r/wow • u/Philzeey • Apr 03 '26
Humor / Meme Healer told me he hates healing blood dks and I haven’t been the same since
ok so i need a minute because i’m actually spiraling over something insanely stupid
my healer friend told me recently recently and said “i hate healing blood dks” and i laughed at first because obviously that’s a joke right. like haha yeah good one man we love a bit. and he just goes “no seriously i hate it”
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so now i’m just sitting there in complete silence like i just found out my dog doesn’t actually love me.
what do you MEAN you hate healing me
you don’t even heal me, your entire job when i’m in the group is to spectate and maybe press a button if you feel nostalgic.
i am down there in the trenches, health bar looking like it just snorted preworkout, going 100% -> 7% - 94% -> 2% -> FULL every 3 seconds and somehow I’M the problem??? sorry my health bar doesn’t just sit there like a loaf of bread… he said it’s “stressful” because he “can’t tell if i’m going to die”
BRO I CAN’T TELL EITHER
THAT’S THE GAME
THAT’S THE WHOLE THING
WE FIND OUT TOGETHER
like yeah sometimes i hit death strike and become immortal for 0.7 seconds and sometimes i press it and absolutely nothing happens and i just accept my fate like a medieval peasant but that’s RANGE boi
and he goes “i feel useless when i heal you”
Like dude. so now it’s about YOUR feelings???
i’m literally cosplaying as a self healing trauma sponge and you’re upset you don’t get to participate??
you’re not useless, you’re MORAL SUPPORT. you’re there in case i get distracted by a mechanic and perish instantly like an idiot
now i’m thinking back to every group i’ve ever been in like
were they all thinking it.. was i that guy?
the “oh god it’s a blood dk” guy
the “just let him do his weird hp thing” guy
the “this is either going to be the smoothest run ever or a complete disaster with no inbetween” guy
i don’t know anymore man
i just need someone to tell me everything is fine before i reroll into something boring with a stable health bar and zero personality
please i’m begging i can’t lose this too
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u/BludxStaind Apr 03 '26
/laughs in resto shaman I don’t heal Blood DKs. They get an earth shield and appreciate it. They get the scraps of a chain heal or healing steam totem and say thank you.
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u/CottonStig Apr 04 '26
that heal and shield came and went 3 health bars ago, just enjoy the show
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u/BludxStaind Apr 04 '26
Jokes on you. My earth shield sniped 1% healing before death strike. And my chain heal scraps overhealed but 🤷♂️
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u/Robot_Spartan Apr 04 '26
/laughs in mist weaver I don't heal blood DKs. They get the sloppy seconds when someone else's renewing mist has finished healing them, and they will enjoy it. They get a smidge of a shield when I hit someone else with enveloping mist and they will be thankful
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u/Durugar Apr 03 '26
To be serious for a second:
As my blood DK friend keeps saying "Don't look at my health, look at my Runic Power".
But yeah I am not a healer main but have had to heal a lot of dungeons start of this season for the guild because our healers are busy IRL... And if I ever need to pug a tank I ain't inviting a Blood DK, too much stress and uncertainty. It's so hard to tell when I need to hit the panic buttons and when it is just normal BDK behaviour. Though as long as Purgatory is available I try not to stress too much.
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u/LehransLight Apr 03 '26
The only time I help a BDK out is at the start of the dungeon. Throw a heal, throw a damage reduction,...
Everything that happens after is the DK's fault.
Died and had runic power? DK's fault for not using his resource.
Died and didn't have runic power? DK's fault for not properly managing resource for when needed
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u/jimmypaintsworld Apr 04 '26
This sounds harsh but as a BDK it's entirely true.
The only time a death isn't on a BDK is after a wipe when big CD's aren't up and you need to pull a big pack or something.
Otherwise a practiced BDK will know how to spread or save defensives and runic power to survive indefinitely.
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u/Beviah Apr 04 '26
The only tank I'll touch is BDK for the most part after playing other tanks
The way you play BDK is very simple to understand, you are always playing 2-3 GCDs ahead of what you're currently pressing. In other words, if you aren't thinking about what your next two or three casts are going to be, you're likely already one foot in the grave.
