Being a healer is a total punishment in this game!!! Healing mechanism and healing in general are trash in this game :(

[MechaTR]

First for all, if you play as a true support healing class with wand + bow, you will suffer a lot because of couple of reasons:

1) You will never farm the +5 number of mobs at the same time like other weapons which you need to do those contract quests at lvl 50.

2) Everyone is going to blame you for not healing in time the party members in the dungeons when +2 number of group member having low hp after a boss AOE attack (it does not matter if thy fail to follow mechanic or getting caught AOE by mistake or less experienced etc). This game's players think themself - majority as high ego with tons of insults.

In one of the dungeon, thy said that you are bad because you could not avoid the AOE to heal yourself (but healing others first), heal or not heal yourself or others - for ******* blaming everything for healer.

3) Everyone is running away from healers when thy are low hp and healers chase them...

4) Healing skills' cooldowns are very long to keep everyone alive in the dungeon group or open world pvp or pve; and healing skills mana consuption is very very high... And there are not enough healing. AOE heals, shields are like having 40 seconds, 37 seconds, etc and single target normal and dot healing skills are having 12 seconds, 6 seconds. The range of the skills are very short even you spend point on weapon specialisation section.

5) Wand and Bow weapons' healing weapon specialisation section is a total trash, you spend lots of points and noone is very impressive or very effective too; because mainly long cooldowns to re-use the skills in general as a healer...

6) DPS of healers as single target damage or AOE damage is total garbage especially when you choose your stats, perks and traits for healing versions... It is sad that to get another weapon and to upgrade it etc is a pain. The game is very limiting you if you want to play with a new weapon as the grind is in a whole level...

7) As a healer you attend to open world pvp and pve contents right? However, this game does not rewarding you because you provide healing to other players even as assisting... This game's rewarding system is all about DPS !!!

8) Healing mechanics are a total punishments. Lets say you used all of your skills and thy are in cooldown, how do you gonna heal? you use the DOT skill first then your single attacks giving heal as you damage the player or monster with 10-12 etc single dot like healing... Therefore, the healing amount is very less in this game!!!

9) There are tons of keyboard key assignment to press for self healing, party targeting to choose specific person in time, and x12 skills to press non-stop and heal others and avoid the any dungeon mechanics or other obstacles especially in different combat modes (action or classic). For example, the classic mode camera movement looks awkward especially you turn your camera and move around with your W-A-D-S at the same time (Archeage did not have this problem). In action combat version, to choose the target with mouse manually sometimes changing too (Tera Online did not have this problem at all)

I have played as a healer in Archeage, Aion, Lineage 2 (very classic tab-target) and we did not have such problems, or in Tera Online we did not have such problems (as true action combat).

The healing amount / cooldowns + healers + healing mechanic improvements needs more love in this game. Therefore, being a healer is a total punishment in this game!!! Healing mechanism and healing in general are trash in this game :(

[James_GT]

Swift healing can be spammed and can heal most players for a large chunk. granted health regen you can visibly see health bars filling up. outside of mechanics I don't think I've lost anyone in a dungeon. No healer can heal thru the fireballs on the final boss in the second dungeon for example. mechanics are what kills

[Beklyn]

i can fully confirm this, thats why i stopped playing a healer.....

[Tevu]

This sounds more of a challenge to me, than anything. Going to make my character healer.

[Heck]

Agree 100%.

If they made homing healing missiles for allies with action camera I'd be happy. (Like TERA)
And all lock on skill for that matter, no fumbling in action camera, just press skill mouseover to lock onto who you want to heal and then press again.

[James_GT]

Originally posted by Tevu:

This sounds more of a challenge to me, than anything. Going to make my character healer.

go for it. I play wand longbow. Your kit will be limited but around 20 or 30 you will have a lot of options. I think I heal way to much and kinda lack in damage. It's a fun class.

[Gerance_]

Learn to play guys

[HeyGetOffMylawn]

Originally posted by Tevu:

This sounds more of a challenge to me, than anything. Going to make my character healer.

Exactly this.

[marsHm311oW]

Why the hell are you using wand + bow? Use wand + staff this gives you a pretty good mana reg skill.

[Armin46920]

Originally posted by Gerance_:

Learn to play guys

What this guy said, Got my healer to 2200 and having a blast

[James_GT]

Originally posted by marsHm311oW:

Why the hell are you using wand + bow? Use wand + staff this gives you a pretty good mana reg skill.

wand/staff is good as well. more damage and a powerful mana regen. wand longbow is also a fine option. you have a health/mana regen skill and more support skills.

[Pinkeh]

I usually play healer main in mmogs. But i can't stand the healer role in this game for most of the points mentioned by OP. Too bad.

It's no wonder there is a shortage of healer mains on the Korean version. The large guilds/alliances do everything they can to keep their healer mains on their roster.

[Aldain]

I sometimes wonder just how many MMOs exist that aren't constantly kicking Tanks and Healers in the nuts.

[Boink]

Longbow to 6 blue and max damage 3 skill sets and you should have enough mats to main as a healer and enough dps to destroy mobs.

[MechaTR]

Originally posted by Boink:

Longbow to 6 blue and max damage 3 skill sets and you should have enough mats to main as a healer and enough dps to destroy mobs.

We have x4 mages that are ranked 1, rank 3, rank 5, rank 7 in the whole server - the speed of them to farm mobs to kill 8-10 mobs at the same time is insane as thy use Staff + Wand or Staff + Bow generally. However, the pure healers cannot do it. I spend lots of time to complete x5 contracts at Shattered Temple while the DPS weapons do it easily. This is same for any events for both pvp and pve. For PVP, you are rewarded nicely when you do DPS. However, in one pvp I just healed ppl and I even did not get any assist points lol. Sometime I dot enemy players in those events but the game does not count it as assist. Rewarding system is not in favour of healers.

Our server tries to find pure healers to join their guild because %99 of players are DPS and tank combinations.

[MechaTR]

Originally posted by Gerance_:

Learn to play guys

We learn to play - no worries but some people does not have any patient in this game but mainly having high ego players in dungeons are very egoist especially in Early Access servers and thy blame everything on the healer. Especially in this game, it is max out which is far most higher than in other mmorpgs I have played (very trash talk players in this game)... Then thy beg around to find healers. Such players, I have blocked and reported them.

When you apply for the dungeon with party finder, the first question thy ask if everyone watched video of dungeon, or thy say that if you cannot kill last boss - do not waste my time and I will leave etc speeches. It is not one time, two times too...

For example in Archeage, I remember when it came first - we were learning mechanics and testing it without complaining or disrespecting to others. Throne and Liberty is in a whole high ego, pro player mentality in an another level.