Healers in Mabinogi

• radionoise wrote on 2011-06-01 05:12

  Quote from OizenX;462538:

  They ruin my life drain.

  
  
  ...lol
  
  I never looked of it that way.
• BizarreJuju wrote on 2011-06-01 05:20
  "Hey, can you guys also invite my wife to your party, shes a pro healer" which resulted in the healer sitting out more than half the time, only healing her man friend since he was the only guy in the party taking too many hits. At the end she got the best end-chest reward...
  
  I don't see them any useful. I find combat characters that carry high rank healing more useful. My giant has r3 healing, mostly use it when I have party members with less than half hp or deadly while facing a mob. I do a quick healing for them so they wont die from a random screw up. Also after clearing a room I try full recovering party member (those who call pets to heal them). At the end, anyone can be a healer, being a healer isnt an excuse to be sitting in the corner and healing your party w/o fighting >:V
  
  But I expect the person claiming to be a "healer" to be using lots of magic attacks... Most mages have r1 healer and they don't consider themselves as healers.
• Kenero wrote on 2011-06-01 05:26

  Quote from BizarreJuju;462572:

  "Hey, can you guys also invite my wife to your party, shes a pro healer" which resulted in the healer sitting out more than half the time, only healing her man friend since he was the only guy in the party taking too many hits. At the end she got the best end-chest reward...
  
  I don't see them any useful. I find combat characters that carry high rank healing more useful. My giant has r3 healing, mostly use it when I have party members with less than half hp or deadly while facing a mob. I do a quick healing for them so they wont die from a random screw up. Also after clearing a room I try full recovering party member (those who call pets to heal them). At the end, anyone can be a healer, being a healer isnt an excuse to be sitting in the corner and healing your party w/o fighting >:V
  
  But I expect the person claiming to be a "healer" to be using lots of magic attacks... Most mages have r1 healer and they don't consider themselves as healers.

  
  
  I think it's because most players who become "healers" are too used to the usual mmo system in which a healer is highly desirable. In that sense, they sooner or later find out Mabinogi is a black sheep (Pan) when it comes to mmo's.
• Cathaoir wrote on 2011-06-01 05:31

  Quote from BizarreJuju;462572:

  "Hey, can you guys also invite my wife to your party, shes a pro healer" which resulted in the healer sitting out more than half the time, only healing her man friend since he was the only guy in the party taking too many hits. At the end she got the best end-chest reward...

  
  
  This has happened to me a few times. Gets so annoying, especially when the "healer" is the one dying the most.
• BizarreJuju wrote on 2011-06-01 05:33

  Quote from Cathaoir;462590:

  This has happened to me a few times. Gets so annoying, especially when the "healer" is the one dying the most.

  
  Ever gotten the ones that ran out of MP pots 8D?
• Oizen wrote on 2011-06-01 05:34

  Quote from radionoise;462555:

  ...lol
  
  I never looked of it that way.

  
  
  Be more considerate to Alchemists. >:C
• Kenero wrote on 2011-06-01 05:36

  Quote from OizenX;462597:

  Be more considerate to Alchemists. >:C

  
  
  Alchemist are pretty unpredictable... One moment they are shooting water guns, the next second, pulling out flame throwers. Before you know it, it's a fricken grenade in a can, and when everything's all done, here comes the lasers that apparently steals the enemy's health and forces them on the ground for submission.
• Justified wrote on 2011-06-01 05:41
  Healers are actually good because of the wound system.
  
  If you get severely wounded your options are
  1. shrug it off and probably die more
  2. drink wound pots
  3. sit and take a minute mending
  4. get healed by a party healer
  
  1 is obviously bad
  2 nobody does since it's a pain to keep up
  3 is a waste of time
  4 is then the best option
  
  The problem is, most healers are not geared to be good healers. It takes a large MP pool and reserve of MP pots to be able to constantly heal through high wounding enemies.
  It's also easier to keep people with less HP alive (less wounding) than high HP, due to auto-deadly coming sooner. Which is ironic.
  Whenever there is a party healer in my party, the death count is reduced to 0. With maybe somebody occasionally dying before they can get healed. It's a drastic drop from getting up and dying repeatedly several times in the same room.
• Kenero wrote on 2011-06-01 05:43

  Quote from Justified;462613:

  Healers are actually good because of the wound system.
  
  If you get severely wounded your options are
  1. shrug it off and probably die more
  2. drink wound pots
  3. sit and take a minute mending
  4. get healed by a party healer
  
  1 is obviously bad
  2 nobody does since it's a pain to keep up
  3 is a waste of time
  4 is then the best option
  
  The problem is, most healers are not geared to be good healers. It takes a large MP pool and reserve of MP pots to be able to constantly heal through high wounding enemies.
  It's also easier to keep people with less HP alive (less wounding) than high HP, due to auto-deadly coming sooner. Which is ironic.

  
  
  I find the irony that to be a good healer, you must first be a good fighter, in which case, makes one wonder why said healer isn't helping out killing the monsters than standing still, healing.
• Aubog007 wrote on 2011-06-01 07:40

  Quote from BizarreJuju;462594:

  Ever gotten the ones that ran out of MP pots 8D?

  
  
  I got the ones asking for MP pots.
• Iyasenu wrote on 2011-06-01 10:10
  I like Partying with Healers.
  I do it all the time.
  
  Because I am the Healer.
  It's me.
  
  
  But I still like working around the whole "not being able to fight with healing up" by controlling a golem.
  That way I can just switch back to me and use my healing spells when it's needed and go back to fighting through a golem.
  
  
  Though, my best times as a healer had to be...
  
  Accompanying a buddy on a solo run of something like... SCC or something as they windmill everything while I stand back and keep them in shape to take an occasional hit. Party exp isn't shared 50/50 in that situation, but I get to take it easy and they get to get rid of any risk that would usually come with soloing stuff.
  Though usually I lead the party, so I don't have to find some way to work around not being able to heal my partner (copied by Doppel).
  
  
  Usually, being a Healer in this game means you're the person who's carrying around stacks of bandages and potions and feathers and slinging healing spells around when needed. It's still preferred to be able to transition from healing to fighting.
  
  Probably one of the better situations for healers is in a full party of fighting DKs.
  The others get to stay in their powerful state to kill stuff quicker because you're slinging around extensions in their time limits by way of Party Healing.
  
  
  Healing can get heavy on the MP usage, but that shouldn't be a problem nowadays. :P
  
  
  Buuuuuut.
  I'm heavily biased towards liking Healers since I always play some kind of one in games.
  So bluh bluh. biased opinion, bluh.
  

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• Adelynn wrote on 2011-06-01 15:21
  I guess because there are some people that are capable of fighting and healing people very well. Honestly, unless I'm doing something hard, I'm biased against healers. I can keep myself up to shape well enough.
• Fynl wrote on 2011-06-01 15:35
  I don't think I'd like being partied with a pure-healer. I can't think of a situation that would have been better for me if we had a healer. Most monsters either deal so little damage that I can take the shots and use a quick pot or deal so much damage that I'd be dead before the healer even notices me.
• TropicalCat wrote on 2011-06-01 15:40
  Zeo... Thank you.. i've been trying to get this message out there for awhile.. i wanna be a good healer since im not that good at being offencive...
  Getting r1 P-heal next week. Cant wait!
• music123 wrote on 2011-06-01 15:55

  Quote from Tropacat;462907:

  i wanna be a good healer since im not that good at being offencive...
  

  
  Maybe you should take that as a hint and use flame burst instead of water cannon.