You are NOT a PVPer if you are a healer !!!

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Actually I am a big fan and always have been of not allowing healers in BG's to begin with. How fun is it to get the best gear in the game and waste half your mana to kill a warrior only to have a stupid healer with lame gear heal him completely with two heals? Whats the point of getting good damage gear? Healers should not be allowed in BG's EVER. If you want to heal then go raid. You are NOT a pvper if you heal, and yes I have a 70 priest and I still feel this way.

You're right. We should extend this to PvE too. You're not a PvEer if you heal either.


Wait ... What?? I'm going to go have some coffee now because either I need some or you do this morning. ;)

Seriously, some of the best PvPers I've known have been healers. I've also managed to top the healing list in BGs before. This is what teamwork is about.

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I think the comes OP from the old school FPS background. In those games it was pure PvP with the occasional health or armor pack hidden somewhere. Going into a firefight wasn't just about killing you target but also coming out not so injured that you die moments later to a stray round. Efficiency was the name of the game..

Even the new class based FPS with medics dont shift the tide of the battle, maybe the war.

I guess the OP just isn't familiar with RPG mechanics and misunderstood how different a PVP RPG is compared to a FPS.

I disagree with you on the idea that medics in FPS' don't shift the tide of battle but won't go too deeply into that. While old school FPS' didn't have healers, that philosophy has changed a bit and has added a new element of strategy in newer FPS'. It definitely can make a difference. In this case though, we're talking about an MMO of which was born from classic RPGs that generally always had some healer sort even if it was an NPC that became a part of your party.

It is clearly strategic to kill healers off and it's equally strategic to defend your healers so they can be their most effective. WoW isn't built around damage only. If you look at the PvE aspect, each encounter takes into account both damage output and healing. The same can and should be said about PvP. It's simply a matter of point and counter point.