How do you resist the urge to kill yourself?
I just feel like i always get the most terrible teams has a healer, about 70% i have gold healing, but i constantly get DPS that cant kill at all, the most suicidal tanks ever, etc
Im constantly doing my best alongside the other healer, but the rest of my team doesnt even seem to have a brain
??? you ok there buddy?
Nah not really
I lost my sanity long ago playing this game
I make copious use of my anxiety medication, which is legal here but not in other places.
Having gold healing is all well and good but it doesn’t matter much if that’s all you’re contributing. Sometimes you have to focus more on helping with DPS or keeping your other healer clear and peeled. Sometimes you just can’t do anything other than try and pray and hope it works out.
Healers can carry but it’s much harder for us than it is, say, DPS, who can carry just by getting the right kills at the right time. For healers, it’s more about enabling the right kills at the right time.
Nowadays, I feel the most impactful on Briggite and Ana. The CC they bring to the table can make or break teamfights.
I do dmg when im free of healing and such
I accept that there’s only so much I can do.
My tank wants to spend half the match in respawn? Have fun dude, when ya learn not to suicide dive I’ll be here.
DPS can’t hit a thing? Better hold boost down all match so the things they do land are somewhat worthwhile.
You develop an enormous amount of patience after 2 years 
So I was a scum tier plat Moira main.
Even though I regularly pumped out reliable heals, I’m a high percentile on overbuff, I still made a lot of mistakes and needed to recognize a lot of my sloppiness.
Once I started doing that I quickly came to understand there are still 5 other idiots on my team that no amount of my resource management, positioning or shot-calling will ever fix.
I am going to go play Warzone now, where I have good aim, make kills and only need myself to rely on.
Cheers.
Right, but what I’m saying is sometimes you have to look for extra opportunities to do that damage. Like it’s okay to not keep everyone fully topped off at all times if it means you can score a needed kill. You just have to learn to judge when you can take the opportunity and then go back and top your team off AFTER. Obviously this is something that only healers like Moira, Ana, and Zen can reliably do anyway.
Also, I know the long queue time sucks, but try playing DPS every 3rd game or so. It helps me keep my brain on, particularly because almost every healer I have when I’m DPSing sucks and never heals me. It reminds me of how I actually know how to prioritize as a healer and how I should be healing because I’m better than the people who can’t heal me.
lol
I’ve been gaming for almost forty years. To this day I rage from time to time. You just have to remember that it’s just a game…it’s not worth becoming so psychologically invested in it. Easier said than done, but a worthy endeavor.
I’ve been a healer in WoW for 15 years, I’ve got a very thick skin by now. I’m quite used to having team mates that think that their ability to press a key to pew pew some damage, makes them lord and God of the game.
When one of those DPS clowns enter my team, I ensure that my priority list gets re-written and they get so far down on it that you need to drill to find them. The salt from them then is the best medicine in the world against the urges to kill oneself.
… idk
I try not to project honestly. I have no idea what’s going on in the perspective of my teammates. Sometimes they’re just having a bad game. Sometimes it’s something else hurting their performance. And sometimes there’s things I can do to help.
Supports are so uniquely situated to see the big picture of a battle. So when I’m looking at the overall picture, something obvious to me may not be to my team. So I try to gently coax people into things. Your DPS is getting hard countered? I try and word it as nicely as possible. “I really need help with this Pharah. Do you think you could play a hitscan for me?”
You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar after all.
Phrased like a true & humble Mercy main 
That compliment…
Genuinely means a lot actually, thanks. 
I just think part of playing support is actually trying to be supportive. Of course things get frustrating sometimes. But I don’t want people blowing up on me when I don’t play optimally, so I don’t think it’s fair to do so to them. Plus, you tend to get less pushback if you don’t directly call people out. That usually just makes people defensive.
Don’t expect much from your teammates, do your job and if you lose, you lose, just have fun. You don’t have to win everything.
Chances are you’d have loved my mage, because I was frequently bottom of the barrel on damage taken list and the only people who were taking less damage were literally our guild’s awesome healers. Especially during mist of pandaria when mage had the tools to mitigate dmg like temporal shield and greater invisib, but I was still holding my own damage wise. xp
Sometimes, if you’re getting really annoyed at your game… I would recommend taking a break.
Or just think of them as something small and cute and it’s your job to keep them all alive.
Ah music to my ears. I did have some fun and found some DPS that were really good at their job. Not only in dishing out damage but also managed to avoid as much avoidable damage as possible.
Too few of those left now though, especially since everyone can top the DPS meter today by simply rolling the head over the keyboard, no need to weave or have any basic class knowledge since they pruned all the spells away.
No urge to kill myself at all, quite the opposite actually, I really love healing in this game! Even with bad teams I typically find enjoyment, usually by making it work or doing better than we had any right to. This game is so awesome just because supports are actually impactful and not some boring watered down dps with some minor support abilities.