How hard is it to react to someone standing in front of you with barely any health?
I am not a top priority while you go chase a Reinhard to his death?
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If the support is going for kills, yes, thatās wrong, but also keep in mind if they are a solo support they have 5 other people to take care of,
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I donāt know? Whatās the Reinās armor at? What hero where you playing? Dps are a lot better than tanks at surviving at low hp.
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I do agree that if a healer is blatantly not healing (Iāve seen a few DPS Moiraās and itās super annoying when I have more healing than them on Roadhog), then yeah, itās pretty similar to game sabotage.
But it never hurts to try and pay very close attention to what the healer is doing because they may be dead, or there may be people closer to death than you. A good healer can manage their resources and prioritize targets. Sometimes people forget that you donāt need to get people to max health before switching targets. Your goal is to just keep people above 0 HP.
Also, be nice to them. I still heal jerks, but youāre last on my list now if youāre being irate for no reason, ESPECIALLY if youāre not peeling for me. Teamwork makes the dream work.
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Thats something that pisses me off! When iām playing healer and people be like ājust ignore those 4 people focusing on you and heal me! LOL 4headā
Man I think thats the most frustrating thing! When youāre really really trying but your teammates cant see its not yout fault
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Yea itās banable or how ever you say it, iām stoopid so idc
I just report every time when I see an ana in front of the tanks sniping ppl.
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Excuse me but if Iām solohealing 5 dps, Iām not throwing even when Iām not healing someone directly in front of me. I have multiple people to heal and multiple jobs to do and staying alive is 1# priority for me. Winning the teamfight is far more important than one singular person, who often make it difficult for me to try and heal them.
So sorry mister mccree whoās on critical health but giving Hanzo potg and damage boosting him so we easily grab point is more important. He was doing a load of work right from the getgo. =p
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He I feel ya as far as DPS healing goes.
And with that I donāt even mean the super aggressive attack supports that actually wanted a DPS slot and now play DPS on Moira, Zen or even othersā¦
What I mean is that it seems a difficult concept for many people to grasp that if you are a Tracer/Reaper/Pharah type squishy and your health bar has ONE red square left, you will die from just stubbing your toe on the payload!! On the contrary when you are a 1000HP Wrecking Ball and have one red square left, you can probably still survive a widow body shot or direct Pharah rocket with ease!
Supports glue to tanks because āthen we die lessā but forget that if all DPS are dead and nothing gets killed they will also die, eventually. Why drag it out?
Someone above mentioned supports try to keep everyone above 0HP and I think thatās a good start but what (just personal opinion) they REALLY should do is keep everyone from being one-shot. Especially in this meta. Can widow one shot the 370 HP D.VA? No? Then heal me (DPS) completely so I can flank/dive and kill her. After that, we can go back to D.VA or any other tank afraid of even passing the choke because they wait for the game to announce āTeam Killā magically. Yes sure I can MAYBE survive long enough to get a healthpack but at that time, the other 2 people I killed beforehand are back at the objective and we won nothing. So frustrating when you are on attack and your team hides.
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I mean there wasnāt a transcendence to counter soā¦ no, you didnāt actually need to damage boost that Hanzo. Beyond that, you missed the point of the topic entirely.
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People often complain that moira doesnāt heal them. Please allow me to shed a moira pov from the situation.
There is a point at which you say āOkay we either back out and lose the point or all in.ā Either way youāll be hunted down and killed. When the enemy has the advantage and they are moving in they donāt expect a moira to be behind them. I have won points by killing Zen and mercy by myself, then healing the rest of my team and one guy dies along the way and will not let that death go.
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Throwing is intentionally not fulfilling your role in the hopes that your team will lose as a result of your sabotage.
As such, intentionally not healing your team or a certain ally for any reason is throwing. A mistake, however, is not intentional - even if theyāre stupid ones.
I make mistakes, and so do others. There are times when people get blasted down too quickly to react to, especially in this meta. Also, donāt forget that your healer is responsible for the team, not just you. Youāre not the center of the world. Yes, there are times when people are a higher priority than you - main tanks are a pretty big deal versus heroes that can jump down and snag a health pack real quick. Sorry. 
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If you want pocket/priority heals you could duo with a friend that plays healer. 
Personally, I end up solo-healing often, so I usually have to prioritize someone who is front line in a fight before someone who is safe enough to grab a pack (instead of standing there spamming I need healing while our rein is at 50 hp in a 1v2).
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Wow, thatās so little experience with healing. I mean, thereās too many factors to talk in such absolutes there.
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Hardly, OP is yelling at people not healing him when heās apparently standing in front of them, but the thing is, healing priorities change according to situation. Even if someone is on critical health right in front of me, he might not be my first priority to heal. My first priority is still going to be the person who will be taking damage at the very moment and potentially dying because of it. It may or may not neccesarily be the critical hp person in front of me. Sure, it is likely I can spare a second or two to get them out of critical, but more often Iām solohealing overextended dps players and lack of shield tanks too, I canāt afford seconds.
Critical health person can still seek cover, they might not be taking damage at this moment and I will bave to triage my healing if I am solohealing and focus those on the frontlines more than at the back, depending where enemies are at.
Heck, someone might be in front of me but to heal them, I would have to get across a gap that is directly in good widowmaker sightlines. Like what happened on gibraltar attack the other day. Just because youāre technically in front of me doesnāt mean you can get healed.
Mistakes happen, but as far as dps players go, they tend to put themselves into unhealable situations more often than not. Bad, tunnel healers exist too ofc, but very rarely healers refuse to heal an obvious target, often at the detriment of themselves when they donāt have the game sense to gauge such a risky situation yet and them die themselves.
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No, OP is specifically talking about healers who ignore low health heroes DESPITE the fact that theyāre clear priority. Itās something Iāve experienced as well. I run back to my Mercy with 50 HP, call out to her, get ignored, stand in her LOS, get ignored, then turn to see that all this time sheās been ignoring me sheās been pocketing a Rein at full health.
THIS is the issue. This happens too frequently in Overwatch. THIS is what OP is complaining about.
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You report everytime? Kinda psycho imo
If healers are not healing, they are throwing.
So if DPS are not killing, are they throwing?
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If I got a dime every time someone ignored a flanker or if I got a dime every time someone died because they got super greedy and overextended behind 4 walls and didnāt back off in time or if I got a dime every time a genji main did this and blamed healerā¦
Bad players exist. Selfish or vindictive players exist. Duo players exist. Tunneling exists. Garbage exists. Hardly a healer only issue to whine about tbh.
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Depends on the healer.
Healers like Briggite for example can only heal someone once every 6 seconds so she can damage in the meantime.
If Moira is gassed out, she has to deal damage to recharge.
Just two examples.
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