Yes! Revenge time! I would happily annoy people with those all day... well, I'd imagine doing it in my head... because I'm a healer and naturally averse to being mean to others because I just want everybody to be happy and enjoy the game... sorry, someone needs heals! Don't worry, I'm coming! :-)
@@OnimaruAnji Priests in WoW do have a spell for yoinking party members to their location, for an extremely unsubtle way of telling that jackass to stop standing in the fire. Shame it has the exact same range as their healing spells. :(
It would be interesting to see whether those commands actually gave the healer classes a greater leadership role, with the de facto power to make tactical decisions to regroup or pull back to a position where they can heal up.
I once had a soldier in TF2 who used his battalions backup to give me enough damage resistance to survive an encounter with a scout, that was a nice moment as a medic.
Mar Hawkman Everyone has higher END than range. But when you’re in a mob with a single attack (maybe a whopping two, both single target) all the Balanced Stats in the world ain’t gonna do shit While ranged attacks? Well at least they typically have a few AoE, as well as waaaayyyyyy higher attacks and crit rates in general. So yes, a ranged fighter will probably survive better, especially if they know how to kite. All the healers can do is die very, very slowly when the party decides to just strand them (while whining for heals and revs)
@Chris hence why I said unless u aggro more than u can handle. ive had dungeons in ff14 where the tank dropped out and we cleared the dungeon without a tank pre damn easy since healers can out heal the damage from small groups of enemies and bosses
"As a medic, you'll often find your teammates play a bit more recklessly, as your presence allows them to focus more on the enemy and less on their own health situation. So whatever you do, always prioritize keeping yourself alive no matter what, because if you go down, the whole team will suffer." -A friend of mine who's a medic/healer main in lots of different games.
I had to learn this one the hard way. It might seem contradictory, but you can't have a martyr complex as a healer, if ever you have to make a snap decision to defend yourself or stay in cover instead of healing a death's-door team mate, there will be times you have to let them go. Identifying these moments is a skill in itself -- you are a healer letting a patient die, after all, but in the midst of combat, you do have to remember that you are a patient yourself, and that triage does include you too.
“I need healing” “I’m coming” “Help! Healing!” “I know, Quit running away from me.” “Heals plz” “Then meet me half way so I can Heal you” “You suck. Do your job” “... you’re dead to me”
Player dies and says: "Why didn't you heal me"... Healer ressurects Player: "because you stood in the big red circle on the ground that instantly kills you even at full health, you idiot"... Player dies immediatly to the same insta-kill effect. Player has voted to kick Healer from group. :(
dude i will never forget one of our guild's healers in wow was doing LFR and got booted because he was the lowest damage dealer in the group, right above the tanks. while also being 30% of the healing out of 5 healers.....
Fortunately, this is a vote that is almost never passed as healers are the hardest to find for a group. You can often turn it around and get rid of any annoying DPSers.
And my favourite thing: Getting blamed for losing. Yes, it's the healer's fault for not running into certain death along with the DPS, you're totally right.
dps standing there in mob attacks like duck decoys with glass armor..and yelling why isn't the healer healing me..the whole time they are being healed..that's why they lasted the 30 secs they did. _--...mean while you as the healer are still alive because you was standing back...oh i love the team that uses you as the tank, because you have a lot of healing (thinking of course i have a lot of healing, you idi0t i'm a Healer --_ )..they are hiding behind you ..where you can't heal them, and wondering, why they are dead.
Nothing to do with healing but that reminds me of beating Gears Of War 3 on the hardest difficulty as a team. I kept getting yelled at by the randomers I was put with because unlike them, I was hiding out by the elevator on the final boss to avoid taking damage, while they kept running around the arena getting killed off constantly. 30 minutes later, they kicked me out of their session in anger, I was put with an actually good team and the boss fight was done within ten minutes.
It starts even before the actual match, when you're selecting classes: "Somebody pick healer!", "We need a healer!" Well I don't know, *Kyle*, but I think it's just as possible for _you_ to select a healer. Wild theory, I know.
As a main ranged deeps I always locate and mark my healer, then stand close to them for any crowd control or random aggro they may receive. We can do without that tank for a bit but we're all screwed if that healer goes down.
@@Darkrosefae unfortunately. I have only had this a few times, normally after several wipes. But one thing I do know is that DPS players seem to respect healers far more than tanks.
As someone who's played life mage in Asheron's Call (level 55 joining a lvl 95-110 team of damage-dealers, at that) and defender in CoH and blue Minstrel and RK in LotRO, I sometimes play Guardian / Tanker / Stalker / Hunter / Blaster / War Mage / Archer / Melee Tank / Yellow RK / Red Minstrel and _stay with the healer_ because healers sometimes need support too. On my Tanker I even have a "teleport to a spot and knock down all nearby enemies" power that I keep charged in case the Defender starts taking damage. If that happens, I teleport to the Defender, even if that's only 5 feet.
Jaded clerics in my campaign setting have said “Just because there is someone to put you back together does not mean you should be so damned eager to get ripped apart” to the point that it is known as The Healer’s Creed.
I've only played 1 Cleric so far, and he straight up said "Unless you're actively on the floor bleeding out (and thus not contributing in the fight), I'm not wasting any magic on healing you." In a tone that said "And you shouldn't be trying to get on the ground ASAP, either." It very much helped that he was a big fk-off Dragonborn with at the time a very sharp polearm he put to very good use.
People get really, really mad at you when you change to a different class character mid-match, but none of those hypocrites consider ever changing to healer themselves.
THIS. after no one protected me, I changed midway to tank (bc we had none of these either) and someone in chat had the audacity to be like “we need a healer!” BOI my blood pressure sky-rocketed
When I was playing overwatch if it got that bad I had to switch usually I grabbed Soldier76, then ran out there tossed down a med jar then and decimate the enemy... usually carry the round to victory and still never get any recognition. Only to see everyone do the "stay together" thing. Yeaaaaah.. no. I'm done carry your asses
Ironic Dutch Moonshade how dare you see this isn’t working and adjust your approach to see if it works! Just keep us failing! But also if we fail, it’s automatically your fault for not being a literal god! /s
Healer. “You’re stood in the red area” DPS. “FFS heal me” Healer. “Ok but get out of the red target area.” DPS. “I’m getting slaughtered here. Heal me now” Healer: “I’m healing as fast as I can, but you’re still standing in the target zone” DPS... Dies. Raid fails Healer kicked from group Chat “crappy healer let us down”
I try to make life easier for Mercy mains whenever I can by running to spawn as Rein or Pharah whenever they die so they can hitch a ride back to the action. I've made some friends that way, too.
Many assume healers are good hearted people who just want to help others. What most healers really think during the match: "I hate each and everyone of you with the burning passions of a thousand suns"
uhm im really thankful no one usually hears me when i have to play with randos xD I've been told by my guild that i shook one memmber to the core. we were in a mass dungeon (10 ppl) and one was sabotaging us. cue me: the usually kind hearted, confrontation avoiding little girl (im 27 by the way) telling them leave that f**ker on the ground, to let him die, no more healing for him and a looooot of ... not nice words for him *cough cough* that guy really made my blood boil. i felt really bad for that skocked guildmember cause his girlfriend told me the next day how she had tell him repeatedly that i am still me xD he couldnt wrap his head around it and kept saying "i cant believe she said and did that. thats not sasa anymore she is such a nice sweet girl she would never say that" and she only could answer "no she did say that and yes that player made her very angry but she can still be nice. just be glad you didnt sabotage her" and then the loop began again xD
@Dahn Nah the Saboteur and the shocked Guildmember were two different persons and the Saboteur wasnt in our guild so he couldnt hear me. I might add that i whispered him repeatedly to stop it but yeah. When I started cussing I wrote in the area chat to not support him anymore and no one helped him that was great :D i hope he learned his lesson ^^
Tbh I dont know cause he was a rando in our run. We couldnt get the list full so we had about 4 randos with us. The other 3 were great though and helped our smaller giuldmembers tremendously
@@irimac1806 some people just don't deserve the kindness given to them.. you've done well putting him in his place. Be kind to those who deserve it and don't waste energy on idiots
Mained a bishop on Iruna. This was me with every stranger and new boss because even with our capped members doing their best ro get me past my main quest...the bosses were just insanely OP and the strangers were idiots running in and I would have to stop healing our tank (usually the level capped bishop cause ue had massive hp pools thanks to full vit) to heal them and he would fall cause he uad to spam the 260 damaging skill to keep aggro off our wizard. Heal too much tho and you out-aggro damage dealers and die anyway -_- so yeah, hate idiots and bosses way more overpowered than they have a right to be. Also realized NO ONE PLAYS THE TANK CLASS ON IRUNA. You couldnt find a tank in that game! Bleh...
As a healer main in pretty much anything I play I have a strict rule: "If you run away you renounce your right to live." There are some great perks to being a healer though, especially in Final Fantasy 14 where you get the power "Rescue" which yanks a player to your location. The responsible use of this power is to rescue players out of AoEs and death and all that jazz. The -fun- use of this power is jumping off of cliffs during raids and yanking your friend with you.
I am glad I am not the only one who does this! If you decide your response to needing healing is to charge headlong into combat, or run from the group I will NOT waste my time trying to save you.
I got a reputation of "psycho tank" in my free company, not because i was terrible, but because i was so damned good in the right hands, it was scary to watch, and scarier for DPS with their fragile health bars. Healers are a god-send, and NEVER let anyone tell you otherwise.
That point about the healers generally seeing who needs what kind of healing is pretty spot on. As a healer, we generally see EVERYTHING the party is doing, so we both know when you're screwing up as well as how much healing you actually need. If a healer is calling you out on something, you're generally the one messing up. I tend to stop supporting those players until they either leave or learn.
Maybe this shouldn't be how it works. Maybe it should be the DPS who has a "to nearest healer" indicator and Bitching Betty constantly telling him it's his responsibility to go there.
While leveling through WoW dungeons, there was a shaman who hung back with me in case the tank lost aggro. Enemies would come after me often as tanks bum-rushed, but Superstar Shaman used a knockback to push mobs back to the melee. I felt so indebted to that rare kindness that I carried him through WoW dungeon queues up to max level. :')
I love being blamed for letting people die while i'm playing whack-a-mole with health bars by the person who insist of using all their travel abilities to move as far away from my healing radius as the game possibly allows.
If they don't stay near me then I guess they're good enough no not need heals. Oh look they're dead again! Maybe they'll stay close to me this time... I don't run after people to heal them haha.
Oh, a better one is when you're completely pocketing someone who thinks they can 1v5 the enemy team and that you can magically outheal damage from those 5 people.
Medic can't cure stupid, but according to the comics, he took the other 8 classes souls and inserted them inside of him. Medic still can't cure stupid, tho.
Once, while playing the Medic, my Heavy led us into a shielded corner for a second and dropped a Sandvich for me. I almost teared up with joy. Thank you, unknown random Heavy, I have never forgotten your kindness. Plus, it was a nice break from Scouts orbiting me spamming the MEDIC button.
Healers and tanks are best friends. Its amazing how those with the most HP value every little bit they receive. *insert Grog and Pike from Critical Role here*
Have sandvich, my dear friend, and stay strong. For when the front lines are riddled with bullets, it takes a real hero to run headfirst after them, and risk facing the second volley with noting but a medkit and some bandages.
"WhY aReN't YoU hEaLiNg Me?" Well, let's see, I can choose to keep the tank alive who is in turn protecting me while I heal others, or I can follow you stupid butt into direct lines and die healing your squishy butt...I think I'll heal the guy who's keeping me alive first
"Medic! Why aren't you healing me?!" "DUDE I'M UBERCHARGING THE FUCKING SOLDIER C'MON I'M TRYING TO-" Xx_Scout_xX wants to call a vote Medic (accused of not healing) F1 Yes F2 No 1000 1 "Oh fuck off-" Medic left the game (Removed from match by system)
You forgot one of the essentials: You are basically at fault for everything, at least if you ask all other classes. Also: Getting out of sight is equally as anoyin g as getting out of range
If a dps shits on the healer i might.... *forget* to activare my tankstance the next pull. Of course while telling the healer. You dont badmouth healers. Not in my group.
