I know there's some vitriol around here about the game, but Guild Wars 2 does that. People are generally responsible for their own healing. Support characters, while often featuring healing above and beyond that, are there more for control, buffing and debuffing. Just thought I'd mention it.
Though playing support there is in no wise as satisfying as it has been here.
Yeah, been getting into GW2 lately (my highest character is only 31 though) and playing a support-oriented character is solid, though nowhere as impressive as CoH. My engineer has a full suite of buffs, debuffs, DoT effects, and summonable pets (mostly turrets but not exclusively), but A: the buff/debuff effects are far less prominent than something like a dark/dark defender dropping a whole group of enemies to the tohit floor or an Empathy superteam turning each other into unstoppable tankmages (Green Machine FTW!); and B: teaming in general is less emphasized in GW2 than in CoH, due to the vast majority of the content being free-roaming open-world stuff, where (in general) groups of players form in seconds to respond to world events and disperse just as quickly.
It's a fun game in general, but I don't think anything on the market has as much emphasis or power in the hands of non-heal-based support characters as CoH ever did.
Rule number six of an empathy defender is NEVER underestimate a blaster's ability to die. I don't care if he has CM, Fort, both RAs, bubbles (both FF and Sonic), and is fighting next to a Storm defender with hurricane on. If there is a way to die in that situation, the blaster will find it.
Though playing support there is in no wise as satisfying as it has been here.
It's a fun game in general, but I don't think anything on the market has as much emphasis or power in the hands of non-heal-based support characters as CoH ever did.
Rule number six of an empathy defender is NEVER underestimate a blaster's ability to die. I don't care if he has CM, Fort, both RAs, bubbles (both FF and Sonic), and is fighting next to a Storm defender with hurricane on. If there is a way to die in that situation, the blaster will find it.