Bottoming? Your life is in my hands, fools!

"Helping people is gay"

Are you kidding? Healers are the ultimate in big dom(me) energy. We hold all the power. You will beg us on your knees for just a taste. What's that baby? You got yourself all beat up and now you need some hit points do you? Just a few little hit points to keep you going? You little slut. You little hp whore. Say you want it slut. Say you want that healing so bad. Say you'll do anything for it.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Healer mains: when you get sick of nobody healing so you do it yourself, only to realize you enjoy people appreciating your hard work. It's the start of a long road that ends in wanting to be railed by the best DPS main 😔

The only downside is you eventually end up hanging out with so many healer mains that you get forced to DPS 😫

I was so pissed when OW2 limited teams to a single tank. They were such a good fallback when I didn't get to heal.

I love being a healer. Guess I should do some self discovery

Say classes that depend on a healer being active behind them ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

The only time I had fun being a healer was when I made a shaman in WoW, and it's mostly because it was like being a cleric in D&D; a tank that can heal. I would do BGs and invariably wreck fools who thought targeting the healer would be easy. 😈

How to not get any healers and reveal yourself as a self-centered ass

Y'all debating if DPS or Healers are bottoms and sleeping on the bottomest role of all, the Tank.

Being a Tank is all about getting a train run on you until you can barely move and then leaning in for some aftercare. And you do barely any penetrating. It doesn't get more submissive than that.

I play healer sometimes because it's a fun gameplay challenge to keep bumbling idiots alive long enough to get a victory.

Pfft, try Tanking.

DPS: how DARE YOU fail to prevent me from drawing aggro and killing myself!

Also DPS: y u no parse good?

If healers are bottoms, they're power bottoms.

Bad healers think that.

I'm nowhere near as into MMOs as I was years ago, but I honestly preferred non-DPS roles. Healing was my forte and I actually feel proud of myself for nearly clearing Icecrown Citadel Heroic during my WoW heyday. Had to quit several weeks into joining a decent guild because of sixth form.

Dunno whether it's a European thing but I've always found MMO (and MOBA) communities to be toxic-as-fuck and that's what turned me away from hardcore raiding. Things were once so bad that I got bullied and harassed off of a server (Turalyon EU, horde side) during my teenage years.

I could write an entire novella of negative experiences I've had with players in both game genres, but I'd be going off on a massive tangent.

All I'll say is that this meme is accurate. Healers get a lot of flak when things go wrong, and it takes a certain level of masochism to actually want to play with the kind of verbally abusive, sociopathic, basement-dwelling turbovirgins that flip out with slur-filled nerd rage, messages telling you to off yourself, and wishes that you'll die of cancer, all because you didn't parse highly during a raid boss or didn't carry their hardstuck asses in a Ranked League of Legends game.

The hardest part about World of Warcraft (at least from a PvE perspective) isn't playing your class well. It's having to wade through a community rife with elitism, gatekeeping, unattainable catch-22's to join a raid group and toxicity. Final Fantasy XIV is a bit better, but that's because unlike Blizzard, Square Enix actually invest in customer service and actually enforce their player conduct rules.

There's a moment where it stops being about "I can heal my entire party!" and it becomes "I choose who lives and dies" and finally "If I choose wrong the raid is lost"

i think the idea here is, that bottoming is like helping someone (the top) out and more selfless. you arent doing it because it feels good, but because someone else wants to penetrate something.

i think this is an interesting idea. it seems very patriarchical. seeing bottoms (traditionally women) as passive, submisse sex object, that dont need to enjoy it. its all about the dominant tops (traditionally men).

i think some parallels can be drawn from this incorrect image, to how healers are seen by those they heal

Eh, only works for specific games. Medics and healers are purposely badass in a bunch of games specifically because of this attitude and the need to make sure people play the class.

Healing in FFXIV is the most fun I had in MMO, having to do mechanics, dps and keeping grp alive

i am once again asking people to stop conflating bottoming and subbing

bottom means your on the bottom, sub means your submissive. you can be a dominant bottom and a submissive top. i've been both

anyways healers will dom you, it's tanks that will be submissive. we're masochists

eh, i always feel like good supports can make or break a team. like if you're a good DPS player, whoopdie doo, anyone without a life can train themselves to oblivion for some mechanical skill but the game sense, decision making and reactions needed for support players are much more impressive to me.

there's nothing that feels more awesome to me as a (generally) DPS player to take insane risks and get out alive due to supports having your back. never felt like a top/dom in such situations. more like buddy cops.

At least it's an interesting role. I've always played FPS, which seems so vanilla. And I play ESO solo a lot, so about 25% of the time I forget to take off the Ring of the Pale Order when I do dungeons, which prevents being healed.

Maybe it's time to try my hand at a bottom build.

My personality as a medic - ze healing is not as rewarding as ze hurting