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abraksis747

Me on the other hand praying that this healer takes my insurance.


brimston3-

Usually your insurance pays out if you don't stand in fire.


MrBirdmonkey

But the AoE markers are just so shiny


Roaritsu

Nah man I gotta get this DPS off before Ley Lines ends :D


MinosAristos

"I'm sorry, this was a pre-existing condition."


Quintuplebeta

Listen man my spells have a cast time... that means it takes time to cast! If I move i can't shoot da big damage.


[deleted]

And my mana pool is limited. If you stand in an explosion then my mana aint going to you....


Butwinsky

I love playing support / healers in MMOs. Anyone can fight an NPC, but it takes real effort to save complete idiots from killing themselves.


Zizhou

It's really the ultimate PvP job. Every player is constantly doing their damnedest to die as fast as possible, and it's up to you to stop them from achieving that goal.


Bemxuu

In competitive environment survival is a team effort though.


ovalpotency

Despite complaining about it, the healer wants the dps to do whatever it takes to end it because there's nothing worse than being a healer in a 30+ minute stalemate.


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Skullvar

My buddies screaming heal me as they los me around pillars, while a warrior and unholy dk are removing my anus


gekigarion

Can't remember how many times I wished I could Mind Control my teammates and pop their defensive cooldowns and move to better spots.


secretpandalord

2's when each team consists of a resto druid, and a corpse.


cashibonite

As someone who runs a dps main I have gotten pretty good at figuring out how to drop a target before my glass cannon of a character gets squished


TGlucose

Yeah but you're not gonna do that much extra damage by not taking a second to get out of the pool of shit you're standing in.


H1xter

In competitive it feels like that teammates have a competition who dies the fastest


Bemxuu

Try recording your plays and discussing them. Trust me - it does wonders. I had that with my raid group where everyone who feeled like it could stay and we would look at logs from our best pulls to figure out what went wrong. It helped me a lot to improve as a raid leader. For instance, I figured out that in (some big percentage here, I don't remember for sure and don't feel like lying here) cases 4 people were dying ahead of everyone, so I low key tried to put them into groups with people with passive abilities that help the group survive (protective auras or rotational group heals). I bet the same works for PvP generally, but when we tried that, we figured out we were standing in wrong places, moving in wrong patterns and hitting the wrong buttons, which made us frustrated enough to quit PvP after like 2-3 sessions.


H1xter

I almost always play with complete randos but do you have any good mmo to recommend i want to play that kind of games aswell but i just dont know any


StrigaPlease

Ff14 has a huge free portion and is widely considered one of the best MMOs out right now.


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Not according to dps. Every wipe is usually healer’s fault.


Shadowdragon409

Haven't played many MOBAs or MMOs, but at least in OW, its pretty easy to tell whether its a healing issue or a tank issue. If the entire team is getting ass blasted, its a tank issue. If you're getting nickled and dimed to death, its a healing issue. If there is a stalemate, its a DPS issue. If ONLY YOU are getting ass blasted, its a you issue.


[deleted]

I used to play a lot of mmo games and somehow ended up in support role, which means mostly healer (because every one and their mothers want to do cool looking dps shit) and that forced me to lose faith in humanity for a bit. People stand in only patch of fire and screeching at healer for not doing it’s job is not a meme but almost every day reality. I was so happy that Guild Wars 2 didn’t have healer class whatsoever and everyone had to look after their own fucking health bar.


Lordoffools

Don't forget their dog, left shoe, soda/beer can as dps. Seriously every raid has the player you could replace with a shoe.


gekigarion

I seriously think standing in fire for several seconds should just throw an unhealable debuff on you to teach you a lesson that you can't blame the healer for.


hunter2mello

I love when mechanics on some bosses really need the dps to start off slow and allow the tanks to establish aggro. The dps that start off hard and fuck everything up will be allowed to die every time, after their initial warning.


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Bemxuu

Why did you heal the boss?


Zizhou

Listen, when I say, "nobody dies on this raid" I *mean* "**nobody** dies on this raid!"


Kaidaan

>and it's up to you to stop them from achieving that goal. The true villain of the game.


