Why do people like to play as a medic? Is it really for the healslut satisfaction?

Why do people like to play as a medic? Is it really for the healslut satisfaction?

>play as a medic in any type of game
>like to help and support people in real life
> like paramedics [/spoilers]

Is there such a thing as a healslut virus?

Hey I'm no to you OP.

some people get more satisfaction from helping the team then their own personal kill count.

stop this healslut meme you will never be a girl ever you will always be a fattie stop being a such a faggot jesus christ

>no
on*

I'm bad at aiming and DPS so I figure it's the best way to contribute.

I tend to play Lucio and Zen

This only works if the team you're healing isn't fucking retarded. If you're actually good at the game you're going to be more useful as dps most of the time.

Medics in Battlefield 1 were great, yes I did heal people, but they had the best semi-automatic quasi sniper rifles.
3 tap people reliably at range, infinite health.
Only problem was ammo, but you can revive people and heal yourself and others.

This is really gay shit you're talking about, by the way famalam.

Healers are only fun in dudebro FPS games like Battlefield where your firepower isn't gimped just because you chose the medic class.

In TF2 I played medic sometimes. But it always feel like I decide the strategy rather than following other's.

Dunno, I heal the good people when they're doing well. If they fuck up or make a bad decision, I ditch them for some one else.

I do support for one reason really. Because someone has to do it, no one else wants to do it and even if they did I can do it better than them anyway.

If you're working in teams then everyone wins together. I'm not losing out by going support. I still get my rewards, there's no loss. I guess it all started when I played MMOs with my little brother years ago, being healers was my way of babysitting him.

because I understand the rhythm of the game and a well timed damage boost can make the difference in a team fight

and I'm a mediocre dps

I'm in you OP, watch out!

I don't mind healing when playing with my friends since they know what they're doing, and healing a competent team takes way less concentration than every other role

This healslut shit is retarded, why don't you fags just go jerke each other off on irc or Discord or some shit instead of shitting up MMOs? They're already bad enough without you.

I play it so I can order people around from a position of power.

healer means you're a support classes healslut means your a fattie fag

cant aim desu

>healers
>not being the tank's bottom bitch

Just keep pocketing me and keep your mouth shut you little fuccboi.

>heal someone
>they start bitching
>never heal them again and watch this die, miserably and alone

Feels good

>played a Priest in WoW
>enjoy playing support classes in fps games
>the healslut meme starts up
>I can't play those classes anymore

Thanks a lot.

...

>try to kill someone
>mercy flies and heal him
I wish I had my own pocket mercy in duel, damn cheaters.

For me even seeing my teammates' health bars go up is a pretty simple, straightforward satisfaction. In general it's a pretty easy way to feel like I'm helping the team win without picking up a gun and remembering I'm shit at everything.

And also switching away from medic and watching my team crash and burn gives me a massive smugness boner.

>be me
>do a pretty good "girl voice"
>have a shitty mic so other players really think I'm a chick
>starting to get into this whole healslut thing
feels weird man

>i can't play what i enjoy because of memes
fucking kill yourself

>being a healslut
>not healpimping the dying idiots for points

Fuck off.

good times

>try to kill someone
>kill them and helpless mercy after

WOW

VOCAROO
NOW

I don't make it a point to play medic but if no one else is then I'll do it.

Since Paladins of whatever is a thing, why not make an Overwatch clone to appeal to weebs? All the characters are female, ranging from lolis to ara aras. Shit, I'd play it. I bet a bunch of people would.

I hope you know where the big med packs are bud

"healslut" is code for "I'm shit at a game but want to be an attentionwhore anyway"

I play as a medic if the team has no hope, but playing as dps is way more fun

>pocket some dps with fancy cosmetic and long playtime
>auto win

Medics ala shooting games are usually powerful soldiers who can fight just as well if not better as the rest of the classes thanks to a good primary weapon, exclusive self-healing and the powers of necromancy. Battlefield Medics are always OP as fuck.

Healers are either folks who can play it casual and still succeed, or bros who can actually make the class work to its fullest and guarantee the party doesn't even come close to death (assuming the Tank isn't complete shit).

Healsluts are a vocal, memetic minority of attention whores.

>Make a healer/support character
>It's gender locked and a dude

Would this solve healslutting?

Alternatively, just make a game dedicated to being a heal slut and let people vent their desires on that. A fucking RPGMaker porn game where you're a heal slut that has to protect the tank or something, I don't know.

Depends the game but on a full server in tf2 of dustbowl in the final point with 15 mins on the clock as a the only medic and with quick fix is suprsingly hectic and fun as fuckhaving to keep many of your shitty teammates alive and whatnot.

>gay healslut

I guess Cred Forums would like it

I heal because I'm sick and fucking tired of losing in PUGs because of jackasses who can't git gud.

cause a good healer is necessary. u's just a bitch

Very few people actually enjoy playing as medic, except when pocketing a friend you know is good.

Unfortunately games keep making these classes vital, so someone has to play them.

I usually love playing supports in stuff where I can do other stuff at the same time, like in the case on Overwatch I prefer Zen or Lucio over Mercy since I prefer their support over just straight healing since I find that kind of gameplay sort of boring, but I still want to be credit to team anyways. I kind of sucks this doesn't translate to MMOs that well because I returned to WoW recently and pretty much every healing spec is just mana bar whack-a-mole, there is nothing that isn't just pure healing or pure DPS, no real support.

