What is happening to healing in pvp?

[Yumi_umi]

Soo we all know with the 2.5 patch notes how healers will probably fair in the new FL mode.
It kinda makes me wonder why healers get no kind of bonus for healing etc unlike the kill streak counterpart. The only way i see for healers to get tht bonus is to " killsteal" from their team as we have no killing potential anymore due to SE taking out CS. No one wants killstealers right? Also its kinda messed up how dps can go from op to super omg goku ssj4 mode and harass healers with sneezes. The haste, more dmg, faster adrenaline etc makes it seem so unfair when u compare it to what healers get.
Tanks can still kill ppl right?

[Donjo]

You ever think that perhaps healers are meant to, you know, actually heal in this mode? After all, points will primarily be gained by killing other players. There is a vested interest in preventing that, and healers are step one.

[Rikkustrife]

yes, haste will make it much worse for healers. It is hard enough as it is to get spells off when being attacked, especially against ninjas, hard to imagine we will be able to get a single spell off with a hasted dps

[Chiramu]

yes, haste will make it much worse for healers. It is hard enough as it is to get spells off when being attacked, especially against ninjas, hard to imagine we will be able to get a single spell off with a hasted dps

Healers will get buffed too, there are a lot of abilities you can use to make sure you get heals off and there should always be more than one healer in a Frontlines. I personally cannot wait for the new Frontlines mode, it sounds so fun!

[Garlyle]

I'll continue to heal it. Having my own personal limit break gauge sounds like a blast, and Haste should affect us too - meaning with haste we're more likely to be able to get spells off before interruptions.

Yes, it obviously on the surface wants to push people to Do The Deeps, but like any arena game a team without a healer is a sandbag ripe for the pummeling.

[VoltaAsura]

Having my own personal limit break gauge sounds like a blast

Its funny that they are implementing the personal limit break in PVP first and not in PVE. How long have we been asking for this? You just have to wonder...WTF?

But on topic, I'll continue to heal in the new FL as well. It sounds really fun !

[Zholi]

You ever think that perhaps healers are meant to, you know, actually heal in this mode? After all, points will primarily be gained by killing other players. There is a vested interest in preventing that, and healers are step one.

The problem is there is no benefit whatsoever to the healer. They are sacrificing everything for the rest of the team and get nothing in return. The achievements are based on kills, and not an insignificant number of them. Do you really think people are going to get 5000 kills as healer when you can barely even tickle the enemy?

[VoltaAsura]

The problem is there is no benefit whatsoever to the healer. They are sacrificing everything for the rest of the team and get nothing in return. The achievements are based on kills, and not an insignificant number of them. Do you really think people are going to get 5000 kills as healer when you can barely even tickle the enemy?

I wouldn't mind the buffs for killing people as a healer, or the haste for faster heals/mitigation/DPS. The buffs aren't limited to just DPS jobs, right?

[Edeline]

The problem is there is no benefit whatsoever to the healer. They are sacrificing everything for the rest of the team and get nothing in return. The achievements are based on kills, and not an insignificant number of them. Do you really think people are going to get 5000 kills as healer when you can barely even tickle the enemy?

Maybe the kills count as in "assisting" to kill that target, not getting the last hit. Games like Aion work with that sytem. When a target dies, everyone who hit that target within a period of time, get a kill count on their profiles. We never had anything to do with kills in pvp except for the show off on the display window when match ends, so we don't know how kill count would really work, we'll see I guess!

[Ultimatecalibur]

The problem is there is no benefit whatsoever to the healer. They are sacrificing everything for the rest of the team and get nothing in return. The achievements are based on kills, and not an insignificant number of them. Do you really think people are going to get 5000 kills as healer when you can barely even tickle the enemy?

Are the achievements even what is important? Winning the match should be what people focus on, not their kill totals.