Me: Stop dying like Lemmings! This was in a Kigatilik fight in Champions Online. One of the boss mechanics is periodic AoEs that blanket the entire battlefield. IF you have enough healers you can outheal the AoE, otherwise players need to use defensive postures to reduce the damage they take. This group was trying to push through when we didn't have enough healers for that. I can't heal the entire team by myself. Especially since Cosmic fights aren't a team of 5 players. No, it's 15-30 players. a team of 5 I can heal by myself, the other 10-25? Maybe some of them, not all of them!
Kell Antonio so me and Ellen have to deal with this and there is someone on my team who just gets them self killed then everyone hates me because I am not playing support why does this happen to me also it doesn’t matter I am always getting focused
Except in killing floor, if you are playing on higher difficulties the medic should be the last one to die, even though he also serve as a tank if the fleshpound is about to kill the sniper.
Two things you forgot: 1. You are automatically attacked by FRICKIN' EVERYTHING. If it's not human players immediately targeting your butt, it's your healing abilities attracting the attention of EVERY NPC THAT WANTS TO KILL YOU because they generate threat FOR SOME REASON. (No, I'm not bitter.) 2. 99.9% of your experience playing different maps is staring at the health bars of your teammates. You could look at screenshots of a map and have no idea where it is until someone photoshops in some health bars in the appropriate place they should be on your screen. Only then you can vaguely recognize it. On a side note, nice to see Oxboxtra also can't play WoW with the standard HUD. Nice screen layout! And thank goodness Deadly Boss Mods exists.
another thing you forgot: anytime a girl plays the healer, she's immediately the " just heal me and i will be your boyfriend and do stuff in the dark alleyway" stuff. trust me, i know about all of that
This is so accurate. And the second one personally attacks me as a healer. Because I just realized I actually spend my whole time in game watching health bars 😂😂😂
I know right, these days I generally pick the healer class in most mmorpgs that I play, it wasn't until I first tried healer however did I start to admire how players seem to predict where you will throw down AoE heals and either disperse or change direction for no apparent reason.
@@hundredshadows1625 I think he was referring to enemy damage AoE's. It's stupidly common for DPS to see an incoming AoE and just stay still expecting you (the healer) to save them while you're busy healing other people like the tank.
@@asherandai1000 I am well experienced in both cases. A lot of DPS players will focus purely on how much damage they can do (no complaint there) but they seem to forget to move out of AoE attacks as they don't understand how hard it can be as a healer. That said in a game like Neverwinter (which is the one I am most invested into) there is a lot of AoE ground targeted heals and players of all classes seem to have mastered the art of avoiding these AoE targets with last minute changes in direction.
@@hundredshadows1625 I'm assuming the damaging and healing AoE's have a different coloration to show that the former is the one you avoid, and the latter is the one you actively seek out? Because it seems like their brains are switched and they do the exact *OPPOSITE* of that.
"You're not doing _anything_ ! Look at those damage stats!" - "Actually I'm saving mana for healing and keep you alive. But I can skip you if you don't want that." From then on he kept dying. Because the enemies were the hardest ever. Must have been an update. And nobody supporting him, our best player. From then on he was skipped during invitation phase already. Made it easier not having to remember whom not to heal.
@@MoonlitRose101 I do that because I'm something like Pyke or Karma, but I could pull it off with Rakan possibly. If I stop being bloodthirsty first lol
@@nisnast Nice comparison. 👍 Dunno how others do it and it surely depends on the game, play style and skills chosen. Personally I played a WoW priest, holy skilled, quite big party, always low on mana and high on enemy attention _but_ : never too much. Seldom got complains about my healing or play style. Definitely I wasn't the best healer ever but I can honestly say: I did my job.
I used to play genii now and then but I would always get out of the fray after dealing some damage if I’m on low health, after that I’ll normally go after a health pack.
It's never the DPS' fault. NEVER. Also, I stopped counting how many DPS demanded the supports to pick what the DPS wanted. And Jeff help you if you dare to heal the tanks too much.
On the plus side, there's always the camaraderie you feel between you and the opposing team's healer. Nothing like hello-ing the other team's Mercy when you're sneaking back to your team, because you know they won't grass to the Junkrat they're topping up.
@@a-aronander-son5861 hmm one of the things I remember from the Overwatch League matches is that One guy who used the handle Neptune(or something like that) had wickedly impressive skills at headshotting people with Mercy's sidearm. (Heal heal heal, oh there's an enemy at low health, BANG!, heal heal heal.
When you fight your way over to a downed companion and half way into the heal they give up and just respawn. COME ON! I risked my life to get to you and you just give up on me?!
What I find worse than this is in a WoW when after the fight everyone stays lying there expecting you Rez them without asking. Like, you stood in a pool of lava for 5 minutes wasting my mana. Respawn yourselves. I’m saving my mana for the tank.
@@rjlizama-reyes9135 dont get me started on squishy dps's just standing in the enemy bosses red ring of doom . Look dude if they good enuff to give u a big ol warning tge damage is commin, you want to NOT just stand in it.
depending on the game that might be down to auto-respawn timers, I remember one MMO I played a while back gave you 20-30 sec cooldown on rez (depending on how many points you invested into skill cooldown) and 2 minutes to get rez'd before you'd auto respawn. admittedly, rez in that game was almost instant cast, so they were more likely to time out while you are on cooldown than as you are rez'ing them, but still, do they give a crap you rez'd the tank twice so the whole raid didn't fail? nope, they're mad you didn't rez them before the boss died so they could leech back some of the xp they lost when they died off it
I agree, mostly. To hell with DPS, but sometimes, *sometimes* I'll take blame for the tank dying, mostly because I let dps bitching get to me and focused on them for too long...
In RPG's I always try to have at least one dedicated healer while everyone else has at least a basic healing skill/spell. In a solo RPG it's one of my first skills to get. Medics are the true heroes- always needed, never appreciated.
@@irimac1806 Tanks get a lot more respect most of the time. Still an underappreciated class. When the 2 most underappreciated work together they are nearly unstoppable.
So much this. When playing any game, I always make sure to get at least one healing skill as early as I possibly can regardless of which class I'm playing. Life steal or a HoT skill is invaluable, even for a DPS, and I'll take that over being a glass cannon any day of the week.
As a person who usually plays the Healer in any game where there's a healer spec/class, I approve of this entire video's message. Now, everyone can go back to ignoring me while I cry my salty tears of healing anguish all by my lonesome...
I ended up becoming the healer in my first WoW guild. We were all IRL friends, and I was a druid. I learned by class and got really good. It became a point of personal pride to try and keep everyone at no less than 75%. I'd even see how close I could get my HPS to their DPS. I also used to see people soloing world bosses and switch to healer spec to keep them going. It's amazing how fast you can two-man quest chains when you don't have to stop to rest.
"No Leeroy, you DON'T get any heals because I told you to fuckin' WAIT. If you can't follow a simple 1 word instruction, YOUR BREATHING PRIVILEGES GET REVOKED!"
I knew of a raiding guild in WoW with the rule "You spank it, you tank it.", to discourage DPS charging ahead. One time, it was the healer who pulled the next boss. Cue them attempting to solo a boss because the rest of the party was still resting up.
And then there's the "I'm to scared to be infront" DPS/Tanks who hide behind the healer and you as healer has to go first, has happened to me a few times in MOBAs, and when you retreat behind your team, they go even further back. Like why are they hiding behind the healer in the first place?
Some of these complaints can be refitted for tanks. Like “no one is taking advantage of my shield “ or “The medic and I were abandoned by the dps and now stand alone again the enemy team.”
Then there are those who gave up on playing DPS at all because people insta lock so you are left with playing tank and healer exclusively so you know the pain of your team being no where near objective.
Depending on the game if the dps leave the tank & healer behind it just means that the dps die while the tank & healer (slowly) finish the dungeon by themselves
You can. You can leave them to die. It's why the Nightingale Pledge is a bit better than the Hippocratic Oath. If it's deletrious to health, they will kill it if needed.
Healer mains are super underappreciated. When they focus on healing, others think they are not doing anything. But when the healers do kills, others think they are stealing kills
@@SabDrawsArt I, as a support, know that I'm not that important to the team, so when everyone goes to bottom lane (and there's no chance for both to escape), I told my adc to run and I distract them with stuns while I try to run
@@omoriperocondrip9130 But here the conundrum. even if you are support, you are just as important. Sure its one death over both dying; but the role of a support in my opinion is to try and keep everyone alive, INCLUDING yourself. If you die first, who is going to give cover fire? Who's is gonna buff up/heal/shield the team? Sure being a sacrificial lamb some times is good for the grand scheme of things; but always? You will end up feeding the team and they will ungratefully blame you at the end.
“Party member gets blasted by an ability I can’t outheal and would instakill them if they don’t do something specific.” Party member- “worst healer ever.”
That feeling when you are playing a healer and you have to threaten to WALK the dungeon to get your tank to pop his enmity stance and actually tag the enemies. I constantly have to train my tanks and the naughty one I play limbo with their hp bar
If you're the primary tank you go into the damn dungeon and turn your emnity stance on. If you're the off tank, then figure it out. The healers (god bless them) have better shit to do than keep the dps aggressively alive because some idjit forgot their damn tank stance Source, a sprout who actually likes tank and recently learned the joy of playing with real people. Also I do apologize if I'm bad at tank I'm still learning. But also, i keep my stance on
As someone who regularly plays healers in Final Fantasy XIV, all I have to say is STAND IN THE DAMN BUBBLE! If you die because you insisted on standing exactly 2 centimeters outside of my bubble of healing goodness then I have no remorse for you
Tank pulls two groups... has always been pulling two groups. I drop a bubble on the second group.... tank decides he's gonna pull bigger. "Seven Hells!"
@@FrenziedRoach I hate playing tank in FF XIV but I end up playing it. I get the F***ing DPS pulling in more enemies and B**ching at me for not tanking them. God I hate DPS.
As a cynical healer with a decade of experience, I found that death is a good teacher. If someone is doing something stupid then they get no heals until they correct themselves. It's your own fault for standing in the fire.
Sadly there are ofcourse always those sad, sad cases that will just never learn.....I do not pity them, I pity their random groups..... /Decade+ MMORPG Healer
@@brokenshard9323 What I hate the most are games that include healing aggro because it's a lose-lose situation. Don't heal enough - people die and you get blamed. Heal a lot - you die or get blamed for stealing aggro from tank AND dps.
@@NekoUriko if dps pulls the agro they should pause til the tank gets it back so that healer doesn't need to start spam healing to keep everyone healthy, negating the whole healing agro issue.
Yes, but no... Red, blue, black mages fall under the dps category and thus get no sympathy from this comment section. Thank you everyone that brought up aggro so I don't have to
"They run from you" why nerfing Terra's ultimate in smite was a bad idea. No ones gonna let you heal them, so her ult just sent a protective barrier around all your team no matter how far away from you they were that healed them once the barrier was broken after 4 hits. Then it got nerfed to being a smaller range. Just healer things: constantly getting your healing nerfed so your team can call you useless even though you're just trying to keep them alive
How the entire enemy team diving just to kill you. When you are doing an amazing job at keeping your entire team alive, the only ones to notice seem to be the enemy, who then mounts an entire siege just to take you down, meaning you will most likely be dead for 50% the game.
