This is mostly because of how WoW dungeons have turned out, in WoW you could just stand still and top your DPS, no effort required, and as a healer I could easily heal through all the damage done to the others. Even if they stood in the worst kind of filth on the floor.

So now things hurt, they hurt a lot and you have to move. Many of those that don't move or don't work as a group, are players used to the WoW formula of doing dungeons. It's going to take a few months before that one is out of the system.

Left_Hand wrote: »

{snip} one thing i have noticed is the complete lack of understanding from other players about how their classes should work in a group environment.

This occurs in every MMO, asking the devs to fix other peoples stupidity is a big wish..... that I would hope comes true lol.

Left_Hand wrote: »

The healers in this game will go out of mana very fast if they spend every encounter just spamming heals, so we need to actively regen in the case of the sorcerer by either attacking with the staff or using dark exchange later on.

If you are running out of mana as a Sorcerer I am quite surprised, you must be healing every single hit your party takes. Being a good healer doesn't mean you need to keep the party at 100% the whole time, just make sure they survive the encounter without dying. Sometimes it is about knowing when not to heal.

Are you wearing light armour btw? There is magic passives there that should be more than enough, food to boost and potions to boot. In short, if you spam heals then you will run out of mana every time.

Left_Hand wrote: »

This has lead to groups complaining that i should focus on healing instead of doing DPS or that i was a bad healer because i was always OOM while healing them.

Roles should be decided before you enter the dungeon and don't flip between unless agreed, or if it is a team you run with often.

Left_Hand wrote: »

In my view players should learn to also take care of themselves by having either leaching abilities slotted or self heals or damage mitigation abilities, allowing more leeway for the healer in the group to properly manage their mana and guarantee everyone survives an encounter. Also blocking and dodging seem to be alien concepts to most people.

This I agree with, players need to be proactive in their own healing, not just relying on the healer, the exception to this rule can be the tank depending on the approved party set-up.

This occurs in every MMO sadly.

Left_Hand wrote: »

Another big problem with the current group setup, is a gameplay mechanic one, the group window doesn't show other players mana, so the group never knows when the healer is going OOM or if they should wait before charging on to the next encounter. This is troublesome because due to how near each pull is, by the time i type (we need to wait to regen mana) they are already pulling another mob.

This should be looked at, if not added as an option then at least as an addon somewhere, if it has not already been made, I have not checked though. As a healer if members of the group charge in without waiting on regen or other players then I let them die, they learn soon enough that they need to wait or they learn not to *** with the healer.

Left_Hand wrote: »

This is very frustrating to players who want to dedicate themselves to a healing role, as it all adds up to having less of an incentive to do so and just rerolling as DPS instead.

This occurs in every MMO, the hate is always directed at the healer if the group fails, you need to be able to handle this if you play healer, if you cannot then I suggest just sticking with your DPS and focus on something less stressful. Healer is not for everyone.

I am personally playing as a Tank with a twist of second roles as DPS and healer. I have personally researched the gameplay mechanics and based on your experience it seems that not many are aware of the fact that Healing based spells generate the most aggro in the game and the spells cost a lot of mana so you are unable to help at times.

Not only this but they are expensive and the pure healers are usually quite fragile since they are usually running with light armor.

They are support characters that draw aggro, and people seem to forget that. Healers need to be protected as much as possible and give them time and I usually try to, but some just tend to blame healers because they just don't understand the game well enough. I personally know better than that.

You have to understand others too though. DPS is very self centered role to begin with so, they are not used to think anything other than killing their targets as fast as possible while trying to sustain trough DPS.

I was waiting for the inevitable 'blame the healer cuz I stood in the AOE or ran way past the group to fight' syndrome to start. happens every game. but thats a new one... hey dont shoot you need to healz!

lolol tell them to shuddap, thats my mana regen


thanks for the advice about later levels and needing more pure templar skills, ive been going more restor staff line lately. will expand out more for the later difficulty