Right. They portrayed the team as competent and the new healer as incompetent, when so often the healer is decent, but the players are terrible, overextending themselves or always fighting off alone in the distance. And then when they die because you're having a difficult enough time healing the 4 players working together, they blame you.
as soon as they swapped, every healer/support main knew exactly what Alan was getting into and how unprepared he was about to be.... *queue maniacal laughter*
So true! I used to be the healer too, and that really was an exercise in concentration. Worst case, the rest of the party would be running around like headless chickens, while the tank was not managing aggro. In those times, everyone but the tank needed healing all the time...
Ah the tank who has good gear and likes to always pull the next pack before his minions have finished killing the last one, because no-one needs to be out of combat to regenerate mana, well no-one important anyway.
To be fair depending on the game the healer is often as tanky as the tank it set up right. ESO wise I’ve legit tanked boss large scale AOE that caused the tank to very nearly died and the DPS went down hard. Even better in pvp when someone tries to gank you only to realize that attacking you with a nuke was the worst idea since you now got a giant shield + health regen and are popping more on yourself as you chase his squishy ass down
My team: treats healer like they’re invisible. Their team: former retired marines lead by a 10-year guild master who sees all attacks on their medic as a personal insult.
As a person who's mained support/healer for the last 20 years, this hits home. When the party wins the fight, its all high fives and such with the DPS talking about their "big" numbers. When teh party dies, its blame the healers time.
Tanks are always visible, ditto for dps who also move around most and who's output is visible on dps meters and flashing numbers "ooohh did you see that critical?!!1!" It takes a more mature and experienced guild or raid leader to push some appreciation to the invisible back line, followed by some mumbling from raid for good job. Back to "ooohh did you see that critical?!!1!" I played every role on vanilla WoW, very very long time ago. I could experience change with role changes. On top of it, healers are usually the worst for solo farming
I hear ya on that, my other favorite is the one (or two) newbie who keeps pulling aggro from the tank. Those are fun... on top of them standing in stuff and screaming "WHY AM I DYING?!"
I like that the person telling him that healing is the easiest job is a ranged DPS. In my old WoW raiding guild we had a guy who literally only had one hand and he played Hunter because it was easiest to manage with his disability. He was a really nice guy and very good at his role, but it was also accepted that he would die whenever there was a raid mechanic that required quick movement. We cheered whenever he made it through one of those. Super nice guy.
By far, the most realistic portrayal of the healer experience I've ever seen. I wouldn't say it's a thankless job, but it's definitely a job and the healer is always the first to get blamed when things go south.
Good thing my guild really appreciate me as healer main as i am the only one of the 3 healers in the guild who is mostly active and they cant do raids at all without a healer
@@RHW42Archangel Nope, they can stand in crap they shouldn't be. Don't do mechanics they should be doing and don't interrupt or pay attention the what is actually going on. I've been in amazing groups where they do everything they should guess how much healing was needed? That's right we had a 4th DPS (though relatively crap in comparison.) Other groups, you just can't keep up even at 120hps.
A lesson I’ve always kept to heart: never diss your healers. They can end up holding your life in their hands…and refusing to heal you if you anger them enough.
I was once in a party where one guy said "I don't need no healer" so much that he disappeared... it was so strange when the game announced friendly fire. No one else said anything. I had all the game earned titles that buffed my healing; that have to be earned by play.
And Mobas too. Oh, you thought jumping in, with about 20 hp left was a good idea? And then you blame me not healing? How did you manage to even do all of that between the cooldown of my fast healingspell. Let me ping it to you. Oh, it still got 2 seconds cooldown. Normally that is like 7 max. So in less than 5 seconds you not only suicided but also managed to blame the healer, good job.
@@THAC0MANIC It was old days to my wife and I. Been out of MMO's for years now but we started with the original release of WoW and did a few expansions. All up until the game turned into a standard spell rotation. Use to be able to scale the heal spell in lower power heals to manage mana then they made it so ranking up the spells removed the lower. Also, rogues use to have more stealth play. And having certain outfits meant something. Then came matching outfits no mater where it came from.
While I was still playing this sort of game with my friends, one was dedicated healer (I being rogue DPS, the other guy tank), and very good one at that. We valued her as our personal treasure. Any mouthy random DPS that dared to blame his/her mistakes on a healer got kicked instantly. No one insults our healer!
Man, in SWTOR, as a Sorc Corruption Healer main (Most underperforming and most micro heavy healer), when you get praised from some random dude in hardest flashpoints (dungeons) after you did insane clutch heal... or when you outheal the most op healer class in the game that is being played by your Healer Guru Master - and everyone notices... those were the moments... shit, I got super nostalgic :D
That's when being the healer and also friends with the tank is really nice. Tank kicks garbage DPS, and either queues another or we just continue with one less person. Or the one time back in EverQuest days... a dude would not stop puling aggro while the whole group kept telling him to knock it off. This was open-world xp farming, so our puller went out to get another whatever, brought it back... DPS-freak gets aggro of course. Tank twiddles his thumbs. Healer finds spellbook to be utterly fascinating. Other DPS sit on their hands. Dude dies, we kick him. Dude comes back, sits and waits for an xp rez (you lost xp from dying). By this point the entire group has him on ignore so we have no idea if he's said anything. Lowbie cleric we had in the group cast the no-xp basic rez on the body. Dude wasn't paying attention to the popup, and accepted the rez. Stayed a lonnnng time looting his body because he realized what had happened. Sulked off while we all laughed.
Back in my WiW days, GF took healer so I could take a break from healing in Everquest. Being in the same room made watching for the healer as a hunter a lot easier. "on me" Target. /pet assist, use stun. "clear, thanks"
Well you can be like a single mom caring for everyone or you turn into an utilitarian god of death who judges people all the time. Some people are just not worth the resources and it felt powerful to decide who is worth your attention and who not. Oh man how I miss MMO.
@@Confiteror I mean, if healing them uses a lot of your resources, then yeah, but unless someone is REALLY terrible, or is a ninja-pulling hunter or something, everyone should be healed if possible. Even if they're not doing great DPS, that's still extra DPS you're losing. Having healed for a long time, I make it a point of pride that I don't let anyone die, because that's the mark of a good healer, and not a lazy one that puts in the bare minimum effort to scrape by.
To be fair the rest of the team was pretty relaxed considering they just wiped and took side of the healer (albeit not vocally enough to shut the complainer down). They even agreed to communicate better and move on. I'd say that this group is fantastic considering it has only a single toxic member.
After playing only a tank for most of my gaming career, I tried healer for the first time about a month ago and can confirm that this is extremely accurate.
@@gabrielhersey5546 My dude! Yes! Same here.... and doing that in FFXI is why I do NOT play healers anymore. I didn't hate it, but that was all I needed. I retired lol.
In the games i player either people knew what their role was and only had to heal spam one guy and occasional team heals when they get like 60% or boss 1hit range. Othertimes though this is accurate, everyone just goes hyena without a care in the world. Big ass aoe fuck it Guy charges up, fuck it hya kya Usually take dps unless playing with a mate, cuz 2 dps takes ages so he takes tank. Ill heal
I remembered an old mmorpg i used to play. My gear made me able to just mash my single target heal for days, build my single target heal for critchance, because of an passive that made a crit heal an aoe heal. Complicated build but no boss could outdamage it at that time
Either that or "It's funny how you as dps say that when you're the easiest role in fact" I mean, there are some games where the only thing you need to do as dps in raid is to mash buttons. Yeah, you need to also control aggro (or you just blame tank who can't taunt) and mana (or you just blame support that can refill it for you but, oh god, he's busy with refilling mana for your healer, how could he), but same goes for healers and tanks. Like honestly, when I meet such people I just refuse to heal them unless them dying means we'll need to redo the dungeon.
„That’s what I thought“ sums it all up and was delivered so perfectly by Adam! You only know what it's like when you experience it for yourself is so true!
As a healer main great video! I'd love to see a sequel where Adam is a jaded veteran, punishing the teammates that displease him by refusing to heal them but keeping everyone else at 100%
Im a retired former healer main who had plenty of interactions like these so just the idea of turning it around on them extends my lifespan by a year for every interaction I had that went like this. So Im practically immortal at this point.
I do the best I can, focus on the Tank, heal the DPS's when they bite off more than they can chew, throw in some of my own offense, and look for tells' in the fight to make the next go at it easier. I then ball up in a corner, knees to my chin, and cry myself to sanity.
