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    Player Alhanelem's Avatar
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    Mar 2011
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    Bastok
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    Tahngarthor
    World
    Shiva
    Main Class
    SMN Lv 99
    This suggestion has absolutely zero to do with healer competency. None. This is more about making information visible in other ways so that players have a choice as far as where on the screen they want to look to get information. Anything that requires the player to take their fingers off a trigger finger to type a message asking someone to do something that they honestly should be able to glean from the UI or looking at the player/monster/action and then dying because you were typing instead of doing something is not designed well and should not be a skill required of players, especially in a game like this where you may be unable to directly communicate with other players in some circumstances (e.g. jp/en language barrier)

    It's particularly hard to blame healers for dying to doom when they can't remove it 100% of the time.

    You say a player is unskilled for not saying "I'm doomed!." I say that telling other people something that the game could tell you instead is not something that should be considered a skill. I watch for statuses and cure them, I tell people I have status effects. But most games give you this information so you can spend less time typing and more time controlling your character. I don't see anything wrong with that.
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    Last edited by Alhanelem; 10-26-2011 at 11:36 AM.