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Watching the Parade of Providence flagship event on YouTube now that I have done Sumeru's interlude and everything and reading about Wanderer writing "a few essays" on why Aqaba was wrong about Tatarasuna cemented this in my mind:


Dude woke up and chose violence. Who goes so far as to write A FEW essays on why someone is wrong?!
last edit on Oct 21, 2024 21:27:19 GMT by traveller
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healer players in mmos are so annoying, like i've never seen a group of people so offended they have to do a job they chose to do.

"waaaah i don't wanna dps when i have nothing to heal" "waaaah i have to do a bit of extra healing to save this dps" "waaaah i have to interrupt a mob because the dps won't" "waaah i have to use party cc" "waaaaah i don't like when the tank pulls big and i have to actually try"

like as a healer, i enjoy doing all of these things? do you just want to get carried and do nothing?
Tbf the only mmo I play is ff, and whenever my main healer friend "acts up" it's justified. They aren't the type to whine but you can bet your ass if you're being stupid and standing  in aoes you could have avoided they'll make you suffer and wait a bit to be rezz'd. Yes they're a healer but at that point you kinda deserve a bit of a salt Mage as we like to call it. They're our healer not a "get out of being stupid free" card. And I'm sating this as someone who has been the stupid dps and gotten murked on mechanics. 

On the other hand there are some pretty bad healers. Like Genuine Bad. I've gotten healers who run ahead impatiently trying to be tank or some garbage and then die because...they aren't. Or healers being overconfident and demanding bigger pulls, being unable to keep up, and the party wiping. I also knew someone who always wanted to be party support but then kept chickening out or whining about mechs or difficulty unless the dungeon was under their level. As a dps, I sit in a pretty responsibility free zone and I'm content with it. My job is to do damage which is literally the easiest job.
i'm a healer/dps flex main in overwatch and i came to second this. playing support is not only often a thankless job, but one where you're often blamed for shit that isn't your fault. 
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healer players in mmos are so annoying, like i've never seen a group of people so offended they have to do a job they chose to do.

"waaaah i don't wanna dps when i have nothing to heal" "waaaah i have to do a bit of extra healing to save this dps" "waaaah i have to interrupt a mob because the dps won't" "waaah i have to use party cc" "waaaaah i don't like when the tank pulls big and i have to actually try"

like as a healer, i enjoy doing all of these things? do you just want to get carried and do nothing?


it's bc most of them are just bad and refuse to learn how to play better
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Faruzan's character also annoys me and tbh she just reminds me of a Discount Miku when...I never really got into the Miku craze.

Not that you should hate her any less for what I'm about to say, but I'm pretty sure the Miku reference is intentional since the 'mi' in miHoYo stands for 'Miku'. Just some useless trivia that crossed my mind when reading this post.
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trying to reasonably delete as much as i can off my phone to get acpc again so i can play one last time before shut down...


we are one cos i just did this too LMAO

also (and this is gaming, idc)
this yr's korbat day stuff was kinda mid
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trying to reasonably delete as much as i can off my phone to get acpc again so i can play one last time before shut down...
we are one cos i just did this too LMAO

also (and this is gaming, idc)
this yr's korbat day stuff was kinda mid
v disappointed



update: app too bulky couldnt download it


also yeah thats how ive been feeling about most of the [neopet] days this year ;(
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i know you see yourself as a fighter. well, i see myself as one, too.
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update: app too bulky couldnt download it


also yeah thats how ive been feeling about most of the [neopet] days this year ;(


it's okie, i just looked at the email from nintendo abt the "paid" version of it after service ends
guess who is not doing all that
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dps health bars are extra mit

i have little-to-nothing to add to the healer part of the conversation as i tend to only play sage casually, but i just saw this and, as a WAR main i had a good chuckle about it bc this is how i see dps health bars in dungeons too LOL

i do get somewhat annoyed if people are pulling ahead of me (primarily bc i already wall-to-wall dungeons, are you trying to die :U), and i do have to fight the spiteful urge to intentionally slow down, but in general if a dps is pulling ahead i have just come to assume they're cool tanking mobs with their health bars until i get there. if they die, they die, thanks for saving me the defensive cooldowns <3

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tbh as a long-time DPS player that switched to heals: no one thanks dps players for doing their job, either.

you're more likely to be added by a tank player if you're a good healer than if you're a good dps. you have more selection choices with your group as a healer. even if people do blame you, you can often prove that they're just idiots, and you can just as easily leave and find a new group much faster than any salty DPS ever can. WoW doesn't have a queue system for top content, so you don't really have a penalty for abandoning a party that's screwing up and screaming at you for it. any queued content is so easy that you have to heal like twice in the entire dungeon, and odds are the tank and dps can do that themselves.

the dps experience in wow is having to be 3x as good as the other 20 dps signing up for the same single slot as you. the healer experience is "hi i'm a 2k pres evoker in gear that far outstrips this content, if we end up wiping it's your fault and my damage meters can objectively prove it."one of my spiritblooms full-heals the party in low keys provided people aren't floor-licking. and it really is only low keys where i've had people get salty.

high keys, everyone knows that most shit is like. how do i put this. if ur taking a mechanic ur not supposed to, ur dead. all high key dps got there by knowing how to play the game.

my general advice for healers in mmos, i guess, is to get out of mid-range content ASAP. i promise that healer blaming is often correlated to low skill. i have a general rule that if a dps player says one mean word to me in a M+, I wipe the group and then hearth. i'm not here to be abused by players that know they're walking into avoidable mechanics.

(i have rarely done this, i will note, and i only do it if i'm being flamed. if ur nice about it, i will stay through most wipes.)
last edit on Oct 30, 2024 17:29:43 GMT by illidan main

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