Because you showed battlefield 1 so much in this video it reminded me of the thing I hated most about being a healer in that game. I would literally spend 15 seconds running across a battlefield, dodging bullets and trying not to die myself... Literally get TO THE PERSON.... and THATS when they give up and decide to respawn. I was LITERALLY right there!
As I used to say to my WoW 10-man team "If you are out of my LOS, you are SOL!" Also we had the "TGIF rule" - Tank Goes in First. Anyone who broke that didn't get healed.
Also applies to Field Ops. Say you need ammo partway through the match and I'll bring you ammo. Tell me ten times that you need ammo when you literally just spawned and I'm trying to retain full mana for use in calling in mortars to stop the enemy tank and I'll ignore you. Tell me fifteen times that you need ammo when you literally just spawned and I'm trying to retain full mana for use in calling in mortars to stop the enemy tank and then push me off the place I climbed to get a view to call the mortars in on the right place to stop the tank, and I will turn round and call mortars in on the top of your helmet.
My early WoW guild healers had a game called "red light / green light"... if someone yells in chat "heal me" and a healer calls out "red light". All other healers can NOT heal that person. The healer that called "red light" has to see how low they can get that persons health down to before fully healing them. "Green light" is called when they end the attempt. We kept a score board awarding points on raid reports... the best way to score big was to get a dps with a slow ticking dot on them that would just about to kill them and watch them run around like crazy apologising.
@@boxhead6177 the dps always act all big and bad until they realize that their life is in your hands haha. I love letting DPS die for doing stupid things like standing in the fire and running off from the group to fight more mobs.
In TF2 scout doesn't get healing. Scout and his little itty bitty health box can go get his own healing from pickups. And if Demo is wearing a shield he can charge his happy ass to a medpack too. Spy never screams for healing, he knows to handle it himself. Course spy gets real confused when he gets Uber too...2 seconds of confusion, 6 seconds of murder-rampage glee.
@@Chris_Sizemore I would rather the scout not steal my health pack for the 1000th time. Plus, scout having the smallest health pool means he's the quickest to heal up with a medigun, whereas health packs are based on percentage of max health. Everyone gets healing, and knowing how to make use of crit heals helps that a tonne. As does using the quick fix if you're the only medic on a 12 person team.
In ESO I was playing a healer and someone said I our tank was a bad tank because he needed healing, and I was a bad healer for not doing more damage. *sigh*
Tfw you out heal the other healer and the enemy healers, and at the same time out dps your own dps.... And still get called a trash healer.. Because "you're a healer, you shouldn't be dpsing." Bruh, if you were staying alive for more than 3 seconds and doing your job, I wouldn't need to dps in the first place.
One tank in a dungeon I was in paused half way through and asked "how the fk is the healer doing more damage than the DPS?" (he was using some sort of DPS checking tool) I was the healer and was easily keeping the party topped up, so threw out some spells while keeping an eye on the party health. Evidently I was doing more damage on the mobs than the DPS. ^_^
Note that this story is definitely from FF XIV, an MMO where all roles are expected to contribute a healthy percentage of damage unlike every other game featured in this video.
Another thing you realize as a healer: you have the power to heal, but you also have the power NOT to heal. That annoying tank player who spams the "I need healing" cue when they're not below half-health--let him die. Teach them a lesson on the true power of a healer.
Ooo, my guildies and I occasionally ran pugs with bad tanks or healers back on WoW. Sometimes we'd just power through and try to teach them, other times... it was just bad. NGL I miss being a healer, but sometimes you're just like "hey wanna see some major damage from the healer?" "sure" healer: *logs out* *party wipes*
I remember the specific fight that I realized I could just wait a couple extra seconds before healing That One Player so that his health would dip from 75%+ until 15% before the heal kicked in just to scare his dumb stupid ass a bit for talking shit I have never felt more powerful in my life than that exact moment.
Heavy: "MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC!" Medic, having already completely overhealed the team and built an uber long before the calls started: "I am fully-charged!" **stands perfectly still** Heavy: **charges into sentry nest and gets shredded** Medic: **calmly ubers a nearby Demoman**
Getting blamed for lacking a specific niche healing skill. Sometimes, your trusted healer might not have brought the perfect hammer for a specific nail to the battlefield. Maybe because enemy abilities vary from match to match and loadout is limited, so your kind physician thought bringing a hammer suitable to most nails seemed to be a choice more sensible than bringing a torx screwdriver to counter that one enemy that throws torx nails at your team. Or maybe it's a MMORPG and a new player did not have the gold to buy all the scrolls available yet, so some rather specific status effects remain outside the area of expertise. Point is, wait for that one time where the team actually is in need of a silver bullet rather than a standard 9mm, then sit back and count the seconds until the first person flames you for not anticipating this once in a blue moon situation.
Yep When playing Trinity on Warframe and getting slammed by people because I didn't take the max range mod and cannot reach them while they run all over the map during a hold objective mission. Or when I'd cast energy vampire and then no one is around to benefit from it.
@@Vinemaple In Champions Online I had a guy yell for healing in a run of the Cybermind mission... thing is... this was a random PUG team. I had an AoE that could heal... but it wasn't good enough for me to be a real healer. So I told him if he really wanted healing that he had to stand next to me or there would be no healing.... he immediately shut up and started standing next to me :D
When playing Killing Floor one of our team frequently would try to unload a full assault rifle clip into the bigger enemies then run out of ammo before it died then run around screaming "I'm dying! I'm dying! no ones helping me" While I am trying to chase them to hit them with a healing needle from my medic gun. Too bad they did not have a tackle option so you could pin the player down while you heal them. Cue Dr McCoy line "Dammit! I'm a doctor not a linebacker!"
When I play a tank this is usually me. Cool thing is in Ragnarok Online I dont even have to stand in front of them (usually a good idea anyway most of the time) as there is a skill that allows me to take damage for up to 5 teammates whether or not Im even tanking.
The worst is when a person does ALL of these in the same 20 secs that U ARE HEALING THEM and u just stare at them and shake ur head. Ugh being a healer is hard!
I love this video. This very morning I was playing ESO and my healer was killed because no one was protecting the healer. And the others started spamming "heal?", "Need heals" on the chat. I had to reply "Can't heal while dead. Need rez".
Yepp, in Neverwinter i play/ed cleric healer and when i had to go the daily random dungeon for the reewards there were always players who never were there before and didnt sayx it! I, the healer who has to usually follow the tanks orders had to give orders. i now have the rule to ALWAYS ask first if anyones been there before and knows how to do it. The endgame dungeons are more than hacknslash and then i get blamed when they die -.-
So much this. Can't even phase in and get set up before everyone else is halfway down the bleeping hall. Okay, I'm just gonna let you fight that first boss. ALONE.
Had that back in the days due to connection loss usually. Start healing, see your character freeze mid buff, °oO( Nonono, not good! ) - restart router, didn't work. Reboot, felt like half an hour. "Sorry, dc..." - a dozen friends mumble in teamspeak while you watch the mob retreat after successfully killing everybody. Ah, those were the days ... 🤩
@@wiiuandmii7619 I don’t do that I just turret mode on payload with reinheart keeping me protected until healer comes I don’t even now how to do the I need healing thing
And this is why I play Lucio. So I don't have to see that for long as I nyoom back into the fight. ........just to have them run into the enemy team before I get there
The healer arguement at character select. "We need a healer!" "Then you play one!" "NO YOU PLAY ONE!" UGH!! And then when you pick one, they hate the one you picked!!
isn't it 1st: Survive. 2nd: Learn to hit Crits 3rd: Do your Job, 4th: Treat your team like dogs and teach them how to get your help; and more importantly how *not* to get your help, 5th: Cry because no one is coming to help you, 6th: Deal with the pain of constantly dying or being neglected 7th: learn patience to deal with particularly bad teams, 8th: Have a good secondary class if unable to do #7.
@@ignisshadowflame1027 I do it if they constantly go in without some form of back up. It is amazing how quickly Genji players in my matches wise up to being smarter about their engages.
One thing that could've been on this list is "A person going away from the team while you are trying to keep the rest of your team alive and they get mad at you for not healing them." A Fernando was pushing by himself while 3 new players were struggling against to bots (this was a bot match). We failed to push the payload because of this and before the last round started the Fernando cussed at me and told me to heal him. I responded with "No." I still healed him in the last round because I'm a good support.
I thought you were going to say Reaper, because I've been in the EXACT same situation but in Overwatch with like 2 Reapers, some Junkrats and a few Reinhardts.
When a healer finds a good group to play with they usually stick with that group. I love playing the healer class and all of these are pretty accurate.
And when a good group finds a good healer, they make sure to get that friend request in and let them know how appreciated they are. I remember joining a PUG to do 10-man Deathwing. It originally started as just seeing how far the group could get, and we ended up doing all eight stages over five hours. Everyone exchanged contacts. You don't waste meeting people that know their classes that well. He ended up inviting me to a bunch of dungeons and low raids to heal after that.
"Healer/Medic? Is that what that role is called? I thought it was called glorified babysitter it sure feels like it when I play healer" -My best friend
8:02 and all there is to it. Way too relatable, but there’s a worse one, that being games where you can ‘self-revive’ or respawn at camp(with the disadvantage of being at camp) and they do it RIGHT WHEN YOU REACH THEM, sometimes on purpose. Truly painful
The sad part the healer its not a person and just can hear HEAL, HEAL, HEAL, HEAL YOU @#&!!!" and when you do they respond WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG? well i dont know ALL THE OFFENSIVE ENEMIES TRAIN TO KILL ME BEACUSE IM THE HEALER IF THE TEAM!!!
This was from Champions Online at the Teliosaurus Cosmic Boss: Tank: why you not heal me, I nearly died! Me: we had a near total party wipe! I had to self rez to heal you fast enough to keep it from being a total party wipe! Tank: oh... ok. Cosmics tend to be like that though. The tank CAN'T pay attention to the party. If they don't focus they'll either get KOed, or the boss will lose aggro... If the tank loses aggro, then the boss wipes the floor with the DPS and probably the healers. The previous example wasn't the tank messing up, just random bad luck.
There's also always that one DPS player that is constantly taking avoidable damage, like standing in fire. So you have to decide if it's worth spending the extra resources keeping them alive, potentially risking the success of the whole encounter, or just slowly giving them less and less healing until they either get the message or die.
@@herrskeletal3994 If I can do it without letting the people who aren't idiots get KOed I'll do it. :p The Boss room in the Cybermind mission in Champions Online is like that. it has a damage effect that can kill you VERY quickly. BUT... it's not an insta-kill, so some super powerful healers can out heal it. But... can they do that while keeping the rest of the team alive? Depends on if the other 3 players are idiots.
What’s even more annoying than being an unappreciated healer, is when other people are playing healer and absolutely suck at it. Like in battlefield when people play medic with a syringe and don’t use it once the entire game, even when there is no incoming fire and there are 4 of them standing right on top of your body. Then the other one is when you are playing a healer and your team has a limited number of respawns, such as in battlefield modes like rush, and they keep skipping the revive when you are right next to them.
Or in games with advanced customization where you realize the guy trying to heal is using damage stats to fuel healing. doesn't give good heal magnitude... :/
Battle Mercys in Overwatch. Who take up a healer slot, and then proceed to never heal while bragging about how damage they did. Yeah, and maybe if you'd actually, I don't know, done the job you queued for, we'd have won.
@@zelamorre1126 I'll do you one better. How about Zen DPS's who sneak around and try to kill the enemy, not using their harmony orb once, and ONLY use their ult when they ultimately get surrounded and almost killed by the enemy when they are in the enemy's lap? As a Zen main, it always hurts inside whenever that happens.
Battlefield 4 is the only game where Medic is arguably the strongest class in the entire game. Hell, really EVERY class in Battlefield games is usually a support in some way.
