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◈ Healers Are Not Tools ◈
Chapter 4: A Textbook DPS Bro
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Lost of Fantasy was full of inconvenient but unusual features.
One of them was that players had to walk to a dungeon themselves to enter it.
These days, it even had fancy features like automatic matchmaking, but at higher difficulties, you still had to gather people at the dungeon entrance and head in together.
“Oh, boy...”
Thanks to that, I could watch the people entering the Alphadisco Excavation Site.
And what I saw was pretty predictable.
Most parties were packed with DPS players.
In my experience, 90% of any RPG’s players played DPS, so that wasn’t strange.
Some groups did have warriors and priests, but their equipment told me which specialization they’d chosen. It wasn’t hard to tell whether they were DPS or healers.
「Looking for people for Alphadisco @@@@@@@@@@」
「4/5 Alphadisco, one spot open!!!!! NO defense warriors, monastic priests, foresight priests, paladins + druids XXXX」
「Alphadisco farming group, at least 2 clears and 100 combat power」
These people were seriously determined to believe tanks and healers were bad.
Couldn’t they just go in once and find out that entering a dungeon without a tank and healer was a fucking nightmare?
...Wait. Maybe dungeons in Jeong Hana’s world didn’t need tanks or healers?
[MalaSauceOnChewyCookies]
「Alphadisco farming group!!!! Combat power 105++」
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「Hey. I have 106 combat power. Can I join?」
For now, I picked someone whose recruitment message looked relatively normal out of the flood of chat around me.
Sure, their combat power requirement was a little high, but setting unnecessarily high requirements had been a common tactic in my old world too.
[MalaSauceOnChewyCookies]
「sry」
「no paladins」
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「Why not?」
[MalaSauceOnChewyCookies]
「just blocking you, bye」
“A textbook DPS bro.”
They were blocking me just for asking why they wouldn’t let me join?
That behavior felt strangely familiar, but I checked the community forums in case I’d gotten the wrong idea.
[Do the fuckers who recommended the Demon King’s Army even have a conscience? Alphadisco is hard as fuck.]
[Wait, doesn’t it say the recommended combat power is 85? I went in and got fucking shredded.]
[Wow lmao, “server: Venus, faction: Allied Coalition” < that actually wasn’t bait.]
[Isn’t this game completely fucking broken? lol My combat power is over 105, but getting hit by the Alphadisco boss deletes my HP.]
“So that’s what’s going on.”
Alphadisco was definitely harder than the dungeon available to the Allied Coalition at the same level.
I wasn’t going to deny that. But was it hard enough to justify this uproar on the forums? No.
It didn’t have any particularly difficult mechanics. Stay calm, and you could deal with all of them.
There was exactly one reason these people were screaming about the difficulty.
[★ Is this game balance for real? Alphadisco is fucking brutal even with a five-person party at 100 combat power.]
That fucking recommended combat power < total fucking scam, just pump your combat power way up before going.
Same old Korean RPG bullshit. The climbing gear you need to get up the mountain is at the summit, yep.
Putting on some of the gear from here makes the hits hurt less, but when the boss throws a one-two punch, my HP gets fucking raped out of existence lol
「Isn’t 100 combat power high?」
「Wow, is it that hard? What was your party comp?」
『▶ Arms warrior, two elemental mages, marksman gunner, hunting gunner.』
『▶▶ Aren’t elemental mages tier zero? You had those and still barely scraped through?』
「Exactly, even with high combat power, the fucking time limit is insanely tight.」
「Hard as fuck. The beta testers said it was easy, but I guess they were lying.」
“...Of course.”
「??? Why are you only bringing DPS? Bring a tank and healer and you can breeze through it.」
That much explanation should normally be enough, unless they were a truly hopeless DPS bro.
『▶ what lmao』
『▶▶ What the fuck is that supposed to mean, dumbass? lol Here come the shit-stirrers who don’t even play the game again.』
Ugh.
Hit monsters, and they die.
More damage means faster kills.
My old world had plenty of amazing “DPS bros” who couldn’t think beyond that.
And those textbook DPS players were the ones controlling the conversation on the forums right now.
In their world, healers and tanks were all tools. Servants and cleanup crews there to help them “carrrry~~~~.”
Lost of Fantasy had only just launched, so they didn’t understand the importance of healers and tanks yet. Anything that didn’t do damage probably looked like worthless fucking trash to them.
These incredible people didn’t even understand the concept of synergy in the first place.
