How To Make Yourself an Overall Better Player II

Learn Your Class, His Abilities and How He Works

           The most important part to being good at a game is learning how your class works and how other classes work. Once you learn your class you'll be better killing both players and helping your group accomplish tasks. To become good at your class you will need to learn all of your abilities and learn the right time to use them.

           To give you an example, say you're a healer. You have a group of 5 and you're crawling through some "part-way" difficult dungeon. You're the only one that is able to cast healing spells, so if you don't heal no one could step in and help. Whenever someone goes below 100% you should immediatly cast your HoT (Heal over Time).

           Then you need to gauge when the tank is taking damage for when you start channeling your main heal. Say your big heal takes 3 seconds to cast and you know within 3 seconds the tank drops 10% in HP. You don't want to start channeling this heal when he is at 60%, because he will end up at 50%.

A core rule is never let the tank drop to 50% or below, always try to keep him above 50%.

           Also on the same note, if you know the tank is good enough to fight a mob for 10seconds until he needs a heal, you can feel free to throw a DoT or two on the mob. (If DoT's are available to you). Learning what you can use at what time is very important to make yourself better.

           On the same note after you learn your class, It is important that you learn the other classes in the game. Learning the other classes will allow you to become better at your class. If it's a pvp game, learning the other class will help you defend against him. Or if it's a PvE driven game, learning the other classes will help you know their strengths and weaknesses. Which you can use your abilities to make up for them.

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