...I am inspired.... *outs down his sword and pick up a medicine bag*

Well, I have only played Ragnarok Online properly out of all MMOs, but i got never yelled or flamed at. More like, got compliments. Sure it was a stressful job but I liked it, there was always something new to learn to improve yourself being a better supportive priest.

 Some of the things that i can say about whats annoying playing a healer is. . . .  .

 1st off in alot of games healers needs a party to level up and ussaly most of the parties you get are people who are just ready to greed all the loot that comes from mob's like you can somehow live and keep going without pots to replinish mp or whatever you need to use heals and protection spells.

 2nd if you do raids its really messed up to get into a raid where they think you alone is gonna keep everyone healed and I am talking about raids with so many people it takes probly really about 3 healers to keep them alive working together.

 3rd people tend to not want to let you into parties becaseu at lower levels your not one of the best healers ever and I have seen people of same level just laugh at me and get like a healer of higher standard to heal them one thats way byond thier levels.

 Honestly right now playing a healer in WoW is probly the worst I have tryed heck they really make you need  a party and when you cant get any your just stuck dieing alot to slowly make your way to the next level.

sometimes i feel srry for healers specially when ppl chase after them screaming buffs ever second of the game xD

You forget to mention something which I want to say here. About healer, usually people will think of job that belongs to girls to play, but please there are boys who also likes to play healer alright? I say this for those who has badmouthed about healer job especially when a boy who likes to play as healer. I myself likes to play as a healer because I dont really like fighting much, and if want to fight I like to use magic, but I prefer heal and buff with some magic skill, so healer is the best for me. But I suffer to play as a healer because of few things: (1) Most of the mmo healer is fixed as 'female' character. (2) Some shithead just think of people who play as healer is sissy. (3) Most people just never appreciate healer. They need us when they need it, and when dont, they can simply pawn us and laugh at us. So result is I never realy enjoy playing as healer and thus makes me never realy enjoy playing a mmo, because at the end either I will be flamed a gay or sissy playing as a female healer when I honestly tell them Im a guy, or people just likes to bully me for pk me.

My main job is a whm in FF XI. Yes it is stressful sometimes especially if you are partying with no or have a red mage that doesn't no Refresh to help with the mp consumpiton. I also play a Doc on Dream of Mirror and it gets stressful when the merc.  (tank) in your party has a sucky build.

With white mage if you are high enough to cast reraise on yourself if you die during the fight But anyways thanks for sticking up for us healers

I agree with the one who write it, I play healer all the time.

yea that's true no healer means death in most cases group wise. like when i was playing city of heroes we had a team of 6 blasters and no defender (healer) lol we died

To be honest. . . I find it funny when people blame the healer because it was more then likely not their fault, if it was then everyone knows it instantly  in my exp.  Sometimes the tank loses aggro. .the mob 1 shots a dps. .thats not the healers fault, the tank was stupid, or the dps wasn't watching threat. . . things that I would consider the healers fault is: Just plain not healing (yes. . . this has happened to me), running out of mana or whichever type of reasource it takes to heal extremely quick with no real effect(over healing like crazy. .) theres more thats happened but it is late and I can't exactly remember everything lol.   But anyway if the healer is forgotton at any time your with a bad group I'd say.

Before archer/hunter became my first choice in whatever mmorpg, I used to roleplay healer in Priston Tale, and MapleStory. Yes it was a stress job to protect your teammates. I believe in the current most successful MMORPG World of Warcraft, the pressure and challenge the priest faces are the biggest, I have heard a lot of those healing players being yelled and blamed just because of a tiny mistake occurs. Well that's why I quit healer class, I mean hardcore players are always requested to be full control of the character and misplay can't be tolerated. Since I realize I'm not that type, how could I countinue to bear the stress and save those ass who probably refuse to reclaim their misunderstandings.

hihihi almost everyone does forget about healers., they are even taken for granted ^_^

i salute all of the healers/support out there! keep up the good work! hihihi