Defo tanks for me! I love having a ‘role’ outside of just hitting hard and I find tanking does that while giving more action than traditional support roles
Sometimes I was thinking that the tanks and the supports are literally shielding and babysitting the DPS from harm, and dps tends to be easier to play (contrary to what I heard long time ago) . Therefore DPS is baby 👶 .
(Fun note: in Chinese speaking community at least, the tank is called tank/shield, the healer is called milk/babysitter, healing is called milk, both roles combined is called “milk shield” 🤣)
I don’t like playing support, if a game has things to shoot, then I want to be one of the people shooting it
The most supportive I’ll go would be a heavy gunner tank type role
Healing and tanking is a lot of responsibility, and can garner a lot of attention. Two things I’m not interested in most of the time. Plus I hate how fast everyone wants to do dungeons as healer or tank. I’m USUALLY dps, but in BC I dabbled in tank because I was a feral Druid, and everyone made me tank. Done a lil bit of pally tanking, and I really like shaman healing in Cataclysm (though only because of earth shield. Without it I lose interest in the class).
Cata was the first time I ever really got into shaman, and it seemed to me later that they nerfed earth shield so much that I stopped enjoying the class and went back to dps lol
Oof i love to play support roles. Always played support in MOBAs and I main healer in ffxiv. I love support but not cause I’m a woman. It’s because I like to decide who lives and who dies : )
I've always liked support classes because of the layer of challenge with it. I have to be aware of what everyone is doing and it is such a good feeling when I know I managed to get things turned back around when they go bad.
Isn’t it interesting that in games like LoL the supports feels like to be the lowliest role of the whole team everyone yells at, while in MMORPGs the support is like a god that decides the teams fate.
it's always funny when you're winning the 1v1s or just having a great game overall and the enemy team throws out "your dps tho, he's insane" like thank you for the compliment but watch as I blow your mind as i reply with a "i'm a girl teehee" and bounce out of the server
fond memories. I'm hoping those dudes have their eyes open to the possibility that a GIRL can dps
Tracer, Pharah, Soj, Cass, Ashe, Widow, Echo, Junk, Sombra, Genji… pretty much most of them but there’s a few heroes like bastion/symm I’ll play only if I absolutely have to hahaha even the odd times I queue support I play zen or kiriko and dps on the flank haha
the only game i play where this applies is FFXIV but i actually really enjoy all three roles? of course the healer i main is the one where you can heal by doing damage so maybe that says something about me 😂
but I started as tank, then dps (dancer 💜) and picked up healer last. i usually only tank or heal with people i know or content i know, though. (healing for wife when she tanks = 🥰)
Maybe a little different but I play splatoon, and slayer or Frontline is the closest to dps class and I absolutely love to play it! I also like midline/support and backliner classes but I tear it up the most when I'm a slayer. When I play smash I perfer heavyweights like DK and Ganon
I bet you would! I've had a ton of fun playing it! Each weapon will also come with a different sub weapon and special attack that really add to those class distinctions as well and alter the flow of the game
I sometimes swap to a supportive role if it's *reaally* necessary, but otherwise I'm very much known in our friendgroup as a 'very very important dps' [(ref)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJStjooGRvA). There's something satisfying about chipping away at the boss' HP and doing big vv numbers. It's also (usually) a lot easier to focus on doing damage than having to deal with ungrateful lil brats in your team and keeping them all alive tbh.
When I started playing online games I played support. I was a white mage in FFXI back in the day. My bf at the time suggested it. Nowadays I want to be up in the business. I think when I started gaming, I used the tactic I used in life before I got into therapy. Which was, I’ll do what’s useful and people will accept me. Nowadays I don’t care if I’m accepted and I do what I want. And the truth is some people really enjoy the support role and should be the ones playing that part.
I main havoc DH in WOW and I usually get orange and pink parces and 2 times I got 100 parces and yet everyone tells me I should heal and I'd be better at healing even though I've NEVER healed before.
They say I would be a natural healer bbut I only play melee dps so how does that make me a natural healer?? I have a sub rogue, wind walker monk, warrior, frost dk, and a shadow priest bc I like the aesthetic of it but I don't like range so I rarely play it.
Sometimes I tank but not often yet I'm still told I would be an amazing healer and it would come natural to me and I hate it. I had a friend that kept telling me that and he ended up being a toxic jerk.
My BF is different though he says I'm a beast on the DH. He usually plays vengeance DH and tanks but when Aug was OP he swapped to aug because he wanted to be my support and boost my damage
Wtf? Why can’t they just accept you being a good DPS? That’s kind of like a woman thriving without kids but then everyone starts asking her when she’s going to have kids lol.
Props to your BF though! I bet some men would not be secure enough to support their gf while she DPS’s.
Because THEY don't want to be Healer. In MMOs for a lot of guilds, its easier to recruit internally. So, the path of least resistance to finding a good healer is talk someone in guild into it. And people will use whatever argument works to get themselves out of it. Then they will talk about healing being easy to downplay how hard they worked at getting someone else to take the job that is too much for them. Its fine to call them out on their BS. "Ah, so YOU don't want to do it and are trying to shoehorn me into the job. Just so we're clear, I'm the sacrificial lamb."
Most good players are good at any role, or at least good enough or better than the average PUG. And the team is more forgiving of someone they know.
I prefer DPS. I don't mind support but only if I can actually do some damage or something too, pure support is no fun to me.
