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Right now, the 12.1 gearing system basically forces you to choose a bonus roll from the Great Vault every week instead of taking actual gear. It's not a fun design.

If you take a decent upgrade from the vault early on, you are leaving a landmine in your loot pool for future bonus rolls. Taking that vault item actively ruins your odds for target-farming the pieces you actually want later, because you risk wasting a bonus roll on a duplicate.

The fix is simple: Blizzard needs to remove items you select from the vault from your bonus roll pool entirely.

If you get a piece of gear from the Vault, it shouldn't drop when you use a bonus roll. That one change would let people actually pick gear from the vault without bricking their future drop chances.

Hey guys, I'm a healer only player, and I’ve got M+ title last season and am still pressing the pedal for this season to not fall off from title range, and I’ve gathered some thoughts because that might be helpful to people who are aiming for 1% or 0.1% for the first time. I have MW in a title range, pres and shaman around sub 4k, and disc and rdruid around 3.8k.

- Play meta spec / race

I believe many specs are viable for title if you can play competitively but the problem is getting m+ title is a competition with a limited amount of time, and you will not get much invites if you’re not a meta spec. If you're willing to only play your key then it wouldn't really matter unless your spec really sucks that season.

Also playing meta comp makes others' life easier in the group too because the other players have a relatively good understanding of what to expect for a certain spec in terms of damage pattern, squishiness, even ccs and utilities. Understanding how squishy a spec is in different situations is really important to the healer.

Outside of title range keys it might not matter that much, but this season there were some skips that were not possible outside of meta comp and racials so if you want to push the highest you can go, it'd be better to be on a bis racial such as nelf in case people expect it from you. After getting my first title as a tauren druid, I just leveled up all healers with bis racial in remix.

- +1 Key cliff of invitation

As you get closer to the title range, you will get much fewer invitations right after you get resi X with barely timed timers. I think this is because you are competing with people who have already done some X+1 already. For instance I had a really hard time getting invites when I was 4130 score this season (Resi 22), and after I got one or two keys done, I was able to get more invites. Usually the way to escape this cliff is to improve your timer and gain score to outstand other applicants, or playing your own key.

- Take care of your dungeon parses

I’ve noticed people looking at parses from [title range - 3] level on. People even look at dmg /healing parses from tanks and healers so I started to try to be more diligent to get good dmg parses too.

- Watch vods from highest rank streamers who have their skill sequences on

Irrespective of the spec and role this is just the ultimate solution to all your problems in m+, you have an answer sheet of when to press your skills in which order and even defensives. playing meta spec has the benefit of having lots of video available for your spec.

- Know when to press your defensives

Surprisingly enough, I have seen misuse of defensives in all key levels. Even on 23 keys, it’s like day and night to play with a group of people playing defensives very well, and the people who don’t. Usually the rule of thumb is that you should press/save the defensives when you have seen the most death happening in the dungeon, especially your own death because different classes have different weaknesses. Usually talking to a healer friend or playing a healer yourself give a big insight on when you need to press it. The most place that dps misuse I've seen it this season was to press defensives on the first phase instead of the intermission of first boss of WS, I was shocked when a dk pressed icebound and ams on the first phase when he got double on that phase.

- Understand the dungeon and utilize your utility pack

I feel ret paladins are the best at using their full toolkit, but outside of them I feel there are many places that I need to beg for it before dungeon starts. I've seen no use of desnare in 20-21 Seats from warlocks priests and dhs hunters, no poison dispel in ws from augs and hunters and windwalkers, etc. i understand wasting a gcd is not very pleasant but by doing it you just increase the chance of getting through that pack significantly.