[Espy]

Yeah. I hated playing healer mainly until high school. Then, I guess a change of heart came with volunteering hours on end with various disadvantaged groups and at a museum, and I started almost exclusively playing healer with assassin as my backup. I guess...I kind of made helping other people my lifelong goal.

See, what's funny is, my first RPG was Maplestory. My first char there was a mage. Aaaand then I lost it due to 1.) not having played MMORPGs before and 2.) being confused about servers. So I made a second character, who was a thief, because I was ten and didn't remember jack shit. And I stuck with the thief class in all MMORPGs until high school, but I did play around with warrior and then a bit of mage and archer.

I think the strongest pull to healer was in Aion, where I got to the point that I just could NOT solo anymore as an assassin and was being really tired or everyone else having more time and more soloability and hence being at higher levels. I hated falling behind, and still do on occasion. So I swapped servers to prevent anyone from following me (though my ex ended up playing with me and /still/ leveled faster) and started playing as a heavy armor healer, the class with the highest soloability.

I don't really do mages on account of not liking flashy spells. And they just generally have too many spells at hand. Priest have just a few spells, but slow and steady wins the race. I don't die often.