Become a Retribution Paladin, you be your own healer. Be snarky to yourself.
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Lol, nice way to make your crappy opinion a fact.
Nor are you, everyone is pretty replaceable in any given role.
I heal 90% of the time and I heal without bias, because it’s my “job” I guess… even people like you.
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To be fair they do have reason to blame dps.
But honestly the snark from many of them could be left at the entrance.
For those of us idiots who tend(ed) to step in crap that a healer had to heal through and take away from a Dps who needed it far worse, we deserve(d) the snark. It’s one reason healers got big heads and overly proud of themselves and rightly so.
Certainly not saying they need to be so smarty-pants (keeping it clean folks) and think they are above others and can look down on the little people, but they are essential to any raid/dungeon group.
Besides why worry about what someone says? Not like they know you and it’s not like the old days where you’d be blacklisted on a server because you were an butthead (still keepin it clean).
Just do what you’re doing and remember that although they may be a jerk, they need you as well as you need them. In current content anyway.
Yes yes I know some of you are bad butted (keepin clean 
) to solo a lot.
This is a terrible attempt at trolling. This line in particular:
Is absolutely bait.
0/10 try harder next time, dude.
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Snark and passive-aggressiveness belong equally to all roles. The best is when all three roles have snarky, passive-aggressive representatives in a raid, especially an LFR raid. Tanks, healers, and DPS all dividing their fire at each other as well as (usually) the other people within their OWN role (higher DPS wanting to kick lower DPS, tank wanting to kick his co-tank that failed to taunt at the right number of stacks, etc.)
When snark and passive-aggressive behavior is coming from all three roles in an LFR raid, Vote-to-Kick is getting initiated against multiple people, and people are making their case as to why they shouldn’t be kicked, but their opponent should be, that’s when the drama really rises to a higher level of art.
Healing has only two types of people:
Healer Type 1 - Super chill, makes the green bars go up. Hey guys, we won! 
Healer Type 2 - Sees you for what you really are: someone who’s been put on this earth by Satan himself to stand in the fire and cause him to die an early death due to high blood pressure. He knows you’ll get him eventually, but he’s determined to take you with him and in the meantime he will let you know that he’s on to your evil game.
Sounds like you ran into Healer Type 2.
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And theres your problem right there.
I enjoy snark. I don’t enjoy jackwagon.
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Pretty much every Healer I’ve run with is a little angry ball of snark.
I asked one of my raid Healers how to heal since I was dabbling with an alt for a hot minute. He said to hit this and that and then yell at everyone for dying.
It was surprisingly effective.
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I notice in every MMO that I’ve played, the dps always complain the most and that they are never at fault. They remind me of help desk employees (I worked as one once) who complain about people not knowing how to use computers.
Everything they say comes off as pretentious and entitled, “omg heal me!” or insert snarky comment for degrading tank/healer here. They act as if everyone is below them because they are responsible for doing damage but I know for a fact that good tanks/healers can outdps most dps if they had to switch roles. As a tank/healer you are constantly pushing yourself to do the maximum threat generation/damage/healing via uptime/mechanics/simming and minimizing movements. Yes, we do mess up sometimes for being greedy but that’s what YOU are there for.
I’ve been playing another popular MMO recently and the ones that complain also are afraid to play non-DPS classes in my free company. In that games LFR, everytime I see a snarky comment it’s always the dps. Someone messed up a mechanic in LFR, get over it. Entitled backseat gaming dps have existed for years (I started in MOP) and someone needs to give them a reality check. YOU ARE NOT AS IMPORTANT AS YOU THINK.
I was in a low skilled raiding guild back in legion and we had dps that would constantly die but never get the blame. Healer dies? Insta-rez. A boss at 2 percent and top dps is dead? Res a healer and wipe because we couldn’t make the damage push.
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I respect anyone who has the patience and tolerance to play a healer, even if they’re a bit of jerk. I tried healing once and never again; it is the absolute worst most thankless, boring job to have and I don’t know how they do it – but I thank them profusely.
I don’t blame them for being snarky now and then because they deal with so much garbage. I try to think of it from their perspective: they have 4 personalities who could all be jerks to deal with. If they are all jerks, now their workload has increased by a huge margin.
On the other hand, as a dps, all you literally do is keep pressing your buttons. Nothing else. You shouldn’t be getting hurt by anything except unavoidable damage mechanics, so the behaviour of other players has little impact on you. Most dps I know LIKE when a tank messes up and pulls too much because now they can flex their dmg.
As a tank, if dps pulls ahead, and you have some modicum of skill, you can compensate for that easily. Even if your healer is neglectful, well, just pull less, use your cc’s.
But for the healer, if everyone is screwing around, they suffer the most. At least from my perspective.
Lol claiming dps work harder is than a healer in M+ is a bit of a joke. I’ve done both in 10+ keys and my friend, healing demands a lot more overall. Specially as a Resto shaman at the beginning of Bfa -_-
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Priests also have a Healer Type 3 that abuses the power of Life Grip to nefarious ends. I mean, I would never do that… but they’re out there, and sometimes hilarious.
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Nah, I bet he plays Genji and begs for a pocket.
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That isn’t what my mom tells me!
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I have better things to worry about in life, like real life, rather than wasting energy being mad in a video game developed for kids and teenagers.
That’s the more devious version of Type 2. They’ve decided that the best way to prevent their teammates from sending them to an early grave via aneurysm is to kill them first.
I have “a friend” who would do this in WildStar with a healing class that had a forward teleport and a Life Grip-style ability. Jump backwards off the edge, life grip, port back to safety. “My friend” thought this was hilarious. I’d never do anything like that myself, of course.
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As a long time healer I forgive those who stand in fire/fel/stuff. I will do everything I can to keep you alive. That is my job. You will never hear the things I am saying about anyone’s skills or lack thereof. If you happen to die. Then that is the will of the gods. There are those deaths that I will shamelessly enjoy especially when I am giving more heals to dps than the tank.
My main is retribution and I play him 99% of the time.
But then time walking comes out and I play my MW monk for the 500 free badges.
My whole outlook completely shifts when other people’s lives are in my hands.
“Omg, how is he dying?”
“Why is she standing in the fire??”
“For the love of all things holy, is the tank wearing Kleenex for armor??!”
“Why is this _______ taking so much damage!?”
I think healing turns you into a hyperactive snarky, jaded player who looks down upon others because others’ health is almost the only thing you’re focusing on.
I don’t mind comments here and there, support is important and as a newer player if I’m doing something wrong I’d rather have someone say something so I know instead of waiting until the end of a run to make an a-hole comment about something after it’s already happened.