I'm not just a Master FP healer. I'm also a Warzone (WZ)
healer.
As dramatic and gut-wrenching as my stories thusfar may
be, let me assure you: the latter is more dramatic and gut-wrenching than
the former. It is only in the warzone that the healer truly comprehends the
full gravity of his chosen role.
(Or "her". I generally use the
masculine pronoun for brevity and to avoid such silly constructions as
"him/her" or "himr". My comments about "healers" apply equally to a lady
healer).
No Heroic, no Flashpoint -- Veteran or Master -- no Operation
... no combat situation outside the Warzone can come close to the horrors
the healer will witness and personally experience there. Being a WZ healer
tests your patience, perseverence and the thickness of your skin like no
other activity in all of SWTOR. It's usually quite unpleasant.
Then
why do it?
I can only speak for myself. I do it because there is
nothing else for me. No other role is conscionable.
The Healer is the
heart of PvP. Everything turns on him. Other roles are mere auxiliaries.
Don't expect a Tank or DPSer to agree. But then, that's why they're
auxiliaries.
A WZ team is successful if ... it works best as a team.
(Duh). But it begins with understanding roles in the WZ.
And
those roles, reduced to the fewest words possible, are:
HEALERS: heal your team.
TANKS: protect your
healers.
DPS: nuke the enemy healers.
If your WZ team doesn't
understand those basic truths, then it matters not if you're perfect in
every other facet of teamwork -- you will fail in the Warzone.
With
the above as a starting point, you're ready to hear some WZ stories...