About queue times… We know that solo queue need more active healers to lower it’s queue time. I think a good approach would be to give healers a good incentive. The actual incentive isn’t good enough to make healers queue. I doubt gold would change anything. I was thinking and talking to some friends about a possible new token that should be account bound and not usable by the actual char. This token would award a small amount (small bonus over the amount already earned in matches) of honor and/or conquest.
This way healers would keep playing to gear another chars (another healer or DPS) and maybe would encourage another players to queue as healers, if possible. Am I missing something or it should be tested?
But why is conquest/honour the solution to making the game enjoyable to play.
smh
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There will never be an incentive to heal shuffle that tops instant queues. The second best incentive to that is your class actually being fun to play and actually strong.(spoiler alert hpal and hpriest are trash).
Currently shuffle is just a pve contest where you dont really get rewarded for landing clutch cc chains because people aren’t likely to capitalize on it. Whoever does the best job at healing through deep damp usually wins the lobby(MW and rdruids do this better than any other healer)
I have actually enjoyed(for the most part) shuffling on my MW and Rsham so far. Holy paladin on the other hand has been a complete nightmare to try and play just losing every game to mana or dampening past 45% making me do less hps than a spriest pressing flash heal while the mw can still top people in 3-4 globals. Also the CC nerfs are very noticeable and landing hoj reps doesn’t usually ever make a difference unless the other healer is completely clueless and I land it off cooldown
The most important aspect of healing arenas is communicating with your team on how to rotate defensives based on what you have or don’t have to save them and where to position and when to cross cc which is hard to do with shuffle randos that won’t ever use the outdated/not known about in game voice tool with inflated egos from their shuffle cr.
Solo shuffle needs to be removed next expansion and be replaced with a 5v5 or 4v4 objective based game mode that isnt team deathmatch and have a superior comms system to what we have now
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lol god no, I don’t want some /afk player in my solo shuffle BG
Devs need to figure out wtf to do about the healer shortage. Incentives? 50% off monthly sub? Better mogs? Exclusive titles? Super Shiny Gold plated carrot on a diamond-laced stick?
but I would leave it to the DEVS not some random in a small pool-size forums pool to dictate what they should do
hire a phycologist to see how to manipulate healers to queue more
LMFAO
The devs are clueless beyond belief
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I don’t know if I would want a honor/conquest token for DPS alts. Even if I snapped my fingers and my DPS toon is now fully conquest geared, I have 0 experience with it. I don’t know if I actually like playing that DPS spec in PvP. I might discover that I just completely wasted the token.
It seems more logical to gradually gear up my DPS toon as I learn how to play the spec in PvP.
Personally, these are the things that would encourage me to heal more RSS games:
- An obscene amount of gold. Although I’m not really sure what I’d do with the gold. So, this isn’t a great incentive.
- CR/MMR for 3-3 games so I feel like I’m still making progress towards the various rewards. I’m not stuck in Elo Hades. Average and below average healers would have a better chance at finishing the elite set.
- Crazy awesome xmog.
- Crazy awesome mount.
- Crazy awesome toy.
- Crazy awesome battle pet.
- Something else that’s crazy awesome.
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Ye and you’ll go crazy after a few games
neee no one need healers, a 2v2 shuffle with dps would be just fine, they just have tu tune the class, but that is never gona happen so … yeah let the game die slowly
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Maybe an honor/conquest token that was sellable on the AH?
It will take more than that.
50 minute que. Garbage system lol.
Play a healer.
How’s that rework looking? I may resurrect my Hpal for some alt fun if it’s actually competitive.
Also, I’d do a decent amount of arena for a free Flag of Ownership, and Burt Reynold’s boudoir pics.
All conveniently located in black market auction house containers… Sadly they are never going to link one to the other.
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Actually looks very promising.
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A select few classes would absolutely dominate a 2v2 queue without a healer, and every other class would stop playing.
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As for the rest of the thread: As someone who heals RSS on several classes, I want gold.
It’s hard to gather gold while being just a pvper. That would actually incentivize me to queue more despite the frustration that is the act of healing RSS.
Also of note: Tokens for random old mounts / mogs / etc.
I’d be down for gold as well… preferably not some insulting amount that they’ll inevitably deem fitting. I have to wonder if gold alone would actually motivate me though. Outside of the precog piece and enchants, I don’t really use gold anymore. Guess I could keep an eye out on the BMAH again, but they’d never give an amount of gold even remotely comparable to the amount people drop on those items.
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Yeah, the “healer reward” we get now with a whopping ONE worthless Mark of Honor is frankly insulting. Wouldn’t be surprised if they did the same thing with gold.
“13 gold 27 silver” Wow, thanks for everything.
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sure JimmyButler will fix it