I remember doing my first random pickup group run of Esseles with my Gunslinger. This was back before they'd made the flashpoints easy enough to solo at the same level. Me, thinking the Jedi Sage healer dude was important to our wellbeing, kept following them around and protecting them against mobs and bosses while they healed. ...for some reason none of the other DPS or Tank players appreciated this. Ironically, staying near the healer meant I also kept surviving, and when the group event was over the other players whined while the healer gave me some very valuable crafting mats, a fun mount unlock they had no use for, and eventually I joined their guild. Funny how that goes.
This is like an essay I read on a guy that made a support wizard in D&D because some people he knew kept dying in their campaign, and they asked him to join and help. I guess the DM wasn't adjusting to compensate. Instead of taking damage spells, he focused on crowd control and giving his party advantage. Despite the fact that they started surviving, they kept giving him crap because he wasn't doing any damage. They just couldn't get that he was playing a part of the game they were ignoring. Like how tanks max out their dodge and armor, every attack that doesn't hit is less damage for the healer to fill back up.
The dislikes might be because of the overwatch gameplay, like how in the moira clip, moira actually fed and then expected the rest of her team to fall back when she is walking back from respawn
I've always felt bad for healers in WoW, they get such a raw deal. I tank and dps, and regardless of my role I always make sure I know where the healer is at the start of the dungeon and make an effort to protect them. As a tank, healer gets first butt-saving priority. As a DPS, I'll pull adds onto myself that are swarming the healer if the tank doesn't get to them fast enough, because if the healer dies, we all die. Either way, I've got a ton of respect for healers who put up with everyone else in dungeons :)
All the more reason to have more healers or have the players protect the healer better. I'm new to these types of games and it baffles me that healers aren't a little tanker or better equipped offensively, but I guess that would be "broken"
I've mained a healer for a really long time in WoW. I often find myself explaining mechanics to unwitting dps who die but don't understand that hey, maybe standing in the fire hurts! I end up having to not only play my character, but monitor everyone else and make sure they're doing their job correctly too. Also, the feeling of knowing that if you don't go healer no one else will really sucks.
Haven't played WoW in ages, but I remember low-level Protection Warriors to be really fun. Running out of range to get more mobs because they "need more rage" while keeping only one or two aggroed and then complaining about the long-dead healer 'cause they died:]
@@sebastianwlodarczyk Healing leveling dungeons is a special kind of hell lol. I healed m+ for a monk tank this tier who made sure he was always *just* out of my range. Of course, he could handle himself, but just seeing him greyed out on my raid frames was literally just the norm.
Only love I get as a healer if from the rare tank mains who have learned that they need me as much as I need them. A tank who is aware of their need of a healer is very protective of said healer.
The thing for me with healing is just this: Rewarding healers. Like, in Shinobi Strikers I'll bust my ass off keeping the rest of the team alive and get the lowest score
Healers need an "I need protection" communication to annoy tanks with and an "I can't reach you" communication to annoy DPS with.
Yes! Revenge time! I would happily annoy people with those all day... well, I'd imagine doing it in my head... because I'm a healer and naturally averse to being mean to others because I just want everybody to be happy and enjoy the game... sorry, someone needs heals! Don't worry, I'm coming! :-)
That's a BIT too subtle, how about, "Get your ass over here!" for sprint away tanks, and "You did it to yourself, BYE." for DPS.
@@OnimaruAnji Priests in WoW do have a spell for yoinking party members to their location, for an extremely unsubtle way of telling that jackass to stop standing in the fire. Shame it has the exact same range as their healing spells. :(
in tf2 there is a "help!" command
It would be interesting to see whether those commands actually gave the healer classes a greater leadership role, with the de facto power to make tactical decisions to regroup or pull back to a position where they can heal up.
Shout out to all the players that actually defend the healer, all 10 of you. You guys will always get priority healing.
Support protectors go to heaven
You're welcome, I hoped you'd do the same.
This deserves every like.
I once had a soldier in TF2 who used his battalions backup to give me enough damage resistance to survive an encounter with a scout, that was a nice moment as a medic.
@@nohandlesplease that was quick thinking on his part
"We've got strong upper arms from CARRYING THE TEAM THE WHOLE MATCH!"
...seriously tho.
Healers get yelled at for dying buuuut, we’ve got crap weapons and mediocre armor. Stats only go so far
@@anonymousfellow8879 In some games healers are actually tougher than the ranged DPS.
Mar Hawkman
Everyone has higher END than range. But when you’re in a mob with a single attack (maybe a whopping two, both single target) all the Balanced Stats in the world ain’t gonna do shit
While ranged attacks? Well at least they typically have a few AoE, as well as waaaayyyyyy higher attacks and crit rates in general. So yes, a ranged fighter will probably survive better, especially if they know how to kite. All the healers can do is die very, very slowly when the party decides to just strand them (while whining for heals and revs)
@@anonymousfellow8879 unless u are playing a good mmo, solo healing can be extremely easy unless u aggro more than u can handle
@Chris hence why I said unless u aggro more than u can handle.
ive had dungeons in ff14 where the tank dropped out and we cleared the dungeon without a tank pre damn easy since healers can out heal the damage from small groups of enemies and bosses
"As a medic, you'll often find your teammates play a bit more recklessly, as your presence allows them to focus more on the enemy and less on their own health situation. So whatever you do, always prioritize keeping yourself alive no matter what, because if you go down, the whole team will suffer."
-A friend of mine who's a medic/healer main in lots of different games.
I had to learn this one the hard way. It might seem contradictory, but you can't have a martyr complex as a healer, if ever you have to make a snap decision to defend yourself or stay in cover instead of healing a death's-door team mate, there will be times you have to let them go. Identifying these moments is a skill in itself -- you are a healer letting a patient die, after all, but in the midst of combat, you do have to remember that you are a patient yourself, and that triage does include you too.
“I need healing”
“I’m coming”
“Help! Healing!”
“I know, Quit running away from me.”
“Heals plz”
“Then meet me half way so I can Heal you”
“You suck. Do your job”
“... you’re dead to me”
... After "you suck"
"you have lost the privilege of getting healed and with this to stay alive"
"...you're dead to me" and in more ways than one!
"MEDIC!"
I am always medic all medics send friend requests to Gr8bigdooch on PS4.
@@Thegamingwarrior7969 I don't have PS4. Do u have steam tho?
Player dies and says: "Why didn't you heal me"...
Healer ressurects Player: "because you stood in the big red circle on the ground that instantly kills you even at full health, you idiot"...
Player dies immediatly to the same insta-kill effect.
Player has voted to kick Healer from group. :(
nawww man that sucks .-. *gives you a nice hug of comfort*
Idiots. Healers suffer to save thear butts and they don't even say thanks >:(
Man I feel you. Much love for the healers
dude i will never forget one of our guild's healers in wow was doing LFR and got booted because he was the lowest damage dealer in the group, right above the tanks. while also being 30% of the healing out of 5 healers.....
Fortunately, this is a vote that is almost never passed as healers are the hardest to find for a group. You can often turn it around and get rid of any annoying DPSers.
And my favourite thing: Getting blamed for losing. Yes, it's the healer's fault for not running into certain death along with the DPS, you're totally right.
Rukalin Eh, DPS players like that rarely do anything useful. Most people know that. The ones who stick by the rest of the team though are great.
dps standing there in mob attacks like duck decoys with glass armor..and yelling why isn't the healer healing me..the whole time they are being healed..that's why they lasted the 30 secs they did. _--...mean while you as the healer are still alive because you was standing back...oh i love the team that uses you as the tank, because you have a lot of healing (thinking of course i have a lot of healing, you idi0t i'm a Healer --_ )..they are hiding behind you ..where you can't heal them, and wondering, why they are dead.
That's when you say, "screw you pal" and then piss about away from the action while they all die for being jerks
When the idiotic soldier main jumps onto the point expecting you to have Über and starts bitching to your in chat asking “wHy DidN’t yOu üBEr mE?”
Nothing to do with healing but that reminds me of beating Gears Of War 3 on the hardest difficulty as a team. I kept getting yelled at by the randomers I was put with because unlike them, I was hiding out by the elevator on the final boss to avoid taking damage, while they kept running around the arena getting killed off constantly. 30 minutes later, they kicked me out of their session in anger, I was put with an actually good team and the boss fight was done within ten minutes.
It starts even before the actual match, when you're selecting classes:
"Somebody pick healer!", "We need a healer!"
Well I don't know, *Kyle*, but I think it's just as possible for _you_ to select a healer. Wild theory, I know.
"Thanks for volunteering, Kyle."
Too bad we all know "Kyle" just wants to be dps...
"If you want so bad, why don't you play it?"
Ocarina Of Burr Hey, DPS is a good class! And often support. Kyles usually want a an attack tank
That shit gets annoying.
"WHY AREN'T YOU HEALING ME?"
I can't heal when I'm dead
"WHY ARE YOU RUNNING AWAY?"
I refer you to my previous answer
Dude yessss. Healer get all the crap thrown at them. Nothing but respect for you guys. Also I main healer sometimes so I understand the pain
In a raid a long time ago, a tank slagged off a healer, and a DPS simply said "a tank might be the car, but the healer is the gas that makes it run."
That's one next-level DPS...
@@Vinemaple He got all the MVP/Commendations from the party, except from the Tank ^_^
As a main ranged deeps I always locate and mark my healer, then stand close to them for any crowd control or random aggro they may receive. We can do without that tank for a bit but we're all screwed if that healer goes down.
@@Darkrosefae unfortunately. I have only had this a few times, normally after several wipes. But one thing I do know is that DPS players seem to respect healers far more than tanks.
Except the gas can chose to not work on that car. Then the car wonders why.....
as someone who's played a healer for years I feel this list in my soul.
I stopped playing healer because of everything here, but only so that I could be the teammate not making my medics life harder
Get back to healing me, slave
What the hell your commenting instead of healing me I just died thanks to you
And if your a healer who plays TF2, you feel this list in your soul and the 9 other souls you added through surgery
As someone who's played life mage in Asheron's Call (level 55 joining a lvl 95-110 team of damage-dealers, at that) and defender in CoH and blue Minstrel and RK in LotRO, I sometimes play Guardian / Tanker / Stalker / Hunter / Blaster / War Mage / Archer / Melee Tank / Yellow RK / Red Minstrel and _stay with the healer_ because healers sometimes need support too. On my Tanker I even have a "teleport to a spot and knock down all nearby enemies" power that I keep charged in case the Defender starts taking damage. If that happens, I teleport to the Defender, even if that's only 5 feet.
Jaded clerics in my campaign setting have said “Just because there is someone to put you back together does not mean you should be so damned eager to get ripped apart” to the point that it is known as The Healer’s Creed.
I love that quote! Imma use that. Mind if I use that on some of my groups? Imma use that.
I've only played 1 Cleric so far, and he straight up said "Unless you're actively on the floor bleeding out (and thus not contributing in the fight), I'm not wasting any magic on healing you."
In a tone that said "And you shouldn't be trying to get on the ground ASAP, either."
It very much helped that he was a big fk-off Dragonborn with at the time a very sharp polearm he put to very good use.
@@DragonKnightJin I've just gotten into DnD and my first character I made was a Grave Cleric, lmao.
Damn, that's good. I might just put it in my setting next to the Cardinal Rule of Conjuration: "Don't call up what you can't put down."
People get really, really mad at you when you change to a different class character mid-match, but none of those hypocrites consider ever changing to healer themselves.
THIS. after no one protected me, I changed midway to tank (bc we had none of these either) and someone in chat had the audacity to be like “we need a healer!” BOI my blood pressure sky-rocketed
Always. "Why did you switch?"
So true
When I was playing overwatch if it got that bad I had to switch usually I grabbed Soldier76, then ran out there tossed down a med jar then and decimate the enemy... usually carry the round to victory and still never get any recognition. Only to see everyone do the "stay together" thing.
