Why are Healers allowed to be insanely overpowered?

[Kinseykinz]

If people are playing their jobs right, you can't 1v1 a healer.

You can if you can stunlock them....or if their PvP cooldowns are down. We don't ALWAYS have all our skills up and ready....maybe that healer just finished soloing 1:1 and now needed time to rest but didn't get it....maybe that healer was pressured and ran 'back to safety' only to find their team not there. Stuff happens.

Still, if the other person also plays their role right, it's a 50/50 who will win. People just get eaten by a healer and automatically think 'OP' ....because the healer didn't lay down and die...you're not going beat down EVERY healer...if you did, then your role would be 'OP'

[Gor]

People just get eaten by a healer and automatically think 'OP' ....because the healer didn't lay down and die...you're not going beat down EVERY healer...if you did, then your role would be 'OP'

people wont be satisfied until healers are nerfed down to just that ... squishy healers. then they'll be right back on these forums complaining about they can't take down a base because they keep wiping since their healers die too fast and they can never stay alive. people will never be satisfied.

what's that saying about the grass being greener?

[sweeney]

people wont be satisfied until healers are nerfed down to just that ... squishy healers. then they'll be right back on these forums complaining about they can't take down a base because they keep wiping since their healers die too fast and they can never stay alive. people will never be satisfied.

what's that saying about the grass being greener?

I find the only issue with healers is that they can easily all camp the middle and spam AoE healing. Locking one down is relatively easy but it's perhaps a little problematic when they have 4 healers. But at the same time as this, once you get the point that's it they aint getting it back easy. Perhaps the problem is that people focus way to much on healers, and leave BLMs and maybe SMNs alone which obv you're gunna get wasted which makes loads of healers look good.

[Kaisha]

You can if you can stunlock them....

Would have to be a handy stunlock, since WHM always has repose as a backup to recoup (assuming Fluid Aura was on CD), and SCH always has their pet to deal with, in which case trying to stunlock both as a PLD would leave you no room to DPS.

Most situations you'll see a healer solo are when they're holding a flag, which is when they'll be sitting with full buffs. If you catch one after they just killed another person trying to claim the flag, you can bet your bottom that their team already has a couple members otw to assist.