The Light and How to Swing It: Dissecting the melee healer myth

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10-30-2011 @ 8:52PM

gewalt said...

every other mmo has a "dps to heal" class. they all work the same way. they dps, the server picks who it heals. they are afforded limited control (like setting a beacon on a tank, putting a statue down somewhere, whatever), but they are "smart healers".

Smart as in, the server decides.

Because of the limited capacity to make decisions about their impact, they are typically considered a "support class" and not a main healer. that doesnt mean they cant put out throughput higher than any other healing class, it just means they are support and not directly responsible for monitoring and reacting. That job always goes to a main (pure) healer.

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