Healer tips

Hello
I want to post this for new healers, and people who wind up with hearlers on your team so everyone who plays. Anyone who wants to add tips please do.
Healers-
1. Do no harm
You are not on the team to win with damage, you are on the team to heal. Your main focus is to heal your team members. I personally carry a heavy weapon for backup or if I’m the last alive. When the battle is on I only use my healing.
2. Stay back
You are not the front line. Heal from the back of the pack never secluded yourself at the front. Don’t race to the front lines
3. Spam together
Keep your team together it will be easier to mass heal
4. Stick to your heavy hitters if everyone disperses
Find the boat that has the biggest hp/dps and stick with them. I have won a lot of matches just by sticking to one boat and making sure they stay afloat
5. Don’t chase speeders
Stick to shooters/defenders and the wary enforcer. If a speeder needs health he will come to you not the other way around
6. Tell your team who to target
You are in the back healing. You can see who needs to die first. Enemy healers, speeders should be the first on the list. Healers prolong the battle so should be eliminated first. Speeders are dangerous and usually target healers so watch out.
7. Use health items that heal you as well as your team mates.
Only use pulse/box until you have enough slots for other items. You can heal your teammates and yourself if need be remember a dead healer is useless.
Other team mates!
1. Dont hide behind your healers
Protect those that heal you. If you have to hide hide behind your defenders.
2. Speeders don’t use SOS if you are low health and won’t return to the healer.
New healers will try to race to you. If you need healing go to your healer not the other way around.
3. Stick together!
It’s easier to heal you
4. Listen to the healer
They will be in the back and may need help fighting off a speeder/assasin. If your healer is occupied then they can’t heal you.
5. Kill opposing healers
Your first target should be the enemy healer they will keep the other boats afloat. Should be a speeders first target
Remember this is for new healers or people who are struggling if you have any tips let me know!

 

My thoughts? I'm glad you're here posting noob stuff. Most of the posts here are more appropriate for higher level players. I started my own series for that reason. I agree with some of your points. Others I think are pretty sketchy.

1) Far be it from me to tell somehow else how to play their game. If they want to be a selfish fixer then I'm good with that.
2) Yes please... usually.
3) If you do that, I'll automatically class you as a noob and write you off as an asset to the team. Whatever strategy I execute will assume we don't have a fixer. I do that with anyone who spams at the beginning of the battle. It's a rule which has served me well. I started doing that once I noticed I seldom or never saw higher level players doing that and I began to think about why not.
4) Yes please. I pick the highest infamy, highest mark shooter.
5) Yes double please. Let me and the speeders deal with other speeders and enfos
6) Why? I much prefer the lead shooter to tell me who he's targeting so I can focus with him.
7) Huh? My favorite fixers were dual slot bolt users. They also routinely get the massive healing numbers. in theory, you shouldn't need all that much self-healing since if the rest of the team is doing their job nobody is going to be on you for very long. Part of that, though, is your own boat positioning and combat awareness.

Other People on the Fixer's team
1) If you're behind the healer then you're obviously not doing your job... any of your jobs.... unless your digging out a pesky speeder/enfo.
2) Yes. anyone who goes on a solo mission needs to have their own exit strategy, myself included. see my shooter post on this for the perspective from the other side.
3) Sort of. I like to see speeders and/or enfo's out in front. Brawlers need to loiter in the midfield to support them. Bombardment shooters are the backfield guys. Defenders need to be leading the charge when a charge happens. People do go on solo missions and that's not a bad thing if it's well thought out.
4) Absolutely... or even better... you ought to know that there's a red dot mixing it up with your fixer without needing to be told. You also ought to know where he is on the map at all times.
5) Absolutely not. Real combat unfolds dynamically. Often times the first target is whoever got nailed with a big torp and is therefor vulnerable. Actual targeting can only be done on the fly. The healer is, of course, a priority target but not so priority that it completely erases all the other battlefield conditions. I JUST finished a match where we took out two of their shooters before I could get in and do a suicide run on their fixer. We just couldn't get to him without weakening some of the defense. Then someone nailed him with a railgun and that was my moment to abandon the pack and make the kill. So spamming "Attack <fixer>" at the beginning of the battle is also a sure indicator of an inexperienced player and I'm likely to write them off.

 

Good info for typical fixer gameplay.

 

Wery many good words.

 

Wow FINALLY someone has some sense

 

Dont go full tape, just dont

 

Healer's work - to heal his team

 

Well, it's still good to attack sometimes, like when the enemies are in range and your fixing items are on cooldown.

 

Yes I agree.

 

I just advise the fixer guys not to forget their main role(fixing)

 

Yes, obviously focus on fixing as your primary priority, but fire off a shot or two when you have to chance.

 

When I am fixer I take my sniper with me usually and the only time I use it is to apply the final kill, otherwise I just focus on fixing and often end with 0 damage but win

 

I have sniper on my fixer as well, and only fire it when my repair items are on cool down

 

I’m considering carro at mk6, but I don’t think it’ll be benetial as a sole weapon because it has short range and I won’t be able to use it often. But could be a good backup at mk6

 

Also, at mk6, carro can be good since I wouldn’t have many chances to shoot it, I can concentrate more on healing than dealing damage.