• Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
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      About to say, I’ll be kind, but you wanna sass me? When I kept your ass alive in the fire? When I’m topping your DPS while pulling the tank outta the red? Bitch, I’ll keep myself alive while I walk outta here.

      Don’t cross your healers. We might sometimes be sluts for some praise, don’t mean we’ll take shit.

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    Healer mains: when you get sick of nobody healing so you do it yourself, only to realize you enjoy people appreciating your hard work. It’s the start of a long road that ends in wanting to be railed by the best DPS main 😔

    The only downside is you eventually end up hanging out with so many healer mains that you get forced to DPS 😫

    I was so pissed when OW2 limited teams to a single tank. They were such a good fallback when I didn’t get to heal.

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    Pfft, try Tanking.

    DPS: how DARE YOU fail to prevent me from drawing aggro and killing myself!

    Also DPS: y u no parse good?

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      I tried returning to WoW (Classic) after a 10 year absence, thought I’d try tanking for a change instead of healing. Deadmines, what could go wrong?

      Well, one mage managed to not only constantly draw agro from me, he also bumbled into the next group of mobs while the rest was still regaining mana again and again. Looted the box that starts that boss fight with a Tauren while the rest was not ready and wiping the party as a result. After that we all concluded that pressing on wasn’t going to work. Fucking hell, never gotten suck a toxic shit load of crap in my chat ever before after we disbanded, all because “I sucked at tanking” according to him. Decided then and there that this was not the way how I wanted to spend my free time. When I quit WoW I already noticed that the social aspect was going down the drain, apparently it hasn’t gotten any better during my absence.

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        I’ve never even played WoW, it’s just a universal experience in Tanking. PUGs, raiding, doesn’t matter. Everyone shits on the tank and healer.

        DPS: Imma wipe the party by drawing aggro during a scripted positional AoE that the tank carefully aimed away from everyone!

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      I swear DPS players are just jerks:
      Me: Applies continuous healing and damage resistance to DPS
      DPS: Walks right through multiple DoT inflicting AOEs and into the middle of a huge group of enemies immediately dying.
      DPS: How dare you not keep me alive!

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    Are you kidding? Healers are the ultimate in big dom(me) energy. We hold all the power. You will beg us on your knees for just a taste. What’s that baby? You got yourself all beat up and now you need some hit points do you? Just a few little hit points to keep you going? You little slut. You little hp whore. Say you want it slut. Say you want that healing so bad. Say you’ll do anything for it.

    Yeah, that’s what I thought.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    The only time I had fun being a healer was when I made a shaman in WoW, and it’s mostly because it was like being a cleric in D&D; a tank that can heal. I would do BGs and invariably wreck fools who thought targeting the healer would be easy. 😈

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      In the early days of Rift there was a mage build that used a bunch of attacks to target what the tank was targeting and would build your crit chance to 85%+ and then crit heal the tank for their entire bar. The tanks absolutely hated it, but it was the most fun healing I’ve done across 10+ MMOs, MOBAs, and arena shooters

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        Chloromancer? Yeah, I remember RIFT fondly, and I feel sad that Gamigo are milking the rotten husk of Trion Worlds out of every last cent before they inevitably shut all their games down.

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      I’m a cleric on undeath and indulgence in Pathfinder and it’s great. Really good healing and can call down huge blasts of fire and summon a demon friend. I consider it a switch who brings their own threesome.

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    Y’all debating if DPS or Healers are bottoms and sleeping on the bottomest role of all, the Tank.

    Being a Tank is all about getting a train run on you until you can barely move and then leaning in for some aftercare. And you do barely any penetrating. It doesn’t get more submissive than that.

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      Depends on the game, in my experience tanks set the pace for everyone and always have to give the most otherwise nothing gets done.

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    Healing in FFXIV is the most fun I had in MMO, having to do mechanics, dps and keeping grp alive

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      I think the reason FFXIV is enjoyable is more-so that if you act like a toxic dickwad, you’ll be yeeted out of the community at record pace by Square Enix, because unlike Blizzard, they actually enforce their game rules.

      Healing is fun when the community is supportive and not when people are blowing a gasket over imperfect play.

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    I play healer sometimes because it’s a fun gameplay challenge to keep bumbling idiots alive long enough to get a victory.

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    Eh, only works for specific games. Medics and healers are purposely badass in a bunch of games specifically because of this attitude and the need to make sure people play the class.