05-30-2009, 08:54 AM
As far as healing goes, I disagree with most here. Some people like to play support roles in games like these. So having an active healing role in encounters is just as critical as having DPS. But I agree there are some bad things here.
Healing should require some sort of skill beyond target / push button. It should also not so effective that one push of a button heals someone 100%. A bad example; EQ Cleric healing chains.... That sucked. 5 clerics push a button every 10 secs when its their turn. Really stupid too.
Also I don't see a problem with healing during an encounter / battle. Just make it strategic and more then a target / click process. Here's an idea.
Use something like the TF2 solution.
- Let the healer / player create a destroyable stationary NPC station (ala tf2 Engineer) that people can run to to get healed. But make is so you have to stand by it for say 5 seconds before it heals you and if you take any sort of action, such as an attack or get attacked, it will stop. So you need to leave combat for 5 seconds for it to work. Also it should take a bit to heal you. HOT for full health takes say 1 full minute.
- Let the healer to a targeted HOT based heal that only works as the healer is processing it. Like the TF2 healer, you have to be targeted, and actively healing for the HOT to work. But the HOT is gradual, and not a EQ cleric style 10k heal.
- Make both healing devices more then a point and click. Force a process. Like a which doctor would need to perform a dance, sprinkle some stuff in the air, and then drop to your knees and heal, followed by the sopme sort of chanting. What ever, more then target / click.
- Make it so healers cant heal them selves. In fact, to poor more strat into the picture, make so the healer cant be healed by other healers, but the healer can be protected by others. Now a PVP or NPC encounter requires more then beating ont he target. It requires active protection of a healer.
- Finally combine this with some limited self healing capability such as POTBS or WOW potions. These all need to be HOTs and not instant heals.
Healing should require some sort of skill beyond target / push button. It should also not so effective that one push of a button heals someone 100%. A bad example; EQ Cleric healing chains.... That sucked. 5 clerics push a button every 10 secs when its their turn. Really stupid too.
Also I don't see a problem with healing during an encounter / battle. Just make it strategic and more then a target / click process. Here's an idea.
Use something like the TF2 solution.
- Let the healer / player create a destroyable stationary NPC station (ala tf2 Engineer) that people can run to to get healed. But make is so you have to stand by it for say 5 seconds before it heals you and if you take any sort of action, such as an attack or get attacked, it will stop. So you need to leave combat for 5 seconds for it to work. Also it should take a bit to heal you. HOT for full health takes say 1 full minute.
- Let the healer to a targeted HOT based heal that only works as the healer is processing it. Like the TF2 healer, you have to be targeted, and actively healing for the HOT to work. But the HOT is gradual, and not a EQ cleric style 10k heal.
- Make both healing devices more then a point and click. Force a process. Like a which doctor would need to perform a dance, sprinkle some stuff in the air, and then drop to your knees and heal, followed by the sopme sort of chanting. What ever, more then target / click.
- Make it so healers cant heal them selves. In fact, to poor more strat into the picture, make so the healer cant be healed by other healers, but the healer can be protected by others. Now a PVP or NPC encounter requires more then beating ont he target. It requires active protection of a healer.
- Finally combine this with some limited self healing capability such as POTBS or WOW potions. These all need to be HOTs and not instant heals.
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