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yes.
butbut no being healer feels more like… caring for a friend. which doesnt feel like a responsibility and more like a thing u do cuz- cuz u like those peeps andandand- want to…,. help them. 🍼 yes, help.
(some day I will be mama or mama-like)
I play healer cause I’m a power bottom
damn that’s cool I’m just a regular bottom
Well this is uncomfortably personal
Honestly, I don’t see playing healer as a responsibility. It’s very rare for things to actually be my fault. A DPS can do insufficient damage, or stand in fire, or mismanage their aggro. A tank can do all sorts of things wrong, pulling too fast, pulling too slow, skipping too many packs, not skipping enough packs, it feels like people bitch about a tank’s performance no matter what.
Meanwhile I just pump heals into the tank and occasionally HoT a DPS, maybe pop a cooldown if things look spooky. It’s very zen. Then, people praise me for keeping everyone alive even though I was high the whole time and just vibing with my music.
Being a healer in an MMO is the real power fantasy.
At least until you get toxic tryhards who post overheal meters to the LFR chat. Like, you didn’t die and we cleared the raid, so who cares if I overheal? lmao.
Do harder content and it suddenly becomes a real job. Keys are mostly vibing up to +21s right now and then suddenly you have to keep track of everyone’s defensives and externals and tell them how to use them while also rotating your cds perfectly
I play solo games when I need to kick back and relax.
I play multiplayer games when I have excess energy and need intense action.
I don’t play multiplayer games.
I play a crafter because when I make something in a game I actually profit from it rather than having it all stolen and me left wondering why my bank balance is negative a week before my check clears.
I mean, maybe for some people being supportive and helpful to others is legitimately their escape. Perhaps in their day to day life they don’t feel like they’re actually doing anything for others and so being a support in a game is cathartic and enjoyable
All the things I hate doing in real life, I love doing in video games. Cleaning up, organising stuff, making sure each machine has what it needs, putting the machine output away, collecting what I need to keep everything running, and so on. It’s all fun in games, but when I have to do it in real life, I lose interest after five minutes. When I play Minecraft with friends, I’m their maid, basically, and it’s great. I don’t know why, but I think it’s (at least partially) like you said, none of that feels like it matters in real life, but in a game, I get satisfaction from it because I feel useful
See now this conversation reminds me why I loved doing front line supply runs in foxhole, or medic in foxhole. Because when you get that crate of desperately needed supplies or revive that guy pushed out a bit to far, even if it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme, it matters to the people playing with you at that moment.
Warden or Colonial? =P
Yes, generally, come to dead lands to find out specifically at this moment in time.
It’s usually more manageable in the games and you can turn them off when you get sick of it. Can’t do that with real life… well not more than once anyway.
I play support in Overwatch because I still get to shoot at people but I can also shoot at my teammates to heal them. I enjoy shooting at people.
I’ve always been a particularly good Mercy player. It seemed odd to me because my standard playstyle is all-or-nothing dive dps.
Eventually I realized that I was aggressively attacking my teammates with healing. Subconsciously I think I see myself as on my own separate third team, and I’m blitzing them like a Genji and destroying their weakness before they can purposely commit suicide. When they all survive, it’s because I successfully thwarted my own team in their efforts to die.
So, I like my job, and the stress, but it’s never ending. I have 30 years of building up this ongoing task/work load and how to handle it. If I fuck up work, it has super shitty consequences. The risks are enormous to me personally, so I have to do a lot of work being risk adverse. I can’t charge into the middle of a disaster and beat shit into submission, at work.
When I game, I can use my abilities of my real job to pull people together and take on big risks for big rewards and if it fails, we just sit around, lick our virtual wounds and try again next week.
I play games to escape the permanence of any fuckups I do in my career.
Maybe they think of it as “I can’t control my IRL situation but I can control this”.
Me, I just don’t trust other people to do it right.
But I never feel in control when I play healer. I’m always at the whims of other players and can only help them succeed, not make them.
As the healer you have the most control. You are the arbiter of life and death.
I just glue myself to the tank and let them set the pace. Anyone else can kick rocks. Except black mages standing in their leyline and taking mechanics to the face to maximize damage. I respect the hell out of that.
At least in a game when I take on such a role not only do people express thanks for a job well done but also I can directly see the benefits to the group I’m bringing.
Redownloaded Overwatch recently. Haven’t played since before OW2.
Nowadays I have much more mechanical skill than I previously did, but I also don’t know half of the characters now.
It’s weird being most valuable to my team by playing DPS. I’m lucky too that I had some friends who play healer and tank, ngl.
I haven’t played any multiplayer games in a long time. What should a person play if they’re not good at a game and just want to have fun? DPS? What other roles are there?
In my experience if you want to have fun with a game, you should not play an online multiplayer.
Whatever seems fun. If you’re not trying to do high difficulty raids/dungeons, and are just playing on a normal difficulty most people are pretty patient and supportive in my experience. Each role has it’s own responsibilities, DPS is the most straightforward to people new to MMO’s imo.
