Best Healing Trick!

BigBragg

Ever get tired of DPS just standing in stupid?

DPS forgetting to eat food?

Trying to cluelessly face tank the whole dungeon?

Low DPS, no matter how many buffs you dish out?

Well I came her today to share a little secret. Seriously, this is revolutionary. When I let you in, it's going to blow your mind.

I've rolled as a DPS, and now I never need to worry about these things again. 100% fix to all those pesky problems. Enjoy your life of nuking and stabby stabby action time!

Your welcome my tormented healer friends, I'm here for you.

kargen27

Better solution.

Let them die.

Tell them why they died.

If they complain and don't change let them die again.

Laugh.

AcadianPaladin

Heh, if the PTS nerfs to resto go live, changing to dps is exactly what my main (magplar healer) will do. Losing healers will help the pug queues, right? Oh, wait. . . .

p00tx

I actually did roll a dps, just so I'd be able to yell at the dps while healing from the perspective of actually understanding their role. Turns out, it's an insanely easy role and it's braindead easy to hit high dmg numbers. Now I get to pug dungeons on my Magplar dps and leave bad players on the ground while I finish the fight.

Now we just have to help Zos continue to erase healers from even 12 person content, and we'll be able to use this awesome solution throughout the entire game.

Salvas_Aren

AcadianPaladin wrote: »

Heh, if the PTS nerfs to resto go live, changing to dps is exactly what my main (magplar healer) will do. Losing healers will help the pug queues, right? Oh, wait. . . .

I will go for PvP instead. Different approach, same result, I guess.

VaranisArano

How are you enjoying the much longer DD queue time?

That's the main reason that even my DDs equip a resto staff or Sword&Board to play healer or tank.

BigBragg

VaranisArano wrote: »

How are you enjoying the much longer DD queue time?

That's the main reason that even my DDs equip a resto staff or Sword&Board to play healer or tank.

For some reason when queuing with a friend deeps, the longest wait we have hit has been 15 minutes. Usually it's under 5, so not a bother at all.

david_m_18b16_ESO

ESO is probably the easiest MMO to reach the skill floor for healing. Everything is AoE and/or smart healing. I wouldn't call DPS brain dead comming from the healing role in this game.

Now if your talking about skillcap, I still think healing still far easyer then DPS skillcap.3

VaranisArano

BigBragg wrote: »

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VaranisArano wrote: »

How are you enjoying the much longer DD queue time?

That's the main reason that even my DDs equip a resto staff or Sword&Board to play healer or tank.

For some reason when queuing with a friend deeps, the longest wait we have hit has been 15 minutes. Usually it's under 5, so not a bother at all.

Yeah, queuing with one other player seems to help the queue go faster. Solo DD queue, not so much.

Jeremy

BigBragg wrote: »

Ever get tired of DPS just standing in stupid?

DPS forgetting to eat food?

Trying to cluelessly face tank the whole dungeon?

Low DPS, no matter how many buffs you dish out?

Well I came her today to share a little secret. Seriously, this is revolutionary. When I let you in, it's going to blow your mind.

I've rolled as a DPS, and now I never need to worry about these things again. 100% fix to all those pesky problems. Enjoy your life of nuking and stabby stabby action time!

Your welcome my tormented healer friends, I'm here for you.

Healers can DPS pretty well anyway. Back when I used to heal dungeons - if groups refused to position themselves correctly or tanks refused to be actual tanks (which was often) what I would usually end up doing is just proceed to solo the dungeon. It made life so much easier.

Though this strategy won't work on the more difficult DLC dungeons. It works fine on most dungeons. I would just raise them when it was convenient so they could speed the place up a bit for me. Healing is absolutely miserable on this game if you attempt to heal fake tanks or DPS who don't don't know how to dodge anything but your heals. So that's my advice if you are going through hell trying to heal dungeons (trust me I've been there). Just buff your healer up some so he can solo them adequately and think of your wayward teammates as time savers and don't stress yourself trying to keep them alive when they make it next to impossible to do so.

InvictusApollo

VaranisArano wrote: »

How are you enjoying the much longer DD queue time?

That's the main reason that even my DDs equip a resto staff or Sword&Board to play healer or tank.