My dad was watching with me for this one, and said this was one of the most accurate videos they’ve done. Said being a healer is probably the most stressful job you can have in a group. “WhY DiD’nT yOu HeAl mE?!!” “BECAUSE I WAS TRYING TO HEAL THIS OTHER GUY!!”
"Did you see that the tank was on life support?" "No..." "Did you see that you were standing in the fire?" "No..." "Do you have any idea how hard it is to get all the little red bars back to green when your heals have cooldowns and take big chunks out of your mp and literally EVERYONE is dying at once?" "No..." "Thought so."
As a holy priest at the very beginning of wows burning crusade expansion I had this group with a rogue...rogue! He badmouthed me from the getgo and started pulling on his own because the tank was slow. Nobody in this group had done this dungeon before so he was being cool looking up the fights for us. This dude kills himself over and over then screams at me to ******* heal him, learn to heal etc. I just stopped spamming flash heal and let him die because we could survive his pulls without him as long as the tank tabbed back in in time.
This hits so close to home. The number of times on WoW some lone ranger player would just run off from the group, get hit with their crap armour and die really fast, then type "HEAL???" would drive me nuts.
Some instances were (in)famous for rangers not paying attention to their pet and a bit later it comes back. "Look master what I brought you!" (Gnomeregan IIRC)
My trauma was from Warhammer Online when I was the only healer in the skirmish and not a SINGLE player chose to protect me Then I got blamed for not giving heals. Geez 24 players, nobody protecting the healer and you blame me for not healing you ?
@@kaltaron1284 or you forget that your pet can’t jump down with you and don’t dismiss them, and so they have to run through half the dungeon to get back to you… trailing mobs right back to the party…
I play healer in a lot of games and seeing this makes me happy. The healers job is the most chaotic and stressful but very much satisfying when you got it down.
I replayed three times 0:47 so I could watch each person's reaction to the line. Amazing acting. This is definitely the only channel I constantly replay sections in order to not miss the expressions. :)
@@rewandemontay But all you gotta do is handle the register Rewan, nevermind the 5 Karens in line who all want a refund because they didn't bother reading their product information or the 10 idiots who stand in line grabbing random shit not knowing why they're in line while everyone else is eye cutting daggers because they expect you to somehow tell them to f-off without getting repercussions from your manager and if you say anything they just yell back "yeah gimme one second I gotta pick the right charger" even though you know they're all trash but they don't want to spend over 10 bucks to get a decent one.
@@Supremax67 I don't really think any one person is more important than the other. It's about competence. I will say, as a healer, I've met a lot of players that act like a healer is a replacement for dodge, block, and parry.
Jesus that hits home. People always b*tching and complaining about heals when they have no idea how much coordination and concentration it takes most of the time.
whats funny about this is thats the LEAST of what healers have to deal with since its amongst friends. Imagine getting death threats and kicked out for mistakes NOT done by yourself and worst. Honestly dont know why so many people hate healers when they themselves dont even TRY to play it once.
@@Tm-dy2bp Because the tank was CLEARLY aggroing the boss, and the DPS were clearly providing damage. I barely saw the healer, so they must have obviously done nothing the whole fight (the healer was an acceptable distance away to still target allies and avoid unecessary damage).
@@NuggetStickJones I feel this is a joke but i wanna answer it seriously. So if im getting this straight we get flakked cause the other party members have tunnel vision(no spatial awareness) as to the healer not wanting to accidentally out aggro the tank or get caught in too much dmg zones to keep both themselves and others alive??? I ... dont know what to say cause that sounds so damn possible and it hurts.
@@Tm-dy2bp Aha, yeah it was sarcasm, sorry if it was hard to read. I am a dedicated healer 😂 You know deep down it really is true, and that's why it really hurts 🥲
20 years in MMOs and playing every role available has taught me that healing is without question the hardest role in a party. It isn't even close. Spot on.
@@joeblackmetal3981 I have play DAoC, SW galaxies, Secret World, Teso, SWTOR, and many more. Main tank is the hardest. By far. Do you die first? It's your fault, even if the problem actually comes from the heal which hunts the DPS to heal them. Are you losing aggro? It is your fault. Even if the problem comes from the fact that the DPS have no self-control and "burst" just after an aggro reset phase. The Main Tank is the one who must know the bosses' strategies inside out. That's why we're so rare
You guys talk about different things. Main tank needs to know strategies and so on, no question about that. BUT it is not hard to play. Healer needs to know strategies also, big burst windows and be ready, and yet as healer you need to do so much more than positioning and know some rotations
@@simuliviu3107 And it is very content and player type dependent. If the fight putting out a lot of raid wide damage that is unmitigatable and the dps are required to spread out to accomplish a variety of actions it is nightmare for healers. If there is none of that and the boss just kills everyone at a certain point I have seen raids that just drop healers entirely. The hardest time to heal is always when playing with idiots though.
"There is a time to take damage." "There is a time to deal it." "There a time to ignore all else and do your best to heal it." "Then there is a time to laugh while they all BRUN!"
As a healer is many games, I was verbally abused, disrespected and in some games got little, no, or worst loot. I'm glad you can show how hard the job is.
And chances are you were only in the dungeon to begin with to get that one rare drop that is only useful for healers, and when it finally did drop, you lost out to some DPS player that felt he absolutely had to have the 'bind-on-pickup' item for their healing alt that they occasionally played so they did a 'need' instead of a 'greed'.
I agree with your view on both games. I think it came down to how hard it was to do a corpse run and then get a 96% rez if you started blaming your healer and pissed him off.
I don't know how many times I've just "noped" out of dungeons because dps players (almost always ranged) decided they can't let the tank pull enemies, out even let the healer recover mana, cause their time is precious.
Avoiding those panic attacks is why I mostly soloed my FFXI healer to lvl 50. All I wanted was the frickin' teleports. Taking five years to get there was absolutely worth not having to deal with a party. *Edited for spelling
Honestly the same as tank when everyone runs in every direction and takes aggro from 20 groups or so... And when you then managed to actually take the aggro from your teammates you take too much damages because the group is too big so the healer can't outheal the damage. DPS players thinks healer and tank roles are so simple.. it is, IF YOU FREAKING KNOW NOT TO MESS WITH OUR ROLES.
@@timawaviking526 Or when you just reached the gear requirements for a dungeon and the overgeared DPS thinks he has to go full out. Luckily that problem doesn't exist in GW2.
This is so true. Being a healer is not an easy role. There’s so much to take note of, especially healing cooldowns and the fact that your damage is non existent. As a person who sometimes play healer role I share some of the disrespect that Adam gets, and can fully relate. Good skit, love your videos guys, keep making more.
@@DrZaius3141 Kinda depends on the game. In GW2 there is no way you can swap from a healer to an unfamiliar DPS build/class and deal even close the damage a seasoned DPS can do. Well, at least in theory. There are builds that are easier than others.
I went into the new extremes 1 time as healer (P1s i think) suddenly realized i was not meant for healing, swapped to warrior and ignored like 80% of mechanics and still lived xD the best tank healer imo, can heal your teammates and save your ass at the same time, p2s & p3s were my favorite with it
as someone who's primarily melee dps in WoW (tauren frost death knight) i make it a habit to *always* be nice to the healers. hell, sometimes i even refer to them as "doc" or "doctor". i even take the time to thank them. it don't matter if the healer is a pro, or a newbie, trying to learn the class/spec, *always* be nice to them, your life, is in *their* hands
How is WoW these days. I stopped playing in Cataclysm where I had a 80 priest, resto Druid and Shaman. The only healer class I didn’t play was pally. Hated when they removed Tree mode from Druids and made it a cooldown/Buff only. Got to 3400 rating in 2’s and 3200 in 3’s with my priest. Thought about coming back for classic but never got around to getting another gaming PC. I hear retail is like a slot machine where you can buy power leveling and gold in game. Also all the mandatory daily quests take a lot of the fun out of it.
@@diemaschine2287 IMO it's a LOT better than it was in the previous Xpac, Dragonflight has changed a lot for the better. I've played since vanilla didnt like Cata myself, and didnt really play during BFA but the way they have things structured now, i"m actually getting back into it all.
