When You’re Free From The Burden Of Winning

I’m ngl this is how I feel playing World of Warcraft when everybody else is memorizing rotations and optimizing their gearscores or whatever

@kasdeya This is exactly why I pretty much always mained a Priest in WoW. When I wanted to solo, I switched to Shadow. When I wanted to do a dungeon or raid, I switched to Holy and got insta-queued for everything. (I never PvPed, so I never went Disc.)

I was never a truly great healer, but I was good enough to get even the worst LFGs through basically any dungeon. In LFR, I was never the best healer, but never the worst.

I didn't worry too much about mana efficiency or HPS or anything like that. If the tanks stayed up, I was doing a good job. If the DPS also stayed up, I was doing an amazing job. That was the only metric I cared about.

green bars and gold swirlies go brrrrrr

@ricko I loved the experience of healing in dungeons in WoW. if WoW wasn’t $15/month I would probably still regularly do that just because it feels so good to help others stay alive - and there’s no other game with healing that feels like WoW healing. often in hero shooters or MOBAs you’re expected to do a lot more than just healing, but in WoW I always felt like I could only heal and still be extremely useful to my team, and I love that

@ricko @kasdeya playing White Mage in FFXIV feels a lot like this for me, too -- the solo combat loop is maybe overly basic, but it's not lacking in damage output, and i always instaqueue for duties. and honestly healing is just fun!

i tried picking up a DPS job and the only one i really vibed with was more a support class lol (Dancer), and tank makes me way too anxious. WHM is perfect for me 😇