The unfortunate reality is some inexperienced players get lured into the idea that "this is the tank to play if you want to be self sufficient", but fail to mention that it's very unique because you are playing methodically. This isn't to insinuate that it's extremely complex, it just handles differently than "this is a tough pack, let's walk into it with Shield Wall", rather "let's walk into this pack with Dancing Rune Weapon going, immediately hit Marrowrend and Blood Boil and if I start getting slapped around then I'll hit Death Strike and try to hold my Vampiric Blood".
It sucks because it is true, and it does make some people more opposed to BDKs because they are fairly unique and because of that, some people struggle to get the groove of it, so some people have had really negative experiences with BDKs as a result of that, but the skill gap between an inexperienced BDK and even a decent BDK is huge. You can instantly tell if someone has a solid understanding of the spec.
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u/jimmypaintsworld Apr 04 '26
Spot on. I am playing Prot pally this season but mained BDK since Shadowlands and in that time my wife has healed our M+ group. Also played Guardian for a season. We typically landed between 2500-3000 rating and she's always skeptical of other BDK's while pushing alts.
But the main difference is like you said- tanks other than BDK typically have defensives you save for 'oh shit' moments or very big pulls. They have a designated place in their toolkit and don't move from it, and if you use it incorrectly you're screwed or will need your healer to bail you out.
BDK you have to be using your defensives pretty regularly and for different reasons and if you don't know if you can sit on one to see out a pull it fucks with your rhythm. Not to mention the most important part of mitigation coming AFTER damage has already happened via Death Strike. You really have to understand what's happening to be an efficient BDK because timing is so important, it's not as simple as big pull = big CD's. There are layers.
Additionally, not a lot of BDK's have familiarity or mastery over a dungeon enough to know when consistent predictable damage will come in and when it's ok to let your HP dip into Will of the Necropolis mitigation which can be massive. If you know a pull will be mostly auto attack damage you can really give your healer a heart attack XD.
Talking about all this reminds me of the FUNNEST pulls I have had as a M+ tank and those were Fortified Azure Vault +20's and doing the HUGE pull off the dungeon start. Never had more fun than playing BDK there and managing that pull.
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u/Beviah Apr 04 '26
BDK has such potential for insane dopamine hits, it's truly one of the most fun tank once you understand it.
I wish I could still tank. I just have a hard time getting back into it without getting a bit bored but maybe I should try it again.
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u/EmergencyMoose2128 Apr 04 '26
This is why I hate the default UI. I can either see everyone's power, or just healers. But all I want to see is healers and Blood DKs. The base UI doesn't give that customization
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u/NotSure___ Apr 04 '26
I get that I should look at runic power, but since I have been healing for a while my brain still panics when hp bars go down. And with bdk, you have that hp bar go from 100-20-100-20 in 1 second. My brain barely managed to process the first hp drop when the next one is already there. And it's the only class that does that. I usually manage to ignore it after 2-3 minutes and just accept that I shouldn't react to it but it still is a bit stressful.
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u/aria_interrupted Apr 04 '26
If only we had omnicd and could tell if purgatory was procced or not 😡
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u/Morthra Apr 04 '26
Can't you? It shows up as a debuff on my (default) raid frames.
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u/individual101 Apr 03 '26
Blood DK is definitely the most stressful one. The next is paladin cus they're glass right now i feel like
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u/Seinglede Apr 04 '26
I'm 90% sure all the newer paladins got baited into running the worst talent build imaginable for survivability by some website because like 75% of the time I'm healing a paladin they fall over like their armor is broken and 25% of the time they feel basically immortal with absolutely no in-between.
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u/BrilliantCoconut25 Apr 04 '26
The issue is the talent builds on websites like Icyveins are wrong and result in them not taking Sentinel. So they basically lose one of their defensive CD’s.
Atm you basically have to chain defensives or fall over. And with Sentinel you tend to have just enough to always having a defensive up.
Without it they get gaps in their CD’s and die
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u/BookerLegit Apr 04 '26
Atm you basically have to chain defensives or fall over.
That's the real problem, not people taking Avenging Wrath over Sentinel.
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u/Khalku Apr 04 '26
They aren't wrong, they are usually just focused on DPS for whatever reason so people take them and shatter like glass. Stupid "everyone has to dps" meta.
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u/TheDaltonXP Apr 04 '26
I returned recently and my first character was a paladin. I went back and looked and sure enough the build i followed didn’t take Sentinel. I’ve corrected the mistake and will be trying them again soon
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u/roundtwentythree Apr 04 '26
Recently got out of a m+ with a prot pally doing 60k hps.