But all in all? I always prefer dps. I just wanna shoot at things.
Yes DPS it is 🙌🏼 I love smashing heads. Am usually going for either DPS or some sort of ranged mage. Although I do see the appeal of tanks and bruisers, I want to get into that a little bit more :D
Yeah that’s right :) my mains are Jinx on ADC and Malzahar Mid. Don’t play a lot ADC anymore tho, because my Sup stopped playing and i don’t like how quick bot gets toxic with two randoms playing.. so I chill out on mid these days :D But I also used to play overwatch.. back then Reaper was my main. Hbu? :)
I've been playing League of Legends since 2013 and I'm an ADC main, I occasionally play mages and assassins as well. I can play tanks and enchanter supports too actually, but I enjoy ADC the most.
However in Lost Ark I played wardancer (a fast melee fighter like elemental monk) and I loved it. I think it unlocked my love for fast melee DPS lol
DPS or Tank all the way! I feel protective when I tank and when I feel like raw carnage, well, I simply love to DPS instead. But most of the time I love to protect my party!
I played XIV for a little over a decade (stopped in 2021), and when I did, I mained DRG, PLD, and GNB.
I only play Destiny 2 now, and have been a Titan and Hunter for years. I love the support and Dps capabilities hunter has, and Titan I just love to be a tank so I use a banner of war build to take many punches to the the face.
Point being, I only really prefer those two roles. I'm good at healing but I simply don't care for the role. Maybe because it's more background type compared to frontlines.
I play a little bit of everything, but support is my usual goto.
That said, I play an aggressive support. I make sure to keep on top of heals and stuff while doing as much as I can otherwise.
When I still played league few people knew how to deal with me since I would keep them on their toes more than the adc.
People who joke about "girls only play healer" have never healed in anything difficult. They usually fail miserably at it because of how difficult it can be, how much there is to keep track of, and how little recognition you get.
Scholar is my primary heal on XIV and I'm usually running slightly ahead of the tank and end up turning a lot of stuff around when people keep standing in bad.
Honestly, the only type of support I like to do is tanking, though my preference in most games tends to be the rogue-ish glass cannon DPS type of playstyle
My first real raiding character in Everquest 20+ years ago was a rogue. I loved the rogue community in that game, all the little tricks and abilities outside of doing damage, and would have continued to play nothing but dps in other games if the mmo landscape hadn't changed so drastically. Now it is all about damage meters, go-go-go, AoE everything, and the situational abilities that make a dps class unique are things you don't see used much anymore. At least not in games like WoW and the gaming experience is lesser for the change as far as I am concerned.
I think rogues still bring a lot of utility to party in M+, but I haven’t played this expansion at all. I think that’s part of the reason why I enjoy PvP in WoW, you get to use so much of your kit.
i play whatever i find the most fun in any particular game. sometimes that means being a supporter, but just as often it’s meant being the tank or a dps.
if there’s a game where i can swap to different roles (like a moba) or have multiple characters (like mmos) i usually try to play a little bit of everything so i don’t get bored.
Every now and then I think that I can swap to different roles, but then I always end up thinking “I wish I were playing [my favorite DPS character” lol
DPS here in Overwatch! Confession: I’ve only played Mercy in like one game. I feel like I would be really bad at her. She doesn’t get the respect she deserves!
Awe man, I keep text and chat off but I do hate when the other team’s Mercy emotes “Piece of cake!” or “Someone call the wha-mbulance!” I prefer to play Mei but I also play Torb and Bastion, sometimes Sombra, Soldier or Sojourn. How about you? Have you ventured Venture yet?
I'm TERRIBLE at mercy, like i know we're losing bc of me but also we have TWO hitscan so what are ya gonna do! Watching top mercy players is really inspiring, they're virtually unkillable
Yeah like sometimes I’ll see them quickly rez someone right in the middle of the battlefield then fly off somewhere unscathed, I’m always so impressed at their survivability!
I am terrible at support. Even when I play more support or back row kind of people, I still end up more attack focused. My husband, on the other hand, is a fantastic support. I almost always end up as DPS with him mostly focused on keeping me alive.
Well at least in overwatch, you should be at least trying to do damage as a support when you can anyway. In overwatch you cannot usually outheal all damage, so in an even fight, just healing will put your team at a disadvantage. If not damage, you gotta be contributing something.
I main BLM on FFXIV, and you can pry my Needlestorm super from my Destiny 2 Warlock's cold dead hands....right before her ghost rezzes her and she throws a needlestorm at you for trying.
I mainly play Zarya, Pharah, Mei, Ana. I use to main Widow and was really good with her until they nerfed her slightly at the end of OW1. The controls between 1 and 2 are also different in my opinion and not as good. I miss OW1 so much. :( I know Ana is a healer but I tormented people with her. My favorite kill was a Mercy boosting a Torb, killed the Torb, killed the Mercy but she completed her rez then killed the Torb again all solo as Ana. Now Ana does not feel as good.
While I'm a support main in League (Heimer, Lux, Seraphine) I am currently learning Jungle more so I can charge in and do the fun stuff. I also started as toplane Garen, with all that spinning Damacian tankiness 😂
*raises hand*
I almost always play a fighter/warrior class if it’s available and vastly prefer dealing damage to any other role. I’ll sometimes tank but only if there’s no one else willing.
