You tunnelvision only the things in front of you, you do not pay attention to your surroundings. This means that a dps that has returned to safety with low health gets ignored. Oh the dps knows you are busy, but if the dps sees you healing full health tanks or taking potshots at the enemy, you are not doing your job as a healer.
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Anyone who spams me with I need healing I start paying more attention to. I don’t know why people take offence to that spam, they are putting their ego before other things…
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Had a genji who kept diving into the backlines of enemies and kept dying immediately.
They got really angry at me in particular and I said, I cant heal what I cant see.
This only made things worse and he just threw harder.
At the end of the day, maybe sometimes its actually the dps fault and healers cant do anything about it
So apparently this stuff happens alot, and its not just me. Thanks everyone! 
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Most people don’t care. We care if they already died and they are just being toxic
Also depends on situation. Was the Ashe WAY out of reach tryna make a play? Or were you
Just being stupid for a split second?
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Funny, I see a lot of DPS that tunnel vision themselves since they lose track of where their healer is or even being in LoS of their healer.
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The UI provides all the information you need to know who needs heals. I don’t really listen to “I need heals call outs” and if someone spams it, I squelch them. In fact there is so much Audio clutter, I wish there was a global option to squelch all player manually triggered voice lines for every game. We can keep the game generated ones (the ones that call out ability use), those are actually useful.
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There are lots of reasons why you might not get heals promptly, and funnily enough the I need healing button doesn’t fix any of them.
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Actually, I reckon the UI could use some touching up. For example, black borders around the HP bars above characters’ heads to stop them blending in with the background, and the PvE/Spectator party status panel so I’m not constantly spinning around simply in order to keep tabs on everyone.
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It is even more ridiculous when you see healers not healing their tanks.
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Yeah it can be hard to react when I’m being bullied to death by enemy flankers. I do try my best, even if I am a low sr player. I do like helpful, occasional pings if I do accidentally miss you for whatever reason while being unbothered by the enemy. Once is enough, trust me. Spam doesn’t make me feel any urgency because of how much people do it.
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Yeah I never take posts like these seriously.
“Its always the bad healers, and not me!!!”
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Once or twice makes sense. Spam is cluttering comms and is reportable, and I’m definitely going to do it.
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Nine times out of ten, the guy spamming “I need healing!” is just playing terribly, and is too busy flipping his wig to realize it.
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See I dont take offense to the spam. But I mostly get it when I’m DEAD. The reason I’m dead is because the doomfist/ Tracer/ Genji is constantly diving me and no one is assisting me.
I feel the same way as OP in his situation though. People be stupid and selfish.
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DPS in safety is lower on the priority list than teammates actively taking damage. You can go find a health pack or wait your turn.
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I never get complaint when I’m playing healer, because I HEAL.
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These posts?
In THIS forum?
Look at the “likes” mate. This forum is mainly overcrowded by supports and tanks. Everytime a DPS dies, write here that they are bad, they dont know how to position or any excuse and its ALWAYS the DPS fault.
Guess who gets the blame when “nothing is dying” ? Yep. The DPS.
It is THAT bad. Its SO BAD that even a Developer had to make an official post addressing it.
Yeah apparently Supports do nothing wrong ever, do never fail on target priorization or position themselves where they can barely heal someone and that someone is a tank.
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Same. I mean it doesn’t happen a lot in the first place (at least not in my experience), but I find it’s usually from a sniper that’s positioned behind me. I mean I’m only human - sometimes I just don’t notice someone’s health bar. I see nothing wrong with them using X to let me know.
The problem comes when they spam it to be petty AND when they’re in a position I can’t heal them. Like the Genji in the backlines, and me being on Moira near the frontline with my tanks. Like, uh … here’s an orb? What do you want from me? XD
Or when I’m dead. That’s kind of annoying too. But I don’t ever refuse to heal someone because they do it or anything.
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It’s funny that you think spamming at me will get me to react. It might but it wont be a reaction you’ll like.
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Yeah, it is probably annoying, but if you’re not going to heal because you don’t like the spam then you’re becoming the bigger problem. It’s best to just do your job and then avoid-as-teammate after the match is over.
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