@@raizil0513 Shadowlands was TERRIBLE. Dragonflight is FUN! 850% flying speed, alt-friendly account-wide unlocks/gating/reputation, rapid pacing of patches, tons of freebies, and quick correction of crap that isn't working out shows that they're actually listening to the player base. The first notable difference you'll encounter is that, once your main gets halfway through the first zone, ALL of your level-appropriate alts can fly. They even have mole people now. MOLE PEOPLE! 😀
Our group's marching order for a 5-person raid was tank, melee, melee/ranged, healer, ranged. The last ranged person's primary job was to watch the healer and if anything showed up to chew on the healer the last ranged would draw aggro so they got chewed on instead of the healer. Of course the last ranged would then try to get to the front where the Tank and Melee had target fixation and pass off the aggro to them.
Possibly more traumatic than the kids mode (the delighted laughter of small children while their enemies are brutally dispatched with a kid-safe overlay haunts me to this day) 😂
it's just as painful on Military Sim games too; people die out in No Man's Land, just out in the OPEN, and they are requesting a REVIVE, where there's absolutely no cover or protection. If you walk out into a deathtrap, don't expect any sort of backup..
Finally. The respect us healers deserve. It’s not a fun nor easy job but it is important. We keep the team alive. Edit: holy cow over a thousand likes. I think I should start a revolution for healers.
I play healer in practically every game that has the option. It's a thankless job, and you always see your team mates getting big achievements like most kills, highest damage, etc etc. But truly we healers are the real achievers. Healers guild, unite!
@@NuggetStickJones Introducing the healer's guild! Nobody's health budges during raids, not even the boss! But yes, important and thankless job. Any type of support role gets undervalued and flamed the most.
ahhh this is honestly pretty accurate lol the amount of PTSD you get from chasing around other players trying to keep them alive is nuts, does depend on the game but most mmos or mobas have this vibe about it when it comes to healing.
As someone who use to play MMOs frequently, playing all roles DPS/TANK/HEALING, at the highest raid levels, I can confirm the healing was the *MOST STRESSFUL*, it’s like playing an intense game of whack-a-mole but with peoples toons lives Appreciate to nod VLDL
Yep, I always appreciated people who played healers. After Dark Age of Camelot, I didn't really play many MMOs except for Guild Wars / Guild Wars 2. In Guild Wars: Factions, of course I wanted to try out one of the new classes, Assassin was more appealing to me so I chose that. Little did I know I would have to actually argue my way into remaining on a party as a few others would want me kicked out just for being an Assassin primary character, which usually came from the healer(s). Apparently many of the Assassin primaries that others encountered often played as though they were Warrior primaries and capable of tanking things with a generic Assassin setup that wasn't actually made for tanking. So, they got a bad rep and a lot of people didn't want to party with them. Managed to make it into enough parties to progress and on occasion even saved some runs. Slowly had less of a problem with parties.
@@raisukrusa It's honestly impressive that somehow people thought assassin could be a tank class. I played GW too, but from what I could see assassins are basically multi hit kill in one go DPS particularly in PVP because they used skill combinations to absolutely destroy targets, which makes sense because assassins are supposed to be fast at killing a target.
@@dark_rit assassins could tank... with very specific setups designed to do so. Setups that most people didn't use. Especially towards the early days of Factions. As for people playing them like tanks, it was probably due to warriors being the only other true melee class. So, that was what people were used to As time went on and we got away from Factions release date, people started realizing more how assassins needed to play, or were capable of playing (ie: crit bow, more shadow utilization, etc) to help stay out of danger while providing good damage output or utility.
I main healed for over ten years before hanging it up and this is accurate. You could have also gone for the under geared tank who gets angry at you because he explodes when an enemy looks at him.
The trick is to ignore all the whiny heal requests. Especially DPS are typically expendable and you sometimes have to let one die so as not to have everything fall apart. This is especially true the worse the communication is. That's why i like the healer role. You essentially get to decide who lives and who dies ;-)
First time I tried to play as a healer I thought I hated it. I didn't do terribly, but I didn't do good either and it felt waay too stressful to be fun. Fortunately, friend of mine mained a tank. He told me to basically forget about the others and just focus on keeping him alive. It was easier, more enjoyable, and eventually that little spaz DPS that kept running ahead of everyone either rage quit the group or fell in line.
@@FarmerSchinken I'm petty as hell, so when people start complaining about my heals, I just don't heal them. Typically that's in fps games, though, not MMOs.
@@azeplayt4546 holy shit, you really put it into words. Prioritizing sucks. Sorry I can't heal you right now, but my big beefy boy that keeps me alive is about to die... And now he's dead... And now you're dead... And now I'm dead...
more annoying when you keep everyone alive and some complain that you doing dps as well as healing normally out dps some of the pure dps that are not healing after all the real problem is beating the boss agro timer or they all get one-two shot some impossible to keep everyone healed up.
@@VivaLaDirtLeague Someday Byron's gonna release the REAL backstage reel, with Adam throttling Rowan behind some reeds, Alan and Brit shooting the shit unawares, and Ellie watching the whole thing with a smirk but unwilling to step in, as it's too enjoyable to watch. Hamish and Ben are practicing accent and inflection in the office.
Def even hits home for other genres as well lol. The same kinda goes for tactical shooters and medic role. Sure anyone can run around getting shot while chasing any chance for a heal, but a good medic who's smart, stays alive, and sticks with the squad can turn whole matches. Same goes for the guys who go around building all the spawns and support stuff. No big kill or flashy stats, but without em, you lose almost every time.
i feel like so many healers like myself have been waiting for a video like this. I've shared this with all my friends! You all put out so much good stuff. thanks for everything.
I played a healer in Everquest. It was hard work but rewarding. I also played an enchanter, so I knew from experience, keep the crowd controller alive, the whole party tends to live. It served me well over time
@@LolUGotBusted Amen to that. Playing as enchanter was always a tense experience, due to how squishy we were. Highest agro spells and lowest hitpoints in the game :)
Oh how validating it is to see this as a healer main! I'd also like to add that for those with heal anxiety, healing is a skill that is learned over time. Take baby steps and you'll find you're better than you think you are!
Always thought of it like a timing puzzle. Too bad, folks don't get the nifty tricks one can do, even when being told. There was a spell in WoW (15 years ago) that makes you seem harmless and you drop almost every agro instantly. So when I accidentally pulled an enemy off the tank (usually one of the larger ones the group wanted to focus on later) I wanted it to run aaaall the way past the group, right towards me, then harmlessness buff, and it runs aaaall the way back to the tank. Getting time to breath for 5-10 seconds. No damage done, no mana required, ... Perfect! I told them. Every. Single. Time. Itsy bitsy Ghoul starts waddling towards me, the whole group instantly freaks out, and chaos emerges. -_- Btw: not only in theory. That worked _gloriously!_ 😁 ... when they listened.
FFXIV, tank and healer friend setup. Tank pulls to boss, healer keeps tank alive, DPS get sorted into two categories: Ones happy to cut loose with all their big booms, and ones not quite on the good side where everything either dies too slow or not at all, causing a wipe.
I was in a raid once where a newer member of the raid started to complain about the heals and all of the OG members stood up for healer while one of them brought up the healing stats and pointed out that he healed more damage than the damage dealt by the top 3 DPS players combined. No one ever complained about the heals for the rest of the raid :D. Not to mention the healer was always the one to step up and point out when he slipped up.
The thing is, if you have a good healer, you never realise what it means to have a good healer because you almost never die, your HP never seems to drop too much or too fast and everything seems to go swimmingly while you focus on what's infront of you, not what's behind. It's only if you have a bad healer, or if you play one yourself, that you start to realise just how frustrating and THANKLESS the role is.
After years of healing, I will not chase the one that wanders off. If you get out of range I'll let you know you are too far away but that's on you if you die repeatedly it's on you
This was legit the kind of thing I imagined happening that prevented me from trying out healing for almost a decade. But these days, whenever I'm not tanking, I'm usually healing...
OMG!!!!! I can't believe you guys used one of my favourite pieces around the 0:20 mark. The melody and the vibes it gives off is just perfect! Sort of underrated actually. The piece is called Covert Affairs by Christoffer Moe Ditlevson!
I've played healer and it's easily the most stressful job in a comp. As if going in knowing you have the lives of your mates in your hands isn't nerve-wracking enough, you have to watch their HP like a hawk. That's why I haven't chosen to play the healer in some time lol Hats off to those who choose this role, sincerely appreciate you when you're good.