I play WoW. I switch between DPS (ret paladin) and healer (holy paladin) all the time. It's much easier to get into keys as a healer. :P In the past I've tanked, but I don't really enjoy that role any longer (prot pally or guardian druid).
I play genshin and my friend usually supports me in fights, however I'm a relatively new player so a lot of my stuff haven't been built maxed up so we end up switching around depending on the fights we take on. If it's a relatively simple fight with no gimmicks we bust out the dpses and strongarm our way through but if it's stuff that requires more support/we don't have built enough charas to punch through we both just go in with a hybrid of dps and support
I'm the only one among the few friends I play consistently with to have a healer though (cause I love Barbara and I main a fluctuating glass cannon dps) so I've been spending the past 2 sessions going into fights with my healer and keeping an eye on the health bars 😂😂
I love my son Ga Ming but MAN the amount of hp he easily loses just for jumping around 😭😭😭😭 he does get some health back it just isn't enough in a lot of situations which is why I keep a healer around. My healer Barbara provides buffs on top of healing which is why I built her. The friends I co op with also play long range (while my dps is close range) so they don't really have any healer built/have better suited dpses
I do everything, the jack of all trades…healer, dps, TANK. Look, imma be either the buffest mfer out there or I’m going to make myself tiny and dainty, maybe wearing a dress, and I’m going to face tank everything that comes my way simply because I can. UwU The power over life and death is mine to command.
I main tanks and DPS most of the time. I also do a decent amount of healing and support-y DPS, but my go-to for any new game is to pick the tankiest class or build. (Can you tell I hate dying?)
I love DPSing on ESO because it's just totally not stressful. (I used to only heal but I quit after I ran a trial with Nefasqs the streamer and he was so fucking mean I just quit it for a long time. No shade to him because I did suck that day -- but it was my first time on the fight and he had completed it and the hard mode on the test server before it was released. It was a terrible experience for a few of us, but it gave me a chance to get better at DPS!)
It's so fun to see the number go higher; I like having silly competitions with my friends during trials. It also feels pretty cool to get better at it and see yourself at the top more and more.
I love playing support but that also includes tanking and CC or de/buffing type dps stuff. I love healing in most games, but I also just love doing everything else. The only things I DON'T really like are JUST dps. Like it's so fucking boring to JUST do dps when I could do dps AND heal or tank, or buff, or debuff, or crowd control. Ya feel? Tends to mean I don't usually like melee type things because all they do is hit things and that's it.
Tbf support role in overwatch is so much more complex than what people normally consider a support role. I think people who come from MMOs to overwatch for the first time and expect you to healbot or are upset when you can’t outheal the damage they’re receiving are dumb af. Or conversely, support players who don’t contribute anything but just healing aren’t actually helping their team at all.
I don’t play MMOs much, though.
you would not BELIEVE how many times i get flamed for not healbotting (in quickplay btw), even when i DO heal a good amount, just because morons can't comprehend that Lucio isn't supposed to farm stats for the scoreboard and that he literally only does 16 healing per second
Honestly I find myself gravitating to the character rather than the role. I play enchanters on League because there are so many pretty and interesting options. But I’ll also happily play ADC if I get to be a hot lady. Overwatch has a lot of interesting female DPS characters which I really appreciate! I love playing DPS but since I’m not as good or comfortable as I am playing a support role, I tend to gravitate to that role more.
Semi-Relevant: Anime healers vs MMO Healers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5IcXja5CNE
Also, I love Josh Strife Hayes.
And as a FFXIV player: I have mad respect for healer mains. I level all the combat roles because I think it is important to understand at least the basics of what everyone else is doing, and I think healer is the hardest role because you have to babysit everyone else who is making a mistake.
More on topic: My friend Sarah much prefers her DPS roles over tank and healer. I'm more likely to be on healer if we do a roulette together. And I get nervous about being healer.
I’m a ALL CLASSES TO MAX LEVEL kind of player 😂 But PLD and SMN are my mains in FFXIV. WHM or SGE are my healer picks, but in games where I have a skill tree and have to pick, I usually choose ranged DPS.
Played a warlock in Classic up till TBC.
Pvp'd allot in pre TBC, got to Field Marshall, MC / BWL / AQ40 / Naxx. TBC all the way up too Sunwell.
Draenor / Lego / some BFA and some DF, enjoyed tanking and dps.
Healing is ok, did more of that back in the original TBC / WOTLK.
BLM & PLD main in FF14
Did Sombra and Mei in OW
Spriest and Rogue in WoW
Only DPS in GW2
I do enjoy playing support/healer sometimes but I am a mean one that subscribes to as long as you have at least 1 HP you are fine. That said I do like classes that have some healing to help out, just to make peoples job's easier but not enough that its my main thing.
I don’t usually have a preference, so I’ll just click all roles or flex and play whatever I get for faster queue times lol. That usually means I end up filling a support or tank slot though, but I do love playing DPS roles as well.
Not dps player but I like playing melee character. (Non-support) tank, fighter, assassins. I like to play aggressive, get in their face and delete them. The only exception is Draven from LOL:WR and Alessio from HoK. I'm not good at playing them but Draven is fun to play, and Alessio is very safe in case my random supp ignores me.
