Healer, tank or dps?
Healer, healer, healer.
I feel seriously out of my element when I'm not able to heal myself. I've struggled to try to play as a tank and as dps, but I've always come back to healing.
My first toon to make it to high level was a Warlock. In retrospect, I now know what types of toons are more easy and more difficult for me to play. Warlocks were and still are very hard for me. I did try my hand at tanking via a Paladin that I promptly abandoned after reaching level 80, and a Death Knight that still isn't even level 80. I'm currently in the process of attempting to learn to be a dpser (see my many alts).
Since I'm no longer focusing on end game raiding but more on the journey, I think that my time as purely a healer may have come to an end. That said, as a dpser or a tank, my primary goal is always survival, whether it be in a raid or pvp setting or just out questing. There's a reason why I tend to follow roads rather than cross country. The lessons I learned leveling my squishy Priest as Holy stay with me still. Never pull more than one mob or a quick death may ensue.
I'm definitely not a healer. Well, I can be - I do enjoy healing to a certain extent, but I also find it pretty frustrating.
ReplyDeleteI hate how dps and even tanks are so lazy and expect you to heal anything. Like after a boss fight.. you're all low on health and mana.. and you sit down to drink. And you see everyone else just standing there.. I just want to yell WHY AREN'T YOU SITTING DOWN TO EAT YOU LAZY BUMS?!
Instead I have to get my mana back.. heal them to full.. then sit back to drink again..
But I think I digress :P I think my original point was eh.. not a healer.. but maybe a bit of everything :)
Haha! I have those frustrated moments too, but when it comes to dungeons and raiding, I feel far more comfortable as a healer than in any other role. Some people heal because it will get them into raids, but they don't really like it. Some of us are true healers at heart.
ReplyDeleteI actually envy you your versatility. As many times as I try to play as "not a healer" I always end up healing again.
I think, at the bottom of it all, healing allows me to flex my OCD muscles. I'm absolutely obsessed with keeping the green bars full, even when I can't even heal. My partner in WoW-crime will attest to that. We leveled DKs together, and I made mine a Draenei just so I'd have Gift of the Naaru. Every time it was on cooldown I'd use it, usually on him because he never sat to eat as much as I felt like was needed.
When I'm questing on my healing-able toons, I will throw heals on any random stranger I see.