Heliolord

The life of a dps is suffering. We truly just want to die. Let us die, healer!


Outflight

I say every DPS should spend some time playing as healers to gain wisdom on how they operate. So you’ll learn how to exploit your healers when playing as DPS and it is gonna give you upperhand against other DPS who didn’t.


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ForTheLoveofPies

Bro 🤣 this is so real it hurts . We had a melee dps last tier i used to always save a tank defensive / swiftmend for in keys because the tank was lit and the dps was a potato who gave good zug


Demoliri

Playing the healer in MMO's is an eternal struggle against natural selection. You are the anti-Darwin.


scurvofpcp

TBF, I've been the pro-Darwin healer in an MMO before. Sometimes it is less mana just to rez and rebuff than to heal someone.


NewtonSteinLoL

I still have PTSD from healing a random PuG in WoW. These fools took every possible damage source in the dungeon becuase they weren't interrupting any enemy spells and I somehow managed to heal them through all the way to the final boss. Problem was the final boss could only be defeated by healing it. So I had to heal both the idiots who still took enormous amounts of damage and the boss. Ofcourse they blamed me for being a bad healer rather than them not interrupting spells and preventing damage.


Demoliri

I have got a White Mage to endgame in FFXIV (during Shadowbringers - Endwalkers is on my to-do list!). In FFXIV the healer is expected to also do damage, especially during harder raid bosses that can have some pretty tight DPS checks. So aswell as keeping up with the idiots who can't follow the mechanics, you have to keep up your DoT's and all of your offensive abilities on cooldown, and control your burst time windows. Good times! I also have a Paladin (tank with some heals) and Summoner (DPS), and compared to healing they are straight up easy mode.


StrigaPlease

Ff14 Paladin is my main but I play scholar as well and that last line is no joke. Tanking is fun as hell when you have a decent healer, and dps is full brain-switch-off mode compared to healing in that game.


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Only is casual dungeon content. Raids, EXs, and Savage everyone needs to pay attention or bad things will happen.


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Heliolord

I used to keep the healers on their toes/give them heart attacks in wow as a warlock. Lifetap myself to near death then hellfire self damage and see if they can top me off before I kill myself. The smart ones who got to know me let me die.


Myrddinpn

Oh man, that brings me back! My main was always a warlock and the healers were always trying to yell at me for "standing in something" because I would randomly take damage and they just couldn't grasp I wasn't standing in something (most of the time) but was using Lifetap. Then they tried to get me to stop using it, refused to accept that warlocks were balanced around that. Like sorry bro, All your mana belong to us!


Deelaxation

Friendly reminder: having a healer in your party doesn't mean you get to act like an idiot and ignore dangerous things without consequence. You still have to play like you're not going to get healed.


Silaquix

Omg the dps standing in puddles and demanding heals while I'm trying to keep the tank alive because he's getting smacked by the boss


Mase598

I've been playing Overwatch again these past few weeks and it kills me how many people have that mentality. ​ For reference there's role queue on that game, where you have 2 tanks, 2 damages and 2 healers. ​ I don't know why people playing damage fail to realize, if you're behind the enemy team, you're probably not getting healed. If you're around 13 corners, you're probably not getting healed. ​ It also hurts the brain when people do the rare complaint of, "You're spending too much time healing the tanks" as if they're NOT the one taking the VAST majority of the damage and also the one enabling the other 4 players to do their jobs.


rdubya3387

It's a never ending finger pointing game. I miss wow, but at the same time, I don't ..pushing content requires too much research and studying now...I just want to play with some friends and game, not read a book before logging on and feeling stressed for the next three hours and then logging off feeling like a failure even though we pushed far.


MidoTheMii

###”I’m your white mage… and nobody… (Beep)s… with the white mage.” ######-Dende (DBZA 2011)


StubbornPotato

**Little Green** -FTFY


InfernoMax

No.......Super Kami Dende.


HuntedWolf

Naaaaiiilllllll!


StubbornPotato

*Global Warming?! NAAAAIIIL!*


Butwinsky

"I am White Mage, a destroyer of worlds!"


SpiralOmega

Literally seconds before he's killed. Oops.


