On the occasions I do jump into a BG, I don’t worry about objectives.
As a healer who actually heals, my best placement is in a pack of friendly players. It doesn’t matter what they’re doing, I can make them feel like twice their numbers and they will steamroll a group of the same size with no healer.
This does assume that they bother to use their various stuns to protect me. If they don’t, then I’m first to die, and then we lose.
I thought we’d always blamed the hunter. Times a’ changing.
Imma go need roll a dagger now
don’t worry you get that spotlight again in classic when every items is a hunters item and hunters always forget to turn off their pets taunt
As you can see depending on perspective it can be anyones fault lol.
Sad truth is its usually EVERYONE’s fault. Try to be nice and helpful
If its not the healer its the tank, if its not the tank, its the dps, if its not the dps, its lag, if its not lag, its the healer. You get the idea.
I don’t call anyone out but when I see healers on my team sometimes doing less healing that dps I grin my teeth a little and hope I don’t queue into same bg with them again.
Even though I get your point of view, I can also get why some complained then.
As a healer you can focus on the BG-objectives alone, but if you’re the only healer or one out of two in a 10-man bg (no clue since you didn’t remember what bg it was)…you basically made sure the rest has no chance to survive unless the opponent is really terribly bad.
What’s the point in joining as healer if you don’t heal your team?
When I heal BGs I never sit in one spot for an extended period of time. You go in, help cap and move somewhere else to do the same.
People can’t DPS if they’re dead.
That said, if people allow you to get CC chained and burned down in one shot they don’t deserve healing.
I always start with a “No peels, no heals” as a warning.
its a mmo fact when it goes belly up its the healers fault even if the real fault is with others lol
The chance is always higher , that the healer is failing than the dps.
If your healing is low , you are the reason the bg was lost
I’ve had that happen quite a few times when I still did a lot of random bg’s. And it usually boiled down to dps fighting nowhere near a flag in AB, on the road, all the time, and me sighing and deciding to go cap some flags to at least have a small chance.
Healers don’t usually want to cap and def flags on their own. When they do it’s often a case of the dps not being capable of rubbing two braincells together and even less, figuring out that what they are doing is counterproductive.
I think we all know that type of bg.
I always blame the healer. It is his fault that I stand in fire and take everything to my face.
And on unrelated note: For some reason all my guild’s healers doesn’t want to run dungeons with me. Weird isn’t it?
It’s as simple as the healer is listed as their role being “reverses damage taken” therefore any damage that results in death Is seen as reversable, so people ask “OMG heals?”
This doesn’t factor in high content where a healer cannot just heal everyone off for 10% mana unlike levelling dungeons. There’s too much dmg in high mythic and potential strain on healer mana pool to allow people to just facetank abilities.
This is also why tanks are blamed a lot. As their role is to take damage in place of others, so again people will go all “OMG aggro” and ignore their part of responsibility such as not going total ham straight up before threat is established and a pack is yet to clump up, or mobs who have no aggro table. Easier to just blame the guy who is listed as being able to stop this.
Had a great example of this last night in TD. We had a demon hunter who was getting on my back about timing (we still made +3), yet he soaked every single lockdown cast towards the end and predictably was all “OMG tank/healer!?”. We very nearly didn’t make the plus 3 due to these deaths. Not our job to dodge big obvious swirlies for you mate.
Yeah that’s true, but it’s hard to take away from the OP’s post what really happened.
I don’t often play BGs but I will say that if you do join as a healer, it’s often a good idea to call out where you’re going and what you’re doing. It often makes a few DPS buddies tag along with you who just want the privilage of receiving a few heals. Of course, in that case you still do have to provide heals, but you won’t be much use dpsing anyway.
Also, don’t bother with defending objectives unless they’re actively under attack. Usually everyone apart from 1 or 2 DPS will get bored and charge off, and then you won’t really be very helpful. Try to pick the next best place where your team is that would help keep the objective defended instead.
Usually when the whole team is complaining about you, it’s not that they’re just looking for someone to blame, it’s actually you probably not doing what you’re supposed to. In BG’s healers should stick to the main groups. If they go off by themselves or with 1-2 players at most, they’re not doing their job correctly.
Same thing in dungeons. Healers who are usually blamed either aren’t skilled enough to heal, or don’t know how to dispel etc etc. The reason healers get blamed often is that most people are bad at them, and they have a relatively big responsibility.
“why always blame the tank”
“why always blame the deeps”
Can’t DPS if you are waiting to rez in GY …… Healers that sit alone “guarding” a flag in AB are common, and not asking for a DPS to come and take over. So they can help the team cap / defend where they are actually needed.
btw I’m coming from the perspective of someone who plays healers in BG’s most of the time
In a PuG setting I never expect some healing so if anything I’m happy someone take the time to target my sweet butt for some heals.
Blaming the healer/others is a pure classic of a bad player.
I blame myself. My deeps are usually so high I pull threat from the tank and get swarmed.
Yes, I flexed. Deal with it.