I’m struggling really badly with trying to get into Solo shuffle as DPS. When I heal, the que isn’t bad, usually it’s sub 1 minute. But I’ve been trying to climb on my fire mage and the queues have been really bad. Right now I’m looking at an ETA 25 minutes for a match. It’s my first match of the day, but not my first match of the season (I know those queue times are usually high.)
Is there a reason my que time is awful or is Solo Shuffle just high queue time right now?
it’s all dps queues and it’s especially pronounced for popular specs because it tries to prevent you from getting a lobby with someone else of the same spec
it’s like this for dps because it’s a poorly designed game mode when it comes to healer enjoyment due to lack of agency (way better this xpac than df for some reason though) and insane dampening ramp which means that a healer who counters you and/or is way stronger just wins by game design once you run out of healing because he doesn’t. it also gets frustrating trying to heal zugzug melee, locks who don’t use port, mages who block at 70% when you’re not in CC, etc.
fwiw I don’t mind shuffle but I’m also incapable of getting mad at wow unless I’m playing rsham shuff (STAND IN EARTHEN JUST ONCE PLS). I totally get how other healers have no desire to queue it though
My devastation evoker que into shuffle under 2 min last night, but my poor evoker is only in 1300s rating
Healers are leaving in droves once again because they didnt follow through on promises of fixing the wild imbalance or MMR gains/losses to the lobby. What makes it even worse is your dps will almost never do anything for you. Can’t press buttons. Defensive? Never or overlap every time. Line of sight you every chance they get or have no clue how to kite or pull you mid map to eat 90 ccs. You have zero control.
Once you get to 2k (currently) boom your getting dispels, sanc, tremor, correct defensive, everything’s on script correct and on point.
It seriously makes anyone’s blood boil trying to heal a fotm frost mage against any mm hunter unholy or any lock spec right now when they can’t not mess up. I was on pres last night doing 2M hps for 30 seconds and still lost. Not because I wanted to but because I HAD to, had no globals for offense or cc because everyone is brain dead.
Your forced to trinket meaningless things and form massively bad habits that don’t transfer to any other game mode to make up for others mistakes, massively impacting real skill level if your not familiar with how things actually work.
I have no clue how anyone even a seasoned healer that doesn’t know better would ever continue doing this crap to get through the sludge.
Not to mention life long dps players have no idea how dampening feels in shuffle and how terrible it is that your 1m heal halfway into a round only does 300k and “heal???” Toxic talk. Nobody with any sort of self respect would deal with this.
Healing needs to be fixed and it damn well better be with the 20th anniversary patch or we’re going to hit season 2 with hour+ long ques standard and 4 healers left playing.
Healer never dies but they seem cant keep you alive. I never see any healer dies in shuffle anymore…
actually hadn’t thought about this but it’s so true. if I play shuffle for an extended period without doing any real 3s during that time I feel the twitchiness that I have to play with in shuffle negatively impact my play every time
I do think it helps some with triage healing though because of the dampening ramp
Depends 2k+ q’s take forever outside of primetime. Around 18ish tho q’s are super fast.