Tank pulls - bubble on tank. Dot. Slow heal. Dot on the DPS to dampen the group-wide attacks. Bubble on tank. Dispell on each party member for curse. Fast heal tank. Dot on the DPS. Fast heal tank. Dot on tank. Bubble on tank. Dot on self. Dispell on DPS before one-hit-kill. Bubble on tank. Slow heal on tank. Dot on tank then the DPS then self. Bubble on tank. Dispell second wave of curses. Fast heal tank in a panic, bubble, finish with slow heal, then run out of AoE in a hurry. Slow heal DPS who aggroed the adds. Bubble on tank. Dot on clumsy DPS. Dot on self. Fast heal on tank, slow heal, bubble. Dispell one-hit-kill on tank. Dot on the DPS. Bubble on tank, fast heal everyone for unavoidable AoE, run out of mana... Breath out slowly. Run after the tank pulling the next wave of mobs.
Alternate ending is where the Alan doesn't have to do much when they swap because without him running ahead and ignoring everyone else, everyone can stick together/communicate and gets through the encounter without too much hassle.
You're missing the guy who is standing INSIDE OF AN AOE DOT and is either blaming you or asking for healing while still NOT MOVING.
Right. They portrayed the team as competent and the new healer as incompetent, when so often the healer is decent, but the players are terrible, overextending themselves or always fighting off alone in the distance.
And then when they die because you're having a difficult enough time healing the 4 players working together, they blame you.
yes hahaha
@@JokeswithMitochondria ur username made me curious so cIicked on ur profiIe. Wasn't disappointed haha
@Henry Tawnn Yep,yep I have had players basically Leroy Jenkins and then I am a bad team player for not healing.
that was alan which is why there's wasn't anyone in the second run
as soon as they swapped, every healer/support main knew exactly what Alan was getting into and how unprepared he was about to be....
*queue maniacal laughter*
Preach bruddah
So true! I used to be the healer too, and that really was an exercise in concentration. Worst case, the rest of the party would be running around like headless chickens, while the tank was not managing aggro. In those times, everyone but the tank needed healing all the time...
then again, chances are, the main healer didnt know how to deal damage neither, but thats problem #78, and you're dying on #3...
Ah the tank who has good gear and likes to always pull the next pack before his minions have finished killing the last one, because no-one needs to be out of combat to regenerate mana, well no-one important anyway.
Problem is that, even though it was obvious what was going to happen, hearing a bunch of people pleading for heals still triggered healer-ptsd. 😥
Another healer trope I like, is the genuinely helpful healer that whole team likes and goes absolutely crazy when someone kills the said healer
as a tank/healer, i respect the dmg dealers, and allways laugh my ass off when getting dissed.
@@Noamalmoggg I usually play the same style of tank/healer...lol
To be fair depending on the game the healer is often as tanky as the tank it set up right. ESO wise I’ve legit tanked boss large scale AOE that caused the tank to very nearly died and the DPS went down hard. Even better in pvp when someone tries to gank you only to realize that attacking you with a nuke was the worst idea since you now got a giant shield + health regen and are popping more on yourself as you chase his squishy ass down
Another healer trope is healer to be a slave... And healing is very painful... Yeah, great trope. I liked that
My team: treats healer like they’re invisible.
Their team: former retired marines lead by a 10-year guild master who sees all attacks on their medic as a personal insult.
As a person who's mained support/healer for the last 20 years, this hits home. When the party wins the fight, its all high fives and such with the DPS talking about their "big" numbers. When teh party dies, its blame the healers time.
I loved it when I found a raid team that blamed poor numbers from the DPS crew instead of the healers :)
Tanks are always visible, ditto for dps who also move around most and who's output is visible on dps meters and flashing numbers "ooohh did you see that critical?!!1!"
It takes a more mature and experienced guild or raid leader to push some appreciation to the invisible back line, followed by some mumbling from raid for good job. Back to "ooohh did you see that critical?!!1!"
I played every role on vanilla WoW, very very long time ago. I could experience change with role changes.
On top of it, healers are usually the worst for solo farming
or tanks "no aggro" when its a scripted mechanic 😂
@@Elusian Lmao! "WTH??? I TOLD YOU GUYS NOT TO PULL"
😐😐😐 "first account?"
I hear ya on that, my other favorite is the one (or two) newbie who keeps pulling aggro from the tank. Those are fun... on top of them standing in stuff and screaming "WHY AM I DYING?!"
I like that the person telling him that healing is the easiest job is a ranged DPS. In my old WoW raiding guild we had a guy who literally only had one hand and he played Hunter because it was easiest to manage with his disability. He was a really nice guy and very good at his role, but it was also accepted that he would die whenever there was a raid mechanic that required quick movement. We cheered whenever he made it through one of those. Super nice guy.
Wow, that must've sucked for him since the later raids got way more mechanics requiring tons of movement.
Gigachad
Proper attitude. Hell yeah.
Video games online need more people like you
very awesome story
funny I have one working arm and I play a healer...go figure :P
Good to see the game updated to allow 5 person parties. I bet Rowan is happy.
the publisher made quite some bucks there, selling DLC to unlock extra party member. :D
He swapped to the Leecher class. It lets him tag along any 4 person group as a 5th wheel.
I thought that too!
What's this game called, I'm seriously interested
no it isn't.
Now, there is one more person to heal.
The amount of respect Rowen, Brit, and Ben already had for the healer in the beginning might mean they already knew what was coming 😂
Not only that but in the fight they seemed like they were actively making harder to heal.
That's pretty disrespectful to write incorrectly 2/3 names you mentioned.
@@matix676 Tsk. Some people have problems remembering names, or poor typing skills. You knew who ke meant.
@@samflory My thoughts exactly.
@@corgiw7281 oh man that was a solid bit at the end. You'll have too explain it too me.
By far, the most realistic portrayal of the healer experience I've ever seen. I wouldn't say it's a thankless job, but it's definitely a job and the healer is always the first to get blamed when things go south.
Good thing my guild really appreciate me as healer main as i am the only one of the 3 healers in the guild who is mostly active and they cant do raids at all without a healer
If the tank dies it's the healer's fault. If the healer dies, it's the tank's fault. If the DPS dies, it's his own damn fault.
To be fair, most of the time it's either the healers fault or the tanks. Only real thing dps can do to mess things up is pull for the tank
@@RHW42Archangel Nope, they can stand in crap they shouldn't be. Don't do mechanics they should be doing and don't interrupt or pay attention the what is actually going on. I've been in amazing groups where they do everything they should guess how much healing was needed? That's right we had a 4th DPS (though relatively crap in comparison.) Other groups, you just can't keep up even at 120hps.
Dont forget the tank gets blamed a lot too
A lesson I’ve always kept to heart: never diss your healers. They can end up holding your life in their hands…and refusing to heal you if you anger them enough.
I usually try to keep everyone alive. But it _has_ happened that I was just a bit too slow - on purpose. 😈
We had a saying in the Army, never piss of the medics, the cooks, or the folks who dealt with your pay.
@@harmless6813 Sometimes I was like: "Sure, run ahead and leave the party behind, I may peel your body off the floor once I discover it."
I was once in a party where one guy said "I don't need no healer" so much that he disappeared... it was so strange when the game announced friendly fire.
No one else said anything. I had all the game earned titles that buffed my healing; that have to be earned by play.
Hits right in the feels for EVERY Healer player in every MMO. The line about chasing the DPS to get him healed is pure gold ^^
"why on earth are you standing in the fire!" Ahh, the old days.
And Mobas too.
Oh, you thought jumping in, with about 20 hp left was a good idea? And then you blame me not healing? How did you manage to even do all of that between the cooldown of my fast healingspell. Let me ping it to you. Oh, it still got 2 seconds cooldown. Normally that is like 7 max. So in less than 5 seconds you not only suicided but also managed to blame the healer, good job.
@@xj4low322 old days? it still happens its one reason why at times as a healer i just tell the DPS to go f-himself.
And that's why I love small spaces in dungeons, makes it easier for them to hit my aoe's
@@THAC0MANIC It was old days to my wife and I. Been out of MMO's for years now but we started with the original release of WoW and did a few expansions. All up until the game turned into a standard spell rotation. Use to be able to scale the heal spell in lower power heals to manage mana then they made it so ranking up the spells removed the lower. Also, rogues use to have more stealth play. And having certain outfits meant something. Then came matching outfits no mater where it came from.
