Don't look at me to heal your butt, I have to keep mine from flying apart, too. Maybe if some people had less of a narrow DPS focus and left room for healing themselves, they wouldn't have to rely on others to do it? I can't figure that out, "Hey, look at my high DPS glass cannon!" Yeah...rethink your BOFF skills.
Although, that is not to say I never throw out heals. I do if I'm sufficiently healed, and I notice anyone's in bad shape.
Don't look at me to heal your butt, I have to keep mine from flying apart, too. Maybe if some people had less of a narrow DPS focus and left room for healing themselves, they wouldn't have to rely on others to do it? I can't figure that out, "Hey, look at my high DPS glass cannon!" Yeah...rethink your BOFF skills.
Although, that is not to say I never throw out heals. I do if I'm sufficiently healed, and I notice anyone's in bad shape.
Although I am not arguing this completely, I have to say that this mentality directly reflects how broken STO is right now thanks to Cryptics balance everyone mentality.
In most MMORPGS you have four distinct classes:
TANKS: those whose job is to stand toe-to-toe with the boss and whittle them away. Their build is basically that of a brick poophouse that keeps aggro. They are the basic foundation of a successful run. However, their success is depending on three factors:
DPSers whose job is to knock a large amount of HPs off the boss without pulling aggro from the Tank and to take on any add mobs that happen to spawn;
HEALERS: whose sole purpose is to hang back and heal (primarily) the Tank as well as the DPSers who manage to either pull aggro or are engaged with adds;
CASTERS: who CC those adds and try to keep them off of both the Tank and DPSers while raining down AOE damage as well, again without pulling aggro.
This is what a TEAM looks like. This is what makes games fun, interesting and demands cooperation as well as know-how.
THIS is what Cryptic has done with the basic three class system in STO:
Everyone jump into the STF and PEW PEW PEW until the bad guys are dead. Aw, you dieded? Respawn and go back in! Rinse and repeat.
There is simply NO NEED for heals CC yes but heals? No unless you are in the Fleet Alert and can extend shields to the starbase to keep it alive (HINT people!)
There is no purpose to a tank in STO, nor a healer. DPS is essentially the only way to go any more regardless of class. In fact, other than CC there is absolutely NO POINT to the ENG or SCI classes any more.
Don't look at me to heal your butt, I have to keep mine from flying apart, too.
I think this is what pretty much everyone thinks in this game now.
My Old Blog about things that could and should have been added when I wrote it. Not sure what I want to do with it now. I'll just keep it available now that most of it is outdated.
Always, unless you're a super elite min maxer, run with the idea of " 100% self sufficiency. "
For any pve, always make sure you run a copy of Emergency power to Shields, Hazard Emitters, and maybe some Transfer shield Strength.
Make sure your ship is balanced.
Make sure you can chain 2 copies of 1 attack power, beam fire at will or cannon scatter volley, take your pick. Always make sure you can keep Tactical Team on global cooldown, this involves either 2 copies of tactical team, or a doff that can reduce 1 copy to global ( expensive route. )
To this effect I choose balanced war cruisers. As a kdf, I use atm on my tactical either...
QIB or the Sci Bortas.
Both of these ships you can run double tact teams, double attack power of choice, usually a copy of BOTH emergency power to shields 3 and weapon 3. Hazard emitters, double copy of engineering team1, and toss in a transfer shield strength.
Your gear up to par and its all mkxii or mkxiv and its decent stuff like elite fleet resilent shields? Switch some things out for DEM and maybe drop epts to 1 instead of 3. Slap in a reverse shield polarity.
tl;DR. Always make sure YOU, YOURSELF, are capable of both dealing decent damage AND being able to heal yourself. Never, ever count on someone else to be able to do it. But thats my personal rule I set for myself and my own opinion.
I think the O.P. problems might be that you die to often and the other players figure your a glass cannon and the heal would be a waste on you. I have been in plenty of pugs and get healed and I heal back. I'm a eng in avenger upgraded which is a nice ship. I can get agro and pound right back, but the ship has 81k hull with 13 or 14k shields and a resistance almost 50% across the board with 10k or more dps. It takes alot to kill me lol. If I'm in my sci lol she has 21k per shield with GW and energy syphon love her lol.
Use keybinds they help a lot you can get 3k or more in dps using them. Also if you have low defense don't stop moving when you stop you lower even more.
