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(08-15-2016, 05:24 PM)Xerintha Wrote: While I have played MMOs for eons (and other games too), I am only now going the route of a healer (WHM). The reasons are two fold. First, I'm a DPS freak and adore DPS classes and second, I've been terrified of the pressure and anxiety I relate to being a healer (or a tank).
I'm forcing myself to step out of my comfort zone and into the healer role this time around so being a healer in a group takes all my focus. I only just made level 50 and admit that I'm anxious about healing from here on out. Eventually I'll get comfortable enough that I can do the stance dance but, for now, it's really all I can do to heal and remember to use the abilities that I have.
Does this make me a bad healer? I don't know to be honest but I do know I'm working my rear off to be better and to understand the finer points of how to play this role and this class. I love tanks who pay attention to my pace, maintain agro, and make sure they don't over pull. I love my DPS who don't run ahead and smack things down without yanking everything away from the tank.Â
There's always room to improve and believe me, I am in a constant learning mode.
No, that doesn't make you a "bad healer." A bad healer lets their party die when they could have saved them. That's the measure of a bad healer - that you didn't do everything you could to keep your party up, or that you got yourself killed by doing something stupid. Watch your feet, watch your bars, eyeball your party, make sure you use the right heal at the right time and you don't OOM yourself.
Everything else is gravy. And anyone who tells you otherwise is quite frankly being pretentious.
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