Hi, I have about 6000 hours in the game.
I wanted to try the Healer class, but there is something strange here or I have a skill issue that I can’t quite understand.
I tried the healer class as 200 con 310 focus with 625 gs stuff
I have a set of about 3 elemental aversion, 3 freedom and 5 resilient that I obtained from the existing opr boxes.
Healing the team and reacting to the greatsword that comes upon him at the same time, and doing very little damage while doing this.
It’s a very challenging situation mentally.
It’s a very tiring situation mentally, frankly, I didn’t enjoy playing healer because even a single DPS will completely finish your healing ability.
At the same time, I felt very, very tired when the opr came to an end with the greatswords that came upon you, while taking a good position and following the group and healing.
I’ve played Hatchet greatsword many times and haven’t felt this tired after playing it.
Yes, I’m asking the people who play the healer class among us?
Is the problem that the healer class is too hard or is it my skill problem?
What was your secondary weapon? You will want rapier in most situations, however I personally enjoy void gauntlet more, even though the weapon is underwhelming in the current meta (and void blade hit radius is actually broken )
Some healers go hammer for grit and cc, and some to spear.
You need to gear for what kills you. This means slash and thrust gems with elemental aversion to counter muskets.
I would say shoot for 3 aversion and at least 16 percent for both slash and thrust resist. Graveyard seal from ss this week is a good solution to slash. Physical aversion pretty useful too fyi.
Don’t get hyped up on shirking fort. It was very dodge dependent and is getting nerfed anyhow.
I haven’t gotten into pvp yet, but since this feels more like a thinly veiled “nerf greatsword” thread I’d just like to mention that its getting nerfed a bit already in the next patch. In case you hadn’t seen that.
You are right. There are people who think healer is easy and I tell you they have no idea. I play since 3800 hours healer. For variety bruiser and mage.
The biggest danger for a healer are the overpowered Greatswords. They don’t allow you to make a mistake when one is on you. If 2 come e.g. GS and Bow you are screwed and other players too.
The advice of position and other blah blah blah is useless, they are right but it’s theory.
A GS takes a tank apart in a few seconds. I have made several videos for training to analyze such situations.
Experienced MMORPG players knew months before that a new weapon will be OP. It was the same with Voidgauntlet and Blunderbuss. But what they did with the GS is far from any balancing. I have played the weapon and know what I’m talking about. You can hunt complete and make incredibly high damage with low skill level.
It’s not about surviving forever, it’s about having a chance to survive against a weapon. If you give the GS to an experienced player, he will mill through the people and especially the backline where the healers are.
It is ok that there must be a counter to healer. But not an OP weapon on steroids
The patch will come and we will see. I do not have great confidence in AGS. They have little experience and are very bad at balancing weapons and perks.
Stay hard and heal that is a good and important role
This is result of constant whine and complain about healers for doing healing. Shocking isnt it?
On the same mentality tanks got nerfed to the ground for nearly 1 year because tanks were tanking.
I’ve played as tank at release then switch on heavy healer, then switch on void blade medium then switch to light healer and now playing medium bruiser GA/WH/GS/Hatchet/SnS.
I can say DPS builds are easiest to play in both PvP and PvE.
In PvE always the blame is on Tank or Healer, even if DPS are 5-50 con and dieing with 1 hit because they dont know to dodge.
In PvP Healers are taking the most blame and hate. Hate from ‘enemy side’ for healing, blame from ‘ally side’ when healers die or are under pressure and cant heal.
Healers have no stagger, escape, CC and lowest dmg in game yet there still are plenty ‘smart’ guys asking Life Staff to be banned in Arena or asking Life Staff to be nerfed because its healing.
All while they never take Plague Crit or Plague Strike on any weapon, not using anti-healing skills/combo or anti-healing rune.
And the most of complainers NEVER played Healer role to see how easy or hard it is in competitive fights or simple OPR’s.
It’s normal to feel overwhelmed in situations against someone, like a GS, chasing you down.
Only way it becomes less stressful is to have someone that can peel for you. If someone provides pressure to the person attacking you they will instantly back off and await the next opportunity to jump on you.
Their only job is to go after healers, so having someone who can peel for you will work wonders.
Healing in pvp is honestly a lot like bruiser builds, they are average at best solo, but together they can give a full 5 stack a run for their money (assuming 5 stack does not have a healer)
Andy first of all i want to welcome you brother to the healers union, im gunna be blunt i have not met a single healer who is does not have masochistic tendency or not mentally ill.
soon you will be mentally broken and start to enjoy the pain of being a healer c: again welcome <3
I was talking to a company m8 today about same thing.
Anyone can dump abilities, A healer’s value is scouting the map, positioning properly and MOST IMPORTANTLY knowing what you will survive and what you wont. 1 Greatsword should not be killing you at all, figure out what combos they use and outplay them. Once you get understanding of every other class, healer gets super easy to play.
playing healer in mmos is for people who have lost faith in their fellow players and humanity in general.
you can also not help but feel useless or defenseless when the only thing your kit has is support for others that is interrupted every 0.69 nanoseconds in any form of larger scale pvp combat (>5v5).
our kit has nothing that does really help us cc/defend from a target, we only have targeted healing or ground aoe, both of which can be countered easily.
it is far more challenging to peel for a healer and try to protect him - stunning/cc in an aoe around a healer and praying the guys not take any damage is way more unrealistic than 2 or 3 dps/assassin players just rotating their cooldowns on a healer.