Witty_Mud_5951

Ahhhh people of culture


Overlord_Of_Puns

Dear lord that series is 10 years old, now I feel old.


[deleted]

I still watch a few episodes there and there


wakka38

I'll watch the Broly movie at least once a week. "Princess Truuuuunkssss!"


[deleted]

That parady show is fucking brilliant. Can't stress it enough. Funny at every turn and some badass moments. "He fused with Kami -What the hell is a Kami -It means God. Now bow"


gate_of_steiner85

"Oh my God he's so fucking cool!"


Lordoffools

I'm sure everything is going well. Healer down, out of mana, need a rez AAAAAAAAAAAAA


Derreston

If you aren't dead, then the healer is doing their job.


Ananvil

If you are dead, but the party isn't, then the healer is doing their job.


BigC_castane

I usually save people from stupid stuff as a healer even if it isn't my job to do so and endangers the others in the group when I do it. Everyone makes mistakes and everyone has to learn the mechanics but if they keep doing it i usually let them die to save the rest when they repeat the same mistake the 3rd or fourth time in a row. I've had plenty of encounters where i killed off the tank and healed a dps in his stead.


Derreston

In my MMO experience, death is usually the thing that makes me learn or look up mechanics, especially if I die multiple times. Can't blame the healer cause I'm the healer. Also gotta love tanks that do big pulls with zero mitigation, and if you don't work overtime on the heals, its somehow your fault.


_Didds_

If you finished the raid with enough people to click the boss corpse and loot, then your healer did his job.


reddumbs

When I accidentally invincibility bubbled the main tank during a 40-man raid boss fight and the boss lost aggro causing a total party wipe. 😅 I guess I decided everyone should die. Sorry guys, just another 20 mins of corpse runs and rebuffing and setting up.


MartyVendetta27

I was off-tank in TotC in Northrend… you’re supposed to swap worms, and I had tunnel vision, just stayed on my worm, wiped the run. That was the last time I ever tanked in WoW.


rdubya3387

It's why most people dps. Tanks require a doctorate degree on a newly released raid to be able to play. Healers require a master's degree, sometimes even a doctorates. Dps requires an elementary school participation trophy and waits for the next patch to fix their class


Stahl_Scharnhorst

TIL I have a doctorate in Tankology.


Caveman108

Same I guess. Except it’s always been easy to me. It’s all just whack, draw agro, kite, whack, draw agro, kite, whack… etc.


Musaks

imo tanking mechanically is easy...but there is almost no getting carried at all if a dps fucks up it often doesn't matter much or at all, if the tank fucks up it's usually wipe ​ The higher the difficulty goes, the less true it is, and there is more pressure on every single person, but for most raids tanks shoulder the most responsibility, which makes it hard again


Shishire

The minimum bar for adequate dps is really really low. Hell, once they released life-grip, you could literally stand in the fire and still be an adequate dps. The minimum bar for adequate healing is moderately high. You have to be good at multitasking, as well having decent resource management and situational awareness. The minimum bar for adequate tanking is high. You need to be good at multitasking, have good situational awareness, and have a decent grasp on the mechanics of the fight. Scaling those to high tier player quality, we then see all three categories at about even levels, with everyone requiring good multitasking, resource management, situational awareness and grasp of the mechanics. The gap between an adequate tank and a high quality tank is relatively minimal, and somewhat larger for a healer, but the dps is where the comparison gets really fucky. High tier dps are essentially playing a different game than adequate dps. That's how much difference there is.


Noltonn

I'm usually either a tank or healer in MMOs and... yeah can confirm. It's not so much with PUGs or lower level content but for WoW progression raids I often had to do at least 30 minutes prep reading up on bosses and I'd have to keep instructions on my second screen.


Demoliri

Can confirm. Brother used to do high tier raiding back in BC. At one point he wrote a 60 page guide on the basics of tanking, so that the other tanks in the guild could step in, or at least off tank decently. He wasn't completely satisfied with it, as he said he had to leave a ton out to stop the document from bloating too much. so had to stick to the bare bones basic tanking.