The one thing about healing is that if you are super good at it no one praises you even if you saved the squad multiple times from failing
"When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all."
First to blame, last to praise 😂
And that applies to heaps of jobs IRL...
While I was still playing this sort of game with my friends, one was dedicated healer (I being rogue DPS, the other guy tank), and very good one at that. We valued her as our personal treasure. Any mouthy random DPS that dared to blame his/her mistakes on a healer got kicked instantly. No one insults our healer!
Man, in SWTOR, as a Sorc Corruption Healer main (Most underperforming and most micro heavy healer), when you get praised from some random dude in hardest flashpoints (dungeons) after you did insane clutch heal... or when you outheal the most op healer class in the game that is being played by your Healer Guru Master - and everyone notices... those were the moments... shit, I got super nostalgic :D
They nailed it, even the person standing BEHIND stuff so you can't heal them.
Some AoE that one guy keeps standing in definitely was missing.
I especially love the squishy dps that runs ahead, pulls everything then gets mad at healer for not being able to keep him alive.
That’s generally the main culprit in my eyes 😂 - Adam
You forgot the part where they also yell at the tank for not pulling aggro 🤣
That's when being the healer and also friends with the tank is really nice. Tank kicks garbage DPS, and either queues another or we just continue with one less person.
Or the one time back in EverQuest days... a dude would not stop puling aggro while the whole group kept telling him to knock it off. This was open-world xp farming, so our puller went out to get another whatever, brought it back... DPS-freak gets aggro of course. Tank twiddles his thumbs. Healer finds spellbook to be utterly fascinating. Other DPS sit on their hands. Dude dies, we kick him.
Dude comes back, sits and waits for an xp rez (you lost xp from dying). By this point the entire group has him on ignore so we have no idea if he's said anything. Lowbie cleric we had in the group cast the no-xp basic rez on the body. Dude wasn't paying attention to the popup, and accepted the rez. Stayed a lonnnng time looting his body because he realized what had happened. Sulked off while we all laughed.
@@tirsden as a former main tank, I definitely fed many obnoxious dps to bosses when they would pull everything and whine. 🤣
lmfao true
I feel this. As a healer, you watch the entire party like a single mom.
Back in my WiW days, GF took healer so I could take a break from healing in Everquest. Being in the same room made watching for the healer as a hunter a lot easier. "on me" Target. /pet assist, use stun. "clear, thanks"
Lol ❤
Truth!
Well you can be like a single mom caring for everyone or you turn into an utilitarian god of death who judges people all the time.
Some people are just not worth the resources and it felt powerful to decide who is worth your attention and who not. Oh man how I miss MMO.
@@Confiteror I mean, if healing them uses a lot of your resources, then yeah, but unless someone is REALLY terrible, or is a ninja-pulling hunter or something, everyone should be healed if possible. Even if they're not doing great DPS, that's still extra DPS you're losing. Having healed for a long time, I make it a point of pride that I don't let anyone die, because that's the mark of a good healer, and not a lazy one that puts in the bare minimum effort to scrape by.
“Healing is the easiest class”
-Famous last words
To be fair the rest of the team was pretty relaxed considering they just wiped and took side of the healer (albeit not vocally enough to shut the complainer down). They even agreed to communicate better and move on. I'd say that this group is fantastic considering it has only a single toxic member.
There was definitely not enough back up for the healer from the team.
And of course the toxic member is the hunter/ranger who shouldn't be anywhere close to getting damaged in the first place.
In most PUGs the reaction would be "You can go, the healer stays."
@@Brawndo2008 classic huntard
And then he experienced The Suck... and became untoxic. 😂😂😂
After playing only a tank for most of my gaming career, I tried healer for the first time about a month ago and can confirm that this is extremely accurate.
For nine years I was the end game career white mage super healer on final fantasy xi. Boss mode
Miss that game...
Tank Gang 💪😎
@@gabrielhersey5546 My dude! Yes! Same here.... and doing that in FFXI is why I do NOT play healers anymore. I didn't hate it, but that was all I needed. I retired lol.
In the games i player either people knew what their role was and only had to heal spam one guy and occasional team heals when they get like 60% or boss 1hit range.
Othertimes though this is accurate, everyone just goes hyena without a care in the world. Big ass aoe fuck it
Guy charges up, fuck it hya kya
Usually take dps unless playing with a mate, cuz 2 dps takes ages so he takes tank. Ill heal
The race between how quickly you can heal, how fast the team takes damage, and avoiding danger.
What a headache
I remembered an old mmorpg i used to play. My gear made me able to just mash my single target heal for days, build my single target heal for critchance, because of an passive that made a crit heal an aoe heal.
Complicated build but no boss could outdamage it at that time
Yeah i felt that in ff14 back in the days, but when you overcome all of that it feels absolutely amazing.
0:42 At that moment, every medic and healer main around the world laughed simultaneously...Whether it was a laugh of amusement or pain only they know
Probably both. Tragically funny.
My laugh would be described as "well, I guess I can't heal stupidity, might as well just focus on other people and let that one die"
bhahah
Either that or "It's funny how you as dps say that when you're the easiest role in fact"
I mean, there are some games where the only thing you need to do as dps in raid is to mash buttons. Yeah, you need to also control aggro (or you just blame tank who can't taunt) and mana (or you just blame support that can refill it for you but, oh god, he's busy with refilling mana for your healer, how could he), but same goes for healers and tanks. Like honestly, when I meet such people I just refuse to heal them unless them dying means we'll need to redo the dungeon.
Every healer in every game feels that.
„That’s what I thought“ sums it all up and was delivered so perfectly by Adam! You only know what it's like when you experience it for yourself is so true!
As a healer main great video! I'd love to see a sequel where Adam is a jaded veteran, punishing the teammates that displease him by refusing to heal them but keeping everyone else at 100%
BWAHAHA! ºwº
It's the most fun if you manage to keep everyone alive but the PC in question _just_ _barely_ all the time. 😈
Im a retired former healer main who had plenty of interactions like these so just the idea of turning it around on them extends my lifespan by a year for every interaction I had that went like this.
So Im practically immortal at this point.
and that in itself its it own problem.. they wont let me die
I do the best I can, focus on the Tank, heal the DPS's when they bite off more than they can chew, throw in some of my own offense, and look for tells' in the fight to make the next go at it easier. I then ball up in a corner, knees to my chin, and cry myself to sanity.
What games did you play?
My dad was watching with me for this one, and said this was one of the most accurate videos they’ve done. Said being a healer is probably the most stressful job you can have in a group.
“WhY DiD’nT yOu HeAl mE?!!”
“BECAUSE I WAS TRYING TO HEAL THIS OTHER GUY!!”
"Did you see that the tank was on life support?" "No..." "Did you see that you were standing in the fire?" "No..." "Do you have any idea how hard it is to get all the little red bars back to green when your heals have cooldowns and take big chunks out of your mp and literally EVERYONE is dying at once?" "No..." "Thought so."
As a holy priest at the very beginning of wows burning crusade expansion I had this group with a rogue...rogue! He badmouthed me from the getgo and started pulling on his own because the tank was slow.
Nobody in this group had done this dungeon before so he was being cool looking up the fights for us. This dude kills himself over and over then screams at me to ******* heal him, learn to heal etc. I just stopped spamming flash heal and let him die because we could survive his pulls without him as long as the tank tabbed back in in time.
Let's mutual subscription?
@@tirsden Let's mutual subscription?
@@BKJustPlays Let's mutual subscription?
30+ years of being a healer4life and this is 1000000% accurate. Thank you VLDL for identifying with my pain.
This hits so close to home. The number of times on WoW some lone ranger player would just run off from the group, get hit with their crap armour and die really fast, then type "HEAL???" would drive me nuts.
Then they were crappy hunters, as a troll hunter main I knew that if I died it was my own darn fault, especially with misdirect and cc
That's when you hit them with the "DPS???"
Some instances were (in)famous for rangers not paying attention to their pet and a bit later it comes back. "Look master what I brought you!" (Gnomeregan IIRC)
My trauma was from Warhammer Online when I was the only healer in the skirmish and not a SINGLE player chose to protect me
Then I got blamed for not giving heals.
Geez
24 players, nobody protecting the healer and you blame me for not healing you ?