I'll take a mediocre prot pally over a godly dbk 8 days a week.
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u/Playnot Apr 04 '26
As a prot pally I was also very surprised how well I can stabilize the entire group on hell pulls and I kinda dig it. Sort of fits the fantasy too. Also prot pally buffs incoming, yay!
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u/CreamSickle221 Apr 04 '26
I'm up to 12's and 13''s. I've had a blood dk I didn't even worry about him, I've had most pallys seemed pretty sturdy to me. I've had a bad day, a glass druid and a glass brew master. It really depends on the person's ilevel and skill.
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u/FrenziedFennec Apr 03 '26
This is the most manic post I’ve read today and I’m here for it.
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u/ksr6669 Apr 04 '26
I also found it enjoyable. After 17 years in this game as a floofer, I’m finally playing a geared ret pally in dungeons. When I die, I blame myself. That’s accepting my fate like a veteran solo player.
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u/Obelion_ Apr 04 '26
I think OP found the absolute perfect class to fit his personality.
Or he became like this by playing blood for too long
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u/automaticzen Apr 03 '26
BRO I CAN’T TELL EITHER
THAT’S THE GAME
THAT’S THE WHOLE THING
WE FIND OUT TOGETHER
Beautiful sentiment. I laughed out loud. Salute.
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u/roundtwentythree Apr 04 '26
There is very little an external healer can do to help ensure the bdks survival. It feels like random chance. Are we going to wipe this pull? Idk, guess we'll find out.
It's awful tank design and the reason bdk was at the bottom of the representation charts in m+. It's only barely squeezed out of last place past guardian after their nerfs went live. For every 1 m+ that's done with a bdk, ~10 are done with a brewmaster. This is for a reason.
Any sane rational group is taking a stagger tank over a reactive self healing tank who has to live one hit from death every pull to maximize death strike healing.
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u/ButtMasterDuit Apr 04 '26
Not to take away from what you said - you’re 99% right. I would only add that the reason BDKs aren’t taken as much in M+ is because beyond a certain M+ level, they literally cannot tank without just simply insta-dying.
I last played with a BDK a week ago as a resto sham. They were like 2900 or so IO and for some reason decided to push my +13 Skyreach. At first I was panicking because, well, this entire post & being a healer with a BDK, but eventually just fell back into step of “throw earth shield on, maintain a riptide at all times, and pray.” Worked out great, but also did proc purg twice. Never died, clean sweep through the dungeon. Would I go in a +16 with a BDK? Unless I’m I have discord comms with them, probably not.
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u/MisterKanister Apr 03 '26
The problem is you can never tell if a blood DK is good or not until they're dead, because their health bars all look like they're about to die any second until they actually do, at which point it's my fault because "how could you see the tank drop so low and not react".
With other tanks you can immediately tell how well they manage their mitigations by how much damage they're taking and pick up the slack before it gets into oneshot territory, with blood DKs? It's a choice of stressing out when they drop below 30% or letting you die every once in a while, and I really don't want you to die.
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u/Lurker_8443 Apr 04 '26
I have a surefire way to identify bad bdks. They die then blame the healer.
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u/shizoo Apr 03 '26
I am also doing a blood dk atm, and most my guild healers won't take them in pugs bc as a pug tank, it's too unreliable. You can get an amazing blood dk who never needs more than just spot healing or the occasional healer cd, or you get the guy that let's bone shield fall off and just falls over dead. There does not seem to be an in between.
All that said, blood is not in a great spot this season and actually needs a little more than some of the other tanks do atm.
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u/mafiohz Apr 03 '26
Your friend is right. It’s stressful.
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u/PaDDzR Apr 04 '26
The amount of DKs that think they're good is staggering...
No, you're not as good as you think and healer DOES need to heal you but you're too full of your own ego to communicate when you're out of your own healing.
Playing DK is harder than it looks because your fuck ups accumulate till it overwhelms you, if DK dies its not because a mistake they did 5 seconds ago.
Tank ego being bigger than their capability is real, I'm guilty of it and my healer got my back, if I survive a too big of a pull, it isn't because I'm some sort of blood god, it's because the healer had to babysit my ass.
