Healers getting too many medals in WZs

U need to dps, and if u dps - u are fine with medals.

It's not a pve, where u stand at one place and heal, heal, heal....heal.
U need to dps, and if u dps - u are fine with medals.

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Healers in Warzones now receive kill credit when a healed player kills an enemy.

This thread seems to have become more of a "Tanks get too many medals" thread than a "Healers dont get enough" one.

The large majority of healers I know that have stuck with healing spec, do so because they feel winning gives better rewards than losing with more medals, and because they like to know they they are largely responsible. Also tbh on our server the majority of MVP votes go the most healing.

As a poster said above, it's nice to have a game that DOES finally reward tanks. My main MMO prior to this one was Warhammer which ofc was PvP based. DPS would solo kill players for max gain, healers would go out of party and heal random people, because the renown gain for a kill was split between your party... so by being 'involved' but on their own, they got full reward. Tanks... well, tanks had to just hope the guy they were protecting actually killed something.

I do agree healers need more reward, but I am glad to finally see tanks get some. A tank will perform far better with a healer behind them, and a healer will perform far better with a tank guarding them. I think its unfair to say "You only got that much protection because X healer did Y healing"... why not the healer only managed so much because the tank prolonged his life long enough to get through concentrated CC? A tank is sacrificing (for his best protection at least) his own HP to do his job.

With it being easy (yes, it is easy I admit) to get the first 3 medals for protection I find it hilarious that so few tanks actually bother. However this shows again there is a huge difference between a good tank and bad one. Just as there is between a good healer and bad one (the bad ones are the ones who stand in a corner Noble Sarifice + heal to get big numbers for MVP :P).

I myself, am a terrible healer and I know it.. but as a tank, I will do more than just throw guard on and go to dps, I stay near my target, I use CC's to help them, I will pull a DPS off them if I get knocked/pulled away from them and most of all, I swap my guard to who needs it rather than just stick it on 1 guy and forget about them. Won't always get protect medals though as I have a tendency to get focused a lot myself.


The main thing I agree with here is that healers need 'tags' if someone they heal tags an enemy. This would give them more medals WITHOUT giving the DPS healing classes more still, by which I mean the ones who get 300k dmg medals etc but still get the 2.5k/75k heal ones because they bubbled themselves and jumped through the fire. The majority of the healing medals such players get are merely for self protection vs a tank whose protection stats can ONLY be gained by assisting other players.


TLR? Give healers access to the kill tag medals easier, but don't bash the tanks who FINALLY get something for sacrificing their own hp.