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Is a Healer character rewarding?
novicerhino
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Stuck between making a healer or a DPS, of course I can make both, but does playing a healer feel rewarded?
I don’t expect to be number 1 at cosmic charts, but is it more impactful to play a tank/DPS than it is to be a healer?
I don’t expect to be number 1 at cosmic charts, but is it more impactful to play a tank/DPS than it is to be a healer?
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If you are leveling it can be painfully slow because you kill the mooks much more slowly, even in hybrid. Having a well-kitted out vehicle makes leveling by doing missions much quicer, but you end up feeling like you didn;t play the character and don't have as good a feel for it (much the same as for tanks).
If you mean end game, then healers are absolutely essential (more so than bad dps) and can often save the day.
There are different kinds of healers too. You can be a main tank healer with Iniquity and all the rest of the high end direct heal kit, or could be more of a background healer who provides a decent level of healing that keeps people topped up (and can rez them), but doesn't do direct heals. You can also be a healer/buffer/debuffer.
I have 14 characters who have healing as a significant aspect and enjoy them all. Give it a try. You may find it as rewarding as pew pew pew, or maybe not
Joke but still.
So I made a healer. A huge difference.
She can kill stuff after a certain long time, on the other hand if something can't oneshot her, she can outheal everything and never have to worry about her hp geting low.
So basically, other players can be more frustrating when you are a healer than the content.
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This is insanely helpful to know. I had no idea. I know I'm not the OP but still thanks for sharing it. (As well as that build link).
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I just leveled a Lifedrain healer (Orichalcum) for the Defender event and the above is so true that I made a brief macro announcing what I am and please DON"T RUN AWAY from me. Most still did.
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I've seen that too. Dps running to the boss and leaving the healer alone in the middle of all the spawns.
With my main tank, I usually choose to let the dps hit the boss and lunge to help the healer.
Never got a thanks though, heh.
It was the ranged players that kept running away from me when they needed the healing that drove me nuts.
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That up there is in most content, but at cosmics it feels a bit different than it does elsewhere. Truth be told at cosmics you will often not feel like you are making a huge impact. Now and then you might get a heal off when the tank happens to be low, but in general you'll just be one of many spamming heals on the tank. Same with healing everyone else, you'll often find that you go to heal someone and they're already being healed, though it does feel pretty good when you see a bunch of life bars go down and then run over and aoe heal them all. Basically the less other healers that are there, the more difficult your role will be, but also the more satisfying.
An important thing to do if you want good feedback on your efforts is to enable health bars for all friendly players so you can see when people take damage, and more importantly so you can see all those little bars refill when you push your buttons.
To be fair, many of us have zero faith that even if there are plus signs in the party that they'll actually heal us, or if they're gonna try that they'll even be fast enough to save us, so we've learned to take matters into our own hands! *bounces away behind a wall until boss loses interest*
This is why Bionic Shielding is still one of the best heals in the game. You just need to be fast enough to select the person who's taking damage, then it doesn't matter if they run all the way to Lemuria.
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Other times it was like the Cosmics you described, plenty of other healers in the Alert so my heals were not very helpful. Which is also why she could do fair dps. It was combo of the Darkness Lifedrain healer + some rocky stuff from the Brick tree. I had fun. Even doing some Leeeerrooying in first.
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It sounds like the kind of character that makes my support being there pointless, cause aint nobody takin' damage and holds are already being applied. Might as well let a dps or something else enjoy that.
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And, most of my dps have an external healing ability and a multi rez power.
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"Okay, you're DEAD, what do you do NEXT?"
My super cool CC build and how to use it.
I say stuff and I say things, sometimes together but only when I'm feeling adventurous.
I'm @blu8 in game!
This. So annoying when there's another healer in the group taking all your stacks. :<
That's why offensive healer Forms are great. My fire healer doesn't care if there are other healers in the group. My Compassion healer on the other hand...
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Indeed as it would imply that someone with the shield icon would be expected to tank and hold aggro, someone with a cross icon would be expected to buff/heal/shield and I don't think many players will like that.