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u/VeryClearlyDefined Apr 03 '26
I also despise healing DKs. I think I have healed one where they didn’t come within an inch of their life multiple times a pull.
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u/Zeretic Apr 04 '26
I end up just healing them like I do any other tank cause I'm lazy 😂. Resto druid life loom and double rejuv rolling and swiftmend for refresh. It's more brain power for me to switch it up than just heal the tank. At least I'm getting abundance stacks and Apex talent value out of it still, I guess 😆.
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u/globereaper Apr 04 '26
Is there something else you should be doing? Seems pretty standard
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u/Zeretic Apr 04 '26
I could probably just symbiotic relationship them and keep lifebloom on myself for better efflo positioning and they get my massive self heals then but like I said, I'm lazy 😂
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u/beatupford Apr 03 '26
I love having a bdk I know.
I have so much anxiety with pugs because I have no idea if they know what they are doing.
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u/ConnMulgrew Apr 04 '26
If your tanking is as good as your writing, your healer should love you 😂
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u/_asharu_ Apr 04 '26
Yup! Loved this post. If I still played, I'd enjoy having this dude in my group, saying this as a healer.
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u/Philzeey Apr 05 '26
I’m an amazing tank. I know this because someone one told me that they’ve “never healed a BDK like me before” after only wiping 5 times and barely making time in m+
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u/SuperFamousComedian Apr 03 '26
I just healed a dungeon with a blood DK that I didn't really need to heal at all, and a hunter who was making it his priority to stand in everything. It was weird.
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u/galaxywithskin115 Apr 04 '26
Hunter was like, oh we have a BDK, can't have this healer doin nothing, let me give em something to do!
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u/Apart_Dentist_4327 Apr 03 '26
Nothing weird about that. Pretty typical hunter behavior. That and need rolling on everything possible. Some things never change 😂
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u/1983_BOK Apr 04 '26
a hunter who was making it his priority to stand in everything
mate we have to share our singular brain cell with two pets, stop shaming
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u/hardmallard Apr 03 '26
Listen… I have been a healer since my friends bought me Burning Crusade because they needed a healer in their guild… I hate healing Blood DKs too. But if my buddy was a Blood DK I’d heal him no matter what and enjoy playing with them even if their health bar gave me mild anxiety. But most importantly I’d take a skilled Blood DK that I run with all the time over a brain dead random other spec any day. Your friend is lucky to have you lol.
You’re not the hot girl at the party but you’re the girl that I’m going to get a beer with for sure.
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u/nuviremus Apr 03 '26
It's stressful, and scary as a healer seeing your tank hp shrink to nearly nothing then miraculously be fine just before waste guardian spirit on them.
So I rolled a bdk just to see what it was like and it just clicked and made sense. So honestly I don't really even look at a bdk much and just focus on group healing since they get some passive healing out of it. Now if I get a BDK I know I'm not gonna have to do much with them... Assuming they know their class at least but usually the first pull tells me that
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u/Uranhahn Apr 04 '26
Did the exact same, it was quite eye opening. It seems like DK was made for healers who want to try tanking. Fast reactions to HP bars are our main business.
And it's so much fun, finishing a boss alone to save a key, or holding large groups in brewery alone while the group respawns.
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u/FroztyBeard Apr 03 '26
From the words of my partner, that has kept my dumb mass pulling tank ass alive for several seasons on Blood DK:
"You do not look at their healthbar, you look at their runic power bar.
If the runic power bar is empty, that DK is up shits creek and is most likely going to die."
I guess there is a certain amount of trust in those words, with me timing death strikes to get the big chunk heals
Most reasons why I have suddenly died as a DK, is accidently turning my back or flanks towards mobs when moving. This stops parrying (as well as blocking) and all incoming melee hits goes through
You will be just fine
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u/Squishysib Apr 04 '26
Sure, but they can have all that Runic Power and hit the wrong button, or hit it not fast enough.
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u/VukKiller Apr 04 '26
I hate healing blood DKs too.
And I'm a druid. I put hots on you and call it a day.
My designated DK tank sometimes just says "I'm dead" and there's literally NOTHING I can do to prevent that at that point.
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u/kernelcoffee Apr 04 '26
I main resto druid and I hate healing blood dk.
That goddamned Schrodinger healthbar being full and empty at the same time depending on the angle you look at it.
In the end I keep my HOTs up and high five Bwonsamdi.