Yeaaaaah.. no. I'm done carry your asses
Ironic Dutch Moonshade how dare you see this isn’t working and adjust your approach to see if it works! Just keep us failing! But also if we fail, it’s automatically your fault for not being a literal god! /s
Healer. “You’re stood in the red area”
DPS. “FFS heal me”
Healer. “Ok but get out of the red target area.”
DPS. “I’m getting slaughtered here. Heal me now”
Healer: “I’m healing as fast as I can, but you’re still standing in the target zone”
DPS... Dies.
Raid fails
Healer kicked from group
Chat “crappy healer let us down”
Team continue to lose raid and can't figure out why. 😂
Get out of the fire 🔥
I felt my blood pressure rise reading this.
Stand in fire! DPS higher!
Way to call my WHM ass out in FFXIV
I try to make life easier for Mercy mains whenever I can by running to spawn as Rein or Pharah whenever they die so they can hitch a ride back to the action. I've made some friends that way, too.
You are truly a blessing. As a healer main I THANK YOU.
Well done.
U r an awesome person if i ever meet u in games imma instantelly friend u
.....thank you ......so much
I haven't played OW in a long while but I would've appreciated this immensely
Many assume healers are good hearted people who just want to help others. What most healers really think during the match: "I hate each and everyone of you with the burning passions of a thousand suns"
uhm im really thankful no one usually hears me when i have to play with randos xD I've been told by my guild that i shook one memmber to the core. we were in a mass dungeon (10 ppl) and one was sabotaging us. cue me: the usually kind hearted, confrontation avoiding little girl (im 27 by the way) telling them leave that f**ker on the ground, to let him die, no more healing for him and a looooot of ... not nice words for him *cough cough* that guy really made my blood boil. i felt really bad for that skocked guildmember cause his girlfriend told me the next day how she had tell him repeatedly that i am still me xD he couldnt wrap his head around it and kept saying "i cant believe she said and did that. thats not sasa anymore she is such a nice sweet girl she would never say that" and she only could answer "no she did say that and yes that player made her very angry but she can still be nice. just be glad you didnt sabotage her" and then the loop began again xD
@Dahn Nah the Saboteur and the shocked Guildmember were two different persons and the Saboteur wasnt in our guild so he couldnt hear me. I might add that i whispered him repeatedly to stop it but yeah. When I started cussing I wrote in the area chat to not support him anymore and no one helped him that was great :D i hope he learned his lesson ^^
Tbh I dont know cause he was a rando in our run. We couldnt get the list full so we had about 4 randos with us. The other 3 were great though and helped our smaller giuldmembers tremendously
@@irimac1806 some people just don't deserve the kindness given to them.. you've done well putting him in his place. Be kind to those who deserve it and don't waste energy on idiots
Mained a bishop on Iruna. This was me with every stranger and new boss because even with our capped members doing their best ro get me past my main quest...the bosses were just insanely OP and the strangers were idiots running in and I would have to stop healing our tank (usually the level capped bishop cause ue had massive hp pools thanks to full vit) to heal them and he would fall cause he uad to spam the 260 damaging skill to keep aggro off our wizard. Heal too much tho and you out-aggro damage dealers and die anyway -_- so yeah, hate idiots and bosses way more overpowered than they have a right to be. Also realized NO ONE PLAYS THE TANK CLASS ON IRUNA. You couldnt find a tank in that game! Bleh...
As a healer main in pretty much anything I play I have a strict rule: "If you run away you renounce your right to live."
There are some great perks to being a healer though, especially in Final Fantasy 14 where you get the power "Rescue" which yanks a player to your location. The responsible use of this power is to rescue players out of AoEs and death and all that jazz. The -fun- use of this power is jumping off of cliffs during raids and yanking your friend with you.
Warcraft has "leap of faith" for priests. I can feel your comment in my bones, lol.
I am glad I am not the only one who does this! If you decide your response to needing healing is to charge headlong into combat, or run from the group I will NOT waste my time trying to save you.
I got a reputation of "psycho tank" in my free company, not because i was terrible, but because i was so damned good in the right hands, it was scary to watch, and scarier for DPS with their fragile health bars. Healers are a god-send, and NEVER let anyone tell you otherwise.
You evil human
"We're going cliff-diving, Wesley!"
"...Wait, whaAAAAAAAHHHH!"
"ISN'T IT EXHILARATING, OLD BEAN?!"
"I HATE YOOOOOOUUU!"
That point about the healers generally seeing who needs what kind of healing is pretty spot on. As a healer, we generally see EVERYTHING the party is doing, so we both know when you're screwing up as well as how much healing you actually need. If a healer is calling you out on something, you're generally the one messing up. I tend to stop supporting those players until they either leave or learn.
Why isn't this comment getting more likes?
Maybe this shouldn't be how it works. Maybe it should be the DPS who has a "to nearest healer" indicator and Bitching Betty constantly telling him it's his responsibility to go there.
Naw, don't hate on them for being overexcited, but DO hate on them if they even THINK of sending abuse your way.
*Sees tank at green health across the map*
*Dips to yellow*
*Dips to orange*
*Heals the dps*
@Soloman Grundy Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check him out!
While leveling through WoW dungeons, there was a shaman who hung back with me in case the tank lost aggro. Enemies would come after me often as tanks bum-rushed, but Superstar Shaman used a knockback to push mobs back to the melee. I felt so indebted to that rare kindness that I carried him through WoW dungeon queues up to max level. :')
I was just saying on another post how healers have a long memory for random acts of kindness cos it happens so rarely.
Epic
Yes
No but same. Like the second we healers get someone who helps us, we will glomp on for dear life and forever heal them first.
Don't forget the people who insist on standing in fire when you're trying to heal them and make you work significantly harder to keep them alive.
I'd let them die.
Red circles mean stand here righttt..?
*plays mercy and heals*
*DPS stands in heavy fire*
*H O L D S L E F T C L I C K H A R D E R*
Crendoor. Get out of the fire 🔥
Agreed. I play Healer main (but also play other classes) on FF14 and I use rescue to save their stupid asses XD
I love being blamed for letting people die while i'm playing whack-a-mole with health bars by the person who insist of using all their travel abilities to move as far away from my healing radius as the game possibly allows.
If they don't stay near me then I guess they're good enough no not need heals. Oh look they're dead again! Maybe they'll stay close to me this time...
I don't run after people to heal them haha.
oh gooood dont remind me ... im getting flashbacks q_q
I love it when a charged Zarya is attacking me and reaper walks past me and then when i some how kill the Zarya reaper spams I need healing
Oh, a better one is when you're completely pocketing someone who thinks they can 1v5 the enemy team and that you can magically outheal damage from those 5 people.
Yeah but don't you like death
TLDR: healers can't cure stupid
Yes they can.
They excise the afflicted from the gene pool.
@@christiandelcarmen1278 aka "Let them die ^_^"
As a doctor in real life, there are no truer words
Medic can't cure stupid, but according to the comics, he took the other 8 classes souls and inserted them inside of him.
Medic still can't cure stupid, tho.
As the wise Sir Bronn of the Blackwater once said: "There's no cure for being a c*nt"
Once, while playing the Medic, my Heavy led us into a shielded corner for a second and dropped a Sandvich for me. I almost teared up with joy. Thank you, unknown random Heavy, I have never forgotten your kindness. Plus, it was a nice break from Scouts orbiting me spamming the MEDIC button.
Healers and tanks are best friends. Its amazing how those with the most HP value every little bit they receive.
*insert Grog and Pike from Critical Role here*
Sandvich make YOU strong
Bow-Tied Engineer Everyone’s gangster till the tank and healers are best buds.
Have sandvich, my dear friend, and stay strong. For when the front lines are riddled with bullets, it takes a real hero to run headfirst after them, and risk facing the second volley with noting but a medkit and some bandages.
@@themilkman1938 *us
"WhY aReN't YoU hEaLiNg Me?" Well, let's see, I can choose to keep the tank alive who is in turn protecting me while I heal others, or I can follow you stupid butt into direct lines and die healing your squishy butt...I think I'll heal the guy who's keeping me alive first
They don't have the attention span to listen to that let alone understand it
My personal favourite. I WAS. And healing the tank. I got the highest Healing in scenario. Not my fault your HP bar is always low.
"Medic! Why aren't you healing me?!"
"DUDE I'M UBERCHARGING THE FUCKING SOLDIER C'MON I'M TRYING TO-"
Xx_Scout_xX wants to call a vote
Medic (accused of not healing)
F1 Yes F2 No
1000 1
"Oh fuck off-"
Medic left the game (Removed from match by system)
I used to always play as a tank and protect my teammates. I barely get any kills but at least I'm appreciated. :')
Edit: spelling
@@Basedhistoryenjoyer Since I'm a Medic main, me and you can protec :O
You forgot one of the essentials: You are basically at fault for everything, at least if you ask all other classes.
Also: Getting out of sight is equally as anoyin g as getting out of range
The only thing you are not at fault for is your team winning
If a dps shits on the healer i might.... *forget* to activare my tankstance the next pull. Of course while telling the healer. You dont badmouth healers. Not in my group.
"I'm trying, but i'm not as trying as you are." Nice one, Ellen 😆
"I know what I'm doing" also takes the cake for me.
I need to remember that one.
Me: Stop dying like Lemmings!
This was in a Kigatilik fight in Champions Online. One of the boss mechanics is periodic AoEs that blanket the entire battlefield. IF you have enough healers you can outheal the AoE, otherwise players need to use defensive postures to reduce the damage they take. This group was trying to push through when we didn't have enough healers for that. I can't heal the entire team by myself. Especially since Cosmic fights aren't a team of 5 players. No, it's 15-30 players. a team of 5 I can heal by myself, the other 10-25? Maybe some of them, not all of them!
Yeah the pain and anguish in Glen's voice I related to that before folks having abuse at you when you wouldn't heal them on overwatch
Kell Antonio so me and Ellen have to deal with this and there is someone on my team who just gets them self killed then everyone hates me because I am not playing support why does this happen to me also it doesn’t matter I am always getting focused
What do healers and artists have in common? They're never truly appreciated or noticed until they're dead.
Equanox Dragon prefect!
No wonder most healers I meet are usually artists in some way...
@@Not_Soundwave oof haha... it's funny... I'm an Artist... and I play a healer
Except in killing floor, if you are playing on higher difficulties the medic should be the last one to die, even though he also serve as a tank if the fleshpound is about to kill the sniper.
@@nstorm2415 emphasis on the word "should" rarely do things go as they Should.
Two things you forgot:
1. You are automatically attacked by FRICKIN' EVERYTHING. If it's not human players immediately targeting your butt, it's your healing abilities attracting the attention of EVERY NPC THAT WANTS TO KILL YOU because they generate threat FOR SOME REASON. (No, I'm not bitter.)
2. 99.9% of your experience playing different maps is staring at the health bars of your teammates. You could look at screenshots of a map and have no idea where it is until someone photoshops in some health bars in the appropriate place they should be on your screen. Only then you can vaguely recognize it.
On a side note, nice to see Oxboxtra also can't play WoW with the standard HUD. Nice screen layout! And thank goodness Deadly Boss Mods exists.
Your second point is too real 😅
The accuracy hurts
while playing a different game, "perfect world", i noticed that "damage over time" spells have a very low "threat" value...
another thing you forgot: anytime a girl plays the healer, she's immediately the " just heal me and i will be your boyfriend and do stuff in the dark alleyway" stuff. trust me, i know about all of that
This is so accurate. And the second one personally attacks me as a healer. Because I just realized I actually spend my whole time in game watching health bars 😂😂😂
Jane saying she loves us healers gave me a warm feeling. it's nice to be recognized, even vicariously. Thanks, Jane!