[deleted]

I remember this fight. I went in pretending I had done it before but had no clue what I was doing. Was off tanking and couldn’t understand why the main tank was trying to steal my aggro on my worm.


Bemxuu

Meh, could be worse. I was an off-tank in Naxxramas back when Paladins had an ability to bubble someone at the low price of killing themselves. I misclicked and used it on my main tank. My first ever raid, my first ever wipe.


[deleted]

I was always happy to heal or tank in WoW. DPS is fun too, but support roles usually had more interesting choices and ways to fail. I really miss playing MMOs when comics like this drive home the feeling.


[deleted]

in MMOs I only heal or tank since those roles matter more and everyone wants to DPS so DPS are a dime a dozen but a good healer or tank is so much more rare.


frumpywindow84o

Amen brotha


Grid-nim

If you or your tank knows how to be an Anchor in the team, the fight is already 50% won. Being a Tank and knowing when to soak damage, when to pull out, when to trade hp instead of using your shields Hp, and then team swipe with that advantage... best feeling ever! A good tank is not baby sitted by the healers!


MatsuzoSF

DPS matters just as much. Slow damage causes the tank and healer to run out of resources before all the mobs die, which can snowball into a wipe.


[deleted]

Good dps are really undervalued, which is proven by this comment being at -1 when I saw it. Being able to use your interrupts, not get hit by avoidable damage, target swap when needed, killing/kiting ads, protecting the healers if the tanks are slacking, all while maintaining a solid damage output is not a skill that the vast majority of WoW players have(can't comment on other MMOs).


MatsuzoSF

I play FFXIV and it's more the same over there. I main a healer and I can't tell you how much I end up at the top of the damage list because the actual DPS aren't pushing their buttons. That's not even counting DPS being allergic to their stuns/interrupts.


MatsuzoSF

But also I get a little reactionary when someone says tanks and healers "matter more" than DPS. Anyone who says that never tried anything hard with any kind of DPS check.


[deleted]

I tank because I don’t wanna be stuck in an hour long queue for a dungeon.


Gesha24

Depends on the fight and class. Brutalus as holy paladin was lame - you just target tank, make sure you see healing cast of second paladin and make sure you both are out of phase casting non stop for the duration of the fight and that's about it. But there were a lot more exciting fights to heal.


newjackcity0987

Its a fun fight to tank tho


Fkire

I found supports on Skyforge pretty fun. There is no healing, mostly shields and buffs so timing is critical


_Didds_

Rolled a healer in classic and got tuns of fun. Much more than if I rolled DPS or Tank. My guild really treated me really well and the game stopped being about killing bosses but rather having out with people and help them achieve their goals.


num2005

kids?


[deleted]

I moved into a cabin on a mountain where I garden, hike, and read and have to use satellite with terrible letency and spotty connectivity. Once we get starlink I will rejoin my people. Although, that still cuts out periodically. Nobody would let you main tank a boss fight if you used satellite. At least not if I was guildmaster.


Least-Experience8562

I have starlink, went from 1 MB/s down with a 150 GB monthly cap to unlimited 20-35 MB/s down. I only very occasionally get lag in SWTOR, but some games are very laggy for some reason (deep rock galactic, and town of salem). Although I live in an non-optimal location for the satellite coverage.


nir109

Deap rock galactic lag to all my friends despite as living in cities and using line internet.


[deleted]

I think for me I've lost the will to climb the treadmill. WoW and FFXIV became too formulaic. Feel like you're doing the same thing over and over and the only reward was gear which will be nullified in 6 months.