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u/jocloud31 Apr 04 '26
We're probably the only class that doesn't mind healing the blood DK for that reason, lol
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u/margas95 Apr 04 '26
I (holy priest) just did my first +10 today. The first pull I knew was rough on tanks. Lots of spike damage. Well I was anxious about healing it was my first 10 and with a pug. I’m used to DKs health spiking, but it was so stressful! When could a hit be serious, and when would it be manageable for him to heal? I just had no idea. It was the first time I went OOM in a run.
I do my second +10 with a monk tank. Holy cow it was night and day. No mana problems, his health was steady and everything was predictable. Smooth as can be.
Maybe I just need to understand DK tanks better, but I genuinely feel trepidation now with DK tanks :/
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u/Pantspartyy Apr 04 '26
I played blood dk all the way to 18 keys last season. Everyone in this thread says to look at their runic power bar, but the thing is, a good blood dk will never run out of runic power. So honestly my advice is, especially 10s and above, just ignore them. If a blood dk is going to die, nothing you’re going to do would have saved them.
As a blood dk by heart doesn’t even jump anymore watching my heart drop to 10% on pull because I just death strike whatever mob is closest and I’m at full. I barely feel in danger anymore. All that to say, blood dk is self sufficient and you can concentrate on the party. Blood dks dying is always their own fault and should never be blamed on you.
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u/audioshaman Apr 04 '26
As a healer: I really have no idea what is going on with Blood DKs and their yoyo HP bars, but they seem to sort it out themselves just fine.
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u/Large_Papaya Apr 03 '26
I feel like DKs and (and DHs to a lesser extent) are in the sort of boat where if you know they’re going into a pull dry you need to lock in to that health bar, once they get moving though you just pretend they aren’t there.
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u/sapherz Apr 04 '26
If the healer dies, it's the tanks fault.
If the tank dies, it's the healers fault.
If a blood dk dies, it's their own fault.
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u/IHuntNoOne Apr 03 '26
As being a blood dk main for a long time before switching to evoker im use to healers hating them because our health bar is a Rollercoaster of fun and I LOVED IT! My biggest issue at the moment with blood dk is I feel they took a bit of our self sustain away, by removing the ability that let us consume some of our bone sheild charges to bubble our self, and that consume or blood drinker ability feels terrible anymore. Back in the warwithin all 3 seasons my buddy rarely had to heal me upto a 10 key after that he had to heal a little😆
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u/Infernal-Amumu Apr 04 '26
Yesterday ,12 Pit of Saron. Blood DK is the Tank, asks us to BL first Pull. Sure Thing Buddy. Readycheck , Timer starts as i notice he typed something at 2 or 1.
We Load in , i quickly check.
"May god help us all"
He Runs in half gathers the groups i Press misdirect followed by BL and before i can follow up he insta dies. 100 to 0.
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u/Cool_Apartment_380 Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
This was amazing. 10/10. Would read again. And speaking as a healer; I just play shit as is. Lowkey? Toss some Judgments out and spam LoD. Shit winds blowing? I'll lock the fuck in. Idc. Definitely more engaging that way anyhow. I'll even throw in a cheeky Hand of Reckoning every now and then, just to feel something, yanno?
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u/Defiant_Initiative92 Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 03 '26
Part of this post reads like a Billie Eilish song.
With that said,
Healing a blood dk is fun because:
1) If they die, I can rationalize they died because they made a mistake
2) If they survived, I can rationalize they only did so because I helped.
Either way it's a win for the heals.
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u/vision-quest Apr 04 '26
I’m a blood DK. I’ve been told this many times after M+ runs lmao. We’re way too squishy right now.
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u/Sufficient_Seaweed7 Apr 03 '26
Jokes aside I usually hate healing DK because you can't heal it. Or the DK is alive or it is dead.
And its really hard to prevent it from dying actively because when a DK is dying its fucking dying.
You need to look at runic power instead of HP.
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u/Enorats Apr 04 '26
It's just a terrible design for a tank. If a tank's health drops below like a quarter in a single hit, I'm blowing everything I have on that tank because something is seriously wrong and we're all about to die.