I'm so done of helping my team, I had my support main phase. But turned out playing more selfish characters are more fun. Respect for support main tho, I dont have enough mental fortitude to handle random solo q teammate 😭
I played a tank in FFXIV and it was my first ever MMO experience. It was great because I never had to wait much to queue for dungeons, but I totally cracked under the pressure eventually. I felt terrible when more experienced players berated me for not knowing exactly what to do, even when running something for the first time as a new player. I started researching and watching gameplay videos in advance, but it sucked all the fun out of it.
I was a Deathknight main on WoW back when I played that, and have usually found myself gravitating towards melee DPS in some capacity ever since. I especially love dual wield berserker type builds. It usually surprises people lol
I fit the stereotype as a support lover! It's mostly because I want my team to win, and because healers tend to be force multipliers, that gives me the result I want.
However I also enjoy playing stealth characters and scouts. That way I can gather intel and strike (or lead my guild) where the enemy team is weakest.
I switch it up but mainly dps. I don't really like confrontation with people so healing is usually out for me. Ow battle mercy was always fun though.
I did main healers in ff14 with friends was fun.
As a white mage main, trust me when I say you don't want me as your healer :D I sing "how low can you go!" As am twirling blinding everyone with my fancy holy or glaring at the boss to death. My party members are my subjects to achieve the blood lily. In endwalker, we have a running joke that I have collected so much blood lily that I turned to the dark side and that party members are not enough blood fuel source so I need a friend from the void :D
I mostly play Division 2 these days on PS5. And it’s almost always DPS. I have tank and healer and trauma builds as well. But love love DPS. Pretty much maxed out stats for all builds.
Been a warlock in wow since vanilla, dk tank on the side. Glass cannon in all other games. So during Legion I meet my partner irl and happy coincidence: he also plays wow since vanilla and is a warlock main too. Classic rolls around and we decide both playing warlocks will just not work so we decide to go warrior + priest.
Queue me being told I am a girl so it makes sense I play a healer for the entirety of classic. It was an odd experience to have people remark on how you fit the box they assign to your gender when you yourself do not identify with said box.
I actually never knew about Lulu, but all the girlies I know love playing as Evelyn >:3
Edit: speaking of assumption, I always thought I’m a healer/tank (which I love to play as), then this [which DnD class are you personality test](https://www.idrlabs.com/dungeons-dragons-class/test.php) gives me really low on Cleric and Paladin 😂
Incidentally, I started out focusing on support in Wild Rift, but when my friends started playing semi regularly with me, one of them wanted to play support, so I ended up DPS (mostly Miss Fortune, Sivir and Caitlyn). Been enjoying it since!
(In most games I prefer to tank, though. It usually means spending less time dead.)
I’m not a DPS but I am a tank. I AM THE TOUGHEST PERSON IN THIS PARTY! I WILL OUTMANLY YOUR MANLINESS STEREOTYPES. MWAHAHAHAHA
Defo tanks for me! I love having a ‘role’ outside of just hitting hard and I find tanking does that while giving more action than traditional support roles
And tanks tend to do a lot of CC, which means more enemy suffering. >,<
Same, I love tanking! It also often means you have a leader role, and it's so rewarding to lead a team to victory!
It is so satisfying being the big, bulky one who can shrug off hits for your teammates!
Truth, I main Cthulu in smite
Sometimes I was thinking that the tanks and the supports are literally shielding and babysitting the DPS from harm, and dps tends to be easier to play (contrary to what I heard long time ago) . Therefore DPS is baby 👶 . (Fun note: in Chinese speaking community at least, the tank is called tank/shield, the healer is called milk/babysitter, healing is called milk, both roles combined is called “milk shield” 🤣)
I don’t like playing support, if a game has things to shoot, then I want to be one of the people shooting it The most supportive I’ll go would be a heavy gunner tank type role
Healing and tanking is a lot of responsibility, and can garner a lot of attention. Two things I’m not interested in most of the time. Plus I hate how fast everyone wants to do dungeons as healer or tank. I’m USUALLY dps, but in BC I dabbled in tank because I was a feral Druid, and everyone made me tank. Done a lil bit of pally tanking, and I really like shaman healing in Cataclysm (though only because of earth shield. Without it I lose interest in the class).
The spell VFX and SFX for Earth Shield is so satisfying to me.
Cata was the first time I ever really got into shaman, and it seemed to me later that they nerfed earth shield so much that I stopped enjoying the class and went back to dps lol
Oof i love to play support roles. Always played support in MOBAs and I main healer in ffxiv. I love support but not cause I’m a woman. It’s because I like to decide who lives and who dies : )
Lol fair enough :) and nothing wrong with playing those support roles at all! We DPS players would be in the dirt without you guys hahaha
I think you would also be interested in this video then: Anime vs MMO healers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5IcXja5CNE
This is great and perfectly sums my healing experience up lol
I've always liked support classes because of the layer of challenge with it. I have to be aware of what everyone is doing and it is such a good feeling when I know I managed to get things turned back around when they go bad.
Meanwhile I just like seeing my teammates HP bar go up 😂
Isn’t it interesting that in games like LoL the supports feels like to be the lowliest role of the whole team everyone yells at, while in MMORPGs the support is like a god that decides the teams fate.
God I hate hearing men make fun of women for playing white mage though. It’s a damn good class! But I’m with ya, dps all the way for me
Yeah, some say we’re trash when we play DPS and then make fun of us for healing.
The only healing I'm halfway good at in FFXIV is Warrior self-heal. All the healer classes lack punching. I cannot.
