The Daily Grind: What was your favorite experience as a healer?

Lineage2 (Bishop) is the best experience ever for a healer (and I think it's the only real healer in every mmorpg)

Speaking of Warhammer online, the utter chaos of keep sieges while being a healer (Shaman in this case) is definitely one of my favorite experiences. Trying to keep the tanks up while they're ramming the door down and taking damage from boiling oil with ranged damage dealers raining attacks down on you. Not to mention the siege equipment high atop the keep's ramparts doing some serious damage if the warband wasn't careful. Formulating various ingenious strategies with other healers to hide in trees, and sneaky witch hunters trying to take us out as we run to a nearby ally who punts them away. Healing in WAR is something utterly unique for me and I think I've never had so much fun looking at health bars for hours on end. Defending the keeps was equally chaotic, not to mention the capture point battles beforehand. Healing prioritization in large scale PvP is amazingly fun due to the critical, and very quick thinking required. It's often hard to choose who is the most important person to get a heal off on, and it often decides the tide of a skirmish. The amazingly complex and chaotic world of large scale PvP healing in WAR is most likely my favorite experience in about a decade of MMO healing.

Has to be my holy priest in the Burning Crusade raiding days. Back then you really had to worry about mana and take well thought out healing breaks to get out of the 5-second rule and start getting some mana back. Alas healing was completely ruined in wrath and only partially salvaged in cata (no 5-second rule).

All the other games have pretty much lacked the necessary tools to efficiently heal, those being mouse over macros, click casting and a good raid grid.

Whitemage in FFXI
it is simple job and you have all the tools you need to be good at it.
in contrast i didnt enjoy healing in wow (reso shaman) i needed many addons just to be decent.

My favorite healer so far of all the mmos I played got to be the zealot in warhammer. Most of the times I dont like playing healers for the way the set up in most games.

Similar to my tank answer: I most enjoyed healing in WotLK, when it was about having fun with your friends and not "playing for real."

Healing was the most fun when I could outheal stupid.

I'll put in another vote for WAR and pvp healing with shaman, it's just...fun.

Dark/Dark Defender in early City of Heroes. It was tons of fun to play a character that filled the "healer" role that was less about healing and more concerned with debuffing and CC. Quite a bit of variety with that class. Really enjoyed it.

I can't decide between a WoW holy priest in cata and a DAoC healer (40 mending, 36 aug)

The WoW holy priest has so many tools, that choosing the right tool for the given situation is almost an art.
The DAoC healer on the other hand has also a great toolset and felt so "pure".

Hands down, Zealot in Warhammer. If that game wasn't so buggy, imbalanced; etc I would still be playing, just for that class.

They did a lot of things wrong but got some things that we're amazing and fun.

as the image in the article hints, it was WAR's Disciple of Khaine (Warrior Priest mirror)

It was simply awesome to keep my group and me at 95-100% endlessly, while at the same time tanking up to 5 enemies.


it was simply retarded, most overpowered healer class I've ever played...

Funny I was talking about this to a friend, and happy to see others are in the same boat as me and nothing i loved more than my archmage in warhammer (shaman mirror). Some of the best battleground matches i ever had.

Also ffxi whitemage, i loved the way to level in this game, although it had waiting times of 2-3 hours for a party back in the day. Nothing felt more rewarding than having the perfect party click together.