“I’m a dps”
“Can you heal?”
“Can you ook yourself in the dooker”
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Lol
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Kinda reminds me of vanilla when i first started the game. Made it to around the 30s on my Ret Paladin and joined a group expecting to dps but they had me as the healer. I left the group, logged off and uninstalled.
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That’s an overreaction.
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how so? if i spent a lot of time on a toon expecting to dps only to turn out paladins were just healers, why shouldnt i just move on to another game. Still to this day i think it was one of the best decisions i have ever made.
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Whenever I queue as a dps and they force me to heal, I tell them I am mainly a dps but go ahead and entertain them anyways. If it doesn’t work out I say hey, I told you I wasn’t a healer.
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A singular interaction where they expect the support oriented class to heal isn’t really a good way to determine how your life would be.
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On my server I’m seeing lots of “Level X DPS LFG”. You /who them and find that they’re a paladin or druid a lot of the time. It’s like they’re afraid to mention their class out of fear of ridicule, it’s kind of sad.
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The thing about classic is if your class has a heal button it can prolly heal all content but maybe endgame regardless of talents.
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Even as much as I like Classic, I’ve always thought the way Blizz screwed over classes that were supposed to have multiple specs was stupid. I mean, I don’t understand how something like that even gets approved.
Thats where i disagree with you, if i did not want to be support oriented and i had no interest in playing anything else at the time why should i have kept playing?
Even with the knowledge i have gained over the year i still to this day would not roll a paladin in vanilla/classic.
Edit: I actually researched over the year on Pally and yea in Vanilla/Classic they were just buffbots/healbots, if i want to play dps and not support why should i have continued playing?
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Except if you read the OP’s post he said they were asking for DPS not healer.
Support class =/= healbot though. What if I wanted to play a paladin that swings a sword as a DPS role, but also throws out the occasional heal and buff? Something more along the lines of an EverQuest Bard.
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Malyx can do whatever he wants to do, I won’t pass judgment on someone for how they spend their time doing something that has zero effect on me.
As for the DPS thing, if you really want to avoid people forcing you to heal, roll a class that cannot heal, like hunter, rogue, warrior, mage, warlock.
That’s what I did. I originally wanted to play a shadow priest, but I hate healing, and the fear of being denied groups and raids simply for wanting to DPS got to be too much and I rolled a warlock instead. I’m still a little miffed at that.
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I toss a HoT or two, then watch them die. Then I say, “Oh my bad, druids don’t heal good in feral gear…”
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Probably a pure, warr will be “can you tank?” Even if you rolled warr to rp as an orc gladiator or something
That’s classic for you. Especially while leveling, people will expect a class that can heal to heal. I don’t mind healing myself, though I’m specced enhance. I have a set of gear that is +int that I throw on when I do. Also I want to heal at 60, so it’s no problem for me.
I have run in to people that repeatly say before the run “I won’t heal” “I can’t heal” “I don’t want to heal” which is OK by me.
I would always tell people who asked if they should be a lock or a spriest, “Do you want to heal? Because you will if you roll priest.”
Note I’m posting on a spriest, I know what I’m getting into.
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In the same way pures (and warriors) are for the most part screwed since they don’t have self-heals. While some, like Warlock, Hunter, and Mage are still great soloers, others like Warrior are garbage. All hybrids are solid at soloing however.