I would like to take a moment to thank all the good people who actually move out of the AoE targeting circle.
I know right, these days I generally pick the healer class in most mmorpgs that I play, it wasn't until I first tried healer however did I start to admire how players seem to predict where you will throw down AoE heals and either disperse or change direction for no apparent reason.
@@hundredshadows1625 Or the ones who need it the most standing right outside of it.
@@hundredshadows1625 I think he was referring to enemy damage AoE's. It's stupidly common for DPS to see an incoming AoE and just stay still expecting you (the healer) to save them while you're busy healing other people like the tank.
@@asherandai1000 I am well experienced in both cases. A lot of DPS players will focus purely on how much damage they can do (no complaint there) but they seem to forget to move out of AoE attacks as they don't understand how hard it can be as a healer.
That said in a game like Neverwinter (which is the one I am most invested into) there is a lot of AoE ground targeted heals and players of all classes seem to have mastered the art of avoiding these AoE targets with last minute changes in direction.
@@hundredshadows1625 I'm assuming the damaging and healing AoE's have a different coloration to show that the former is the one you avoid, and the latter is the one you actively seek out?
Because it seems like their brains are switched and they do the exact *OPPOSITE* of that.
"You're not doing _anything_ ! Look at those damage stats!" - "Actually I'm saving mana for healing and keep you alive. But I can skip you if you don't want that."
From then on he kept dying. Because the enemies were the hardest ever. Must have been an update. And nobody supporting him, our best player.
From then on he was skipped during invitation phase already. Made it easier not having to remember whom not to heal.
Hhhh mood
I've gotten more damage as a fucking Yuumi then my bot lane before.
And then got flamed
The high you get for doing more damage than the damage dealers as a healer in Paladins is more dangerous than crack cocaine.
@@MoonlitRose101 I do that because I'm something like Pyke or Karma, but I could pull it off with Rakan possibly. If I stop being bloodthirsty first lol
@@nisnast Nice comparison. 👍
Dunno how others do it and it surely depends on the game, play style and skills chosen. Personally I played a WoW priest, holy skilled, quite big party, always low on mana and high on enemy attention _but_ : never too much. Seldom got complains about my healing or play style.
Definitely I wasn't the best healer ever but I can honestly say: I did my job.
@@LadyGameshine makes sense with pyke tbh. And same with the bloodlust
Cant hurt my adc if their dead!
Lucio players when a Genji asks for (demands) healing: "I'm dancing as hard as I can, why is your squishy bum in the middle of their team?"
As a Mercy main, I'm ALWAYS expected to pocket Genjis and Pharahs into a suicide dive when I'm the only healer
I used to play genii now and then but I would always get out of the fray after dealing some damage if I’m on low health, after that I’ll normally go after a health pack.
Why can't every healer have a line like this?
"look, I am pointing at you but your health keeps going down. Try not being an idiot?"
They're probably expecting an Amp It Up for the faster dancing, or maybe they're not paying attention and think you're still on Speed Song.
It's never the DPS' fault. NEVER. Also, I stopped counting how many DPS demanded the supports to pick what the DPS wanted. And Jeff help you if you dare to heal the tanks too much.
On the plus side, there's always the camaraderie you feel between you and the opposing team's healer. Nothing like hello-ing the other team's Mercy when you're sneaking back to your team, because you know they won't grass to the Junkrat they're topping up.
@@a-aronander-son5861 hmm one of the things I remember from the Overwatch League matches is that One guy who used the handle Neptune(or something like that) had wickedly impressive skills at headshotting people with Mercy's sidearm. (Heal heal heal, oh there's an enemy at low health, BANG!, heal heal heal.
When you fight your way over to a downed companion and half way into the heal they give up and just respawn. COME ON! I risked my life to get to you and you just give up on me?!
Oh I feel this in my bones😭
What I find worse than this is in a WoW when after the fight everyone stays lying there expecting you Rez them without asking. Like, you stood in a pool of lava for 5 minutes wasting my mana. Respawn yourselves. I’m saving my mana for the tank.
@@rjlizama-reyes9135 dont get me started on squishy dps's just standing in the enemy bosses red ring of doom . Look dude if they good enuff to give u a big ol warning tge damage is commin, you want to NOT just stand in it.
depending on the game that might be down to auto-respawn timers, I remember one MMO I played a while back gave you 20-30 sec cooldown on rez (depending on how many points you invested into skill cooldown) and 2 minutes to get rez'd before you'd auto respawn. admittedly, rez in that game was almost instant cast, so they were more likely to time out while you are on cooldown than as you are rez'ing them, but still, do they give a crap you rez'd the tank twice so the whole raid didn't fail? nope, they're mad you didn't rez them before the boss died so they could leech back some of the xp they lost when they died off it
Yeah
When your Movespeed is lower than everyone else's and you get locked out from somewhere because the others are bumrushing
Is that really the case? The Medic is the 2nd fastest in TF2.
Is that unique?
Yeah it is. Most games healers are very slow.
@@Delightfully_Bitchy counter point, medic has no self-inflicted mobility option, putting him, I believe, at 6th place in terms of mobility
Basic Healer's Adage:
If the healer dies, it's the tank's fault
If the tank dies, it's the tank's fault
If the dps dies, it's their own fault
meanwhile, Basic DPS Adage: If anyone dies,it's the healer's fault
I agree, mostly. To hell with DPS, but sometimes, *sometimes* I'll take blame for the tank dying, mostly because I let dps bitching get to me and focused on them for too long...
@@Ulzorn also DPS adage: if the tank dies the healer makes a handy human shield while running away.
@@grantnakaya1637 yet another:the tank is a great shield to hide behind when theres cleave going around
o definitely. dps jumps head first into 1v3 regularly.
In RPG's I always try to have at least one dedicated healer while everyone else has at least a basic healing skill/spell. In a solo RPG it's one of my first skills to get. Medics are the true heroes- always needed, never appreciated.
sam ecan be said for tanks ^^
@@irimac1806 Tanks get a lot more respect most of the time. Still an underappreciated class. When the 2 most underappreciated work together they are nearly unstoppable.
So much this. When playing any game, I always make sure to get at least one healing skill as early as I possibly can regardless of which class I'm playing. Life steal or a HoT skill is invaluable, even for a DPS, and I'll take that over being a glass cannon any day of the week.
@@faealiciadotsys Both are a great combo
If I can get a basic heal with ohter class I always put it on the first bar.
As a person who usually plays the Healer in any game where there's a healer spec/class, I approve of this entire video's message. Now, everyone can go back to ignoring me while I cry my salty tears of healing anguish all by my lonesome...
NO FRIEND. I shall cry with you.
Mind if I join?
@@rift7609 can I?
Can I to
I ended up becoming the healer in my first WoW guild. We were all IRL friends, and I was a druid. I learned by class and got really good. It became a point of personal pride to try and keep everyone at no less than 75%. I'd even see how close I could get my HPS to their DPS. I also used to see people soloing world bosses and switch to healer spec to keep them going. It's amazing how fast you can two-man quest chains when you don't have to stop to rest.
Me: “I’m out of mana, gimme a sec to eat.”
Tank: *runs out of reach and pulls 50 trash mobs*
Me: *still sitting down eating* “DIE.”
"No Leeroy, you DON'T get any heals because I told you to fuckin' WAIT. If you can't follow a simple 1 word instruction, YOUR BREATHING PRIVILEGES GET REVOKED!"
I knew of a raiding guild in WoW with the rule "You spank it, you tank it.", to discourage DPS charging ahead. One time, it was the healer who pulled the next boss. Cue them attempting to solo a boss because the rest of the party was still resting up.
And then there's the "I'm to scared to be infront" DPS/Tanks who hide behind the healer and you as healer has to go first, has happened to me a few times in MOBAs, and when you retreat behind your team, they go even further back. Like why are they hiding behind the healer in the first place?
Some of these complaints can be refitted for tanks. Like “no one is taking advantage of my shield “ or “The medic and I were abandoned by the dps and now stand alone again the enemy team.”
oh yeah and then it takes ages to take down the mobs the dpslers left for us -.-
As someone who switches Healer and Tank (also DPS, I'm actually not picky about role) YES!
Then there are those who gave up on playing DPS at all because people insta lock so you are left with playing tank and healer exclusively so you know the pain of your team being no where near objective.
I usually locked onto the tank because me the healer is wearing paper machie vs what the tank has
Depending on the game if the dps leave the tank & healer behind it just means that the dps die while the tank & healer (slowly) finish the dungeon by themselves
As someone who only plays healers, my most-used phrase is "I'm sorry, I can't heal stupidity"
XD
The truth has been spoken.
You can. You can leave them to die. It's why the Nightingale Pledge is a bit better than the Hippocratic Oath.
If it's deletrious to health, they will kill it if needed.
i might use that line when im healer aka 99% of the time
@@christiandelcarmen1278 and there's a line of within my care. You leave, you are no longer in my care.
Healer mains are super underappreciated. When they focus on healing, others think they are not doing anything. But when the healers do kills, others think they are stealing kills
Thank you :)
same with supports in general in MOBA games
except Pyke in LoL, he shares the gold (only with ult)
@@omoriperocondrip9130 Not wrong lol
@@SabDrawsArt I, as a support, know that I'm not that important to the team, so when everyone goes to bottom lane (and there's no chance for both to escape), I told my adc to run and I distract them with stuns while I try to run
@@omoriperocondrip9130 But here the conundrum. even if you are support, you are just as important. Sure its one death over both dying; but the role of a support in my opinion is to try and keep everyone alive, INCLUDING yourself.
If you die first, who is going to give cover fire? Who's is gonna buff up/heal/shield the team?
Sure being a sacrificial lamb some times is good for the grand scheme of things; but always? You will end up feeding the team and they will ungratefully blame you at the end.
“Party member gets blasted by an ability I can’t outheal and would instakill them if they don’t do something specific.”
Party member- “worst healer ever.”
Seriously. Avoid some damage people. You have defensive abilities and movement. Use them.
Or Ragnarok Online with some bosses that have one shot abilities period. "Weak healer."
“You didn’t heal me while I died”
if you cant outheal boss damages thats on you. unless its after a dps check when the boss instakills the party.
That feeling when you are playing a healer and you have to threaten to WALK the dungeon to get your tank to pop his enmity stance and actually tag the enemies. I constantly have to train my tanks and the naughty one I play limbo with their hp bar
You have to basically "hold em by the balls" to get them to go wherever you go.
If you're the primary tank you go into the damn dungeon and turn your emnity stance on. If you're the off tank, then figure it out.
The healers (god bless them) have better shit to do than keep the dps aggressively alive because some idjit forgot their damn tank stance
Source, a sprout who actually likes tank and recently learned the joy of playing with real people.
Also I do apologize if I'm bad at tank I'm still learning.
But also, i keep my stance on
As someone who regularly plays healers in Final Fantasy XIV, all I have to say is STAND IN THE DAMN BUBBLE!
If you die because you insisted on standing exactly 2 centimeters outside of my bubble of healing goodness then I have no remorse for you
god i love me that bubble! lol
Tank pulls two groups... has always been pulling two groups. I drop a bubble on the second group.... tank decides he's gonna pull bigger. "Seven Hells!"
@@FrenziedRoach I hate playing tank in FF XIV but I end up playing it. I get the F***ing DPS pulling in more enemies and B**ching at me for not tanking them. God I hate DPS.
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As a scholar main, i felt that one somewhere *deep.* That or i need to throw out my milk...
As a cynical healer with a decade of experience, I found that death is a good teacher. If someone is doing something stupid then they get no heals until they correct themselves. It's your own fault for standing in the fire.
Well said, hero.
Awe, you even beat me to the "standing in fire," adage!
Sadly there are ofcourse always those sad, sad cases that will just never learn.....I do not pity them, I pity their random groups.....
