Honestly, I don’t see playing healer as a responsibility. It’s very rare for things to actually be my fault. A DPS can do insufficient damage, or stand in fire, or mismanage their aggro. A tank can do all sorts of things wrong, pulling too fast, pulling too slow, skipping too many packs, not skipping enough packs, it feels like people bitch about a tank’s performance no matter what.
Meanwhile I just pump heals into the tank and occasionally HoT a DPS, maybe pop a cooldown if things look spooky. It’s very zen. Then, people praise me for keeping everyone alive even though I was high the whole time and just vibing with my music.
Do harder content and it suddenly becomes a real job. Keys are mostly vibing up to +21s right now and then suddenly you have to keep track of everyone’s defensives and externals and tell them how to use them while also rotating your cds perfectly
yeah I don’t care for modern WoW :3 I only ever play vanilla and TBC. I know it can get sweaty at the top though, I spent way too many years stressing about my DPS on mythic server firsts back in Legion.
Being a healer in an MMO is the real power fantasy.
At least until you get toxic tryhards who post overheal meters to the LFR chat. Like, you didn’t die and we cleared the raid, so who cares if I overheal? lmao.
Honestly, I don’t see playing healer as a responsibility. It’s very rare for things to actually be my fault. A DPS can do insufficient damage, or stand in fire, or mismanage their aggro. A tank can do all sorts of things wrong, pulling too fast, pulling too slow, skipping too many packs, not skipping enough packs, it feels like people bitch about a tank’s performance no matter what.
Meanwhile I just pump heals into the tank and occasionally HoT a DPS, maybe pop a cooldown if things look spooky. It’s very zen. Then, people praise me for keeping everyone alive even though I was high the whole time and just vibing with my music.
Do harder content and it suddenly becomes a real job. Keys are mostly vibing up to +21s right now and then suddenly you have to keep track of everyone’s defensives and externals and tell them how to use them while also rotating your cds perfectly
yeah I don’t care for modern WoW :3 I only ever play vanilla and TBC. I know it can get sweaty at the top though, I spent way too many years stressing about my DPS on mythic server firsts back in Legion.
Being a healer in an MMO is the real power fantasy.
At least until you get toxic tryhards who post overheal meters to the LFR chat. Like, you didn’t die and we cleared the raid, so who cares if I overheal? lmao.