Healer Confessions

[Fernosaur]

(incoming party buster)

*puts shields on the rest of the party but one person, but still has more than enough time to get a shield on them*
me: RIP dps
*watches that dps get destroyed without a shield*
me: gg, nothing I could've done

Omfg yes I will do this.

[Rivxkobe]

I overheal a lot to keep me from going brain dead in duties.

Sometimes i pray for a bad tank

I am confused by this post.

Playing SCH and letting the fairy do all the healing and honestly forgetting that i'm not playing SMN for a sec whenever the tank gets low.

or my personal favorite (incoming party buster)

*puts shields on the rest of the party but one person, but still has more than enough time to get a shield on them*
me: RIP dps
*watches that dps get destroyed without a shield*
me: gg, nothing I could've done

I use to main SCH and I know these feels. Especially forgetting that I have heals that can actually do something since 90% of the time I was in CS. (And at times I would be SUPER LAZY and just heal while in CS because f**k it.)

[Averax]

How is spamming cure more engaging than dpsing?

There is more than one healing spell?

And how is spamming broil/stone/malefic +dots any more engaging?

[VanilleFang]

There is more than one healing spell?

And how is spamming broil/stone/malefic +dots any more engaging?

I think they're pointing out that if you're overhealing , why aren't you just spamming dps spells instead? Both are equally boring at times, but I would argue casting Stone III a bunch is more engaging than healing nothing because at least you are effecting a bar outside your own MP.

[Gemina]

My confession tonight is me. I really enjoy healing in mmos, and I still find this enjoyment despite some of the drawbacks of the role. The rewards far outweigh them, but the heaviest of those burdens that makes the rewards harder to work for is taking too much to heart. I am so quick to point the finger at myself when runs go bad. I see multiple health bars at zero while I am still standing, and can't help but feel I could have done more to prevent it. Sometimes I can save the whole thing. Sometimes I can't. Either way, sleep doesn't come easy later that night. And the next day I go back to crafting/gathering/gardening/questing until I feel up for healing again.

Sometimes I think I queue in DF by myself for the most hated instances looking for this like some kind of masochist. I honestly think that while I don't intentionally make things go wrong, I secretly hope they do, so I choose the instances where this is most likely to happen. One of the things I am looking forward to with finally getting into 3.x content, is experiencing the instances everyone hates. I hate that I want to join the raid group of the person who calls me out.

The commendations for preventing wipes is equally gratifying, but always short-lived. I don't want, to want for things to go bad to get an enjoyable experience. How effed up is that?

[Gemina]

I am confused by this post.

Read my last post. Not to make things any more clear, but rather to know that this poster is not alone.

Some of us like it when things go wrong.

[Gemina]

I think they're pointing out that if you're overhealing , why aren't you just spamming dps spells instead? Both are equally boring at times, but I would argue casting Stone III a bunch is more engaging than healing nothing because at least you are effecting a bar outside your own MP.

Because he is well aware that overhealing will rip hate from the tank. While less than optimal play, and not something I would do myself, I get it and I've seen other healers do it, especially in lower level content where things are less punishing. He needs to heal to feel engaged.

I DPS as healer all the time as well, but it is less engaging. It is less satisfying. What is satisfying is saving a player or group from almost certain doom, and/or finding that small window to rezz a fallen player. We WANT TO HEAL, and I don't think I can put it any more simply than that. DPSing 75-90% of the time is not what we signed up for, but we do it because we operate under the ABC rule. You will find healers like us in the worst f**king instances out there.

[Kasmiya]

Casting balance on myself when thinking I already had Expanded Royal Road... this may or may not have happened more than once >.> (though not in the same instance)

I may or may not have done this a couple times last night thinking "I hope no one notices" lmao

[revonine]

I may or may not have done this a couple times last night thinking "I hope no one notices" lmao

happened to me a few times too. Mistaking the extended symbol for the expanded one for example lol. Unfortunately I often run stuff with friends, observant ones, so it's often followed by "I saw that Morri, lol" :P

[LilLemay]

I am confused by this post.



I use to main SCH and I know these feels. Especially forgetting that I have heals that can actually do something since 90% of the time I was in CS. (And at times I would be SUPER LAZY and just heal while in CS because f**k it.)

Everyone knows you get bonus points if you use all 3 lustrates in cleric stance, those bonus points aren't heals, but, bonus points