My old world had plenty of them even in Darkwatch 2, which forced a tank into your team through matchmaking.
Tanks just got carried anyway. They didn’t do anything. They weren’t any good.
The gaming world was overflowing with people who thought that way. The “Moai mindset” hadn’t become a thing for no reason.
Even in Legend of League, it was common to see people who had no idea what tanks did, swearing at them and calling them trolls for not protecting them.
『▶▶▶ You know how some specializations say “tank role” or “healer role” when you select them? Bring those, and you can clear it in your sleep.』
Anyway, you had to activate your specialization to properly perform your class’s role.
To put it another way, a plain warrior was a beginner.
You could only say you’d advanced to a proper class once you chose a specialization.
And much as I hated to admit it, fewer than 30% of players properly understood the role assigned to them by that specialization.
I really hated to admit it, but that was reality.
Even in Lost of Fantasy, which people called a raiding game, only about 20% of the entire player base actually raided.
If you could look at these DPS bros and scoff, that meant you were skilled enough to be in the top 20%...
『▶▶▶▶ This fucker doesn’t even play the game lmaooo. Wash your feet and go to bed, dumbass.』
『▶▶▶▶▶ You fucking idiot, we’re telling you we don’t have enough damage. Even with high combat power, we don’t have enough damage. “Tank and healer” < why are you throwing English words around and acting like you’re hot shit?』
『▶▶▶▶▶▶ Here we go again, these fucking Hyeji bitches sneaking into a man’s game to get carried lmao. Just fuck off.』
『▶▶▶▶▶▶▶ “Even 105 combat power is rough” < can’t you read? You take the shield warriors and priests who can’t do damage lol』
They really thought the answer to not having enough damage was to bring five stronger DPS players. Typical DPS bros.
Sure, maybe they could brute-force low-level dungeons that way, but once they passed level 30, they wouldn’t be able to do anything without a tank and healer.
Of course, leveling was slow in Lost of Fantasy, so reaching the level cap took a long time...
Anyway, if they wanted to suffer through dungeons with five DPS players, I wasn’t going to stop them.
I could just put together my own party.
Damage dispensers like these had always been everywhere.
“...I’ve seen plenty of this.”
Even after Lost of Fantasy became a game focused on raiding, plenty of people still tried to sway public opinion on the forums with posts like “It’s fucking bullshit that healers and tanks reserve loot” and “Healers sure talk a lot for fuckers getting carried.”
And it wasn’t just Lost of Fantasy. People brought the attitude that had started in Legend of League straight into RPGs. Calling healers “water squirters,” “heal dispensers,” and “tool bitches” wasn’t something a small minority did anymore. It was the overwhelming majority.
In Milesian Mobile, some people had been publicly called out after trying to convince the forums not to bring healers to raids because the healers themselves didn’t do damage, even though they increased their allies’ attack power by over 50%.
In Warrior and Dungeon, there were mountains of idiots who got banned for 31 days after screaming for the deletion of a class that could increase party members’ attack power by over 1,000%. They simply hated that the class could find parties easily, and hated that they couldn’t raid without it.
「Anyone for Alphadisco? One tank role spot / three DPS role spots open.」
Ten years of playing Lost of Fantasy.
Recruiting a party while avoiding DPS bros was nothing.
* * *
「DiscoElysium donated 1,000 won.」
[Minseo, Minseo, fucking think about it. Would you take a shield warrior into a dungeon?]
「MikaCicada donated 1,000 won.」
[Shield warriors in a nutshell < getting hit hurts less. That’s literally all they do, so who’d bring one? lmao]
“Shiiit...”
Kang Minseo clutched her head in both hands, suffering under the endless barrage of thousand-won punches.
She had declared that she absolutely wouldn’t accept help from her viewers, intending to find a party and clear the dungeon herself.
But not a single party would accept a shield warrior. She had spent an hour outside the dungeon being ignored and blocked over and over.
《Disco! Disco! Disco!》
[Complete the Alphadisco Excavation Site.]
「Reward: Perfect Copper Shield Imbued with Magic」
Kang Minseo wanted the shield from the quest reward.
That was all there was to it.
An Uncommon item with a green border was a prize out of reach for her. So far, she’d only seen white items.
“Ah, this... Okay! Okay! Low-Rank Squad! Listen up! Starting now~ I’m giving you a chance to play with me on stream!”
- lmaoooo didn’t you just say no viewer games?