@@kaltaron1284 or you forget that your pet can’t jump down with you and don’t dismiss them, and so they have to run through half the dungeon to get back to you… trailing mobs right back to the party…
I play healer in a lot of games and seeing this makes me happy. The healers job is the most chaotic and stressful but very much satisfying when you got it down.
The Dance, us healz call it.
I replayed three times 0:47 so I could watch each person's reaction to the line. Amazing acting. This is definitely the only channel I constantly replay sections in order to not miss the expressions. :)
So real. Doing a stint as a healer should be required training for all MMO players before they start raiding.
Just like how everyone should do at least a little retail.
@@rewandemontay But all you gotta do is handle the register Rewan, nevermind the 5 Karens in line who all want a refund because they didn't bother reading their product information or the 10 idiots who stand in line grabbing random shit not knowing why they're in line while everyone else is eye cutting daggers because they expect you to somehow tell them to f-off without getting repercussions from your manager and if you say anything they just yell back "yeah gimme one second I gotta pick the right charger" even though you know they're all trash but they don't want to spend over 10 bucks to get a decent one.
@@InfamousX1000 that's weirdly specific. I am very sorry you had to go through that.
Totalmente de acuerdo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@@amoral_minority let’s just say there’s a reason I prefer warehouse jobs over any form of customer service 😂
As the Cleric, Priest, Healer, and generally the glue that holds my party together. I feel this on a spiritual level!
Priests generally feel things on a spiritual level 😂
@@VivaLaDirtLeague I bow to your wit.
Only one role more important than the healer, the tank. You take the main tank out, it won't matter how many healers you got.
@@Supremax67
I don't really think any one person is more important than the other. It's about competence. I will say, as a healer, I've met a lot of players that act like a healer is a replacement for dodge, block, and parry.
@@VivaLaDirtLeague
One can only hope. 🙏
Jesus that hits home. People always b*tching and complaining about heals when they have no idea how much coordination and concentration it takes most of the time.
Alan is now suffering from PTSD of being a healer 😂😂😂
whats funny about this is thats the LEAST of what healers have to deal with since its amongst friends. Imagine getting death threats and kicked out for mistakes NOT done by yourself and worst. Honestly dont know why so many people hate healers when they themselves dont even TRY to play it once.
@@Tm-dy2bp Because the tank was CLEARLY aggroing the boss, and the DPS were clearly providing damage. I barely saw the healer, so they must have obviously done nothing the whole fight (the healer was an acceptable distance away to still target allies and avoid unecessary damage).
Hopefully there will be another continuation of his PTSD scene maybe from Bored Sketches.
@@NuggetStickJones I feel this is a joke but i wanna answer it seriously.
So if im getting this straight we get flakked cause the other party members have tunnel vision(no spatial awareness) as to the healer not wanting to accidentally out aggro the tank or get caught in too much dmg zones to keep both themselves and others alive??? I ... dont know what to say cause that sounds so damn possible and it hurts.
@@Tm-dy2bp Aha, yeah it was sarcasm, sorry if it was hard to read. I am a dedicated healer 😂
You know deep down it really is true, and that's why it really hurts 🥲
20 years in MMOs and playing every role available has taught me that healing is without question the hardest role in a party. It isn't even close. Spot on.
Well I'd agree that healer is hardest to learn but maintank is hardest to master (coming from an ESO player with no other significant mmo backround)
@@joeblackmetal3981 I have play DAoC, SW galaxies, Secret World, Teso, SWTOR, and many more. Main tank is the hardest. By far.
Do you die first? It's your fault, even if the problem actually comes from the heal which hunts the DPS to heal them.
Are you losing aggro? It is your fault. Even if the problem comes from the fact that the DPS have no self-control and "burst" just after an aggro reset phase.
The Main Tank is the one who must know the bosses' strategies inside out. That's why we're so rare
You guys talk about different things. Main tank needs to know strategies and so on, no question about that. BUT it is not hard to play. Healer needs to know strategies also, big burst windows and be ready, and yet as healer you need to do so much more than positioning and know some rotations
@@simuliviu3107 And it is very content and player type dependent. If the fight putting out a lot of raid wide damage that is unmitigatable and the dps are required to spread out to accomplish a variety of actions it is nightmare for healers. If there is none of that and the boss just kills everyone at a certain point I have seen raids that just drop healers entirely. The hardest time to heal is always when playing with idiots though.
@@El-mi4vi Can't heal stupid.
"There is a time to take damage."
"There is a time to deal it."
"There a time to ignore all else and do your best to heal it."
"Then there is a time to laugh while they all BRUN!"
As a healer is many games, I was verbally abused, disrespected and in some games got little, no, or worst loot. I'm glad you can show how hard the job is.
And chances are you were only in the dungeon to begin with to get that one rare drop that is only useful for healers, and when it finally did drop, you lost out to some DPS player that felt he absolutely had to have the 'bind-on-pickup' item for their healing alt that they occasionally played so they did a 'need' instead of a 'greed'.
You are playing the wrong game. I only saw that in world of warcraft.
In everquest, healers are almost worshipped
Dude you never disrespect the healer.
Never.
Remember, wizard needs to cast a spell to kill you, all the healer needs to do is nothing.
@@JM-mh1pp thats, a really cool quote
I agree with your view on both games. I think it came down to how hard it was to do a corpse run and then get a 96% rez if you started blaming your healer and pissed him off.
Never piss off your healer or your tank, that is the moral of the story in basically every MMO.
I don't know how many times I've just "noped" out of dungeons because dps players (almost always ranged) decided they can't let the tank pull enemies, out even let the healer recover mana, cause their time is precious.
@@Skyfighter64 or when their DPS is absolutely doggy-doody in a DLC vet dungeon :/
And that's why I take the Darwinian approach to healing. "Oh, that one is going lone wolf? Guess I'll keep the smart ones alive."
As a healer, I feel this so deeply
If the main tank blames you, it's undeniably tough. When a minor support player criticizes you - who cares?
@@skoll6098 I can be a real petty bitch, so I usually let the person who complained die at least once afterward 😂
Stop healing, let them suffer.
There's a slot on every team for a healer, that's why they call them healslots, my daddy told me.
Yuuup, that's why when an overzealous dps rushes off ahead and dies my response as a healer is generally "Oh no
...
So anyway,"
1:45 one of the most accurate representations of how it feels like to be medic main
Adam really is the camp mom taking care of everyone
brother , are you bot , and how do you get so many likes by commenting the most generic things
He already got 130 likes. Who likes on these comments
omg Milk, is that you? and yes, as a healer in most games, this is so accurate
dude i litteraly see you on every video i watch
@Bayanbatu nah he's just an attention whore that uses breaking bad to fill the void of his personality
*dives directly into a gigantic group of enemies and dies immediately*
"bro our healer sucks"
Ooof, those healer feels. Too real.
as someone who played a healer for 5 years in WoW...i felt that panic attack lol
Avoiding those panic attacks is why I mostly soloed my FFXI healer to lvl 50. All I wanted was the frickin' teleports. Taking five years to get there was absolutely worth not having to deal with a party.
*Edited for spelling
Same, healing in WoW can be very stressful, especially when playing Disc Priest for the 1st time ;d
@@lenudnir163 I would rather tank with all its accompanying bs, didn't like whack-a-mole even though I was decent at it.
Honestly the same as tank when everyone runs in every direction and takes aggro from 20 groups or so... And when you then managed to actually take the aggro from your teammates you take too much damages because the group is too big so the healer can't outheal the damage.
DPS players thinks healer and tank roles are so simple.. it is, IF YOU FREAKING KNOW NOT TO MESS WITH OUR ROLES.
@@timawaviking526 Or when you just reached the gear requirements for a dungeon and the overgeared DPS thinks he has to go full out.
Luckily that problem doesn't exist in GW2.
Right in the feels. As a healer from the very beginning of D&D pen and paper I have lived this so many times over the years. Thank you.
In every RPG the Healer is MVP, cause he has to deal with the stupidity of the entire group, while not going "screw all of you"
Let's mutual subscription?
This is so true. Being a healer is not an easy role. There’s so much to take note of, especially healing cooldowns and the fact that your damage is non existent. As a person who sometimes play healer role I share some of the disrespect that Adam gets, and can fully relate. Good skit, love your videos guys, keep making more.