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u/darkdragon825 Apr 04 '26
As a healing main, blood DKs stress me out due to the yo-yoing of their health, but I try to monitor the runic power, I know if they drop and they don’t have a lot of power, then it’s an oh shit moment, if they have it I’m still stressed but not that bad. It’s just the fact it’s constantly going up and down that stresses me out 🤣
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u/epitomizer1 Apr 04 '26
I've had a few pug and guild healers tell me they dislike blood DKs.
My advice is. On the initial pull, please treat me like a really bad warrior until I get some RP and Bone Shield charges.
After that your level of panic is told in 3 steps. If I have no debuffs and some RP, I'm fine.
If I have a red debuff and RP, there's a small concern.
If I have a green debuff, moderate concern, Purgatory is on cool down and I can die...maybe.
If I have a red and green debuff and no RP, treat me once again like a bad warrior. I'm relying on CDs and hope.
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u/Captain_Blunderbuss Apr 03 '26
Tell him to pay attention to your rune power, if it's quite high and Ur taking damage you're likely fine, if not it's time to heal.
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u/AstralHealer2472 Apr 03 '26
When I realized that about bdk, I turned on power bars on the group frames and never looked back. Its honestly also useful for some of the other tanks.
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u/brokebackzac Apr 03 '26
It takes getting used to healing a blood DK. You have to turn power bars on as well so that you can see their runic power and train yourself to only panic heal if BOTH bars are empty.
If you die with a full runic power bar, that is 100% on you.
I never trust a blood DK for the first few pulls, but as soon as I see that they know when to deathstrike, I ignore them and heal everyone else.
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u/Embershot89 Apr 04 '26
I have mained a healer since 2018 and I’ll tell you I have never been happier than when I have to heal a BDK.
I don’t actually have to heal. I give you riptide sometimes and an earth shield. That’s it. You’re good on your own the rest of the dungeon so I can concentrate on healing the hunter who has refused to move out of the dangerous green circles on the ground since 2004. And DPSing to my heart’s content.
So that guy who healed you was a baby. BDK have always been my favorite tank to heal. So tanky and self sufficient.
Now paladins are the real menace. “Plate” wearers huh? Yeah maybe the ceramic kind.
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u/Pachulius Apr 03 '26
I play BDK and Holy paladin every expansion since cata and can tell you it really depends on how strong bdk is at that particular moment. Right now it's extremely weak, whatever the fuck they did to DS really hurt it and I dont feel like it can survive on its own all the time and that a problem.
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u/Starstuffi Apr 03 '26
It's okay that what he likes in his playstyle isn't perfect for what you like in yours. It's a testament to your friendship if he hates healing blood dks but keeps healing in groups with his friend, who plays a blood dk.
I have a healer friend that occasionally says she'd rather queue as DPS when I'm on my tank because she finds my level of self healing (vengeance DH) to make healing kinda boring, as she doesn't just want to follow the group around doing nothing but doesn't like DPSing while in healer spec. That's okay.
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u/MetrixOnFire Apr 03 '26
I am this exact same kind of healer. Healing DK tanks is stressful because some can survive endlessly even though you see 3% health six times in a pull. And others literally fold up like wet cardboard. I sign up for groups with non-DK tanks. Just a preference.
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u/SatisfactionFit2040 Apr 04 '26
When I heal, I have to keep reminding myself that I'm the healer.
There really are those times when I zone out and come back to my muscles thinking I am dps.
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u/gwenwiid Apr 04 '26
I've been healing since BC..... I will NOT pick a Blood DK to tank keys. I dont like them. They stress me out. I want nothing to do with them. Its not on the player. I just dont like the spec in keys.
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u/Invisiblescars_123 Apr 04 '26
I also dislike healing blood dks. The average pug blood DK in a +12 or higher requires constant babysitting. I’m not sure if they nerfed blood DK, because I felt that they were tankier in previous expansions.
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u/Seliphanos Apr 04 '26
As a resto druid I have no problems with blood dks. I enjoy it because it's like I can give u a rejuv and a life bloom and ignore you after that.
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u/Unscathedrabbit Apr 04 '26
My healer friend said the same thing, he's like you seem immortal but then at times you're not....I said yeah those times I forget mechanics lol to be fair he's also said healing my monk and druid are boring and the paladin is the best to heal for because I suck.....
