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◈ Healers Are Not Tools ◈
Chapter 8: So, Have You Guys Ever Leveled a Healer?
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In the end, I came home without getting anywhere near a bra. I had no energy left to play, so I took a shower and lay down in bed.
Well, when I thought about it, how was I supposed to buy a bra anyway?
I didn’t even know my size. The cup and the number? Whatever they were, how could I buy one without knowing them?
I couldn’t just walk up to a shop assistant, hold out my hand, and ask for anything that fit.
“No, wait... I’ve got bras at home, so I could take one along... Actually, maybe I don’t need to bring it...”
Muttering to myself, I opened the Lost of Fantasy Forum while half asleep.
[Why. The. FUCK. Are. Dungeons. So. HARD?!]
[So which ranged DPS is good? Mage? Warlock? Have we decided yet?]
[Professions < Can I skip this shit? Some people are already doing them.]
[So when’s the tier list coming out? Who’s the top DPS? Holding my breath until then.]
Somehow, this had become my nightly routine.
I went through both the popular posts and the regular ones.
Among the flood of new posts, I picked out questions and gave them reasonable answers.
Writing a proper guide took far too long, so I’d settled on this instead.
[I’m thinking of trying this game. Support classes? Healer < Which one should I play?]
I play support in Legend of League too
so playing DPS here feels kinda wrong. I just want a straightforward support class
DPS and tank don’t really suit me. Are there any supports?
「Why not just play DPS? It’s not like Legend of League where you die because you suck」
『▶ You need to be really fucking good at DPS in dungeons;;;』
「Can’t you just play priest if you want to heal?」
「Asking about supports in this forum lmao. Everyone here only plays DPS」
The person asking clearly sounded desperate, but there wasn’t a single useful reply.
One serious answer here, then bed. That sounded about right for tonight.
「If you’re new to healing, Monastic Priest is the easiest. Foresight Priest requires knowing the mechanics. Wouldn’t recommend Restoration Druid. Restoration Shaman is good in raids, and there’s always a spot for a Holy Paladin」
I hoped it would really help the newbie.
That was definitely all I’d been thinking when I posted it.
* * *
I woke up to find myself publicly called out.
...Or, more accurately, the comment I’d left before bed had stirred up the forum.
“What? No... What the hell have these people been saying? Where did this whole thing even start...?”
I’d woken up to more than five pages of new popular posts.
The newbie’s post, where I’d left my comment yesterday, was already gone. Maybe all the attention had been too much.
Anyway... Scrolling through the popular posts gave me a rough idea of what had happened.
[★ Saw this while trying to answer a newbie’s question. What’s this asshole’s deal?]
(A screenshot preserving the comment I’d left.)
Did this asshole come from the future or something?
The game hasn’t even been out for a week, and they’re going on about raids and shit
Why are they making up fantasies and rating specializations all by themselves?
If you don’t even play the game, can you just fuck off out of the forum?
「Nobody’s hit max level yet, right? What even is a raid?」
「This is fucking hilarious lmao. Bet this asshole’s a DPS dudebro who’s never leveled a single healer」
「Did they use AI to write that comment? Looks like an AI hallucination to me」
「Says Holy Paladins are good. Must be some idiot playing paladin」
「What’s all this shit? Just pick Monastic Priest and turn your brain off」
So that was the situation.
I’d recommended classes to the newbie strictly based on max-level play, but to people right now, that information looked like complete fucking nonsense.
Still, there wasn’t much I could do about that.
Lost of Fantasy was famous for being a game where you had to “hit max level first.”
The dungeons you ran after reaching max level! And finally, clearing raids!
That was the beginning and end of Lost of Fantasy. What else was I supposed to base class recommendations on?
Honestly, if someone just wanted to know what was good early on, the answer was obviously Gunner or Monastic Priest.
[But is that popular post really just baseless bullshit from someone who doesn’t play?]
[I’m leveling two healers, and that comment seems kinda right]
[So why’s the forum so loud? There were people here who played healers?]
[Those assholes start class wars over DPS every day, but now they can’t even get one going? Seriously?]
[Funniest part lmao. Yesterday they fought over warlocks vs mages for 12 hours straight, but now nobody knows how good any healer is]
Looking through the forum, hardly anyone seemed to be insulting me because they genuinely thought I didn’t play.
Actually, it felt more like nobody could judge what I’d said at all.
At first, people had gleefully piled on when the post calling me out went up. But once the argument shifted to whether my comment was actually true, it seemed to have fizzled out.
“No, but is this my fault? Those comments are going to become legendary examples of people not knowing shit about the game. They’re all shooting themselves in the foot.”
In about a year, they might end up in a collection of clueless comments from the game’s launch.
Even back when I used to play Lost of Fantasy, though, fewer than two people out of ten played healers or tanks...
If anything, things seemed even worse now. I doubted there were more healers.
That was exactly why I’d taken the newbie’s question seriously and answered it.
People didn’t know much about healers or tanks.
In communities like this, where most people only played DPS, their impression of healers was...
* * *
「Anon donated 1,000 won」
[Minseo~ Minseo~ Did you see that post on the community~??]
“Oh, that? The thing about rating healers you’ve met in dungeons?”
Kang Minseo, who had been busy grinding mobs out in the field, finally responded to the donations that had been coming in for a while.
