Why do people give MVP to the worst player.

Often that "worthless damage" can be quite useful. If I'm healing, and none of my allies nearby are dropping much, I'll throw out DoTs to soften enemies or keep them off objectives, or I'll hit them with Telekinetic Throw to put a little extra pressure on an enemy being focused, or I'll hit them with Telekinetic Throw just to slow them as they approach an objective. Once a bomb is planted in voidstar, I'm gonna stop what I'm doing and spam Forcequake on the point to prevent a defuse.

Dealing damage is not worthless as a healer, it's just situational. Picking off enemies at low health isn't a way of medal farming, it's extra assurance that an enemy dies when your allies aren't in immediate trouble

If they're heal-specced and running around spamming dps attacks, sure. But getting 75k damage done over long games, getting the killing blow medal, and getting the assassin medal (if someone almost killed them and failed, and you snipe them, it counts as a solo kill) are not unreasonable or simply "medal farming" for healers. It's a a sign of a good healer that they will throw out little bits of damage where appropriate.

I've actually told everyone on all the servers to make sure you don't get MVP. It's a vast conspiracy of 'tards and bads.

Yup, as do I, top healer or protector. Unless I see someone doing an outstanding job leading or coordinating the fight. I never look at damage numbers.

This is what happens to me more often than not. I'm always the top healer with usually around 375-400k healing, and if I'm lucky I'll get 2 votes. I've also had at least 1 game with 500k+ and 0 mvp votes. I ragequit that night I was so pissed.

To the OP: I would never vote tanks for mvp. Yes they're awesome to have in a game, but you guys get all the tank medals, all the dps medals, and usually at least a few healing medals for unequipping gear at the start. Just be happy with your 8-10 medals every game and let other people have the little valor/coms that come from mvp. As a good healer the best I can hope for is 5 medals, and usually it's only 3-4.

Except...good tanks will keep you from dying...ever. Guard + taunt + well timed cc/slow are incredible tools in all warzones.

Tank specced juggernaughts are THE MOST valuable class to have in Huttball. Combine that with a sorcerer's pull and you should never lose if you play it right.

Also the ability to friendly-leap a stealthed target sitting near their goal. :3

Sometimes they pick the guy that waited alone on the door/ turret while the rest of them ran off in a Zerg and screamed for help when the got gibbed but managed to save the objective I've walked out games with less than 60k damage but got MVP's because I'm the dude that said "ok ill do it" when my team asks for someone to gaurd an objective.

I generally will give it to one of the healers, sometimes top dps and sometimes bottom of the list.

But I do want to point out that my first objective is winning the match. I'll DPS, guard a turret, heal in a pinch, whatever it takes.

Sometimes that makes me #1 in several stats. And sometimes not.

So please don't generalize that anyone at the top is just in it for themselves. It IS possible to work your *** off for the team and show up at the top.

That said, I don't care about votes. If I get one, great. If not, I generally get enough medals just playing the match.

-H

I have found that people always toss the MVP to the person most likely to not be voted mvp, in an attempt to secure the most votes for themselves... which ironically gives the least helpful person the most mvp votes.

I agree that a good tank and healer can make or break a WZ match. But tanks can get a lot of medals really easy as healers if doing thier job properly will usually get like 3-4. I always vote for the tank that guarded me, but I think healers need some love.