yes.
butbut no being healer feels more like… caring for a friend. which doesnt feel like a responsibility and more like a thing u do cuz- cuz u like those peeps andandand- want to…,. help them. 🍼 yes, help.
(some day I will be mama or mama-like)
I think you’re well on your way! Mother hen clucking over your family is 80% of mama-hood. Keep some snacks and Band-Aids in your purse and you’re golden.
In my case I like being a healer because it’s the one role nearly everyone else tends to be dogshit with and constantly wiping doesn’t scream “fun” to me. I was the main healer and raid leader for my guild when I played WoW (holy priest, never respecced), and I genuinely enjoyed the constant stream of things to pay attention to. As long as my running mates were doing their jobs adequately, my job was very active-zen. We rarely wiped, and even PUGs went smoothly most of the time because a good healer can make up for a lot of shit from a bad tank or aggro-pulling dps.
I had a couple mods, nothing that automated heals or anything, just UI tweaks to clean up clutter and then add more, but different, clutter, like an extra 3 rows of hotbinds and combo macros so literally everything was easily accessible. Cuz if you think I used keybinds to cast anything, you’d be wrong. Clicky clicky!
Kinda miss playing, tbh, but I stopped liking the sort of people who play it…
I play support in Overwatch because I still get to shoot at people but I can also shoot at my teammates to heal them. I enjoy shooting at people.
Video game responsibilities can often give a sense of validation, especially if you’re in a situation where it’s uncertain whether you’re going to be able to handle your real responsibilities, or if they feel too big.
It’s also low risk as you can just play another game if you lose rather than needing to make up for your mistakes.
I mean, maybe for some people being supportive and helpful to others is legitimately their escape. Perhaps in their day to day life they don’t feel like they’re actually doing anything for others and so being a support in a game is cathartic and enjoyable
All the things I hate doing in real life, I love doing in video games. Cleaning up, organising stuff, making sure each machine has what it needs, putting the machine output away, collecting what I need to keep everything running, and so on. It’s all fun in games, but when I have to do it in real life, I lose interest after five minutes. When I play Minecraft with friends, I’m their maid, basically, and it’s great. I don’t know why, but I think it’s (at least partially) like you said, none of that feels like it matters in real life, but in a game, I get satisfaction from it because I feel useful
It’s usually more manageable in the games and you can turn them off when you get sick of it. Can’t do that with real life… well not more than once anyway.
Yeah, that’s another good point. Clicking a bunch of stuff with a mouse is just way easier than actually picking it up. I’d still like physically moving stuff, I think, but games let you focus entirely on the mental satisfaction without the physical exhaustion.
I mean you can skip chores for a couple of days, especially if you live alone …
Then things just pile up and there’s more to do when you get around to doing it. It never ends.
Depends. Dishes pile up fast, but cleaning floors and tables? Few days of not cleaning won’t make the next time cleaning much harder. If you live alone, washing clothes should be something you do once a week or every two weeks, too.
See now this conversation reminds me why I loved doing front line supply runs in foxhole, or medic in foxhole. Because when you get that crate of desperately needed supplies or revive that guy pushed out a bit to far, even if it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme, it matters to the people playing with you at that moment.
I’d maybe call that meaningful interaction with others, and games make that easier to achieve than it is in real life. It’s not as significant of an interaction as many irl interactions, but feeling that bond with another person for just a second is a pretty cool feeling.
Honestly, I don’t see playing healer as a responsibility. It’s very rare for things to actually be my fault. A DPS can do insufficient damage, or stand in fire, or mismanage their aggro. A tank can do all sorts of things wrong, pulling too fast, pulling too slow, skipping too many packs, not skipping enough packs, it feels like people bitch about a tank’s performance no matter what.
Meanwhile I just pump heals into the tank and occasionally HoT a DPS, maybe pop a cooldown if things look spooky. It’s very zen. Then, people praise me for keeping everyone alive even though I was high the whole time and just vibing with my music.
Being a healer in an MMO is the real power fantasy.
At least until you get toxic tryhards who post overheal meters to the LFR chat. Like, you didn’t die and we cleared the raid, so who cares if I overheal? lmao.
Do harder content and it suddenly becomes a real job. Keys are mostly vibing up to +21s right now and then suddenly you have to keep track of everyone’s defensives and externals and tell them how to use them while also rotating your cds perfectly
yeah I don’t care for modern WoW :3 I only ever play vanilla and TBC. I know it can get sweaty at the top though, I spent way too many years stressing about my DPS on mythic server firsts back in Legion.
So, I like my job, and the stress, but it’s never ending. I have 30 years of building up this ongoing task/work load and how to handle it. If I fuck up work, it has super shitty consequences. The risks are enormous to me personally, so I have to do a lot of work being risk adverse. I can’t charge into the middle of a disaster and beat shit into submission, at work.
When I game, I can use my abilities of my real job to pull people together and take on big risks for big rewards and if it fails, we just sit around, lick our virtual wounds and try again next week.
I play games to escape the permanence of any fuckups I do in my career.
thats why you pick healer and dont do any healing, going straight into the enemies and dying instantly
Leeeeeeeeroy…!
That’d make me more upset than anything else that could happen in a game. The whole reason I play healer is to service my team 😩
At least in a game when I take on such a role not only do people express thanks for a job well done but also I can directly see the benefits to the group I’m bringing.
x9 support
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Id much rather be tank than Paladin tho
Redownloaded Overwatch recently. Haven’t played since before OW2.
Nowadays I have much more mechanical skill than I previously did, but I also don’t know half of the characters now.
It’s weird being most valuable to my team by playing DPS. I’m lucky too that I had some friends who play healer and tank, ngl.
The main reason I don’t play anymore is that I don’t have friends who are into it. Of course, now I have much less mechanical skill than I had back then, so I’d be even more of a healer main than I once was.
Well this is uncomfortably personal
I play a crafter because when I make something in a game I actually profit from it rather than having it all stolen and me left wondering why my bank balance is negative a week before my check clears.
Me playing jungle 🤣
I haven’t played any multiplayer games in a long time. What should a person play if they’re not good at a game and just want to have fun? DPS? What other roles are there?
Whatever seems fun. If you’re not trying to do high difficulty raids/dungeons, and are just playing on a normal difficulty most people are pretty patient and supportive in my experience. Each role has it’s own responsibilities, DPS is the most straightforward to people new to MMO’s imo.