Don't look at me to heal your butt, I have to keep mine from flying apart, too. Maybe if some people had less of a narrow DPS focus and left room for healing themselves, they wouldn't have to rely on others to do it? I can't figure that out, "Hey, look at my high DPS glass cannon!" Yeah...rethink your BOFF skills.
Although, that is not to say I never throw out heals. I do if I'm sufficiently healed, and I notice anyone's in bad shape.
You my brother/sister from another mother. If you can't cover your own hind quarters attack and then fly off to 11km.
While pondering the inclusion of magic healing in Star Trek Online from time to time, I have oft been tempted to uninstall the game...
I would also have issues with a magical "heal other" ability. Something so apparent wouldn't fit in Trek. Not in the context of magic, anyway.
My Old Blog about things that could and should have been added when I wrote it. Not sure what I want to do with it now. I'll just keep it available now that most of it is outdated.
I would also have issues with a magical "heal other" ability. Something so apparent wouldn't fit in Trek. Not in the context of magic, anyway.
Most of the heals in STO are of the "fantasy" variety...there's all sorts of room for repairs and various technological "healing" - but STO is riddled with magic healing. And plenty of folks are fine with that, so it is what it is....
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Although, that is not to say I never throw out heals. I do if I'm sufficiently healed, and I notice anyone's in bad shape.
Although I am not arguing this completely, I have to say that this mentality directly reflects how broken STO is right now thanks to Cryptics balance everyone mentality.
In most MMORPGS you have four distinct classes:
TANKS: those whose job is to stand toe-to-toe with the boss and whittle them away. Their build is basically that of a brick poophouse that keeps aggro. They are the basic foundation of a successful run. However, their success is depending on three factors:
DPSers whose job is to knock a large amount of HPs off the boss without pulling aggro from the Tank and to take on any add mobs that happen to spawn;
HEALERS: whose sole purpose is to hang back and heal (primarily) the Tank as well as the DPSers who manage to either pull aggro or are engaged with adds;
CASTERS: who CC those adds and try to keep them off of both the Tank and DPSers while raining down AOE damage as well, again without pulling aggro.
This is what a TEAM looks like. This is what makes games fun, interesting and demands cooperation as well as know-how.
THIS is what Cryptic has done with the basic three class system in STO:
Everyone jump into the STF and PEW PEW PEW until the bad guys are dead. Aw, you dieded? Respawn and go back in! Rinse and repeat.
There is simply NO NEED for heals CC yes but heals? No unless you are in the Fleet Alert and can extend shields to the starbase to keep it alive (HINT people!)
There is no purpose to a tank in STO, nor a healer. DPS is essentially the only way to go any more regardless of class. In fact, other than CC there is absolutely NO POINT to the ENG or SCI classes any more.
I think this is what pretty much everyone thinks in this game now.
For any pve, always make sure you run a copy of Emergency power to Shields, Hazard Emitters, and maybe some Transfer shield Strength.
Make sure your ship is balanced.
Make sure you can chain 2 copies of 1 attack power, beam fire at will or cannon scatter volley, take your pick. Always make sure you can keep Tactical Team on global cooldown, this involves either 2 copies of tactical team, or a doff that can reduce 1 copy to global ( expensive route. )
To this effect I choose balanced war cruisers. As a kdf, I use atm on my tactical either...
QIB or the Sci Bortas.
Both of these ships you can run double tact teams, double attack power of choice, usually a copy of BOTH emergency power to shields 3 and weapon 3. Hazard emitters, double copy of engineering team1, and toss in a transfer shield strength.
Your gear up to par and its all mkxii or mkxiv and its decent stuff like elite fleet resilent shields? Switch some things out for DEM and maybe drop epts to 1 instead of 3. Slap in a reverse shield polarity.
tl;DR. Always make sure YOU, YOURSELF, are capable of both dealing decent damage AND being able to heal yourself. Never, ever count on someone else to be able to do it. But thats my personal rule I set for myself and my own opinion.
Use keybinds they help a lot you can get 3k or more in dps using them. Also if you have low defense don't stop moving when you stop you lower even more.
You my brother/sister from another mother. If you can't cover your own hind quarters attack and then fly off to 11km.
I would also have issues with a magical "heal other" ability. Something so apparent wouldn't fit in Trek. Not in the context of magic, anyway.
Most of the heals in STO are of the "fantasy" variety...there's all sorts of room for repairs and various technological "healing" - but STO is riddled with magic healing. And plenty of folks are fine with that, so it is what it is....