How I feel when I play Slaughter Mode as a healer...

[UlricCraft]

I don't mind solo healing sometimes, it's not too bad when you've got 5/6 range dps and 1/2 melle, it kinda keeps you on your toes.
But when you're solo healing with Sasuke-UchEha9Xx & loldrglol the melle players on your team, it gets kind of stressful.

Don't mind losing...
But don't flame the healers... Especially WHM's. They don't get the insta-heal Lustrate cluch saves, and I've seen all classes die within 3-5seconds or taking their first point of damage.

If you're alone on an enemy walkway/stairs, you're on your own.

[Buff_Archer]

Thanks for posting that. A good healer in FL can make or break a team, but it's such an underappreciated role. The times I go SCH in Frontlines I just tell them up front that I'm not going to be able to chase single players off into the crowd to heal anyone so to stay in range or retreat back into healing range when needed.

Also running as healer means having no free hands to type and so I'll usually ask up front if someone can take the lead with calling out where we're going as a party and if we're staying mid vs side objectives. Not that anyone ever responds.

[Red_Wolf]

I feel your pain.

[Deelo]

A M E N!!!!!!!!!!! This is EXACTLY how I feel in Slaughter Mode. Even the best whms can't do every damn thing, especially if they have people YOLOSWAGZERGing all over the goddamn map *away* from them. Sorry for the language but this thread hit home so much lol. Stay strong my Healer brethren, we can only hope for change.

[Hyrist]

Yeah, I never do that. Healers are at a premium and they can get focused -hard-. One healer is not enough for any frontlines.

[Astryoneus]

Yup, sometimes I just give up entirely on the melee (and sometimes even tanks) that get an absolute tardface-mode on and rush in the middle of an enemy horde alone and die in a couple of seconds. It's especially "fun" healing people run in circles the middle of 6-10 enemies, seeing their HP go down cause your heals don't do anything. Luckily, I haven't been flamed a single time by any of these suicidal tools.

Oh, and I'm eagerly waiting for melees and tanks to start replying here how they can't do anything if they don't get up and close and get gangbanged.

[Hyrist]

>.>

Hey, I run into the crowd to attract fire and waste enemy cooldowns as a Tank. I also happen to be there when they over-extend themselves to snipe own a mage.

I'm also on the objectives like white on rice.

All those situations need heals. Kind of the Tank's job to 'seeem' reckless to draw fire. Most the time I have my hand hovering over Hallowed Ground.

[Domira]

The op made me LOL. Because thats exactly what happens. All of the problems stem from a lack of coordination and a unrealistic perspective of dps class functions. I believe most melee dps believe they will be able to survive like tanks when they run into a zerg lol. At the same time though, healers shouldn't expect melee to camp around them.

[UlricCraft]

Sorry to melle classes in advance, haha.

Tanks and Melle DPS are essential for Frontlines, don't get me wrong!
Without the tanks baiting, interrupting teams and mitigating Cometeors for us, we'd be ruined.
Without melle DPS the enemy Bard would be on a Battle-High rampage!

All I'm really complaining about is the lack of respect players can give to one another when faced with unreasonable circumstances.

Like I said, I'm happy to lose for the sake of new players learning how to be a good PVP Dragoon, but just don't QQ at me when you die.

[DividedSky]

The only real solution is don't play melee unless you plan on going on solo missions to an OP to get kills. It clearly and unmistakenly disadvantaged in slaughter. Its nothing but a burden to the team 75% of the time.