I would rather heal a bad tank. I feel like it would at least give me a little control of the outcome.
I actually game with a person, a friend, who is really bad at most games. When I can stomach the frustration, I accept the challenge. They keep you on your toes and make you a better team player. It's kind of like exercising with a sandbag(or 3) around your waste.
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Wow that is almost word for word. I wonder if it is a sign of a specific play style. When pulling as a monk in EQ I always tried to make the healer and enchanters mana cry but no one ever actually die.
I face this question all the time in Overwatch so I can answer swiftly with: Heal a bad tank.
I love tanking and would do it all the time but a lack of support sours me more than anything so, rather than complain, I take up the role from time to time. More often than I'd like to be honest.
Kilsin said:Would You Rather - Heal a bad tank or tank with a bad healer? #MMORPG #CommunityMatters
Oh, heal a bad tank, definitely. I'm the healer so I know what I can and cannot do to affect the outcome even with a bad tank. Bad healers are far more dangerous to a group than a bad tank.
I will be a cleric in Pantheon so, i guess I will be healing the bad tank. I think I am pretty good at healing. I have been doing it for 20 years. I am a lev 60+ cleric right now on new TLP EQ servers.
I think a lot of people would move on after seeing the tank isn't great. maybe this could be an opportunity for the group to help TEACH the tank how to do a few basics to at least be OK instead of bad.
of course all of this depends on level. I can heal a low level tank and know that he may be new at tanking and deal with it. but if we are all Level 45 and that tank STILL sucks. I am out lol.
@Trasak coincidentally, I mained a monk in EQ.
It may have something to do with being a puller class.
Valorous1 said:@Trasak coincidentally, I mained a monk in EQ.
It may have something to do with being a puller class.
*Monk laughs as the healer and tank argue who is worse as he dumps just the right mob on the group at just the right moment and sagely says*
“Control is an illusion and placing blame only leaves you with your hand pointing out” . . . “Now shut up and tank this before the next one mysteriously shows up, and you sit down and med till his health bar hits 50%!!”
Really though, being a good puller required much higher zone and system mastery than EQ era tanking or healing which was basically just button spamming. WoW at least seemed to have some form of tactical tanking and healing before they easy-moded everything but the pull was still often the key decider.
Kilsin said:Would You Rather - Heal a bad tank or tank with a bad healer? #MMORPG #CommunityMatters
Heal a bad tank, you could try to savage being a healer, but if you healer is bad than you as a tank couldn't do much about it and the grp suffers, plus usually tanking is far easier than healing so there that as well.