Guild Wars 2

Yep, saying it again..

It’s cool that you gave other profession the ability to heal for themselves, and pick themselves up when needed.

However, that still doesn’t let me play one of my favorite playstyles.. the dedicated healer.

I played GW from the start of Prophecies, playing many roles but I have to say some of my favorite memories in gw1 were playing monk for my guild/monking for randoms. These I cannot recapture in this new game, and I don’t see why. I’d like to think that this game stood behind and encouraged a player to play as they’d like to play, but I cannot see this logic as in order to make a statement against what has been looked at as “meta” entire playstyles have been sacrificed. There’s always gonna be some sort of meta and taking out the dedicated healer options isn’t going to change that. It’s just gonna mean that I can’t play my favorite role.

Again, I like the idea that other professions can take care of themselves and you don’t need to be revived as much. I don’t like the idea of HAVING to rely on a dedicated healer, I just like the idea of being able to play one. If you think about if you had a profession that was better at healing than other professions should they choose to build that way, you would be sacrificing other things for your team. It’s not like the other professions can’t take care of themselves so having a monk wouldn’t be necessary, it would just add versatility.

Sorry for grammar/spelling x.x

(I’ve said this since before the game came out, I’m still saying it.)

Really disappointed that my favorite playstyle has been neglected in a game that prides itself (or so i thought) on customer satisfaction, and playstyle versatility. Seems more-so that GW2 just wanted to be different.

inb4 you want dedicated healers go back to wow

tldr version: give me option to have a dedicated healer option, not a class that has to be relied on, but the ability to be a strong healer at the cost of dmg/other things that other class’s bring to the table.

You can make the guardian a dedicated healer but it gives you a different feel then other MMOs because you have AoE heals not click target ones so you need a bit of strategy to be good at it.

Guardian, Engineer, Mesmer and Elementalist are all able to be healer classes, not just support.

Try the Guardian from this thread:
http://guildwars.incgamers.com/blog/comments/rushs-guide-to-smoother-dungeons

Sure he ain’t the dedicated healer like in WoW, but he’s a nice support type that throws around area heals.

As for dedicated healers, there’s a million reasons why they’re bad for the game in general, you personally liking them unfortunately is not enough to kitten over backwards the entire playerbase.

NO please and thanks.

Esplen.3940:

Guardian, Engineer, Mesmer and Elementalist are all able to be healer classes, not just support.

Mind (no pun intended) sending me a pm on how to make the mesmer more healer like? i’ve been trying (and failing) to make my mesmer like that.

Also no to dedicated healer classes. This game was marketed as not having the holy trinity, dedicated healers are an aspect of the holy trinity. This game was literally made to get away from the holy trinity.

The new damage, support, control works just fine… no need to introduce the old trinity in GW2.

Sorry your favorite play style isn’t in the game OP but this is how the game was designed from the ground up. All combat is centered around not having the Trinity. To put it in now, they would have to rethink the entire game. So what you are asking isn’t a minor change or fix but a complete changeover from their vision of a trinityless game to a more conventional game. When people bought this game, they bought it expecting no trinity. To change it now would be would be to betray all the people who purchased it with that in mind. Your wish for a monk can’t overrule the wishes of millions for no monk/trinity.

castlemanic.3198:

Mind (no pun intended) sending me a pm on how to make the mesmer more healer like? i’ve been trying (and failing) to make my mesmer like that.

Inspiration X + Mantra of Pain

castlemanic.3198:

Also no to dedicated healer classes. This game was marketed as not having the holy trinity, dedicated healers are an aspect of the holy trinity. This game was literally made to get away from the holy trinity.

Well, then they should ditch all prefixes and make (even berserker) to celestial – putting points into all stats. Ditch traits’ stat points.

Currently the only pure build is berserker. Even if you set a Guardian, Elementalist, Engineer or Mesmer to heal/ support, they’d still be hybrides. And this is something that shouldn’t be the case. “Be Berserker or hybrid”.

Acolyte.5342:

Yep, saying it again..

lol

Play the game the way the developers intended. Why can people not appreciate different things or other peoples’ visions? GW2 was not created with a dedicated healer in mind, that’s exactly what they didn’t want. Stop trying to make every game to be similar to others. I understand you want to play something that you enjoy doing, but this isn’t your game. You pay for the right to play it, not make it.

tldr: Working as intended. Moving on.

Dondarrion.2748:

The new damage, support, control works just fine… no need to introduce the old trinity in GW2.

I think I’ve been poe’ed… Can’t tell if serious or so sarcastic he just blew my mind…