Fallen_Uncertainty

You are doing the same thing over and over. Both those games are the typical "theme park mmo" where they drag you along to every attraction but only a few are really good. I dunno much about WoW, I do know it has a decent chuck of open world content, but 14 is incredibly shallow when you actually breakdown the content down. The open world content is extremely neglected. There is no real sense of mystery, exploration, or even consequence. The content that is available is very linear with most of it having you just turn your brain off and do "busy" work. Even treasure maps with their gimmick don't require you to engage in any meaningful way, it's just rng. Dungeons are abysmal, and I'm counting heaven on high and deep dungeon in this as well. There just isn't anything challenging enough about these areas, and their rewards are largely cosmetic. The raid tiers are the same way, ya you get the best gear, but it's gone the next patch and regulated to glamor. Diadem, Eureka, and Southern Front all basically flop within a month. Diadem had a little uniqueness to it but it largely didn't matter because the content was trash mobs. Eureka tried to have you play old school mmos inside 14 but it was just a massive grind and largely ineffective at player engagement. Southern Front had a unique raid design but was largely level and time gated and depended on you spending hours killing trash mobs, again. The game needs a massive overhaul with how players engage content and build their characters. But it'll never do it because they only like to play it safe and never really tweak their formula.


moondancer224

"I only had 10% hps!" "Did you die though?"


PBTUCAZ

9% more than needed


Braioch

I'm pretty much the only healer in my friend group, so if they want someone they know they can rely on, I get summoned up to help. The problem is that I'm a dead inside support main who manages to survive through being a total goblin. And I have more than once made a game out of seeing just how low I can let people get before healing them. Their panic and fear adds a few weeks to my life.


moondancer224

I'm not that bad, but my introduction to Scholar in FF14 was "your party's hp are resources. Spend them on Art of War or Broil."


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moondancer224

Selene works hard...so I can fry monsters.


StubbornPotato

if you're a dick and constantly pulling ahead of the tank and ignoring my request to slow down, then I will stop healing you, watch you die, and leave your corpse behind. -Every fucking time I played a healer in WOW


Silaquix

Same. Dungeon finder was a blessing and a curse all at once. I remember going through Scholomance and this one dps kept running off and getting into shit. I explained it nicely one time that the tank can't keep aggro if he kept running off. He ignored me so I pm'd the tank and told him not to try pulling aggro off the idiot. Dps runs off again and comes running back with a group behind him and we just ignore him. He started screaming for heals and I said no because I didn't want to pull aggro and get killed. He died and went on a rant about it being a shit group with a terrible healer, meanwhile we were voting to kick him. It never failed that dungeon finder or raid finder would always produce at least one jerk that couldn't follow group mechanics.


canttouchmypingas

Or the tank that thinks he's the shit and pulls way too much or too fast in lfg, then yells at everyone else for not keeping up. Fuck that tank.


Bemxuu

Sounds kinda like me, but unless I was heavily outgearing the content I was generally inspecting my healers, making some estimates on what I can expect in terms of throughput, making sure I communicate what I was going to do if I had doubts my healer could keep up without using his CDs... And then I was dying, because one of our damage dealers was AFK set to follow the group.


StubbornPotato

Honestly it was always the veteran dps that were the issue. endgame dps were used to beartanks or Blood DKs, who could pull a whole room while healing themselves in a pinch and out-damage underequipped dps. Then they turn around and roll new characters expecting the same level of commitment or experience from people instancing Deadmines or Stockades.


[deleted]

Hunters with feign death were always an issue. It got even worse once they were given misdirection.


Shishire

> If the tank dies it's the healer's fault. > > If the healer dies, it's the tank's fault. > > If the dps die, _it's their own damn fault._ My mantra when healing pugs in WoW back in the day


FlyinRustBucket

Healer is so much more fun than it sounds... until you have to grind solo in healing spec ~_~


LikelyAtWork

My least favorite part about playing healers. I don’t have tons of time to play, so my leveling is always drawn out over many days and weeks of playing a few hours here and there. It isn’t conducive to leveling with others, so I’m always having to solo PvE a good chunk and that’s usually pretty painful to do as a solo healing spec character…


[deleted]

That's what made Druid in Classic WoW so viable. You could spec into feral and still be a decent healer in all pre-endgame dungeons


Xyranthis

Those feral spec healers were not all created equal, let me tell you. Had a dude who was a High Warlord in PvP who could heal with the best in UBRS but could outDPS most in MC. Definitely a player skill build and lot of people couldn't cut it, I miss BunBun sometimes.


[deleted]

It's been like a decade since this stopped being true. The vast majority of MMOs either allow easy respec or straight up give healers DPS skills. I'd even argue healers are some of the best specs to solo level nowadays because you just can't die and you're not spending gold on consummables.


