Yeah being a healer is a not always, as in most of the time very ungrateful.
Remember reading a story from Everquest how Cleric(main healer) had turned down a raid and it got cancelled and they scorned the poor guy on their guild forums for not being there, he had some real life issues to deal with, like you know having kids and such, not to mention the raid was only for a dps the cleric would get nothing but stress out of it. So in EQ many clerics did burn out because of the constant demand on them always being there, while they where not a class that could solo to gain some xp on the side or grind AA but when they needed help, no one was around.
I have as a cleric myself been in groups back in the day in Everquest when Planes of power expansion was new, and we had an SK(shadow knight) tank in Plane of nightmare, i was like 50-51 and i had to spam heal the guy so i ran out of mana pretty much on each mob, the tank was just not cutting it, but did he get the blame? nope of course not it was me being a bad healer, i felt good that i kept the guy alive.
In EQ, my core group was RL friends, and that included a Warrior, Enchanter, and Cleric. and by real life friends, I mean my brother played the Enchanter, I was the Cleric.
The way I rolled, was I rolled with them, or no one. Didn't matter what anyone wanted, if they asked me to join a different group, the answer was always no, they were my core, we did explorers areas, dungeons, raids, planes, you name it, we did it together.
It was always funny, because, you know, we died from time to time, and sometimes we would get a rando who would join the group, and of course if things went wrong they would like most typical players try to blame me (The Cleric) for failing, but they learned very fast, if they didn't cut that out, they were going to be looking new group real quick.
Egotism is the anesthetic that dullens the pain of stupidity, this is why when I try to beat my head against the stupidity of other people, I only hurt myself.
Yeah back early 2000 ish people could laugh at dying, even when you lost xp, my experience in games like WoW if someone dies you might very well just get kicked.
And EQ back in the day man the chat was wild during the grinds, WoW was mostly at best 1 or 2 members saying Hi then silence.
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The way I rolled, was I rolled with them, or no one. Didn't matter what anyone wanted, if they asked me to join a different group, the answer was always no, they were my core, we did explorers areas, dungeons, raids, planes, you name it, we did it together.
It was always funny, because, you know, we died from time to time, and sometimes we would get a rando who would join the group, and of course if things went wrong they would like most typical players try to blame me (The Cleric) for failing, but they learned very fast, if they didn't cut that out, they were going to be looking new group real quick.