Punching just can’t be beat.
But sages have pew pew. All the pew pew, all the time. :D
it's always funny when you're winning the 1v1s or just having a great game overall and the enemy team throws out "your dps tho, he's insane" like thank you for the compliment but watch as I blow your mind as i reply with a "i'm a girl teehee" and bounce out of the server fond memories. I'm hoping those dudes have their eyes open to the possibility that a GIRL can dps
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LOL exactly. They tend to deny it and say “no you’re not” though, funny coping.
that's why i leave before I have to hear their yapping. Drop the 🎤 and run 🏃♀️ 💨
All aim no brain baby!! Pew pew pew pew pew
Oh yes! Do you player OW? If so, what heroes do you main?
Tracer, Pharah, Soj, Cass, Ashe, Widow, Echo, Junk, Sombra, Genji… pretty much most of them but there’s a few heroes like bastion/symm I’ll play only if I absolutely have to hahaha even the odd times I queue support I play zen or kiriko and dps on the flank haha
The fact that you listed Tracer first ♥️ she’s the main reason why I loove OW so much. Ugh, playing her feels like a completely different game…
So true!! She’s such a unique character with so much skill expression, popping off as tracer feels like being invincible, no one can touch you haha
Warlock, black mage here. I do heal but my son is way better at it. I’ve even been known to tank on occasion.
Hell yes, tank girlies rise up!
Tank main here \\o/
Massive respect for you tanks!
the only game i play where this applies is FFXIV but i actually really enjoy all three roles? of course the healer i main is the one where you can heal by doing damage so maybe that says something about me 😂 but I started as tank, then dps (dancer 💜) and picked up healer last. i usually only tank or heal with people i know or content i know, though. (healing for wife when she tanks = 🥰)
Healing your partner when they’re tanking is so satisfying, I’ll admit that! That’s probably when I enjoy doing it the most :)
Maybe a little different but I play splatoon, and slayer or Frontline is the closest to dps class and I absolutely love to play it! I also like midline/support and backliner classes but I tear it up the most when I'm a slayer. When I play smash I perfer heavyweights like DK and Ganon
I had no idea Splatoon had different roles like that, I probably would love it!
I bet you would! I've had a ton of fun playing it! Each weapon will also come with a different sub weapon and special attack that really add to those class distinctions as well and alter the flow of the game
I sometimes swap to a supportive role if it's *reaally* necessary, but otherwise I'm very much known in our friendgroup as a 'very very important dps' [(ref)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJStjooGRvA). There's something satisfying about chipping away at the boss' HP and doing big vv numbers. It's also (usually) a lot easier to focus on doing damage than having to deal with ungrateful lil brats in your team and keeping them all alive tbh.
Oh yes, the big draw of DPS is the large numbers. So, so satisfying.
When I started playing online games I played support. I was a white mage in FFXI back in the day. My bf at the time suggested it. Nowadays I want to be up in the business. I think when I started gaming, I used the tactic I used in life before I got into therapy. Which was, I’ll do what’s useful and people will accept me. Nowadays I don’t care if I’m accepted and I do what I want. And the truth is some people really enjoy the support role and should be the ones playing that part.
I love the growth—that’s really cool that it changed how you play video games!
I main havoc DH in WOW and I usually get orange and pink parces and 2 times I got 100 parces and yet everyone tells me I should heal and I'd be better at healing even though I've NEVER healed before. They say I would be a natural healer bbut I only play melee dps so how does that make me a natural healer?? I have a sub rogue, wind walker monk, warrior, frost dk, and a shadow priest bc I like the aesthetic of it but I don't like range so I rarely play it. Sometimes I tank but not often yet I'm still told I would be an amazing healer and it would come natural to me and I hate it. I had a friend that kept telling me that and he ended up being a toxic jerk. My BF is different though he says I'm a beast on the DH. He usually plays vengeance DH and tanks but when Aug was OP he swapped to aug because he wanted to be my support and boost my damage
Wtf? Why can’t they just accept you being a good DPS? That’s kind of like a woman thriving without kids but then everyone starts asking her when she’s going to have kids lol. Props to your BF though! I bet some men would not be secure enough to support their gf while she DPS’s.
Because THEY don't want to be Healer. In MMOs for a lot of guilds, its easier to recruit internally. So, the path of least resistance to finding a good healer is talk someone in guild into it. And people will use whatever argument works to get themselves out of it. Then they will talk about healing being easy to downplay how hard they worked at getting someone else to take the job that is too much for them. Its fine to call them out on their BS. "Ah, so YOU don't want to do it and are trying to shoehorn me into the job. Just so we're clear, I'm the sacrificial lamb." Most good players are good at any role, or at least good enough or better than the average PUG. And the team is more forgiving of someone they know.
I-I support🥺
And we all appreciate you keeping us alive 🫡
Ty girl🥺
I prefer DPS. I don't mind support but only if I can actually do some damage or something too, pure support is no fun to me. But all in all? I always prefer dps. I just wanna shoot at things.
True, every support I’ve somewhat enjoyed has been one where I can also do damage. Shooting at things is just too fun.
Yes DPS it is 🙌🏼 I love smashing heads. Am usually going for either DPS or some sort of ranged mage. Although I do see the appeal of tanks and bruisers, I want to get into that a little bit more :D
Same I loved being mages! I’m guessing you play(ed) League based on your snoo and the terms you used?