- that shit was hilarious
- Restoration Druid < never seen one. You mean that thing?
- but seriously, you barely see any healers except priests
- Minseo, Minseo, you should do it too
The “healer ratings” that had started with Jeong Hana’s comment were spreading through the community as something of a meme.
Someone had suddenly dropped a discussion about healer performance into their laps.
Everyone wanted to jump on the topic and say something, but far too few of them actually played healers.
In the end, DPS players had started sharing stories and experiences about healers they’d met in dungeons or out in the field. The trend was spreading through the community.
“Ah, but I don’t want the people who play healers to get upset over this...”
Kang Minseo gave a playful shrug.
“Still, so many of you in the Low-Rank Squad are asking that I guess I have no choice. Shall we give it a try? Should we? And I’m a tank, you know! I get healed more than anyone!”
- let’s goooo!
- this time it’s a tank’s perspective, not a DPS player’s
- tank perspective sounds good lmao
- honestly, doesn’t it all feel the same to DPS no matter who’s healing? lol
- fr fr. Looks like the tank takes all the hits in dungeons anyway
Once Kang Minseo saw that chat was enjoying itself, she began to hum.
“Okay, then... I’ll start with whichever specializations come to mind!”
The moment she opened her mouth, she thought of Jeong Hana’s specialization, Holy Paladin, but swallowed the words.
There was one class most people would think of first when someone mentioned healers.
“Shall we start with priests? You know two of their three specializations are healers, right?”
- FR???
- Priest < this bitch was born to heal
- seriously?
- how fucking lazy do you have to be at making classes to give one two healer specs?
- oh, so that’s why Shadow Priest is a DPS?
“You know there’s Monastic Priest and Foresight Priest, right? I’ve met both, and they definitely have different flavors!”
「Anon donated 1,000 won」
[Minseo, Minseo, what the fuck do you mean, different flavors?]
“No, guys! They really are different! Monastic Priests are just healers. They cast a spell, and when it finishes, the heal comes whoosh and lands! It’s got a really classic flavor.”
- classic my ass
- lmaoooooo
- but yeah, that’s pretty much the definition of a healer
“Foresight Priests don’t seem to heal much. They give you shields instead... Oh, those shields are pretty good. Shame they disappear so quickly.”
Kang Minseo had a fairly high rank in Legend of League, so she had a decent understanding of games and a good feel for them.
「CheonggyecheonDiverKangMinseo donated 1,000 won」
[So which one’s better?]
“Come on, it’s not that simple. Neither felt overwhelmingly strong, like something everyone would agree was OP in Legend of League. More like they each have their pros and cons.”
- true. Otherwise everyone would play the shield one
- but is that the only difference?
- wait what? Those shields I get sometimes are from the healer?
“Next, Restoration Druids come to mind. I’m really sorry, but I’ve never met one of these animal friends.”
Kang Minseo had met various healers in more than twenty dungeon runs, but she had never encountered a single Restoration Druid.
“And honestly, even among people I know... Oh, guys, did you know? None of the streamers play druids. They must be total crap.”
- heard druids are fucking garbage
- you see more enemy druids than player druids
“And Restoration Shamans. Wow, I don’t know how these people heal, but... there’s just no flavor.”
Kang Minseo thought for a moment, then chuckled.
“Remember when I nearly died last time, guys? The person healing me then was a Restoration Shaman... Well, my gear was pretty bad back then, wasn’t it?”
Despite what she said, in her mind, Restoration Shamans were already healers she would rather not party with.
“Anyway... If I had to rank them, it’d look like this. Restoration Druid: can’t rate it! Restoration Shaman comes third! Foresight Priest comes second, and Monastic Priest takes first!”
Clap, clap, clap. Kang Minseo applauded and smiled.
- aren’t you missing one?
- Minseo, Minseo, why no paladin?
- why isn’t she rating paladins?
- wow, everyone treats Restoration Druids like mythical creatures lmao
- Stop slandering Restoration Shamans!!!
「QAutoWAutoEAutoYouFugginBitchRAuto donated 1,000 won」
[Minseo~ Minseo~ Why aren’t you rating Holy Paladins? Are they too fucking trash to even rate?]
“Come on, what are you all talking about?”
Kang Minseo, who had deliberately left them out, puffed out her chest and smiled as if she’d been waiting for that donation.
“Don’t you know? Holy Paladins were the best healers I’ve ever met! Seriously! That was the only time I ever experienced my health not dropping at all!”
- ??
- but everyone on the forums says they’re fucking trash
- this bitch has lost it
- Minseo, Minseo, please come to your senses
- fuuuck lmaoooo
“Honestly, I think you’re all saying that because you don’t really know...”
「Anon donated 1,000 won」
[Minseo~ Minseo~ Isn’t that just because the person who first took you into a dungeon was a paladin?]
“No, it isn’t! That person was just the best player! Seriously! And I’ve run with plenty of other paladins too, you know? They were all good! You have no idea how fast they fill your health bar!”
The streamer Kang Minseo.
After meeting Jeong Hana, she was becoming a fiercely protective Holy Paladin fan before she even realized it.
Footnotes:
“Auto” in QAutoWAutoEAutoYouFugginBitchRAuto means a basic attack. The username strings together Q, W, E, and R skills with attacks, slipping an insult into the combo.
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