Knowing that medics go through hell I always try to protect and deny heals so they can focus on others
I love how Adam swapped from healer to hunter and was still doin fine and basicaly soloing it :D
It's the beauty of the healer role. If you know how to be a healer, you know how non-healers SHOULD behave and just do that.
@@DrZaius3141 Kinda depends on the game. In GW2 there is no way you can swap from a healer to an unfamiliar DPS build/class and deal even close the damage a seasoned DPS can do. Well, at least in theory. There are builds that are easier than others.
Yeah, "soloing" by being hit by an attack and needing heals immediately. Lmao. Jeez.
@@DarthObscurity we all know that was intentionally done to spite alan
@@kaltaron1284 Garden Warfare 2?
As soon as Adam learns the rescue skill, I suspect SOMEONE is gonna be rescued off a cliff.
A ffxiv player I see lol
A wild chaotic FF14 player 🤣
My friend and I play this game in Ffxiv where we go to unsynced Titan EX and try to drop eachother by rescuing eachother into landslides
I went into the new extremes 1 time as healer (P1s i think) suddenly realized i was not meant for healing, swapped to warrior and ignored like 80% of mechanics and still lived xD the best tank healer imo, can heal your teammates and save your ass at the same time, p2s & p3s were my favorite with it
If you're not rescuing people off cliffs, then you're using it wrong.
as someone who's primarily melee dps in WoW (tauren frost death knight) i make it a habit to *always* be nice to the healers. hell, sometimes i even refer to them as "doc" or "doctor". i even take the time to thank them. it don't matter if the healer is a pro, or a newbie, trying to learn the class/spec, *always* be nice to them, your life, is in *their* hands
How is WoW these days. I stopped playing in Cataclysm where I had a 80 priest, resto Druid and Shaman. The only healer class I didn’t play was pally. Hated when they removed Tree mode from Druids and made it a cooldown/Buff only. Got to 3400 rating in 2’s and 3200 in 3’s with my priest. Thought about coming back for classic but never got around to getting another gaming PC. I hear retail is like a slot machine where you can buy power leveling and gold in game. Also all the mandatory daily quests take a lot of the fun out of it.
WoW needs more people like you lol
@@diemaschine2287 IMO it's a LOT better than it was in the previous Xpac, Dragonflight has changed a lot for the better. I've played since vanilla didnt like Cata myself, and didnt really play during BFA but the way they have things structured now, i"m actually getting back into it all.
@@raizil0513 Shadowlands was TERRIBLE. Dragonflight is FUN! 850% flying speed, alt-friendly account-wide unlocks/gating/reputation, rapid pacing of patches, tons of freebies, and quick correction of crap that isn't working out shows that they're actually listening to the player base. The first notable difference you'll encounter is that, once your main gets halfway through the first zone, ALL of your level-appropriate alts can fly. They even have mole people now. MOLE PEOPLE! 😀
Our group's marching order for a 5-person raid was tank, melee, melee/ranged, healer, ranged. The last ranged person's primary job was to watch the healer and if anything showed up to chew on the healer the last ranged would draw aggro so they got chewed on instead of the healer. Of course the last ranged would then try to get to the front where the Tank and Melee had target fixation and pass off the aggro to them.
Possibly more traumatic than the kids mode (the delighted laughter of small children while their enemies are brutally dispatched with a kid-safe overlay haunts me to this day) 😂
Balloon POP!!! 🎈 😂
Seriously I want that in a game now with the horrified looks of the NPCs 😂
it's just as painful on Military Sim games too; people die out in No Man's Land, just out in the OPEN, and they are requesting a REVIVE, where there's absolutely no cover or protection.
If you walk out into a deathtrap, don't expect any sort of backup..
Finally. The respect us healers deserve. It’s not a fun nor easy job but it is important. We keep the team alive.
Edit: holy cow over a thousand likes. I think I should start a revolution for healers.
I play healer in practically every game that has the option. It's a thankless job, and you always see your team mates getting big achievements like most kills, highest damage, etc etc. But truly we healers are the real achievers. Healers guild, unite!
As the team tank, thank you for your service.
@@NuggetStickJones same! i always play the healer and love it, tho i might be biased as i play a irl healer 😜
@@johnpixie Oh nah i'm going rogue every time imma sneak attack
@@NuggetStickJones Introducing the healer's guild! Nobody's health budges during raids, not even the boss!
But yes, important and thankless job. Any type of support role gets undervalued and flamed the most.
As a main healer, just wanting to lay down and cry in the chaos is too relatable.
I'm a hunter main, and I have massive gratitude and respect for you healers out there! Thank you!
ahhh this is honestly pretty accurate lol the amount of PTSD you get from chasing around other players trying to keep them alive is nuts, does depend on the game but most mmos or mobas have this vibe about it when it comes to healing.
I feel like good healers would also be good parents; there's a lot of similarities.
As a tank main with a healer friend, I felt this 😂
TF2 medics, who have PTSD from their own teammates: *FORTUNATE SON INTENSIFIES*
As someone who use to play MMOs frequently, playing all roles DPS/TANK/HEALING, at the highest raid levels, I can confirm the healing was the *MOST STRESSFUL*, it’s like playing an intense game of whack-a-mole but with peoples toons lives
Appreciate to nod VLDL
And thats why I will never go higher than the lowest. I use games to escape, not as a job...
Especially when learning new raids when most people don't know the mechanics.
Yep, I always appreciated people who played healers. After Dark Age of Camelot, I didn't really play many MMOs except for Guild Wars / Guild Wars 2. In Guild Wars: Factions, of course I wanted to try out one of the new classes, Assassin was more appealing to me so I chose that. Little did I know I would have to actually argue my way into remaining on a party as a few others would want me kicked out just for being an Assassin primary character, which usually came from the healer(s).
Apparently many of the Assassin primaries that others encountered often played as though they were Warrior primaries and capable of tanking things with a generic Assassin setup that wasn't actually made for tanking. So, they got a bad rep and a lot of people didn't want to party with them. Managed to make it into enough parties to progress and on occasion even saved some runs. Slowly had less of a problem with parties.
@@raisukrusa It's honestly impressive that somehow people thought assassin could be a tank class. I played GW too, but from what I could see assassins are basically multi hit kill in one go DPS particularly in PVP because they used skill combinations to absolutely destroy targets, which makes sense because assassins are supposed to be fast at killing a target.
@@dark_rit assassins could tank... with very specific setups designed to do so.
Setups that most people didn't use. Especially towards the early days of Factions.
As for people playing them like tanks, it was probably due to warriors being the only other true melee class. So, that was what people were used to
As time went on and we got away from Factions release date, people started realizing more how assassins needed to play, or were capable of playing (ie: crit bow, more shadow utilization, etc) to help stay out of danger while providing good damage output or utility.
I like how this has turned into us healers therapy session... Cause it's hard man, it's hard
Every healer coming sober just long enough to say a thank you and then going back to drinking
"Only two things I can't heal, stupid or dead."
As a healer for life, I feel this
you are not the only friend
son muy mal agradecidos los compañeros
As a healer I totally appreciate this
I main healed for over ten years before hanging it up and this is accurate. You could have also gone for the under geared tank who gets angry at you because he explodes when an enemy looks at him.
I love how everyone in the party has nice shining well-defined armor while the healer is in rags and looks like a homeless person.
I think it’s supposed to be a reference to the “alchemist” class they did in a different skit.
@@mightyphantom4383 herbalist
I mean druid-esk characters are essentially hobos.
@@Hirotoro4692 Druid*
He's not in rags, he's a druidic healer. :D
Crazy high production level and a great skit! Every hardworking healer everywhere may now shout, "Vindicated!"
"Get outta the fire get outta the fire get outta the fire... You died"
I only tried once or twice to play a healer and realized I sucked at it. My heartfelt gratitude to healers, it's a tough role.
The trick is to ignore all the whiny heal requests. Especially DPS are typically expendable and you sometimes have to let one die so as not to have everything fall apart. This is especially true the worse the communication is. That's why i like the healer role. You essentially get to decide who lives and who dies ;-)
First time I tried to play as a healer I thought I hated it. I didn't do terribly, but I didn't do good either and it felt waay too stressful to be fun.
Fortunately, friend of mine mained a tank. He told me to basically forget about the others and just focus on keeping him alive.
It was easier, more enjoyable, and eventually that little spaz DPS that kept running ahead of everyone either rage quit the group or fell in line.
