• Moghul@lemmy.world
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    This is gish propaganda. Nothing wrong with two barbs side by side soaking up damage together or two casters taking turns wiping the field from a tall spot.

    Everyone could use a healer, though.

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    My local stadium hires a security company called DPS. I stopped one of them and said “y’all’s comp is unbalanced, try sprinkling in some mages and tanks” and he had no idea what I was talking about.

    Bystander laughed though so it wasn’t wasted time.

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    10 months ago

    OK but literally. I’m a healer. Started dating a tank main. Dps are a dime a dozen so we never have queue issues.

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      I’m the healer and my partner is a dps. Healers and Tanks seem so criminally underplayed that I alone massively skew the queue times.

      Healer and Tank combo must be borderline instant

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    10 months ago

    I’m a plate DPS main and I married a healer. There is a lot of pressure to ‘just tank’ for her.

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I usually prefer range shooty man and lately my healer wife, bored with nothing to heal, decided to be range shooty girl.

      And now we can’t kill things fast enough so now she stays shooty girl and I’m tank/healerhope I don’t die.

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        9 months ago

        Wow that was long. Did not expect 140 questions. lol

        Chaotic Neutral Human Druid!

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        10 months ago

        That just sounds like a difference in luck, I think yours is better than mine

    • Pyro@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I filled it all in and the button at the end didn’t work. That’s 20 minutes I’m never getting back :/

      • nifty@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        No way, that sucks. It definitely works though. Maybe try a different browser?

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          10 months ago

          I’m gonna chalk it up as yet another problem with Firefox Mobile. I really want to like it, but it doesn’t make it easy haha

          I’ll probably try again another time on something Chromium-based

    • RudeOnTuesdays@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      They are making a joke equating real life romance to video games. The “current meta” refers to whatever class build/equipment load out is most powerful in the current version of the game.

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        10 months ago

        Or whatever people think is the most powerful, at least. It’s worth noting that the meta can often be wrong, and if you play what you enjoy, you might find yourself discovering something stronger.

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    10 months ago

    This is false for at least World of Warcraft. Everyone who has every done any random group content can attest to the fact that it is always hardest to find a good tank.

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      10 months ago

      I think tank in most MMOs is a low-desire role. It typically hinges entirely on having a healer to keep you tanking, as well as holding an immense responsibility to be aware of aggro patterns and incoming debuffs. You eat a lot of blame for not tanking well, even if it’s just because your healers mispositioned or some DPS decided to steal aggro by spamming too much of X move.

      And generally, you don’t feel as much of the “I did a thing!” feeling as, say, a rogue pumping out damage or a mage casting a slew of debuffs and DoTs.

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        10 months ago

        When I was younger, I always played a tank, and yea the blame was always high, raid goes good, it was DPS got the good job, raid goes bad, fucking tanks fault.

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    10 months ago

    IIRC, this is basically what happens, in a way. Our scent makes us more attractive to people with different sets of immonorelevant genes, so that our offspring has a wider array of defenses.

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    10 months ago

    My wife loved playing a healer in WoW, so we never had any problems finding raid groups or arena partners.