/Decade+ MMORPG Healer
that's my tactic too. If they run too far off without announcing any plan, they can fend for themselves.
Not just healers, but mages in general. People, we're squishy, we don't wear plate armor. Stand in front of us not behind.
"If I don't get hurt, the healer's job is easier!"
Not all healers are squishy but even the tuff ones get blamed by dps for everything that is (usually) the fault of the complaining dps.
@@brokenshard9323 What I hate the most are games that include healing aggro because it's a lose-lose situation. Don't heal enough - people die and you get blamed. Heal a lot - you die or get blamed for stealing aggro from tank AND dps.
@@NekoUriko if dps pulls the agro they should pause til the tank gets it back so that healer doesn't need to start spam healing to keep everyone healthy, negating the whole healing agro issue.
Yes, but no... Red, blue, black mages fall under the dps category and thus get no sympathy from this comment section.
Thank you everyone that brought up aggro so I don't have to
Yeah this is literally it. How can I be expected to cover 4 other people when 4 other people can’t even cover me?
"They run from you" why nerfing Terra's ultimate in smite was a bad idea. No ones gonna let you heal them, so her ult just sent a protective barrier around all your team no matter how far away from you they were that healed them once the barrier was broken after 4 hits. Then it got nerfed to being a smaller range.
Just healer things: constantly getting your healing nerfed so your team can call you useless even though you're just trying to keep them alive
I hate that, who decides that a healer/support needs to be nerfed.
Hearing Jane say "I love you medics" just made me feel happy
*Ellen
Nunyo bidniz 8:16 no it really is Jane
@@tomireland4740 oh, yeah. Brain fart, sorry😅
@@nunyobidniz Understandable. Jane is the evil overlord mad scientist type, after all. Not the one you'd expect to say something nice! ;)
How the entire enemy team diving just to kill you.
When you are doing an amazing job at keeping your entire team alive, the only ones to notice seem to be the enemy, who then mounts an entire siege just to take you down, meaning you will most likely be dead for 50% the game.
That is the truth the better the healer does the more targeted they are.
@@ignisshadowflame1027 and the less protected they are by the team because start to forget about their healer
As a diamond lulu/ sona Main season 5 and 6 this is so true
So I see you have also played Aphro/Hel in Smite
@@OcarinaOfBurr Mostly I play Da'ji but find myself still doing the most healing. Meditation cloak and towerdives are a good combo.
The tone of the jokes during this entire video had just the right amount of sass, saltiness and sarcasm. Loved it.
Because you showed battlefield 1 so much in this video it reminded me of the thing I hated most about being a healer in that game. I would literally spend 15 seconds running across a battlefield, dodging bullets and trying not to die myself... Literally get TO THE PERSON.... and THATS when they give up and decide to respawn. I was LITERALLY right there!
It still happens to me lmao
As I used to say to my WoW 10-man team "If you are out of my LOS, you are SOL!"
Also we had the "TGIF rule" - Tank Goes in First. Anyone who broke that didn't get healed.
Strict, but fair
The trick is just to heal people less and less the more they shout at you
Yep I have the golden rule of if you spam "Need healing" you don't get any unless everyone else has been topped off.
Also applies to Field Ops. Say you need ammo partway through the match and I'll bring you ammo. Tell me ten times that you need ammo when you literally just spawned and I'm trying to retain full mana for use in calling in mortars to stop the enemy tank and I'll ignore you. Tell me fifteen times that you need ammo when you literally just spawned and I'm trying to retain full mana for use in calling in mortars to stop the enemy tank and then push me off the place I climbed to get a view to call the mortars in on the right place to stop the tank, and I will turn round and call mortars in on the top of your helmet.
@@Sableagle why do I get the strange sense this might be inspired by real life
My early WoW guild healers had a game called "red light / green light"... if someone yells in chat "heal me" and a healer calls out "red light". All other healers can NOT heal that person.
The healer that called "red light" has to see how low they can get that persons health down to before fully healing them. "Green light" is called when they end the attempt.
We kept a score board awarding points on raid reports... the best way to score big was to get a dps with a slow ticking dot on them that would just about to kill them and watch them run around like crazy apologising.
@@boxhead6177 the dps always act all big and bad until they realize that their life is in your hands haha. I love letting DPS die for doing stupid things like standing in the fire and running off from the group to fight more mobs.
I felt this video so hard. Also, I was worried my dinner was going to be a bit bland, but the salt from this video sorted it right out
The dead by daylight clip hurt my soul.
I HAVE A PERK THAT MAKES ME HEAL YOU STUPID FAST WHEN I UNHOOK YOU, STOP MOVING!
"I need healing"
"doc! C'mon man!"
Those are the only two things that you'll hear when you play as a healer in two games.
In TF2 scout doesn't get healing. Scout and his little itty bitty health box can go get his own healing from pickups. And if Demo is wearing a shield he can charge his happy ass to a medpack too. Spy never screams for healing, he knows to handle it himself. Course spy gets real confused when he gets Uber too...2 seconds of confusion, 6 seconds of murder-rampage glee.
Nah, heal your scouts and demos, even if it's just for the speed boost.
Everybody gets POOTIS POOTIS POOTIS POOTIS P-
@@Chris_Sizemore I would rather the scout not steal my health pack for the 1000th time. Plus, scout having the smallest health pool means he's the quickest to heal up with a medigun, whereas health packs are based on percentage of max health. Everyone gets healing, and knowing how to make use of crit heals helps that a tonne. As does using the quick fix if you're the only medic on a 12 person team.
In ESO I was playing a healer and someone said I our tank was a bad tank because he needed healing, and I was a bad healer for not doing more damage. *sigh*
Tfw you out heal the other healer and the enemy healers, and at the same time out dps your own dps....
And still get called a trash healer..
Because "you're a healer, you shouldn't be dpsing."
Bruh, if you were staying alive for more than 3 seconds and doing your job, I wouldn't need to dps in the first place.
One tank in a dungeon I was in paused half way through and asked "how the fk is the healer doing more damage than the DPS?" (he was using some sort of DPS checking tool)
I was the healer and was easily keeping the party topped up, so threw out some spells while keeping an eye on the party health. Evidently I was doing more damage on the mobs than the DPS. ^_^
That's literally no excuse. You just play healer wrong
Note that this story is definitely from FF XIV, an MMO where all roles are expected to contribute a healthy percentage of damage unlike every other game featured in this video.
@@hhaavvvvii As someone who played that game, I can confirm that.
I once spent over 80% of a match as Lucio with 1 bronze medal and FOUR GOLDS.
I am not good at killing people. That team was pure garbage.
"Why won't you heal me?"
"My skills don't work on stupid."
Another thing you realize as a healer: you have the power to heal, but you also have the power NOT to heal.
That annoying tank player who spams the "I need healing" cue when they're not below half-health--let him die. Teach them a lesson on the true power of a healer.
Not to mention, they are the **TANK** they can keep fighting at near death.
The addition of the no button in overwatch has been very fun with that.
Ooo, my guildies and I occasionally ran pugs with bad tanks or healers back on WoW. Sometimes we'd just power through and try to teach them, other times... it was just bad. NGL I miss being a healer, but sometimes you're just like "hey wanna see some major damage from the healer?" "sure" healer: *logs out* *party wipes*
I remember the specific fight that I realized I could just wait a couple extra seconds before healing That One Player so that his health would dip from 75%+ until 15% before the heal kicked in just to scare his dumb stupid ass a bit for talking shit
I have never felt more powerful in my life than that exact moment.
Heavy: "MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC! MEDIC!"
Medic, having already completely overhealed the team and built an uber long before the calls started: "I am fully-charged!" **stands perfectly still**
Heavy: **charges into sentry nest and gets shredded**
Medic: **calmly ubers a nearby Demoman**
Getting blamed for lacking a specific niche healing skill.
Sometimes, your trusted healer might not have brought the perfect hammer for a specific nail to the battlefield. Maybe because enemy abilities vary from match to match and loadout is limited, so your kind physician thought bringing a hammer suitable to most nails seemed to be a choice more sensible than bringing a torx screwdriver to counter that one enemy that throws torx nails at your team. Or maybe it's a MMORPG and a new player did not have the gold to buy all the scrolls available yet, so some rather specific status effects remain outside the area of expertise. Point is, wait for that one time where the team actually is in need of a silver bullet rather than a standard 9mm, then sit back and count the seconds until the first person flames you for not anticipating this once in a blue moon situation.
This is very specific and i think you have played a MMO where the skills are tool based
Yep When playing Trinity on Warframe and getting slammed by people because I didn't take the max range mod and cannot reach them while they run all over the map during a hold objective mission. Or when I'd cast energy vampire and then no one is around to benefit from it.
Oh, no, this is a common tactic in many games, often used by people who can't admit their own shortcomings.
@@Vinemaple In Champions Online I had a guy yell for healing in a run of the Cybermind mission... thing is... this was a random PUG team. I had an AoE that could heal... but it wasn't good enough for me to be a real healer. So I told him if he really wanted healing that he had to stand next to me or there would be no healing.... he immediately shut up and started standing next to me :D
@@marhawkman303 You were one of the lucky ones ;)
When the guy running from you blames YOU for their demise.
That just happened to me the other day. I've actually sworn off healing from now on due to how common garbage like this is.
When playing Killing Floor one of our team frequently would try to unload a full assault rifle clip into the bigger enemies then run out of ammo before it died then run around screaming "I'm dying! I'm dying! no ones helping me" While I am trying to chase them to hit them with a healing needle from my medic gun. Too bad they did not have a tackle option so you could pin the player down while you heal them. Cue Dr McCoy line "Dammit! I'm a doctor not a linebacker!"
Michael Papadopoulos omg yesss lol at that point I just sit back and watch
"Out of line of sight" in World of Warcraft.
@@Vinemaple ugh, yeah. And what was in the way?
A rock, half the size of a dwarf.
I'm just gonna flex my teammate who shouted "DON'T WORRY, I GOT YOU COVERED" to me last week. You just got **ABSOLUTE PRIORITY** for my support.
When I play a tank this is usually me. Cool thing is in Ragnarok Online I dont even have to stand in front of them (usually a good idea anyway most of the time) as there is a skill that allows me to take damage for up to 5 teammates whether or not Im even tanking.
The worst is when a person does ALL of these in the same 20 secs that U ARE HEALING THEM and u just stare at them and shake ur head.
Ugh being a healer is hard!
I love this video.
This very morning I was playing ESO and my healer was killed because no one was protecting the healer.
And the others started spamming "heal?", "Need heals" on the chat. I had to reply "Can't heal while dead. Need rez".
Me in every MMO ever: 'Okay, I haven't done this dungeon before, so maybe... aaaaand you're all dead. Cool.'
Yepp, in Neverwinter i play/ed cleric healer and when i had to go the daily random dungeon for the reewards there were always players who never were there before and didnt sayx it! I, the healer who has to usually follow the tanks orders had to give orders. i now have the rule to ALWAYS ask first if anyones been there before and knows how to do it. The endgame dungeons are more than hacknslash and then i get blamed when they die -.-
"I am out of mana, can you wait a second while I drink"... and they all ran off and died instantly.
@@boxhead6177 and the inevitable flood of "OMG why healer not healing? KICK PLZ!"
So much this. Can't even phase in and get set up before everyone else is halfway down the bleeping hall. Okay, I'm just gonna let you fight that first boss. ALONE.
Had that back in the days due to connection loss usually. Start healing, see your character freeze mid buff, °oO( Nonono, not good! ) - restart router, didn't work. Reboot, felt like half an hour.
"Sorry, dc..." - a dozen friends mumble in teamspeak while you watch the mob retreat after successfully killing everybody. Ah, those were the days ... 🤩
Before I even watch it, if one of them isn't, everyone blames you for every death they have, this list is incomplete.