- Even by our standards, a shield warrior is a bit much lol
- This fucker’s class is a shield lmao warrior lmaooo
- She really only picks trash just like herself.
- Just delete the character already. I hear hunting gunners are good, so why not level a gunner?
- Think of it as donating 24 hours and delete the character.
Unlike her usual self, Kang Minseo couldn’t say a word as the thousand-won punches slaughtered her without mercy.
‘Fuck... Are shield warriors really no good? Why? This looks good to me. Why doesn’t it work?’
She had a reasonably solid plan in mind.
“N-no, guys... The monsters are strong, right? You said they hit hard. If I take those hits while the ranged DPS attack, wouldn’t that work out nicely?”
「Anon donated 1,000 won.」
[We call that getting carried. That’s what we as a society agreed to call it lmao]
「BoooRiceRiceRice donated 1,000 won.」
[Ugh, so while the ranged DPS with over 105 combat power unload from the back, you’re just going to fondle the enemy with your shield?]
“Do you guys not understand the concept? Guys? In Legend of League, someone initiates the fight...”
- No, how is that the same as this? lmao
- Top laners at least have to play their lane, don’t they?
- How’s that the same? Does the fight end if you land a stun?
- Are you fucking stupid? lol If all you are is tough, the ranged DPS will just ignore you. What are you doing to stop them?
Kang Minseo gave up on the conversation and clicked her tongue.
Even in Jeong Hana’s world, tanks were often discriminated against and smeared as trash in games where they were absolutely necessary.
Securing a position, holding the front line, starting a team fight...
Even in a world familiar with those concepts, tanks had never been popular.
The tank-DPS-healer setup.
To viewers who weren’t yet familiar with those roles, Kang Minseo looked like a fucking idiot playing some weird character that did barely any damage.
‘Ah, but... Well, they’re not completely wrong...’
It wasn’t as though Kang Minseo didn’t know how frustrating shield warriors could be.
Ever since activating her specialization, she’d noticed that she was strangely short on damage, slowing down her hunting.
‘Fuck, but... I don’t want to admit I picked wrong. There’s no way I’m wrong. I’m Master, after all...’
Kang Minseo puffed out her cheeks and clicked her mouse for no reason.
An hour.
She couldn’t keep looking for a party at the dungeon entrance, listening to people insult her.
“Ah... Then...”
She didn’t want to admit it.
She wanted to clear the dungeon as a shield warrior, the way she had planned.
Pouting, Kang Minseo sighed and wondered whether she should just move to the next region or really start over with a new character.
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「Anyone for Alphadisco? One tank role spot / three DPS role spots open.」
“...Huh?”
Kang Minseo, who had been idly clicking her mouse and opening and closing her bags, swallowed.
‘This person... She’s the one who helped me yesterday!’
That username was burned into her memory. She hurriedly sent a whisper.
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
「Hey hey, take me with you! I’m a shield warrior!!」
As soon as she sent the hurried whisper, Kang Minseo pressed Enter and placed her hands on the keyboard.
‘I really want to go...’
She took a deep breath, even considering whether she should mention that she was a streamer.
《 PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut has invited you to a party! 》
“Huh? Huh? Oh! Oh! G-guys! Look! Guys!!! I got invited!”
- Wait, isn’t that person a paladin?
- Fuck, how are two pieces of trash going to fill a party?
- lmaooo can they even clear this?
- Forget not having enough damage, they’re going to be giving the monsters massages.
- lmaoooo what is this garbage-bin party?
- Aaagh! A paladin!!!
Kang Minseo didn’t care whether nasty comments filled the chat.
Right now, she was simply overjoyed.
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「Anyone for Alphadisco? Three DPS role spots open. No combat power requirement.」
“See~? Unlike you guys, she’s kind! And knows the game! So she let me in! See? You all said I wouldn’t get to go, but now I’m going! I’m getting my shield~!”
「Anon donated 1,000 won.」
[But would any DPS join this party? You can smell the stink just looking at that comp.]
“Um... Well! The party leader will figure something out!”
Despite Kang Minseo’s worries, Jeong Hana’s advertisement with no combat power requirement filled the remaining three spots in an instant.
Footnotes:
“Hyeji” is a derogatory Korean gaming stereotype aimed at women who play support characters and are accused of relying on others to carry them.
The “Moai mindset” is a Korean gaming expression for selfish loot entitlement, short for a phrase meaning “All items are mine.”
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