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Confessions of a part time healer...

BejaProphet
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So I am a tank. I am all-in as a tank. Ebon/alkosh argonian DK, and I enjoy taking the role seriously. So I have heard about people queuing for the tank position when they have no intentions of using a taunt but I never get to see it. Until this past weekend...

So my wife lets me take her high-elf templar healer for a spin. I help spec her toon out, and her character is a BEAST of a healer. So I run some dungeons as her character and I encounter the fake tanks. To my complete surprise the darker side of me rises and multiple times throughout the day....I purposely let the fake tank die. I totally could have saved him, but I simply chose not to. Then I went on to spam heal the rest of us through the fight. I did this (to my sincere surprise) on multiple occasions through out the day! Now I would never do this if it was a player that I suspected was new. Believe it or not there are players who are so new to MMO's that they play a "tank" and they honestly don't know what a taunt is. For those, I always kept them alive. It was the ones who you could tell knew what they were doing. Did it once on a DPS that was playing selfish as well. I really had a knack for healing well too, but its clear I shouldn't be healer!

So any other healers break your sacred trust in moments of vengeance?
  • VaranisArano
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    I salute you! I also main a tank, so I find it annoying AF to have to tank when I'm running as a healer or damage dealer because the fake tank can't be arsed to do their job. I mean, I can do it, but if I wanted to, I would have brought my actual tank.

    I play healers rarely enough that I don't have the guts to let the fake tank die. I will point out in group chat something like "Any chance the tank would be willing to slot a taunt?" if the boss is aggroed on me for most of the fight.

    Or if they rush off ahead of everyone else, its "You'd better not blame me if you die before I get there. And I'm not sprinting."
  • exiars10
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    I mainly tank or DD and partly healer so here is my take on it.

    If I get fake tank or healer, vote to kick is incoming 100%. There are no ifs. And they get kicked if s/he queued alone because the most of time I am the highest CP and I openly tell in chat that we have fake role. If they are paired so can't be kicked, I just leave. My time is too precious to waste it.

    Also, I tolerate fake healers even in easier veteran dungeons if they bring above average DPS. I have zero tolerance for fake tanks for various reasons. If it's pledge, I wait until we finish at least one boss so s/he has to do it again :smiley:.

    I don't play ESO since 15.06. because Cyrodiil is broken since Summerset (PvE isn't much better, too)...

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    The cowardly Wood Elves are best noted for their unwillingness to engage in a face-to-face attack; a Bosmer will strike at you from every side except the front. You won't cross swords with a Bosmer, but you might catch an arrow in the throat. Be wary in forests and jungles, and watch your back.
  • Brrrofski
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    Well if I an on a tank and I'm pugging, when one of the DD decide to run ahead and pull everything, I let them die. Always let tank pull first or that happens.
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