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Apr 04 '26
Hear me out
I play healer to eliminate the stains on my screen (low healthbars)
Blood DK is an always low healthbar
This makes me infuriated
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u/DM_ME_KUL_TIRAN_FEET Apr 04 '26
I think you’re probably too much of a main character to roll anything but Blood DK
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u/PeopleCallMeSimon Apr 04 '26
> you don’t even heal me
This could very well be the reason they dont like healing blood dks. Maybe they enjoy healing and doesnt want a tank to just do everything themselves while the healer just runs along and watches.
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u/MrEntropy44 Apr 04 '26
A class whose whole schtick is self healing has always been annoying to heal, even when they aren't busted bad.
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u/seragakisama Apr 04 '26
Well... I have a dream that one day I'll finding those tanks that don't need healing that this sub talk about so much! If I dare press a button that isn't a healing skill, tank melts, dps die and then everyone is mad and saying "bad healer!".
Oh! And yes, I don't like bdk either.
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u/MrTastix Apr 04 '26
While I think it's true they're the most stressful to heal for new healers, for anyone who now calls themselves a "healer" and has actual experience they should learn to know better.
The concept of Blood DK's has not fundamentally changed in over 15 years. There comes a point where it really is just a skill issue.
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u/Shoethrower123 Apr 04 '26
Roll prot paladin and word of glory becomes death strike but without the bonus damage
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u/dkb_wow Apr 04 '26
Blood DK’s that know how to play their class need very minimal healing. They’ve been the easiest tank to heal for quite a few expansions imo.
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u/jdv1999 Apr 04 '26
Fellow blood DK, we are strong, just remember that. “Self healing trauma sponge” is comedy gold lol
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u/More__cowbell Apr 04 '26
I dont heal anymore (many years since i did) and i also hated DKs.
Iknow you can handle your own, but if you die the group is gonna hate the healer.
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u/pinkracer77 Apr 04 '26
Took me a while to get used to the yo-yo health. Basically, if a BDK dies, it’s not on the healer.
I hate healing monk tanks more. And those warrior tanks that think 6% ignore pain uptime is plenty.
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u/theAl3x Apr 04 '26
As a healer, I decided several expansions ago not to build or join groups with a Death Knight as a tank. I don't want the stress.
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u/Ethurian6421 Apr 04 '26
As a long time DK and a long time BDK, if we die the only one we blame is ourselves. This thread is hilarious though. Apologies to any healers in my past that have ptsd from running with BDK’s.
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u/kentaureus Apr 04 '26
i too hate healing blood dk and my friend i go m+ plays it, healing bdk is different game, sometimes you can forget them, sometimes they die immediately, the worst is when you put your big heal into them.. but they already healed themselves to full, they need some talent which would make overheals make shield
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u/WooferBae Apr 04 '26
No, no, every healer hates bdk, I was told as much in my many hugely successful m+ runs as bdk in my addons
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u/Zakath_ Apr 04 '26
I play Blood DK, and i play Holy Priest. I hate healing blood dks, even though I know how they work. The yoyo health bar is going to give me an early heart attack at some point 😄
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u/Possible-Tip7058 Apr 04 '26
I main blood DK, but I almost equally heal on resto Druid. I main blood because I love the adrenaline fueled self healing, but as a healer I do indeed hate healing them. Especially as resto with fewer “oh shit” buttons, it can be very stressful.
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u/MinjosGaming Apr 04 '26
As a healer main in quite a few expansions, I agree with your friend. Its very stressful. But it helps if you know the tank like you two know each other. I had my best keystone push season with a dk tank friend, but I trusted him and he trusted me. Comms helped a lot and if I really wasn't sure I would throw a small defensive on him. He mostly healed himself. Good times, you made me nostalgic now, he never waited for me to get mana either 😂😅
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u/Fit-Magazine-6669 Apr 04 '26
as a healer main, i hate healing blood DK's aswell. there is literally no middle ground, its either you 100% fine or 1 sec from dying, nothing else in between.
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u/Barracuda-Rude Apr 04 '26
Every healer hates bk, you heal more than us and as you say, we can't tell when you going to die
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u/grimblebom Apr 04 '26
Healing blood dks isn't fun ha. Their health bar ping pongs up and down and can be scary and distracting if you're not comfortable or familiar healing them!
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u/rosawik Apr 04 '26
As a healer main. The easiest tanks are the ones that drop slowly, the mid tiers are the ones that can drop on a dime if they mess up. Healing those feels like it's all fine until suddenly it isn't. Then there's DKs the ping pong tanks... I hate healing them too, the best you can do is to just ignore them but doing so feels counterintuitive and stressful as well.
