Attention Tanks and DPS: It's not always the healers fault!

[MrBockbagok]

The sad thing is that the people that don't know how to play their class are the very ones that think that they do.

Is this reverse psychology? So does that mean you think you don't know how to play your class? I'm confused.

Just busting balls.

[Greytarkis]

Never do Primals then, they all let out AoEs/some kind of attacks that'll hit anyone that potions and minimal %vampric type of ability won't negate, so as a healer you pretty much fail. What do you do when primals 2hr? Only heal the tank and sacrifice the entire run?

are you high ? he never said that, and ofc a healer would heal unavoidable damage...

[Evangela]

I barely meet any bad healer in this game. Usually it's dumb tankers and stupid archers.

[BloodyLadius]

I have played every class and seen a lot of hate for every one of them. I now play dps but I have also given skills so that in a pinch I can heal myself or others on the fly if need be. If dps gets below 50% health it's not always cause they didn't watch there hate. I do countless runs where I am still in green for the hate and yet I still lose health cause of poisons or aoe attacks that I just couldn't get out of in time cause of a lag or I hit wrong direction on the controls on accident. If your a healer u dot have to always focus on main only. I have seen many that just stand there and heal to heal when tank is full Ralph and others are low from a previous aoe that couldn't be avoide cause of a small room. Heal the others if they arnt healing themselves cause they are either unble to or are trying to kill the enemy with the tank so that they don't get hit again.

[Slayeria]

I just hit 50 so i haven't tried any of the hard primals.. The trouble I have is Shield Bash is on the GCD I must be the most unlucky tank but when something is being casted I'm normally waiting on GCD to stun... by that time it's to late the spell has been casted.

[Zell1226]

A good healer can keep everyone alive no problem. You should not "only watch the tank". If you do that, you are a bad healer. If a DPS gets hit by an AoE, they are bad, but cover their slack, otherwise they will die and it might cost everyone else's lives. An extremely good healer should be throwing damage, and keeping everyone alive at the same time. That is what you should strive for. Don't stick yourself to "just healing the tank".

[Flaeb]

It's a mixed bag, most of the time everyone needs to watch there own ass and avoid stuff. However, during some primal fights, healers need to keep everyone topped off (I'm looking at you Hard mode Titan), cause if 1 dps dies, good luck taking out his heart.

Healers have a tougher job in this game as usual, but if you want the healer role, you can't go in with the attitude saying "I AINT HEALING YOU IF YOU TAKE DAMAGE", or else you're gonna have wipe after wipe. Obviously if you get that 1 person who cannot stay out of hazardous spots, then consider replacing that person.

[DwarfStar]

With the shortage of healers at the times when I CAN play, I've had to main heal 3 PUG instances so far [Sas, Tam and Copper Mines]. I only had trouble with one (Copper Mines) because the THM in the group (GLD,PUG,THM, ARC [me]) wanted to run ahead and pull aggro before the Tank got there every time. I didn't feel like being "that guy" so instead of telling him to "WAIT FOR THE TANK A$$HAT" I had to be more proactive with healing, at first. After the 3rd time he did that, I just let him die whenever he pulled aggro because I didn't want myself to be the focus of all the hate for over-healing a knucklehead squishy with tank aspirations. After dying a couple of times, he finally got the message and politely waited for the actual TANK to pull. Passive aggressive does work sometimes. =)

[Sheer]

Someone good at their role will be able to pick up the slack for someone who's having a bad day with their role. Someone bad at their role will find an excuse as to why another role caused the wipe.

I.e. If you're a tank and a DD accidentally runs ahead of you halfway through the dungeon and pulls a few MoBs, a sign that you're a good tank is being able to get the MoBs' aggro. If the DD had been running ahead of you (the tank) the entire dungeon and you don't tell them to stop running ahead of you until the party wipes, then the blame lies on your (the tank's) shoulders.

[Killance]

This is why I chose not to tank/heal this MMO. Lol