However I do always take what others say too seriously, it’s part of my empathetic nature, so when someone screams abuse or leaves a group because of “bad healing”, I do feel punished and I had some fault even though I could write an essay on how said complainer brought themself to their death through their own actions and not mine.

As a result I try to raise the quality of communication before I join a group, as this can be key to having a great, efficient and friendly group who might just become your friend! =-)

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And it’s always fun to mock people who are trying to say how to play my class and then leave them to die.
And since usually there aren’t that many healers in servers you are pretty much guaranteed a spot in instances and stuff.

Evidently I also like to play a medic in TF2.

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if you hate being blamed for deaths, then try WoW. im a palladin (tankadin/DPS whore/healadin hybrid thing) who will usually just spam dps in instances, but whenever i take the time to heal the tank a little, many rounds of thank you’s will follow shortly after. like pike said earlier, healers are one of the most valued groups of people in the game and are valued greatly by many people. its always great to have the wipe blamed on the tank, instead of the healer for once

but then again, people i have met on WoW have generally been less of a total douche bag compared to people on other games….-_-

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I find it far more challenging and fun than simply being a DPS’er. Simply the thanks you get from a non wiped group and the satisfaction of a job well done is reward enough.

And bravo to Feet’s comment about healing being a privilege not a right!

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(Hey, didn’t the Red Cross want developers to start using green crosses instead, as they didn’t want to be seen in wargames? Whatever happened about that?)

… to the person at 5% health who needs you. And of course, supercharging is the most frantic experience out of the lot of them. “I am fully charged!”

So, I liked healing enough to start a Healer Shaman in WoW. Only been in one dungeon so far in my early levels, and it wasn’t very challenging, just an introductory one. It’s nice to have that responsibility though, of keeping the damage-dealers alive while you, being a dirty pacifist, strive to not be noticeable enough for the various foes to trod on you.

Of course, I’m expecting to see torrents of abuse, soon. Unlike Team Fortress 2, deaths don’t come every minute, and dungeon runs last 1-2 hours, rather than just half a one.

And, my favourite healing related quote…

“Where was my healing?”
“Don’t you fucking start.”

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Those sets are not “healers” and to play them like one is to seriously misuse their power (they’re two of the strongest sets in the game).

Also, there are a lot of ignorant people in City of Heroes who are looked into the “WE NEEDZ HELOR!” mentality. Don’t let them lock you into it, too. In CoH, buffs, debuffs, and controls are AT LEAST as strong as heals. Kinetics happens to be one of the premiere buff sets and Dark Miasma happens to be one of the premiere debuff sets. Neither of them use the heal as the primary source of damage mitigation.

If you want to play AS a real Defender, take a look at http://www.repeat-offenders.net, join our global channel “Repeat Offenders” or just send me a global tell @Slodeine.

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1. CoH is one of, if not the best MMO at debunking the myth that heals are needed.

2. Instead of picking the classic pick for a “healer” powerset set, aka Empathy, you picked one of the strongest for debuffs and control.

3. Does Dark’s heal miss? Yes it does. 2 single origin enhancements and it’s good to go. For low levels, 2 dual origin enhancements should be enough. It’s also point wise the biggest AoE heal in the game. See, that’s the benefit of it needing to hit.

4. Dark’s heal also gets used a lot because it also has debuffs like -dmg which Arch Villains don’t really resist. How about lowering a targets ability to hit you, regen, and do damage to you all the while putting out a fat AoE heal? Yeah, nothing good about that at all.

Now, is there the wide spread healer mentality with CoH? Oh hell yes, but it’s vastly from people coming from the classic standards that have been set in stone beforehand.

It gets said a lot on the CoH forums, so I’ll just repeat it here. All arch types are welcomed. None are required. Same could be said for powersets. Lord knows I’ve lost count the number of times my defenders have decently filled the role of what a tank does on the team. Dark defenders are actually awesome for this.

FYI, if you want a better education in how to really play a defender, my global shouldn’t be that hard to figure out. :P

P.S. There is some discussion of the CoH forum as to what your primary is. It’s either Dark, or Kin. Either way, much of my argument is valid. The debuffs in the heal might have changed, but the overall heal numbers don’t really. Plus, Kins take the Leadership pool for Tactics so hitting becomes easier for them, and teammates.

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Twilight grasp or transfusion would only have been one of the tools at your disposal. (From the descriptions, it sounds like dark/ though, so far more effective damage mitigation would have been achieved by placing the anchor power, darkest night.)

Of all the MMOs out there that relies so greatly on the holy trinity, to lambast City of Heroes as making you feel uncomfortable playing an obligatory healer – a game that has buff/debuffs on at least equal weightage as heals (stackable buffs can make you godlike) and allows you crowd control of an entire group’s worth of mobs…

Well, it seems more a reflection of the effect of other MMOs out there on your perspective, than an appropriate description of the game in question.

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Providing of course I’m not dodging grenades at the same time…

As for CoH, my Earth/Storm Controller also avoided O2 boost (heal). I’m there to control, which will keep you alive far more effectively than one heal power ever will.

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