Guild Wars 2

For those of you rhat enjoy difficult task, in your opinion, is being a Healer easier than playing DPS?

Personally, I think that depends on a lot of factors. Above and beyond one’s own skill level at healing. Things like “who” and “what” can making a huge difference regarding whether or not the healer’s role is easy, mildly taxing, or even outright “I’m just going to let him die because he’s kittening me off” difficult.

Can’t really say in GW2 since we still haven’t had a place where dedicated healing is required.
But overall, DPS is the easy part, you just pick the right class and build, and its smooth sailing, while a healer has a lot of micromanagement to do, and in most cases the dpser just spams as many skills as possible, leaving the aggro management for the tank.
So as a general rule, being a dpser is way easier. In gw2, tba.

Healers generally have a lot of pressure dumped on them by their team. If some one dies, or the group wipes, blame is often tossed the healer’s way.

It can often be a thankless job too.

In most other mmo’s healing is harder then DPS. With DPS you only have to worry about your rotation and staying out of the red circles. While with healing it is all reactive there is no real rotation, you have to respond correctly to the situation and stay out of the red circles.

From what i have seen from the 1 raid boss it is actually pretty close in GW2, since quite a bit of the healers job rests with every individual player. It is all about positioning in GW2 for both sides, healer and DPS, since you cannot target allies directly for healing.