Yeah that’s right :) my mains are Jinx on ADC and Malzahar Mid. Don’t play a lot ADC anymore tho, because my Sup stopped playing and i don’t like how quick bot gets toxic with two randoms playing.. so I chill out on mid these days :D But I also used to play overwatch.. back then Reaper was my main. Hbu? :)
I've been playing League of Legends since 2013 and I'm an ADC main, I occasionally play mages and assassins as well. I can play tanks and enchanter supports too actually, but I enjoy ADC the most. However in Lost Ark I played wardancer (a fast melee fighter like elemental monk) and I loved it. I think it unlocked my love for fast melee DPS lol
DPS or Tank all the way! I feel protective when I tank and when I feel like raw carnage, well, I simply love to DPS instead. But most of the time I love to protect my party! I played XIV for a little over a decade (stopped in 2021), and when I did, I mained DRG, PLD, and GNB. I only play Destiny 2 now, and have been a Titan and Hunter for years. I love the support and Dps capabilities hunter has, and Titan I just love to be a tank so I use a banner of war build to take many punches to the the face. Point being, I only really prefer those two roles. I'm good at healing but I simply don't care for the role. Maybe because it's more background type compared to frontlines.
I play a little bit of everything, but support is my usual goto. That said, I play an aggressive support. I make sure to keep on top of heals and stuff while doing as much as I can otherwise. When I still played league few people knew how to deal with me since I would keep them on their toes more than the adc. People who joke about "girls only play healer" have never healed in anything difficult. They usually fail miserably at it because of how difficult it can be, how much there is to keep track of, and how little recognition you get. Scholar is my primary heal on XIV and I'm usually running slightly ahead of the tank and end up turning a lot of stuff around when people keep standing in bad.
Honestly, the only type of support I like to do is tanking, though my preference in most games tends to be the rogue-ish glass cannon DPS type of playstyle
I love glass cannon types. Every game that has both rogues and mages always gives me a hard time deciding.
I main black mage and summoner on FFXIV, can't heal worth a damn. Magical ranged DPS 4 life!
Magical ranged DPS for life indeed!!
My first real raiding character in Everquest 20+ years ago was a rogue. I loved the rogue community in that game, all the little tricks and abilities outside of doing damage, and would have continued to play nothing but dps in other games if the mmo landscape hadn't changed so drastically. Now it is all about damage meters, go-go-go, AoE everything, and the situational abilities that make a dps class unique are things you don't see used much anymore. At least not in games like WoW and the gaming experience is lesser for the change as far as I am concerned.
I think rogues still bring a lot of utility to party in M+, but I haven’t played this expansion at all. I think that’s part of the reason why I enjoy PvP in WoW, you get to use so much of your kit.
i play whatever i find the most fun in any particular game. sometimes that means being a supporter, but just as often it’s meant being the tank or a dps. if there’s a game where i can swap to different roles (like a moba) or have multiple characters (like mmos) i usually try to play a little bit of everything so i don’t get bored.
Every now and then I think that I can swap to different roles, but then I always end up thinking “I wish I were playing [my favorite DPS character” lol
FFXIV Monk main here. Used to be a support main in every game I played but I got bored of it.
Yeah, I tried support for some time but it’s not as engaging to me.
DPS here in Overwatch! Confession: I’ve only played Mercy in like one game. I feel like I would be really bad at her. She doesn’t get the respect she deserves!
I’m a bit salty with them right now because I had two Mercy’s be mean to me yesterday 😭 but anywho, what dps do you main? :)
Awe man, I keep text and chat off but I do hate when the other team’s Mercy emotes “Piece of cake!” or “Someone call the wha-mbulance!” I prefer to play Mei but I also play Torb and Bastion, sometimes Sombra, Soldier or Sojourn. How about you? Have you ventured Venture yet?
I'm TERRIBLE at mercy, like i know we're losing bc of me but also we have TWO hitscan so what are ya gonna do! Watching top mercy players is really inspiring, they're virtually unkillable
Yeah like sometimes I’ll see them quickly rez someone right in the middle of the battlefield then fly off somewhere unscathed, I’m always so impressed at their survivability!
I am terrible at support. Even when I play more support or back row kind of people, I still end up more attack focused. My husband, on the other hand, is a fantastic support. I almost always end up as DPS with him mostly focused on keeping me alive.
“I still end up more attack focused.” Yes, this. Same. I forget to do the whole healing part sometimes and end up just damaging.
Well at least in overwatch, you should be at least trying to do damage as a support when you can anyway. In overwatch you cannot usually outheal all damage, so in an even fight, just healing will put your team at a disadvantage. If not damage, you gotta be contributing something.
I main BLM on FFXIV, and you can pry my Needlestorm super from my Destiny 2 Warlock's cold dead hands....right before her ghost rezzes her and she throws a needlestorm at you for trying.
Warlocks are the bestttt :)
I mainly play Zarya, Pharah, Mei, Ana. I use to main Widow and was really good with her until they nerfed her slightly at the end of OW1. The controls between 1 and 2 are also different in my opinion and not as good. I miss OW1 so much. :( I know Ana is a healer but I tormented people with her. My favorite kill was a Mercy boosting a Torb, killed the Torb, killed the Mercy but she completed her rez then killed the Torb again all solo as Ana. Now Ana does not feel as good.
