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Anon loses respect for her boyfriend (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 137 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Playing healer got me laid, then got me married.

No bullshit, I met the woman that became my wife in a rando PUG, with me keeping the group alive during a boss run with no tank. Nobody fucking died, we killed the boss, and they invited me to their guild.

A few weeks later, she and I were becoming good friends via teamspeak. A few months after that the friendship started turning romantic. A little over a year after that, she came for a visit. It was fucking magic, so she moved down permanently a few months after that, and we got married. That was a tad over ten years ago.

Never underestimate the love a squishy archer can have for their healers :)

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

She plays dps and wears the pants, right?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My wife is a healer and is absolutely a Domme.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Gotta feel like you have control somewhere

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Nobody wears pants. Pants are a myth

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I met my wife on Habbo-goddamn-Hotel, but yeah.. now we fuck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

sus

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Healers get all the aggro

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

That is amazing, congrats!

[–] [email protected] 67 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Who disrespects healers? Everybody loves good healers in MMOs.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Guild Wars 2. I stopped playing because it seemed like whenever a competent healer/supporting role showed up, people would start bitching about "why can't my DPS do that?" or "why do we need a dedicated healer and/or support for end-game content?"

My favorite elite spec for a long time was chronomancer because it was basically the gold standard for what made a good support in the game. Then, instead of looking for other classes with support abilities that could be buffed to Chrono's level, Anet trashed it because people kept bitching about it being too hard, "boring" (because apparently mindlessly whacking something with a stick isn't boring), being too powerful (it was literally one of the only viable supporting roles in the game), etc.

Anet is (or at least was) really bad at balancing the game properly. I'm not sure their balance team actually plays the game, or even communicates with each other on what changes they're making because they have a tendency to stack nerfs or buffs.

The community as well tends to want every class to be good at everything at the same time. Like, don't get me wrong, the ability to respec from a supporty role into a DPS without switching characters is awesome; but if you're rolling DPS then you're not gonna be able to shit out boons like a support can.

It sucks because I love the overall atmosphere of guild wars, but watching my absolute favorite spec get completely gutted because of bitchy, whiny players that were basically the guild wars equivalents of "I'd be high rank if it weren't for my shitty teammates" was heartbreaking.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Yeah I think that comes from them promising to move away from the "holy trinity" early on. That lead to people just wanting to do everything at once. Originally the concept of not having the three roles sounded good, but the implementation sucked. Melding everything into one role is not the way to go about it. I'd rather see it closer to GW1 where there were non-standard mmo roles like the original mesmer.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's not about not respecting them, it's about the supposedly boring game play. That's why everyone is looking for good healers - everyone wants to play DD instead (even though healers often have bigger numbers).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In DotA it's not about boring gameplay as much as it is about flat out abuse. The enemy ganked you because your DPS pushed the lane too far? "Noob support". Your DPS ran in like rambo 1v5 and died? "Stupid support where are the heals". Often when your DPS goes rambo mode and changes his mind, your job is to get him out by dying instead because you're less valuable. And when you do that, they call you retarded because of you kill-death ratio. And of course when everything is going well, nobody notices you.

It's a tough and ungrateful life, but someone's gotta do it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

idk which game you are playing, but in dota, really no one is a "healer", except maybe Io. Even stuff like Dazzle/Chen/Treant who actually have a lot of heal, it's not the main thing they're about.

My main role is support and I've only very rarely got the behavior you're talking about. I even often get recognized after the game for clutch plays. I don't think playing support in dota is tough nor ungrateful.

But also I'm playing on EU on pretty low to average MMR, idk how it is on other regions/skill levels.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

but in dota, really no one is a "healer"

And you'd rarely say "DPS", you'd call them carries, but I was trying to simplify the terminology for people who never played dota.

I haven't played dota in years, I was active between 2012-2017, so maybe only the bad things were saved in my memory. I mean, maybe I just suck, but I distinctly remember that when the carry sucks, fingers are more often than not pointed at the support, and when I prevent ganks, pull the creeps, double the stacks in the jungle and so forth, nobody gives a damn because only the late game is memorable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

A dota carry has the opposite mindset of a NFL quarterback.

Loss: Quarterback - I let the team down Carry - team of noobs, can’t out carry noobs

Win: Quarterback - team win, everyone came together Carry - team of noobs, lucky I could out carry noobs

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I got onto a sponsored LOL team because I was willing to drop DPS and switch to healer. Healers rule.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

That's why I mainly play as Support in Overwatch. I keep everyone alive and sometimes also help out on DPS front when my team DPS is braindead.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Did your team win?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

Occasionally on the regional level.

The one chance we made it to a national level we got the worst seed I have ever seen and the first three teams that we played would go on to be the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place teams in the national tournament.

We got destroyed.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Would she marry a doctor though?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No way. She wants whatever the irl job equivalent of a tank is.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The tank absorbs most of a company's damage. So she wants a minimum wage customer service worker.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Over the phone technical support.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

She’s clearly never played Paladins. All healers can be super effective when the enemy doesn’t expect it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

I decide who lives and dies

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Her face when he is a doctor

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Real chads play Battlesmith!

"What's that about a role gap? I can't hear you over the sound of me being every role compressed into a single smashy smashy package!"