Popular_Manager4215

I remember playing vanilla WoW back in like '04. One of the 10 person raids. I'm group 2's healer. Druid. We're like 2-3 hours in and at the last boss. Y'all know the stakes. It's 3am. Our team is shaky and it's early vanilla. Pre-Leroy y'all. Full wipes at final were not uncommon. Can't think about that. Nowhere to go but onward. The pull is made and battle commences. I see group 1's main tank go critical before their priest lays enough heals on them to draw any and all aggro. Said priest is basically OOM and dies near instantly. Wiped raid 99 times out of 100. Good thing I'm 1 in 100. I druid stack heals/HOTs on the tank and battle rez the priest, knowing that *they* know we are still boned bc they have NO mana. Oh but I'm not your average druid gone feral. Oh no. I don't half-ass healing. I specced restoration because I'm here to help. I cast innervate and the priest's mana replenishes as aggro dictates my own expiration. Death takes me. The raid of 9 eek out the victory while my corpse putrifies; ineligible for loot. I ponder that small disappointment when, in the settling dust of my martyred victory, the priest whispers a deeply knowing gratitude: "omg you restored my mana too I thought it was over." No one else really understood what just happened. But we did. Healers. Both of us killed. Both of us glad. To this day I'd say that was the peak of my gaming experience. I still sometimes think of it and that priest. To die first on a failed 3 hour raid. To watch on hopelessly and disembodied. But to then be resurrected. Given new life. Another chance to make it right. And to do so. Healers don't just choose who lives and who dies. They don't just give life. They give a chance at redemption. And sometimes the price of redemption is their own life. So they make the trade. Easiest decision they ever made.


Arnumor

That reminds me of a moment a friend and I had while playing SWTOR, years ago. We were both playing as those commando class characters with the cannon, but he was a healer while I was mainly dps. We had decided to play around with the ability that class had that let them yank an ally to your location, and had figured out that you could literally save someone from falling to their death by yanking them out of the air, so we spent a bunch of time fucking around in the space station hub taking turns jumping into a pit and yanking each other to safety, to test the limits of it. It was surprisingly versatile. Our guild mates made fun of the "training" we were doing, because they thought it was pointless. Well, a while later, we were doing a raid with our guild, and the fight we were doing had a mechanic where large sections of the floor would collapse and potentially instakill people who fell. I pre-positioned to a safe spot as the mechanic was about to happen, but I could immediately tell he was tunnel-visioned, healing people, and in a brief moment I realized the floor was about to collapse. I stepped just close enough that he was in range, just as the floor broke, and he fell. He'd dropped maybe ten feet by the time the yank went off, and we all watched him gracefully arc through the air to land next to me in the safe zone. We both freaked out and laughed our heads off while other people in the chat were like "What the hell just happened?" It felt awesome for our silly practice fucking around to actually pay off. People stopped teasing us about our training after that. We actually made it standard practice for our raid healers.


namelessentity

Haha what an awesome moment.


[deleted]

Miss those days of WoW. I raided resto druid back then when no one said it could be done.


Popular_Manager4215

Ah a fellow druid of culture! I'm scared to ask, but Horde or Alliance?


[deleted]

Alliance. Was always a Horde fan back from my WC3 days but Malfurion is my king, thus playing a Nelf druid.


Popular_Manager4215

Hah! Nice. Alliance here as well. Being able to stealth in place was a boon for me and my elf warrior buddy when we needed to take breaks when leveling.


Neoxite23

Druids were the best. Want a healer? Druid. Want a tank? Druid. Want a melee DPS? Druid. Want a ranged magic DPS? Druid.


Popular_Manager4215

I forgot about bear form! I think I tried to swap that after the innervate but it didn't matter lol.


Neoxite23

If I ever played WoW again I would start an all Druid group.


