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• • Are you entitled to get heals?

  • Just a note: On naked people.

    If they are level 6 or lower, I don't care. They are doing it for tome unlocks and except for tanks any benefit from armor is completely minimal, especially when you consider how fast these people level to 6 doing only scenarios on a populated server.

    Higher than level 6, I have a problem. Armor starts to make a difference and they should have access to decent stuff just from the renown vendors.

    Even then, I don't single them out for no heals. I do lower priority on people who's health drops too quickly to keep up with or just too quickly to put ahead of someone else in need of healing, but that's on a second by second, situational basis.

    Maybe I'm just a rare healer. I try hard to never alter my play in a negative manner in reaction to the actions of others. Why let anyone drag me down? If we fail, at least I know I did my best.

  • Posted: 10/09/08 4:54 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Servers down , Wonder why ?

  • Yeah, in game they blammed it on "log in issues", but the server pop seemed on par with any other weekday afternoon and I haven't seen any actual complaints by people not being able to log in.

    So, I'm making a wild guess some wierd and easy to find exploit crept into this patch and they needed to fix it, or they made some other big boo boo.

  • Posted: 10/09/08 4:41 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • Are you entitled to get heals?

  • Funny thing about this thread.

    In the past few weeks, once I really started to get how to effectively heal in this game, I have not had a single complaint, or even heard someone beg for a heal. Not once in dozens of hours of Scenarios. Often, I'm hearing people say "Who ever has been healing me, thank you", or "Great Healz people".

    I usually sympathise with healers and the whining they sometimes have to deal with in MMORPGS. However, this is a game where player skill pays off exponentially in healing capability. It can be pretty obvious when someone is a bad healer.

    If you are getting multiple complaints, I hate to break it to you, but you may just be the problem.

    BTW, I always heal my entire Scenario Warband, party is irrelavent. I also don't care what class someone is. I'm juggling heals based on the second by second situation. Occassionally, a squishy who isn't playing smart will find themselves low on a priority list, but only because I see health going down too quickly to save at a time when there are healing priorities elsewhere.

    I've only excluded a person from my healing rotation once and that was a Rank 11 Magus who was very obviously there to farm points with next to zero contribution on their own part.

  • Posted: 10/09/08 4:27 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • I want to be a Healer , so let me Heal !!!!

  • When the servers are back up, maybe I'll have to roll another Archmage to verify some things.

    I never felt gimped healing as an Archmage. However, since then I've played a Zealot, which is considered the "pure healer" on the Destruction side.

    It's easier for Arch Mage to throw a little meaningful DPS in, but you have to resist the urge to put any DPS as a priority over needed healing.

    At lower levels, I know Arch Mage suffers in single person burst healing. You definitely need to intelligently spread those Heal over Times around and hope for some help on single targets.

  • Posted: 10/09/08 4:08 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • I want to be a Healer , so let me Heal !!!!

  • Originally posted by summitus
    

    Originally posted by Buko
    

    Originally posted by summitus

    
    Who said I was'nt good at playing a healer ? IMO its broken simple as that more group Buffs and heals are needed especially with the Imbalance between Destruction and Order , you know we are not all fans of frantic button bashing just to do something that should be there in the fisrt place .... but your obviously perfect so I'll leave it there ...
     

     

    If you can't do it, it must be broken o_O?

    
     

    Why is just because some people think some things could do with a little tweaking .... people start screaming you cant do it or you must be a crap at playing your class, just because someone has other ideas of how a class should play does'nt mean to say they dont know how to play their chosen class..

    sheesh people please realize everybody's different and stop saying such upsetting things  ...

     

    If you are going to put out ideas on changing things, you need to allow for people to disagree, either on the nature of the changes or the need for changes at all.

    I did the "level a healer to Rank 12" thing numerous times between Open Beta and retail. I've gotten better with each pass and I appreciate the classes much more now that I some what understand them. Not that my understanding is complete, I know I still have a lot to learn.

    I would disagree with healers in this game being more focused on group heals, because to me that lessens skill and player involvement and makes healing just too passive. For me, if you could just spam group heals and be an effective healer, that would be very boring. Thus, I disagree.

    Nothing personal.

    I do feel bad for healers who give up on the game too quickly. Given the fact I have continued to learn the classes and the skills needed to successfully play them every day I play, I think too many are not giving themselves enough time to learn and adapt.

    When transitioning from one game to another, you not only need to learn new ways, but forget the old ones. You can't expect to come to WAR from WOW and not have to adjust.

  • Posted: 10/09/08 3:49 PM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)