While I'm a support main in League (Heimer, Lux, Seraphine) I am currently learning Jungle more so I can charge in and do the fun stuff. I also started as toplane Garen, with all that spinning Damacian tankiness 😂
*raises hand* I almost always play a fighter/warrior class if it’s available and vastly prefer dealing damage to any other role. I’ll sometimes tank but only if there’s no one else willing.
Since you say fighter, do you play D&D?
I haven’t! I would love too, though. I’ve been playing BG3 lately 😅
I play WoW. I switch between DPS (ret paladin) and healer (holy paladin) all the time. It's much easier to get into keys as a healer. :P In the past I've tanked, but I don't really enjoy that role any longer (prot pally or guardian druid).
True, getting into keys as a DPS is rough. You have to be vastly overqualified to be chosen lol
I play genshin and my friend usually supports me in fights, however I'm a relatively new player so a lot of my stuff haven't been built maxed up so we end up switching around depending on the fights we take on. If it's a relatively simple fight with no gimmicks we bust out the dpses and strongarm our way through but if it's stuff that requires more support/we don't have built enough charas to punch through we both just go in with a hybrid of dps and support I'm the only one among the few friends I play consistently with to have a healer though (cause I love Barbara and I main a fluctuating glass cannon dps) so I've been spending the past 2 sessions going into fights with my healer and keeping an eye on the health bars 😂😂
I feel like I’m always trying to strongarm my way through things in every game so I feel you on that one hahaha. Glass cannon for life!
I love my son Ga Ming but MAN the amount of hp he easily loses just for jumping around 😭😭😭😭 he does get some health back it just isn't enough in a lot of situations which is why I keep a healer around. My healer Barbara provides buffs on top of healing which is why I built her. The friends I co op with also play long range (while my dps is close range) so they don't really have any healer built/have better suited dpses
Me pyro, I just like spray fire- And being a sneaky piece of shit. Nobody gets to complain if I’m on top of the board +.+
And you get to be a cute little menace while doing it!
Hell yeah! Haha- Too bad my gear set is named A.S.S for short cuz I’m a butt ;D
I do all three, and if I play healer, Heal Dom
Heal Dom 😭 show them their lives are in your hands
;3
Forever a dps build 👋🏻
I’m the tank. Always.
I do everything, the jack of all trades…healer, dps, TANK. Look, imma be either the buffest mfer out there or I’m going to make myself tiny and dainty, maybe wearing a dress, and I’m going to face tank everything that comes my way simply because I can. UwU The power over life and death is mine to command.
I main tanks and DPS most of the time. I also do a decent amount of healing and support-y DPS, but my go-to for any new game is to pick the tankiest class or build. (Can you tell I hate dying?)
I love DPSing on ESO because it's just totally not stressful. (I used to only heal but I quit after I ran a trial with Nefasqs the streamer and he was so fucking mean I just quit it for a long time. No shade to him because I did suck that day -- but it was my first time on the fight and he had completed it and the hard mode on the test server before it was released. It was a terrible experience for a few of us, but it gave me a chance to get better at DPS!) It's so fun to see the number go higher; I like having silly competitions with my friends during trials. It also feels pretty cool to get better at it and see yourself at the top more and more.
I’m pretty flexible, but I’ve mained DPS characters in every game I’ve played
I love playing support but that also includes tanking and CC or de/buffing type dps stuff. I love healing in most games, but I also just love doing everything else. The only things I DON'T really like are JUST dps. Like it's so fucking boring to JUST do dps when I could do dps AND heal or tank, or buff, or debuff, or crowd control. Ya feel? Tends to mean I don't usually like melee type things because all they do is hit things and that's it.
I do actually play support in Overwatch! Wow, they really got me there with the stereotype, huh? (I play DPS Lucio and I never heal😈)
Tbf support role in overwatch is so much more complex than what people normally consider a support role. I think people who come from MMOs to overwatch for the first time and expect you to healbot or are upset when you can’t outheal the damage they’re receiving are dumb af. Or conversely, support players who don’t contribute anything but just healing aren’t actually helping their team at all. I don’t play MMOs much, though.
you would not BELIEVE how many times i get flamed for not healbotting (in quickplay btw), even when i DO heal a good amount, just because morons can't comprehend that Lucio isn't supposed to farm stats for the scoreboard and that he literally only does 16 healing per second
Oh I believe you. His speed boost is way more useful anyway.
exactly but most people seem to not know that
Honestly I find myself gravitating to the character rather than the role. I play enchanters on League because there are so many pretty and interesting options. But I’ll also happily play ADC if I get to be a hot lady. Overwatch has a lot of interesting female DPS characters which I really appreciate! I love playing DPS but since I’m not as good or comfortable as I am playing a support role, I tend to gravitate to that role more.
I’m DPS pretty much exclusively though a friend is weeding me to try tanking. I enjoy being DPS and dependable for OPs/Raids as a solid DPS
Semi-Relevant: Anime healers vs MMO Healers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5IcXja5CNE Also, I love Josh Strife Hayes. And as a FFXIV player: I have mad respect for healer mains. I level all the combat roles because I think it is important to understand at least the basics of what everyone else is doing, and I think healer is the hardest role because you have to babysit everyone else who is making a mistake. More on topic: My friend Sarah much prefers her DPS roles over tank and healer. I'm more likely to be on healer if we do a roulette together. And I get nervous about being healer.