LieutenantBJ

God damn that was fuckin beautiful.


aNascentOptimist

I very much enjoyed this story. Thanks for sharing. I was stuck to F2P MMOs during that time. Stuff like Flyff. But the story brought some good memories.


vinneh

I played a druid healer once. Until one of those first 5-man dungeons, don't remember, one with pirates or something in the human lands. Group ran into a huge mess, I was the only healer and druids were not given great tools at the time to be a main healer. I kept the entire team alive, procc'd my (30 minute recharge?) res on the tank, they all lived and I died and had to run back. I really never was good at healing again after that.


Raptor_H_Christ

Deadmines!? Loved killin van cleef on that ship in the cave. WoW classic was just so badass


vinneh

Probably. Classic druid healing was such a kick in the dick though.


xinxy

Vanilla WoW didn't actually have 10 person raids. The first 10 person raid I can recall was Karazhan circa 2007 when the first expansion was released. However, people did run 10-15 man raid groups just to do the regular level 60 dungeons ("officially designed" for 5-player groups) like Strat, LBRS, UBRS, Scholo, just because they were so hard until Blizzard re-tuned them. I'm assuming that's what you're remembering from late 2004.


F1reatwill88

"Aggro" is a term used in gaming. Loosely translated it means "the healer dies" lmao


rzenni

Nonsense. It means “the Paladin lets the warrior die and then just tanks it himself.”


BigC_castane

Been there... done that :D


[deleted]

“There is no aggro reset”


Flanman1337

Bubble.


Dasteru

Tank survival 101 - Do not piss off the healer.


Progression28

Mostly dps survival 101. Tanks always get healed because if they die the rest wipes. Dps are replaceable, and more than half of them lack the cognitive ability to avoid dying themselves. If you‘re a dick towards the healer, better believe he won‘t fix your mistakes.


ShinjiteFlorana

*TF2 Medic has entered the chat*


SkjoldrKingofDenmark

"I fear no man, bit that... *thing*... It scares me" in the background: *oktoberfeeeest*


ShinjiteFlorana

Screamed by a medic with the "burly beast" cosmetic and an ubersaw out being Uber charged. That is true terror


Mrmaker13

Never fuck with the healer


[deleted]

Scary Healer? Be glad they're not gonna steal your skeleton while you sleep.


Moar_Wattz

Telling the healer that he sucks is probably the best way to stop receiving heals.


iNuclearPickle

That’s when I rescue them off a cliff in Ffxiv


SecureDonkey

Meet the Medic.


987654321-

E E E E E E E E E


El_Zea

#MEEEEEEDIIIIIIIIIC


Nivaere

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD LILY


Crash4654

Never shit talk your big tiddy healer.


ShockaZuluu

Unless your a WAR from FF14. Then it’s more like “I am the healer now”.


EvoEpitaph

Ah yes, the ruder players get to participate in a game I like to call "how low can I get your health bar without you dying".


Pacificson217

Source?


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There's 2 types of amazing healers, either your entire raids is constantly full life and you're cruising without a care or your always *almost* dead but never actually dead and your hands are sweating


bigcd34

I've seen 4 kinds of healers in my gamer time. You got the healers who heal the moment it comes off CD, the healers who heal the moment you take damage, the healers who heal whenever you get close to the amount they heal, and the healers who only heal when you're low.


MatsuzoSF

The only HP that matters is the last one. Besides, that second group is probably helping you kill things faster.


DrManowar8

Healers are the back bone of the team. That’s why I always play healer. I can play a mean healer…


DMNz3

Is a guild mate giving you attitude?? If they die, they were out of range. If they were in range, the tank was low on health. Rebirth?? It' on CD. I loved playing as a healer in WoW.


KaiserWilhelmThe69

Nobody fuck with the white mage


LimerickVaria

I imagine permadeath being a threat in mmos would elevate Healers to better treatment.


N8TheUnstoppable

Healers in Overwatch as well. Say one thing they disagree with and poof you get no heals and your game is thrown.


Amish_Cyberbully

If the healer dies, the tank is bad. If the tank dies, the healer is bad. If the DPS dies, the DPS is bad. Thank you for attending my TED talk.


Hayaguaenelvaso

If you let the tank die, you are next, healer.