...

Because you can instantly get a party for whatever you're doing if you're a healer. That and there's almost no competition for drops.

It encourages social gameplay. It's fun.

I usually get suckered into playing healer because people often auto pick dps and nobody will just sack up and play the healer for once. I do have a sense of satisfaction when I see health bars fill up and I laugh maniacally when I damage boost someone ultimate like Hanzo or soldier and I just see them wreck shop
Excluding when I play king of the hill. I've found that auto picking Lucio and running around healing and speedboosting like a madman bopping people off the map and just going ham as hell is ridiculously fun

I play as medic because I'm too lazy to play as a DPS and selfheals make me feel pleasure.

Medic can be fun. Crossbowing people across the map for a like 200 hp heal feels great. Pushing through a huge sentry nest with a successful uber is great. Although I really only play tf2s medic, dunno about others.

>dps who pull
>tanks who take on more mobs than they can survive
>retards who assume you can heal through damage meant to kill anyone but the tank
>dps who run around like chickens when they pull aggro instead of running the mob to the tank so it can be taunted off them
>tanks who don't listen when you say you need a second to regen focus
>dps who think parsing is more important than doing mechanics

What game is this?

>killing healer second
You're a fucking retard.

no mans sky

I love playing healer because it's really satisfying to know you did so much to help the team.

Overwatch makes it especially fun with Mercy's ult or Lucio's healing.

I like healing. Healing is fun.

cash

>Medics
>Not just heal themselves and attack the enemy instead of reviving teammates

>See a healer
>Attack them
>Healer is being healed by another healer
>Who is being healed by another healer who is being healed by another healer...
>There is a giant circle of healers just healing each other

What do you do? How do you get past this?

>dps know when to retreat and get healed up

What ever you do it would require coordination from your team and that's not going to happen.

>play tf2 as medic
>pyro saves my ass from burning
>start healing him
>suddenly i get a heal
>heavy gave me his sandvich
>work together, pyro spychecks and extinguish flames while heavy deals dps and gived sanvich to either the pyro or me
>the three of us are now a flanking machine and won effortless
>compliment each other
>add them to steam
>we play regularly not only tf2 but other games usually the same roles

Being the healer is so satisfying when you have a team who knows what the fuck is doing

Why be a healslut? why not be a healwhore and charge people for the privilege?

Do the same thing

Heres the best healer.

>Shotgun to blast faggots in 1 or 2 hits
>Healing packs also give ammo
>Detpacks that can be thrown several yards if timed correctly.

Lmao. Felt like charlie brown on Halloween. Every planet is just a fucking barren shit hole rock.

>healing for money
ewwwwwww

Dreadnought.

>that feel when RTCW mp will never exist again

Just fucking kill me

Best game and best medic

That's dangerous user

>work together, pyro spychecks and extinguish flames while heavy deals dps and gived sanvich to either the pyro or me
And then the heavy gets instakilled by a charged headshot or crit stickies

>see dps with a dot running to you
>think he's being smart and knows you can cleanse it
>he spreads it to a handful of other people in the raid
>realize he wasn't running toward you, he was just running anywhere at all because he's panicking

This used to be a competitive GW strategy called healing ballet in the ranked mode. It was ridiculous if you didn't have someone who could interrupt abilities.

I play healer when I'm lazy and don't feel like putting a lot of effort into the game

In Battlefield you can shoot people and be a medic.

Healsluts already do that. It's called being the guild master's girlfriend.

This isn't even fair because almost all of the classes were fucking great in some way.

That Dark troopers still have one of my favorite Vidya jetpacks. It's not for some slow hovering shit. It just launches you across the map

Just posting the best medic in vidya

I hate playing a character whose sole purpose is healing their allies since to me it's largely boring, lots of people are ungrateful cunts or straight up retarded, and it becomes impossible to ever go out on your own because your offensive capabilities are typically garbage.

Playing a character that has it's own merits in combat and has some healing as a tertiary ability is much better. For some reason folks are way more grateful for healing coming from the less expected source, and if you go out on your own you have the ability to sustain yourself better while still being dangerous, especially if you get the drop on someone.

really makes you think

Wow, the art keeps getting worse and worse.

Dark Troopers were crazy powerful. Those lightning guns were my shit.

KF was the only time i played medic

>Implying

>use your own packs to become an unstoppable juggernaut
>finally run out, enemy team closing in
>Award - Regulator
>Flechette Shotgun unlocked

Mercy can be top medic when she can defend herself as effectively as tf2 medic can, not before

>being a bad healer that can't heal through everything.

Old battlefield games had top tier medics.
Class died after 2 though, when they started merging it with other classes.

>Implying she can't

I've taken down tanks by myself with Mercy.

>can't fly
>has no tits
>is annoying
>best healer
Cmon now

He also wins personality wise, if only because the TF2 classes actually have personality.

>No character at all
>Can barely self-defense
>Her shift is scaping

Waifufags, please stop

fuck off junker scum, only australian shitposters play junkrat

i can see it now
>opquest

She's not even the best healer in her own game.

Because fucking no one else ever does.

Worst gem

>tales from rank 15

>can't fly
Git gud faggot.

sometimes I'll play healers because there are rarely ever pure support classes