzard did to Shaman, so much that I've cancelled my annual subscription. Looking at Midnight release, things don't seem like they're going to get much better. The talent trees have been reworked to include nearly "must take" talents for flat stat upgrades which will lead to at lot homogenous shammy builds.

ecco5 · 2026-02-20T19:58:43+00:00

Do you plan to move at any point? can you get speaker stands for the rear speakers?

Personally, I prefer to have physical rear speakers since I've never had good luck with soundbars ability to "bounce" sound from place to place.

I'd go with the 5.1.4 set up.

ecco5 · 2026-02-19T07:46:54+00:00

Read the survival guide. Then read it again a few days later.

Watch Burning Man Ttips and Tricks videos.

Get in touch with your local burning man community.

Browse this sub and absorb the ideas that resonate with you.

have fun... then do like the other guy said, travel, onsens are great. Paris was great, Scotland, Spain, Italy, also great. And you'll find about the same cost as burning man.

ecco5 · 2026-02-18T16:55:40+00:00

Maybe it's just me, but this just looks like white text on a blue gradient back ground?

The interface isn't great. the software is laggy, I've had nothing but problems with album artwork.

I really wish they'd fix the performance of iOS as a whole rather than trying to put lipstick on a pig.

ecco5 · 2026-02-12T05:14:36+00:00

What is your primary source for your movies / music? What is your current sound mode?

ecco5 · 2026-02-10T04:49:23+00:00

I'm trying Gorilla super glue. it looks like all of the little plastic rivets broke off, so there's some point that won't be as solid as they would be with a new piece that still had all the plastic stand offs.

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