Why? Why bother? Just go as a good dps and queue as a healer. I do like that every single time and carry randoms. And when they all lay on the ground I'm the last man standing soloing the boss while laughing at them.
I wish there was a "put pillow on the ground" emote so that I could give my fallen teammates a pillow while they lay dead.

BigBragg

Jeremy wrote: »

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BigBragg wrote: »

Ever get tired of DPS just standing in stupid?

DPS forgetting to eat food?

Trying to cluelessly face tank the whole dungeon?

Low DPS, no matter how many buffs you dish out?

Well I came her today to share a little secret. Seriously, this is revolutionary. When I let you in, it's going to blow your mind.

I've rolled as a DPS, and now I never need to worry about these things again. 100% fix to all those pesky problems. Enjoy your life of nuking and stabby stabby action time!

Your welcome my tormented healer friends, I'm here for you.

Healers can DPS pretty well anyway. Back when I used to heal dungeons - if groups refused to position themselves correctly or tanks refused to be actual tanks (which was often) what I would usually end up doing is just proceed to solo the dungeon. It made life so much easier.

Though this strategy won't work on the more difficult DLC dungeons. It works fine on most dungeons. I would just raise them when it was convenient so they could speed the place up a bit for me. Healing is absolutely miserable on this game if you attempt to heal fake tanks or DPS who don't don't know how to dodge anything but your heals. So that's my advice if you are going through hell trying to heal dungeons (trust me I've been there). Just buff your healer up some so he can solo them adequately and think of your wayward teammates as time savers and don't stress yourself trying to keep them alive when they make it next to impossible to do so.

Really wasn't intended to be all that serious, but yeah that is where healers have been at for a long time. I'm fine with rolling out support and decent dps on a healer, definitely makes it more interactive that just replacing HoTs and buffs on cooldown. Plus there is the benefits of speeding up the dungeon, knocking enemies off balance, you know all that fun jazz. Was just out here trying to share some LoLs.

Jeremy

david_m_18b16_ESO wrote: »

ESO is probably the easiest MMO to reach the skill floor for healing. Everything is AoE and/or smart healing. I wouldn't call DPS brain dead comming from the healing role in this game.

Now if your talking about skillcap, I still think healing still far easyer then DPS skillcap.3

I've played all three roles on this game and healer is the most frustrating. No other role on this game is so dependent on the actions of others (something you have no control over) as healing is.

BigBragg

InvictusApollo wrote: »

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VaranisArano wrote: »

How are you enjoying the much longer DD queue time?

That's the main reason that even my DDs equip a resto staff or Sword&Board to play healer or tank.

Why? Why bother? Just go as a good dps and queue as a healer. I do like that every single time and carry randoms. And when they all lay on the ground I'm the last man standing soloing the boss while laughing at them.
I wish there was a "put pillow on the ground" emote so that I could give my fallen teammates a pillow while they lay dead.

Dungeons go smoother and faster for everyone if people play their roll to some degree. Plus it is way more fun than just watching somebodies ego try to Superman a place.

p00tx

david_m_18b16_ESO wrote: »

ESO is probably the easiest MMO to reach the skill floor for healing. Everything is AoE and/or smart healing. I wouldn't call DPS brain dead comming from the healing role in this game.

Now if your talking about skillcap, I still think healing still far easyer then DPS skillcap.3

I agree that healing has an extremely low floor, but it's also got a pretty high ceiling. If someone healing end game content has enough time while healing to be bored (or think it's easy), then they're not doing their entire job. Maybe it's just a console thing because we don't have trackers telling us when to recast everything, but between having to keep up an effective buff/debuff rotation while laying out HoTs, shooting shards to main tank (if you're a Templar), orbs to off tank, orbs to dps and the other healer, throwing out extra synergies for Alkosh and Lokkestiis, keeping up a good light attack weave to make sure you have good warhorn uptime, hitting the occasional derpy dps who stood in stupid too long with a burst heal, plus handling the same mechanics dps is handling while often some extra mechanics (so dps doesn't have to), I don't understand this "healing is easy and boring" thing. There is literally no time to be bored. None.

When I dps, it's literally "dummy hump until mechanics, acknowledge mechanics, move to a new place and dummy hump until new mechanics hit", rinse and repeat.