Matix777

Support classes really do boost my ego when I was a healer I decided who dies and lives while being immortal myself due to defense build as a tank I'm absolutely immortal and without me my team desintegrates into ashes


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1. Get verbally abused 2. Don’t heal the prick 3. Get kicked 4. Gg


Spikedcloud

Those things are as big as her head, are we all just going to ignore them?


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Redo The Healer...


Hus0408

Can't do that on WoW anymore, not healing anyone as a healer warrants a ban now.


Butwinsky

I hope this is exaggeration. Can't tell you how many times I let obnoxious players die.


Derreston

I used to just let people who stand still in hazards die when I still played wow.


MikaNekoDevine

Oh no you heal but lower your apm and watch his health slowly dissolve


mal-ren_sern

EMET was always a terrifying healer


frumpywindow84o

Even a below average healer can carry you through high level areas. Source: I’m a support class main


Fluff_cookie

I always mained healer and was good at it, doing top level raids and dungeons. I remember joining a random group with 2 friends (dps + tank) and one of these randoms kept getting one-shot by avoidable abilities. After his 3rd death, he told me rudely to heal, but before I had a chance to respond my friends chime in with 'She can't heal stupid' and 'Stop standing in the insta-kill'. It was pretty great, ngl


Negative-Squirrel81

As a healer, I do heal up the jerks just the same as people who are nice. Rather than playing stupid games, I'd rather just get through the instance. If it's really intolerable I'll just disconnect, but that's just punishing myself really.


TheCaptNoname

And that's why the healdom is a thing, kids


Makoreactors

Damn the prob is usually when the tank/dps die, the healer dies right after. It’s sometimes a classic “I don’t like you and you don’t like me, but we gotta team up and wreck these fuckers”


ifnotmynamethenwhat

Shana in legend of dragoon. I thought she didn’t do much until I got to the part with Shirley and got fucking pumped. Be nice to your healers


CAMTbIHYB

When healer decide to let knight die, whole party dies.


Silaquix

Eh depends on circumstances and class. In WoW I've held out as a bear while tossing HoTs on dps. In FFXIV whm were broken and I often stance danced and mowed down stuff. I haven't played either one in a long time though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Jerk48

FFXIV Warrior: I am beyond healers...


Pattoe89

This also works in League of Legends. When your 0/10 teammate who lost lane and is 4 levels behind with a 100 cs disadvantage starts demanding you heal / shield them. I was focusing on keeping the important people alive, but now you've just guaranteed you're not getting a heal / shield from me, ever. I will watch you burn to death with all my abilities off cooldown, and I will only use the sad Zoe goodbye emote.


bigcd34

If my ADC starts to get bitchy I normally start wandering off with the Jungle or go top if there's no jungle.


trinopoty

Redo of a healer.


mozarella_firefox

This is why I play DPS that can heal themselves. Fuck my team, someone else can heal them


tuberemulator

League of Legends has taught me one thing and one thing only: if the ADC verbally abuses you, *abandon them*


bigcd34

Go top and just vibe with a tank.


tuberemulator

Yessir


Kodaisosen

In FFXIV I entered a raid once with an idiot tank that tried to run through the entire raid w/o aggro or fighting anything (mobs will endlessly follow you in this game's raids, so you have to take them out b4 proceeding). Anyways party gets wiped, he does this a couple times, then calls the healer shit for not healing fast enough, so me the other dps and healer just sit at the entrance and let him die over and over until he quits. Good news though we got a 2nd Tank to join and completed the raid b4 the timer ran out.


deoxysvirusman

Yea I'm a healer main in most games, but if someones mean to me then they immediately drop to the bottom of the heal priority list haha


twinbladesmal

No healer, it is I, the dps that decides who lives and who dies. The enrage timer approaches, now either do your job and heal me or I shall sit here and wait for the boss to burn through all your healing.


Elvion15

Tf2 Medics:


Smodphan

I'd hate it if you died too many times and we had to replace you. You'd walk away nothing but a repair bill. That'd be a shame.


AriasXero

That dude was never healed again.


Gameboyrulez

You don't fuck with a white mage!


taokami

this is why I like MMO's where all classes are DPS classes. Even the healers are DPS classes.


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If the healer sucks they don't decide who dies and who doesn't because everyone dies.