DPSing as a healer

[Fevelle]

Its up to the community to teach the community, that's why the mentor system exists even though it's a massive failure in the west because players are stubborn as hell and don't want to improve.

If you're at work and someone gets up to you and tells you to do x in y way so you do the task better are you going to reply with a "it's my salary i'll work the way i want" too?

This is not work, no one is paying you to play, on the contrary. That argument would be valid if we were talking e-sports.

[mp-please]

This is not work, no one is paying you to play, on the contrary. That argument would be valid if we were talking e-sports.

Change for school/college and tuition then.
The point is that everywhere people will tell you better ways to perform, even to how to drink a beer if you go to a bar.

But why ONLY healers? That's what I can't figure out.

Healing is the only job that doesn't have dps part of it's job. Tank classes generate some of their aggro based on their damage, dps classes well, dps.
Plus the whole healer stereotype attracts the same type of people, i mean the usual "i want to help everyone but i'm not confident enough to do more than heal", sylphie is a good example.

Hell, this is portrayed in almost every single RPG game/anime where every single healer is always a frail looking girl/boy (usually girl) that never believes in herself to the point it became a meme.

[Supersun]

Plus the whole healer stereotype attracts the same type of people, i mean the usual "i want to help everyone but i'm not confident enough to do more than heal", sylphie is a good example.

Hell, this is portrayed in almost every single RPG game/anime where every single healer is always a frail looking girl/boy (usually girl) that never believes in herself to the point it became a meme.

...Did you really use THAT picture to support your point that healers generally are people that want to support others?

The very picture that when shown with its other half makes the exact opposite point?...

[mp-please]

...Did you really use THAT picture to support your point that healers generally are people that want to support others?

The very picture that when shown with its other half makes the exact opposite point?...

The exact other half is how normal mmo healers behave, i wasn't talking of normal healers.

[Tint]

The exact other half is how normal mmo healers behave, i wasn't talking of normal healers.

actually... he isn't dpsing in the other half of the picture either.

[mp-please]

actually... he isn't dpsing in the other half of the picture either.

I wasn't talking of dpsing or not with that example, I was talking how people see themselves or roleplay as a healer. The job is usually associated with characters who only want to help others rather than kill and we can see that transpiring a lot to people when they're (role)playing a healer job

[Supersun]

The exact other half is how normal mmo healers behave, i wasn't talking of normal healers.

Oh, I might have misunderstood what you meant.

stereotype attracts the same type of people, i mean the usual "i want to help everyone but i'm not confident enough to do more than heal"

Thought you were saying that the type of people that healers attract are the people that "want to help everyone"