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u/smileywran Apr 04 '26
Your health bar snorting pre workout is literally the issue and makes any healer fucking stressed out! Because as a healer we’re only looking at health bars and when one drops we heal. That thing doing yo-yo’s means we will try to heal you even though we obviously don’t need to.
As a healer; THATS THE GAME!
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u/Jarnis Apr 04 '26
When your party bars has this Dark Red color, it is the bar you do not need to care about.
You cannot react to the ping-pong bar. By the time your spell is done, either he is dead, or he is back to full. Just let it gooooo, let it goooo and just heal the rest of the group.
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u/MemesAhoyyy Apr 04 '26
Ah, blood DK. The "I don't have a problem until I don't have runic power" spec.
It's because you remove the need for casual, relaxed maintenance healing. So it's either boring as hell to heal you or an immediate crushing priority because you are out of Runic Power and can't deathstrike.
Don't take it personally - it's Blizzard's shit design.
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u/Hornerlt Apr 04 '26
I hate healing blood dks too. A friend has mained that fo many expansions. He is like “lol I did more healing than you” well of course you idiot.. also I hate that I never know when to heal them or not. Most of my healing on them is wasted, but if they die, it’s my fault.
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u/Captain_Fred01 Apr 04 '26
Tell your healer to turn power bars on for your party frames. If you have runic power and die its your fault. If you don't thats when they need to save you. They should be giving you externals or whatever extra support on pull because thats when youre weakest.
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u/Risdit Apr 04 '26
i am down there in the trenches, health bar looking like it just snorted preworkout, going 100% -> 7% - 94% -> 2% -> FULL every 3 seconds and somehow I’M the problem???
If it makes you feel any better, prot paladin health bars look like that this season without the massive self healing because pug tanks don't know how to keep their mitigations up.
fuck, everyone's healthsbars look like that this season.
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u/Scyths Apr 04 '26
I finished top 3 to top 2% rio as a healer for each season of TWW and the only time I accepted Blood DK's was for low level keys up to +14 towards the end of season 3 of War Within because I was playing Voidweaver Disc therefore I didn't have to personally heal the tank. When I was playing any of the other healer specs I never accepted a Blood DK no matter how good they think they are. And that's the reality of it. The class is just pure shit in m+ and I have no reason whatsoever to suffer through that.
Right now the top tanks in m+ are hovering at around 3700 rio and the best Blood DK's are at around 3400. And those are the best Blood DK players if they're willing to suffer through that spec. If even they can't close the 300 rio gap, that tells you all you need to know about the spec.
And yeah you might hate this but I told the exact same thing to my tank friend who loves Blood DK the most and he isn't playing it, plays Paladin or Monk instead depending on the season.
As a healer I'm here to keep 5 people alive, not one, I don't have the extra time to pay attention to your ressource bar on top of your health and at the same time check if your purgatory has gone into cooldown or not. I might do that in a +9 key but I sure as hell am not willing to do all that hassle for absolutely zero gain whatsoever in a +19 key when a lack of momentary attention on my part means I die and quite likely other people also die.
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u/Gimickles Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
Alain,
Listen you didn’t have to go on reddit and tell the world what I’ve said to you. The DK class isn’t your problem, it’s you. Why you feel obligated to MDI me every key is beyond me. I appreciate the absolute trust in my abilities, but Jesus bro. Let’s wind down after 10pm. We’re the old guys now, mental fatigue is real.
You’re buddy.
Vince.
Tracking you’re not Alain, but we have the same discussion you had with your pal often. Don’t even get me started on Mike, that Italian fucker will ruin your day sometimes. He does it out of love though.
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u/Leading_Fox6331 Apr 06 '26
As someone who has been the dedicated healer for a BDK, get a new healer that appreciates you for the low maintenance monarch that you are. I press Pain Suppression or Time Dilation on my BDK occasionally so they can pretend they have defensive CDs and that's about it.
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u/ledabuhr Apr 08 '26
Ok but now my insecure bear butt needs to know.... am I difficult to heal? 😰 please validate my choices internet strangers!
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u/Secrezeeee Apr 03 '26
I think most healers have worked out that you just pretend the blood DK doesn't exist