M+ Healing Stress
Hello there,
I am a mid-30s casual player that has been playing WoW off and on in some capacity since 2005. My main is usually warrior, but I felt like switching it up and it seemed thematic to main my priest in Midnight. My guild is also mostly casual old hats like me, and we are progressing through heroic raids.
I’ve never been much into M+, but it seems one of the best ways to gear up this season so I’m trying it out. I am generally having fun, but also find healing them to be inconsistent and stressful. The highest keys I have healed have been +8s, and some runs feel very smooth with only a few deaths and easily beating the timer. In other +8s, it has felt like there is massive damage constantly, people drop dead in the middle of casting penance on them, and other people getting globaled, and we end the run with 30 deaths and way over time.
I want to get better at M+ and make the experience less stressful. I see lots of chatter about +10s being free this season. Am i just that bad? What can i do to improve? My priest is around 260 ilvl, i have read class guides, watched some video guides about the dungeons, but still feel like i can only muster up the courage to attempt a couple dungeons per week.
EDIT: This got a lot more attention than I was expecting. Thank you everyone for your opinions, insight, and support. It sounds like the best courses of action for me will be be to run logs, get more practice, and keep gearing up.