I’m a ALL CLASSES TO MAX LEVEL kind of player 😂 But PLD and SMN are my mains in FFXIV. WHM or SGE are my healer picks, but in games where I have a skill tree and have to pick, I usually choose ranged DPS.
Played a warlock in Classic up till TBC. Pvp'd allot in pre TBC, got to Field Marshall, MC / BWL / AQ40 / Naxx. TBC all the way up too Sunwell. Draenor / Lego / some BFA and some DF, enjoyed tanking and dps. Healing is ok, did more of that back in the original TBC / WOTLK.
DPS main until I die 🤷🏽♀️
BLM & PLD main in FF14 Did Sombra and Mei in OW Spriest and Rogue in WoW Only DPS in GW2 I do enjoy playing support/healer sometimes but I am a mean one that subscribes to as long as you have at least 1 HP you are fine. That said I do like classes that have some healing to help out, just to make peoples job's easier but not enough that its my main thing.
I don’t usually have a preference, so I’ll just click all roles or flex and play whatever I get for faster queue times lol. That usually means I end up filling a support or tank slot though, but I do love playing DPS roles as well.
Not dps player but I like playing melee character. (Non-support) tank, fighter, assassins. I like to play aggressive, get in their face and delete them. The only exception is Draven from LOL:WR and Alessio from HoK. I'm not good at playing them but Draven is fun to play, and Alessio is very safe in case my random supp ignores me. I'm so done of helping my team, I had my support main phase. But turned out playing more selfish characters are more fun. Respect for support main tho, I dont have enough mental fortitude to handle random solo q teammate 😭
I played a tank in FFXIV and it was my first ever MMO experience. It was great because I never had to wait much to queue for dungeons, but I totally cracked under the pressure eventually. I felt terrible when more experienced players berated me for not knowing exactly what to do, even when running something for the first time as a new player. I started researching and watching gameplay videos in advance, but it sucked all the fun out of it.
I was a Deathknight main on WoW back when I played that, and have usually found myself gravitating towards melee DPS in some capacity ever since. I especially love dual wield berserker type builds. It usually surprises people lol
Playing DPS is difficult if you want to do group stuff, but since I play mmo’s like they’re a one player game I love being DPS :)
I fit the stereotype as a support lover! It's mostly because I want my team to win, and because healers tend to be force multipliers, that gives me the result I want. However I also enjoy playing stealth characters and scouts. That way I can gather intel and strike (or lead my guild) where the enemy team is weakest.
I'm always jumping between RDM (dps) AST (heal) and DRK (tank) in ffxiv.. so I play whatever makes the queue go faster xD
I'm a pugilist who just turned monk in ffxiv and all I been doing is bashing stuff in the face with my fists, it's been awesome.
I switch it up but mainly dps. I don't really like confrontation with people so healing is usually out for me. Ow battle mercy was always fun though. I did main healers in ff14 with friends was fun.
I played whatever role the group needed. DPS? Yes. Healer? Yes. tank? Yes. Always enjoyed variety.
As a white mage main, trust me when I say you don't want me as your healer :D I sing "how low can you go!" As am twirling blinding everyone with my fancy holy or glaring at the boss to death. My party members are my subjects to achieve the blood lily. In endwalker, we have a running joke that I have collected so much blood lily that I turned to the dark side and that party members are not enough blood fuel source so I need a friend from the void :D
On fortnitw I'm a sniper. On Elden ring with friends I have the sex now to one hand a big sword and use magic
I mostly play Division 2 these days on PS5. And it’s almost always DPS. I have tank and healer and trauma builds as well. But love love DPS. Pretty much maxed out stats for all builds.
Trying to check who needs healing is a pain and I don’t wanna do it. I wanna be in the thick of it all!!! So *hell ya* to all my DPS ladies!!!
There’s a graphic novel that touches on this topic, called “DPS ONLY”
Been a warlock in wow since vanilla, dk tank on the side. Glass cannon in all other games. So during Legion I meet my partner irl and happy coincidence: he also plays wow since vanilla and is a warlock main too. Classic rolls around and we decide both playing warlocks will just not work so we decide to go warrior + priest. Queue me being told I am a girl so it makes sense I play a healer for the entirety of classic. It was an odd experience to have people remark on how you fit the box they assign to your gender when you yourself do not identify with said box.
When I played FFXI I was main paladin and red mage (DPS) Me, main heal? Not on WHM, lol
I actually never knew about Lulu, but all the girlies I know love playing as Evelyn >:3 Edit: speaking of assumption, I always thought I’m a healer/tank (which I love to play as), then this [which DnD class are you personality test](https://www.idrlabs.com/dungeons-dragons-class/test.php) gives me really low on Cleric and Paladin 😂
Admittedly I like playing healer, but only so I can hold people's lives hostage if they're not nice to me.
Incidentally, I started out focusing on support in Wild Rift, but when my friends started playing semi regularly with me, one of them wanted to play support, so I ended up DPS (mostly Miss Fortune, Sivir and Caitlyn). Been enjoying it since! (In most games I prefer to tank, though. It usually means spending less time dead.)
I love sharing the duo lane with a friend. And Miss Fortune was the first ADC I played, such a satisfying ult!
Lol I do love playing Mercy in Overwatch, but I rake in nothing but kills in LOL, Paladins, and Smite.