There is a lot more than just 7 things any healer main can tell you that.
Me playing healer: *dies*
What I see as soon as I respawn:
I NEED HEALING
CRITICAL
CRITICAL
I NEED HEALING
CRITICAL
MERCY GLIDE TO ME
I CAN'T GLIDE FROM BEHIND
WALLS YOU FOOL
@@wiiuandmii7619 I don’t do that I just turret mode on payload with reinheart keeping me protected until healer comes I don’t even now how to do the I need healing thing
And this is why I play Lucio. So I don't have to see that for long as I nyoom back into the fight.
........just to have them run into the enemy team before I get there
"All the fighters, and monks, and barbarians will look up and cry out 'heal me!'... and I'll whisper back, 'No.'" - Glendower the Cleric.
The healer arguement at character select. "We need a healer!" "Then you play one!" "NO YOU PLAY ONE!" UGH!! And then when you pick one, they hate the one you picked!!
What you learn in medic school, 1st task : survive, 2nd : do your job, 3rd : cry because no one is coming to help you
isn't it
1st: Survive.
2nd: Learn to hit Crits
3rd: Do your Job,
4th: Treat your team like dogs and teach them how to get your help; and more importantly how *not* to get your help,
5th: Cry because no one is coming to help you,
6th: Deal with the pain of constantly dying or being neglected
7th: learn patience to deal with particularly bad teams,
8th: Have a good secondary class if unable to do #7.
@@jaydeleon8094 they don't teach that in school tho, you learn those through experience
@@majesticbbqsauce727 True, though my advisor taught me those, said it would help my mental health in the long run.
@@jaydeleon8094 you met a rare good man, I am jealous my friend
The next Genji that spams for heals gets to be really fast all game.
When I would play genji I always felt really bad using that voice line because of people who would spam it
@@jacobdell7421 Don't feel bad. Just don't spam it. If everyone would just ask once for healing, the community wouldn't be as toxic as it is.
@@arthurdias5385 Or ask again only when the medic heals someone with much less of their max hp left then you.
@@ignisshadowflame1027 I do it if they constantly go in without some form of back up. It is amazing how quickly Genji players in my matches wise up to being smarter about their engages.
One thing that could've been on this list is "A person going away from the team while you are trying to keep the rest of your team alive and they get mad at you for not healing them." A Fernando was pushing by himself while 3 new players were struggling against to bots (this was a bot match). We failed to push the payload because of this and before the last round started the Fernando cussed at me and told me to heal him. I responded with "No." I still healed him in the last round because I'm a good support.
I thought you were going to say Reaper, because I've been in the EXACT same situation but in Overwatch with like 2 Reapers, some Junkrats and a few Reinhardts.
*as a healer, everything feels like pain*
When a healer finds a good group to play with they usually stick with that group. I love playing the healer class and all of these are pretty accurate.
And when a good group finds a good healer, they make sure to get that friend request in and let them know how appreciated they are. I remember joining a PUG to do 10-man Deathwing. It originally started as just seeing how far the group could get, and we ended up doing all eight stages over five hours. Everyone exchanged contacts. You don't waste meeting people that know their classes that well. He ended up inviting me to a bunch of dungeons and low raids to heal after that.
"Healer/Medic? Is that what that role is called? I thought it was called glorified babysitter it sure feels like it when I play healer" -My best friend
Playing as a healer made me appreciate how irritable Bones always is
And House.
Dammit I'm a doctor not a miracle worker
8:02 and all there is to it. Way too relatable, but there’s a worse one, that being games where you can ‘self-revive’ or respawn at camp(with the disadvantage of being at camp) and they do it RIGHT WHEN YOU REACH THEM, sometimes on purpose. Truly painful
“Heal me, I’m dying!”
-someone that has almost full health
Well in Ragnarok Online thats actually true as enemies do so much damage losing 1 hp out of 100k is almost dead.
Scunt flashbacks
The sad part the healer its not a person and just can hear HEAL, HEAL, HEAL, HEAL YOU @#&!!!" and when you do they respond WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG? well i dont know ALL THE OFFENSIVE ENEMIES TRAIN TO KILL ME BEACUSE IM THE HEALER IF THE TEAM!!!
Facts
Or they ran off while you are healing someone else
That person who said what took you so long must be Kojima
This was from Champions Online at the Teliosaurus Cosmic Boss:
Tank: why you not heal me, I nearly died!
Me: we had a near total party wipe! I had to self rez to heal you fast enough to keep it from being a total party wipe!
Tank: oh... ok.
Cosmics tend to be like that though. The tank CAN'T pay attention to the party. If they don't focus they'll either get KOed, or the boss will lose aggro... If the tank loses aggro, then the boss wipes the floor with the DPS and probably the healers. The previous example wasn't the tank messing up, just random bad luck.
There's also always that one DPS player that is constantly taking avoidable damage, like standing in fire. So you have to decide if it's worth spending the extra resources keeping them alive, potentially risking the success of the whole encounter, or just slowly giving them less and less healing until they either get the message or die.
Its not. Let them die.
In WoW I made a macro to say "%t FIRE BAD RUN AWAY!" at whomever I had targeted, just for this. Very satisfying.
@@herrskeletal3994 If I can do it without letting the people who aren't idiots get KOed I'll do it. :p
The Boss room in the Cybermind mission in Champions Online is like that. it has a damage effect that can kill you VERY quickly. BUT... it's not an insta-kill, so some super powerful healers can out heal it. But... can they do that while keeping the rest of the team alive? Depends on if the other 3 players are idiots.
What’s even more annoying than being an unappreciated healer, is when other people are playing healer and absolutely suck at it. Like in battlefield when people play medic with a syringe and don’t use it once the entire game, even when there is no incoming fire and there are 4 of them standing right on top of your body. Then the other one is when you are playing a healer and your team has a limited number of respawns, such as in battlefield modes like rush, and they keep skipping the revive when you are right next to them.
Or in games with advanced customization where you realize the guy trying to heal is using damage stats to fuel healing. doesn't give good heal magnitude... :/
Battle Mercys in Overwatch. Who take up a healer slot, and then proceed to never heal while bragging about how damage they did. Yeah, and maybe if you'd actually, I don't know, done the job you queued for, we'd have won.
@@zelamorre1126 I'll do you one better. How about Zen DPS's who sneak around and try to kill the enemy, not using their harmony orb once, and ONLY use their ult when they ultimately get surrounded and almost killed by the enemy when they are in the enemy's lap? As a Zen main, it always hurts inside whenever that happens.
“Honestly, medic. Such a Hippocrat.” This is peak comedy.
Getting MVP as sup/healer.
*FEELS GOOD*
"your weapon is garbage for some reason"
The medic with the ubersaw: well yes, but actually no
It got nerfed
@@gmailquinn what nerf did they give?
@@gmailquinn they didn't nerf the 99% crit chance
@@confused9413 from 25% uber to 10%
@@taozi7204 it rarely crits for me
I almost only play healer. There's a reason I don't play multiplayer games often.
Same.
I switch between healer and tank, and let me tell you...
@@RichardKing79 ohhhhh you poor sucker xD
@@RichardKing79 " if you want a job done right then you've got to do it yourself. "
Battlefield 4 is the only game where Medic is arguably the strongest class in the entire game. Hell, really EVERY class in Battlefield games is usually a support in some way.
I remember doing my first random pickup group run of Esseles with my Gunslinger. This was back before they'd made the flashpoints easy enough to solo at the same level. Me, thinking the Jedi Sage healer dude was important to our wellbeing, kept following them around and protecting them against mobs and bosses while they healed.
...for some reason none of the other DPS or Tank players appreciated this. Ironically, staying near the healer meant I also kept surviving, and when the group event was over the other players whined while the healer gave me some very valuable crafting mats, a fun mount unlock they had no use for, and eventually I joined their guild.
Funny how that goes.
This is like an essay I read on a guy that made a support wizard in D&D because some people he knew kept dying in their campaign, and they asked him to join and help. I guess the DM wasn't adjusting to compensate. Instead of taking damage spells, he focused on crowd control and giving his party advantage. Despite the fact that they started surviving, they kept giving him crap because he wasn't doing any damage. They just couldn't get that he was playing a part of the game they were ignoring. Like how tanks max out their dodge and armor, every attack that doesn't hit is less damage for the healer to fill back up.
8) Not reviving/supporting the toxic teammates so they remember who the one keeping them alive is.
Oh yeah. "Hey you, stop running away or I'm not healing you"
Ded
Dumbass: *surprised pikachu*
Corollary: not healing the players who are being racist/sexist/homophobic/etc. in chat. Because they can fuck right off.
I love hitting them with the partial revive when it's an option "oops sorry my finger slipped off the revive button bud"
9) when the tank gets involved because they *DO* know your worth.
The 110 dislikes are the absolute jerks that don't *support* us healers.
The dislikes might be because of the overwatch gameplay, like how in the moira clip, moira actually fed and then expected the rest of her team to fall back when she is walking back from respawn
Another issue: When you go "oom" and the tank keeps rushing forward and wonders WHY THEY DIED. Idk, maybe because I had no MANA to heal you!
I've always felt bad for healers in WoW, they get such a raw deal. I tank and dps, and regardless of my role I always make sure I know where the healer is at the start of the dungeon and make an effort to protect them. As a tank, healer gets first butt-saving priority. As a DPS, I'll pull adds onto myself that are swarming the healer if the tank doesn't get to them fast enough, because if the healer dies, we all die. Either way, I've got a ton of respect for healers who put up with everyone else in dungeons :)
To be fair: from a tactical perspective, being a healer class does turn the medic's cross into a target. I know this from both sides.
All the more reason to have more healers or have the players protect the healer better.
I'm new to these types of games and it baffles me that healers aren't a little tanker or better equipped offensively, but I guess that would be "broken"
I absolutely love playing support characters of any stripe in an fps, because my aim sucks and it makes me feel like I'm helping......
Same
this......this i feel
when people spam "i need healing" making me divert my attention to them and they end up being at like 299/300 HP
Healer/support main in most games here, and this is just an accurate list of my experience as a whole. It's a thankless job
Every time with "I main a healer bro, it's not that hard." Coming from the level 80 dps who has never played anything but highest damage combo
I've mained a healer for a really long time in WoW. I often find myself explaining mechanics to unwitting dps who die but don't understand that hey, maybe standing in the fire hurts! I end up having to not only play my character, but monitor everyone else and make sure they're doing their job correctly too.
Also, the feeling of knowing that if you don't go healer no one else will really sucks.
Haven't played WoW in ages, but I remember low-level Protection Warriors to be really fun. Running out of range to get more mobs because they "need more rage" while keeping only one or two aggroed and then complaining about the long-dead healer 'cause they died:]
@@sebastianwlodarczyk Healing leveling dungeons is a special kind of hell lol. I healed m+ for a monk tank this tier who made sure he was always *just* out of my range. Of course, he could handle himself, but just seeing him greyed out on my raid frames was literally just the norm.
Dude that intro had the best jokes yet. Imagine thinking supports could get love.
Only love I get as a healer if from the rare tank mains who have learned that they need me as much as I need them. A tank who is aware of their need of a healer is very protective of said healer.
@@whitefanful The best tank is the one reminding you to mana up because they're keeping an eye on you better than you are on yourself. 💜
These two comments above me are some of the best I heard.
The only ones who respect healers are normally tanks and healers. No one else seems to realize without a skilled healer the team is not likely to win.
The thing for me with healing is just this: Rewarding healers. Like, in Shinobi Strikers I'll bust my ass off keeping the rest of the team alive and get the lowest score
I'm a healer main in literally every game, currently playing a shit ton of FF14. I felt all of this on a spiritual level.
It's sad that this list explains one of the biggest reasons I main RDM...