How to make a player rage: Use Rescue

[Connor]

No, it is not. A rescue-happy healer shouldn't exist in the first place. It's a waste of a button slot that only serves for me to use Surecast or Arms Length pre-emptively to counter it. Best case is I get rescued 2 inches because I had already moved back to a safe spot. Worst case is I'm moved to an unsafe spot because the offending person doesn't know the fight (M2 normal says hi).

It's a button that is used for griefing more than it is for saving. Feel free to look up the horror stories posted to this forum and elsewhere. You'll have no shortage.

Remove Rescue.

Hold on. How can you use Arm’s Length or Surecast to preemptively counter Rescue when there’s no indicator of another player thinking about using it. Are you reading their minds?! Or are you like, standing in AoEs but then hitting Surecast etc and hoping they try to save you so you can nullify someone’s Rescue? Why would a healer even try to Rescue someone who’s used a knock back nullifier?

Furthermore, be careful what you wish for. Look at what happened when a small subsection of players complained about certain healers not healing them to maximise dps. They just got rid of it all . Can’t grief the party by not healing if you only have healing skills (then it changed nothing).

You’re asking for ‘Rescue’ to be removed, but what you’ll get is ‘healer agency’ being removed. It’s how the devs approach anything that can even remotely cause ‘player friction’. Maybe they’ll just remove knock back as a mechanic from the game. I mean, having your player character forcibly moved is griefing, right? Hell why should healers even be able to heal, just give everyone a potion skill like PvP, then healers can never grief anyone ever again (/sarcasm).

Should we remove Shirk and Provoke too? I mean, they do have trolling potential…