@@FarmerSchinken I'm petty as hell, so when people start complaining about my heals, I just don't heal them. Typically that's in fps games, though, not MMOs.
@@azeplayt4546 holy shit, you really put it into words. Prioritizing sucks. Sorry I can't heal you right now, but my big beefy boy that keeps me alive is about to die... And now he's dead... And now you're dead... And now I'm dead...
more annoying when you keep everyone alive and some complain that you doing dps as well as healing normally out dps some of the pure dps that are not healing after all the real problem is beating the boss agro timer or they all get one-two shot some impossible to keep everyone healed up.
As a support main I feel this so much. I've had that particular 'how hard could it be' conversation way too many times.
You gotta cover the fun of VR. Guilt from the first kills. The fear of heights. Sweating your ass off. So many new things to make fun of.
Being the main healer for my guild back in the day, seeing Alan break down like that was supremely satisfying.
Breaks my heart to think any of this group ever actually get mad at each other.
It’s love, singsong and roses all the time 🥰
@@VivaLaDirtLeague Singing "Watch your fucking aggo, or I'll choke you to death! :-) "
@@VivaLaDirtLeague Someday Byron's gonna release the REAL backstage reel, with Adam throttling Rowan behind some reeds, Alan and Brit shooting the shit unawares, and Ellie watching the whole thing with a smirk but unwilling to step in, as it's too enjoyable to watch. Hamish and Ben are practicing accent and inflection in the office.
Def even hits home for other genres as well lol. The same kinda goes for tactical shooters and medic role. Sure anyone can run around getting shot while chasing any chance for a heal, but a good medic who's smart, stays alive, and sticks with the squad can turn whole matches. Same goes for the guys who go around building all the spawns and support stuff. No big kill or flashy stats, but without em, you lose almost every time.
As a healer I approve this message.
1:50 The synchrony of their gasps… 😂😂😂
i feel like so many healers like myself have been waiting for a video like this. I've shared this with all my friends! You all put out so much good stuff. thanks for everything.
I played a healer in Everquest. It was hard work but rewarding. I also played an enchanter, so I knew from experience, keep the crowd controller alive, the whole party tends to live. It served me well over time
As an enchanter main, thank you for many years of good times
@@LolUGotBusted Amen to that. Playing as enchanter was always a tense experience, due to how squishy we were. Highest agro spells and lowest hitpoints in the game :)
Ooooh Brit's staff is really cool. I could hear how much Adam was enjoying being hurt and calling for help.
Oh how validating it is to see this as a healer main! I'd also like to add that for those with heal anxiety, healing is a skill that is learned over time. Take baby steps and you'll find you're better than you think you are!
Healers literally need to keep watch of all party members' HP and the boss itself when it aggroes on you lmao.
You forgot resource and cooldown management~ those are pretty important too.
@@Liedral true that. Micromanaging specific heals, buffs, immunities, revives is very crucial 😗
And a split decision to let the idiot who stands far far away die or run to save that idiot. Death by keyboard trying to type "omg stack!"
@@miralan2215 .... typing "omg stack!" needs to be a keybound macro.
Always thought of it like a timing puzzle.
Too bad, folks don't get the nifty tricks one can do, even when being told.
There was a spell in WoW (15 years ago) that makes you seem harmless and you drop almost every agro instantly. So when I accidentally pulled an enemy off the tank (usually one of the larger ones the group wanted to focus on later) I wanted it to run aaaall the way past the group, right towards me, then harmlessness buff, and it runs aaaall the way back to the tank. Getting time to breath for 5-10 seconds. No damage done, no mana required, ... Perfect!
I told them. Every. Single. Time.
Itsy bitsy Ghoul starts waddling towards me, the whole group instantly freaks out, and chaos emerges. -_-
Btw: not only in theory. That worked _gloriously!_ 😁
... when they listened.
healers are underrated, especially a good one
then they go back to being the same troll when they're back to being dps
Gets the least credit in fights, is always the first to get the blame when things go wrong, but people literally can't function without them.
At least the tanks have enough armour that any occasional criticism coming their way bounces straight off of them.
Yeah nah, being a healer is not easy at all. Mad respect for healer mains
FFXIV, tank and healer friend setup. Tank pulls to boss, healer keeps tank alive, DPS get sorted into two categories: Ones happy to cut loose with all their big booms, and ones not quite on the good side where everything either dies too slow or not at all, causing a wipe.
"I'm the white mage. And you NEVER. Disrespect the white mage."
Freeza: *Laser blasts little green* Oh I feel real good about my life right now :)
What's my name? Ohhhhhh crap. Is it little Green? Hahahahaha no it's Dende.
I was in a raid once where a newer member of the raid started to complain about the heals and all of the OG members stood up for healer while one of them brought up the healing stats and pointed out that he healed more damage than the damage dealt by the top 3 DPS players combined. No one ever complained about the heals for the rest of the raid :D. Not to mention the healer was always the one to step up and point out when he slipped up.
Sounds like you were in a pretty healthy group of people 😂
@@VivaLaDirtLeague I was always pretty lucky with my groups 😁
The thing is, if you have a good healer, you never realise what it means to have a good healer because you almost never die, your HP never seems to drop too much or too fast and everything seems to go swimmingly while you focus on what's infront of you, not what's behind.
It's only if you have a bad healer, or if you play one yourself, that you start to realise just how frustrating and THANKLESS the role is.
After years of healing, I will not chase the one that wanders off. If you get out of range I'll let you know you are too far away but that's on you if you die repeatedly it's on you
There's a reason why I tank and DPS, but don't heal. It's a tough job.
Loved this, as always
This is why I always played healer, when you want something done right, you do it yourself.
Ben just standing around getting shot by arrows is so funny to me 😂
He was trying to retrieve his horse from his horse pocket to flee.
All while their archer went straight to close combat 😂
This was legit the kind of thing I imagined happening that prevented me from trying out healing for almost a decade. But these days, whenever I'm not tanking, I'm usually healing...
Healers are the glue that holds the team together
OMG!!!!! I can't believe you guys used one of my favourite pieces around the 0:20 mark. The melody and the vibes it gives off is just perfect! Sort of underrated actually. The piece is called Covert Affairs by Christoffer Moe Ditlevson!
don't mess with a class, which mantra is : "i decide who lives or dies"
Or "I can either sit back or taunt it."
I will let you die if you take aggro too much in one fight.
the amount of heals being requested hits too close to home LOL
As a healer main I found this way too funny and too accurate. Couldn't stop laughing at the healing PTSD. 🤣🤣🤣
I've played healer and it's easily the most stressful job in a comp. As if going in knowing you have the lives of your mates in your hands isn't nerve-wracking enough, you have to watch their HP like a hawk. That's why I haven't chosen to play the healer in some time lol Hats off to those who choose this role, sincerely appreciate you when you're good.
Tank pulls - bubble on tank. Dot. Slow heal. Dot on the DPS to dampen the group-wide attacks. Bubble on tank. Dispell on each party member for curse. Fast heal tank. Dot on the DPS. Fast heal tank. Dot on tank. Bubble on tank. Dot on self. Dispell on DPS before one-hit-kill. Bubble on tank. Slow heal on tank. Dot on tank then the DPS then self. Bubble on tank. Dispell second wave of curses. Fast heal tank in a panic, bubble, finish with slow heal, then run out of AoE in a hurry. Slow heal DPS who aggroed the adds. Bubble on tank. Dot on clumsy DPS. Dot on self. Fast heal on tank, slow heal, bubble. Dispell one-hit-kill on tank. Dot on the DPS. Bubble on tank, fast heal everyone for unavoidable AoE, run out of mana...
Breath out slowly. Run after the tank pulling the next wave of mobs.
this is why, game permitting, I learn at least 1 heal spell and keep at least one slot in reserved for healing item.
Alternate ending is where the Alan doesn't have to do much when they swap because without him running ahead and ignoring everyone else, everyone can stick together/communicate and gets through the encounter without too much hassle.
Oof, the frustration if that had happened instead! Alan would have learned nothing and continued to disrespect healers
Adam had no intention of letting that happen. He was going to act like Alan did, no matter what.
@@richardinman4091 I noticed. "Oh look, free swords! I can catch those! Ugh, I need healing!"
@@richardinman4091 Watching Adam make Alan chase his ass around would have been very funny
It's always interesting when the characters change roles and clothes among themselves. Great skit!