A few thoughts from a healer...

Pepper · 08-11-2007, 13:33

First of all I'd like to say that most people being healed or focused are wonderful people, and I've made a lot of new friends out there in Sweat land .
But that said, I'm going to give a few tips for those who still haven't figured out why they're being ignored by people who heal or focus. For most of you this may seem extremely obvious - but I can from experience say that it's far from that obvious to all.

Almost dead certain ways of not being healed and focused:

Be abusive to (and/or harass) the healer.

Spamming the chat with "heal me!"

PM the healer and say "heal me!"

Trade the healer while he/she heals, trying to sell sweat or tt junk (they most certainly let you know if they need sweat, they're in a sweat camp for god sake...).

Squeeze in front of the healer while he/she works trying to cut the line.
(that's not only irritating to the healer, but also very rude to fellow players who's waiting to get healed)

Standing in front of the healer and jumping ( That's a really odd behavior in my eyes..but still very common)

and

If there's a single healer also doing focus; they usually do each in short periods - wait for the heal or focus, don't start spamming the chat.

The truth about healers:
Healers are skilling - on you. That's true.
But there are far more effective ways to skill mindforce or paramedic, than to hang around the sweat camps, I assure you. There are often long periods of waiting for people to drop in, and that's a huge waste of time in any skilling.
The truth is that the healers who work at the sweat camps are doing you a favor - for free. Treat them with normal respect and you'll find that your sweating will be a lot easier and your EU experience a lot more fun.

Also:
Remember that the healers often constantly read the chat out of pure boredom. If they spot someone being an asshole to other sweaters, it's quite possible that the asshole will be left out for that reason too.

If you want respect - give respect, it's as easy as that.

General tips to sweaters:

Don't sweat in armor - the decay on your armor will eat up most of the profit of your work.

Don't run back and forth to the healers - sweat for as long as you can and then die - you'll end up at the healers anyway, and you save time.

Don't close the loot window every time you get sweat - just hit the spacebar and the loot window will continue to fill up (saves time).

edit:
One more thing that might be good to know:
Mindforce healers can heal on distance within a long range, so there's really no need to stand in front of us and jump. I, as most i should guess, heal in extreme zoom out - so we really don't even pay much attention to people who act strange in front of us

All my best and good luck!

Burgerman · 08-11-2007, 14:54

+rep for a nice post with good tips & info.

Teshik · 08-11-2007, 15:01

+rep i dont heal but i do give focus and i know exactly what you mean.

Lets hope the sweaters can find there way here to read it.

Coop_ · 08-11-2007, 16:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pepper

First of all I'd like to say that most people being healed or focused are wonderful people, and I've made a lot of new friends out there in Sweat land .
But that said, I'm going to give a few tips for those who still haven't figured out why they're being ignored by people who heal or focus. For most of you this may seem extremely obvious - but I can from experience say that it's far from that obvious to all.

Almost dead certain ways of not being healed and focused:

I'll add one that actually happened to me last night:

Stand in front or back of the healer doing pelvic thrusts. Sorry, but that rude noob had to die, and then I rolled his sorry carcass around since he didn't know the "T - Y" tip.

Quote:

Don't run back and forth to the healers - sweat for as long as you can and then die - you'll end up at the healers anyway, and you save time.

An exception to this is if you have focus but nobody is giving out more . Then stay alive at all costs--unfocussed sweating stinks.

Anyway, nice post and +rep to ya!

DocKangey · 08-12-2007, 17:33

Great post Pepper, I couldn't put it better. I spend a lot of time at the swamp camp and thanks for pointing out that this is not the most effective place to skill paramedic (as in my case)

I believe that many who come to camp to heal and focus also do that to give something to the community. Many times it's also those healers and focusers that give good advice for noobs, help out with answering questions and pitching in when noobs are sometimes left on their own by mentors (which unfortunately does happen)

I just talk for myself but one reason why I choose to skill at swamp camp is that I got a lot of help there when I was fresh off that shuttle. I made a lot of friends and met many great people there. And I hope that maybe one or two of those who I heal today might feel the same in a few months or a year even, and will come back to swamp camp every now and then to give something to the community.

I would like to add another point to the list "Almost dead certain ways of not being healed and focused:"

Run up to a healer and stick your weapon right in their face. Yeah, that is really good manners.

Great post Pepper, +rep to you.

c2carbone · 08-25-2007, 23:02

hehe nice to find all you nice healers here TY all

and i was always wondering why those screamers get healed anyway

but now since I've burnt a few t1's there myself (WHOOOEA I'm getting famous lol) I know that it's hard not to completely lose overview over the clusters of OJs hanging around oneself

+reps to you healers!

Burgerman · 08-26-2007, 07:03

Thanks c2carbone.
Personally, I move the screamer's health bar to a different part of my screen, so that I don't confuse them with everyone else. I still heal them, but they have a much lower priority.