What is a "bad player" to you?

[Kalise]

I just want to piggyback on this and ask the name of the MMO where you're a healer that JUST heals because I want to know where people got this weird idea you're supposed to do nothing but spam HP restoration skills. I've played; Asheron's Call, Everquest 2, Tera, Aion, Asheron's Call 2, Dungeon and Dragons Online, Neverwinter, Champions Online, Guild Wars 2, Wakfu, Ragnarok Online, Vanguard, Wildstar, Archeage, and at least a half-dozen other MMOs I've forgotten the name of. In not a single one of them was the 'healer' expecting to do nothing but heal. It's driving me insane, where is the idea that 'I play a healer I should only heal' come from!?

World of Warcraft.

In bleeding edge raiding, your healers will help with DPS'ing. But for a lot of people, healing has been very much a focus of healers. Either where they had to spam heals constantly to keep up with incoming damage, or they had to not cast anything to conserve mana (During expansions when mana was a thing to care about and people didn't just have mana regen out the wazoo and free damage spells)

In any case, it's usually a matter of Healers in many games being "Healing comes first, if you can squeeze it in, maybe push out some damage where you can". With varying degrees of DPS availability (For example, in Anarchy Online, a majority of healing comes from HoTs, some lasting 30+ minutes giving ample time to just DPS/CC things)

In FFXIV it's "DPS comes first. Sometimes healing gets in the way of this..."

Made even worse by how LB generation works (So healing someone from critical life gives a ton of LB. As does keeping someone alive through shields preventing overkill damage) so healers are even more incentivized to leave healing until absolutely necessary.

It's the same thing for Tanking too. Most games it's "Tanking comes first. Once you can survive, start pushing DPS as best you can"

FFXIV it's "DPS comes first. Let other people Circle-Shirk and detaunt to facilitate you going SMOrc and just pop CD's to mitigate TB's"