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@rowan come to think of it, my main problem with healers-as-DPS is that it requires me to be aware of both my own team and the enemy team, which I find overwhelming

playing as DPS lets me be aware of only the enemies, so I don’t have to keep my awareness split between too many things at once. and I think I like that a pure healer lets me be aware of only my teammates, similar to how DPS works

so I think that if I were to design a healer for a hero shooter I’d probably give them heals as well as buffs, but no CCs or debuffs or other abilities that interact with the enemy team - except of course maybe a low-damage emergency attack for self-defense (or an ability that lets you run away from fights)

@rowan that’s a really good point that healing is only useful when the other players are taking damage! also in PvE I think you could get away with {healers can outheal most damage} but in PvP that would be pretty unfair and frustrating

I like the idea of a support character that buffs their teammates in combat and then heals them once combat is over tbh - or even one that heals them in combat as well but it’s just reduced (this is kinda how Paladins does it), and has other non-DPS stuff that they can do as well

but yeah I definitely would want the skill floor to be as low as it is for a DPS ideally, hehe

@gracie yes omgg I think the TF2 medic is such a perfect example - I’m glad you thought of him too!

@Stellar yess omg this is exactly what I’m talking about! this is the #1 thing that turned me off from playing Marvel Rivals because there’s another hero shooter called Paladins that IMO gets healing exactly right with a few of its characters, because you get to only heal and it doesn’t require razor-sharp flickshots or any other sweatiness to do

@kasdeya i played marvel rivals for the first time because my friend was lonely on it and i wanted to play a no-brain healer and all of them you needed to shoot your allies to heal them (very hard) and also manage your DPS abilities so your team doesn’t lose…

like, in tf2 i just click to heal and we win because healing is awesome

in games with multiple roles (tank, DPS, healer), fuck the trend of making the healer less healy and more DPSy - and especially forcing them to manage both at once

if I’m playing a healer in a game, that means I love healing in games and want to spend my time healing. it doesn’t mean that I’ve grudgingly chosen to pick healer even though secretly I wanted to be DPS, so the game has to bribe me into healing by letting me DPS too

if anything that just adds extra plate-spinning that I have to manage on top of the healing that I actually want to be doing. so I’m probably going to feel overwhelmed and not enjoy the DPSing

this is a trend I’ve noticed across a few different genres

• TF2 had the medic whose entire job was to heal, but in hero shooters the medic became the “support” who may not even necessarily have a healing ability, but all of them were expected to do a bunch of DPSing
• In the low-level WoW content I’ve played I never felt like I needed to do anything as a healer other than heal. but more modern MMOs like FFXIV are designed with the assumption that the healers will also DPS

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