Nightbane

[Lissa]

It's a gear differential thing. Healing gear hasn't scaled well with the amount needing to be healed.

In AQ40, the Twin Emps would hit for, what, 10k? At that time, my Druid had 950 +heal.

Queue TBC. Nightbane is hitting for 16k in the same time the Twin Emps were hitting for 10k. Sirreal/Bolty's gear is sitting around, say, 1400 +heal. That's a 37.5% increase in damage taken but only a 32% increase in healing. In fact, it's even worse, since that increase in gear is tacked on to a base heal value. But, I just got out of an exam and am too tired to punch numbers.

Oh, but guess what, we're talking 10-man raids instead of 40-man!. Now, we have 2-3 healers trying to take care of that 37.5% increase in damage output on the tank with their sub-par 32% increase in gear and also heal everyone else.

Whereas, in AQ40, we had 3-4 healers on one tank, a couple healers dedicated to keeping DPS alive, etc.

See how the problem compounds?

This is spot on. The difference is really the fact that the tanks are taking the same amount of damage, but you have 1/4 the raid size. So where you still have roughly 1/3 of the raid being healers, you go from having 4 healers on one tank and up to 9 other healers taking care of other roles to 3 healers, all trying to keep the main tank vertical while trying to deal with the stupid 360 cleaves on melee DPS and trying to keep everyone up with the various AoE damage that is going on. Throw in the fact that health has scaled upwards while damage has also scaled upwards, but +healing has not, you can see where the problem comes into play.

And as Bolty stated, healers get aggro now a whole lot easier. I've watched KTM a few times and seen Bolty skyrocket in aggro because of the sheer amount of healing he's pouring in on the MT while the rest of the players are doing their DPS, it's nuts. Healers really do have some real issues now with aggro in the Heroics and in Karazhan without the proper reducers (like Salvation and Tranquil Air).