DPS Moira is Real and it's Infuriating

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Normally I can walk off a bad match or two, but today has been something special. Loss after loss to something ridiculous, but the main theme is DPS Moira. I’m not talking someone who throws out an orb or two, I’m talking someone who will walk past this to get chip damage:
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(yes we all died, and no there was no attempt to heal any of us)

It didn’t happen once, not twice, but three games today. I checked and it wasn’t even the same person (they’ll remain nameless here). I’m convinced that these people are throwing. There’s really no excuse, I hate it.

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I’m in silver and I can convince you that they’re not throwing. They simply just think they are not throwing but they actually did (which is already dumb on their part). Plus they suck at playing Moira.

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That is a TOTAL lack of faith in their DPS driving that.

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Might as well went as a dps themselves shouldn’t they? Rather than using Moira’s pathetic excuse of a damage.

I always did this when my dps throw or just suck at their role even when I use Moira.

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They are. They fight when there is a fight, and they heal when there isn’t.
If they get more done than the DPS, then, they feel like they are doing well.

Sometimes they are right, and sometimes they are not.

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It proves that they don’t know how to play Moira at all lol.

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Maybe. That is a HARDER thing to answer.

The answers are less clear cut than you would expect.

I tried both tactics for a while, and my DPS Moira had a MONSTER win rate, my healing Moira less so.

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Or perhaps you all were taking massive damage and they ran out of healy juice so they were trying to recharge in between healing. I’ve had to do that, and yes, I got yelled at for “not healing”. DPS and tanks need to pay attention to how much damage they’re taking instead of just yelling at moira because they see her dpsing to recharge (and when orb is on CD).

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In the end it’s always based on perspective. They might think they did their best, but in another point of view they are trolling the team.

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You can see in the picture that they have full resource, I don’t think they dropped below 80% the entire game. I’m not blind.

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Yeah, but they ARE trying to win.

I did both for a while, and more heavily DPS Moira did better on win rates.

I was surprised. But the numbers were pretty huge.

Every target I killed was less damage I had to heal I guess.

But my DPS moira still healed, it was just aggressive as all hell.

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If you know what the yellow orbs do the healing resource is a non issue.

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Because at lower levels the dps is incredibly unreliable on both sides to the point a dps-ing support is much better than them. Believe me, I have carried an entire game by being a battle Mercy.

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Haven’t we all :wink:

Seriously, in Plat, DPS Moira worked a treat. I DID still heal though, but I was constantly providing lots of pressure.

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You’re better, I have met a Moira that seems to forget that her left click exist. I also met an Ana who seem to forget that she can heal.

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It’s true that you need to do damage to heal your team and I would do extra damage if I see a target with really low health, but a Moira priority should always be healing teammates. If they are ok, it’s ok to help do dps. My guess is some people picks Moira because a healer is needed and they are actually dps.

I hate this because I heal all I can as Moira and when I do dps to keep healing there’s always this 12 year old kid saying “stop dps Moira”. I need some dps to heal you, so calm down and do your homework kiddo.

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I didn’t say you were. Did you get that from a replay because I’m pretty sure that doesn’t show resource management. I could be wrong. And no, I didn’t say you were blind.

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Yeah. I think a lot of Moiras are too timid, but the ones who go for pressure just go too far.

I expect HOW DPS is more dps than most people would think.

But a lot of people think no DPS is the right about of DPS, which is really wrong.

I remapped damage beam to left click, and heal to right click on day one of playing her. So I always have to stop and think when people say “left click more!”…

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Yeah, I watched all the replays. I’m not going to accuse my healers based on suspicion alone.

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My point exactly. I also use Moira to pressure or kill the enemies, but only when my allies didn’t need immediate treatment.

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