After capping my rogue

[Warlock]

I don't know - either we play different games, or I was extremely lucky so far with groups, or I just didn't reached the realms of real end-game raids (not enough people in our guild even for regular MC raids)...

Anyway, in my expirience the complains to healers are very rare, and I hear "you noob don't know how to tank" in PUGs pretty often (and occasionaly, in much more polite form, in guild raids too - although not in the current guild). And when somebody in my group dies, I never hear them blaming me - more often they reply "it was my fault" to my apologies for not keeping them alive. Have no idea how to explain this... probably, it means that I'm not bad healer ;), but it's VERY unlikely that I'm that better than you all. :unsure:

Does it means that raiding MC and above is radically different from lower instances? or that PvE server is so different from PvP? Why everybody is so nice to healers on our server?

-Miiko, lvl 60 nelf Priest
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One of the big differences between raid instances (or at least Molten Core) and the rest of the game is that many characters don't need to multitask in raids. For instance, instead of a 5-man tank sometimes needing to hold three or four mobs a raid tank can focus on a single target. Similarly for DPS classes instead of "crowd control this one, offtank that one with the pet, pull number three off the healer and then help out on damage" just focus firing on the raid's target is generally needed, a much simpler task. For healers other than the main tank healers it's the reverse - instead of only needing to watch five health bars they now need to track forty. So healing in raids is relatively harder than the other roles. Healing errors are also more serious - a healer taking ten seconds to say Hi to their family can cause three people to die, a DPSer doing the same means the boss takes an extra fraction of a second to take down.

So the DPS team sees fewer or no wipes caused by them and more than they were used to in five man caused by a lack of healing. They don't need to apologise for mistakes as often (no more "Sorry for breaking that sheep") and get more failures due to the healers - it's natural (if not fair) to put pressure on them to do better, whether through respeccing or taking only healing equipment or whatever.