Give advice, not posting a vod, 2100exp on healers in 3s.
1400 in shuffle feels harder than 2100 in 3s in the past.
Use cds early, if you are not the target I’d say push for cc on enemy healer.
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I am literally not going to push for Cc, I already cant do enough hps to keep people alive.
I do use CDs early, does not matter because rounds almost never end in under 2 minutes and that means I lose from not having cds left.
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My lobbies are 1-5 2-4 3-3 1-5 0-6 3-3 4-2 1-5 1-5 4-2
The lobbies are getting harder to heal the lower my rating drops, every match is lower than the last and I gain no rating for any of the positive matches in there.
I know why I don’t gain for them, do not bother explaining it.
Started the matches at 1870, now at 1400 and it keeps getting harder to heal.
this is like going to a doctor because someone busted your head open in a street fight but then you tell them “Im not letting you touch me”
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Probably true, still not posting one though.
Yeah, these games just keep getting harder and harder to heal this is insane.
Need advice ASAP, game quickly becoming not worth playing because all my time feels wasted.
It is turning into nothing but me getting run down from gate opening, then I die between my first and second forb and can’t ever get away to try to heal.
Yeah, I am just going 0-6 or 1-5 at 1300 now and everything feels way harder to heal compared to when I was 1700-1800.
I am really just not seeing the point in trying to heal in shuffle unless you were already a very high rated healer in past seasons, this is just not worth the effort.
I think Hpals are using some sort of melee build now, if that’s not what you’re doing that could be the issue.
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I am playing that build, and I am just getting run down by 1300CR dps players before second Forb.
Everyone is doing more damage than the people at 1800, nothing gets stopped, people get 100% uptime on me.
Every round they just run at me with near 100% uptime, none of their damage gets stopped and I die before I can use a second bop or bubble.
I really wish the inflated rating of shuffle applied to everyone evenly, it really does not seem to apply to people who were 2.1k on healers or lower in the past. I only choose that number because it is my personal exp.
If it was actually inflated for everyone, I would at least be able to maintain 1400.
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Still really needing advice, games are not getting any easier as rating drops even though they should.
why is your time wasted? you’re in a bracket you find really challenging. that’s the point of rated play. if you want easy you need to keep losing until you’re clearly better than the others around you. when that happens you will inevitably go back up until it’s challenging again though.
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The time feels wasted because the matches at 1400 are harder than the ones at 1900, there is no consistency in what is happening.
There is no sense of improvement, no clear feedback that what I am doing is right or wrong, everything just feels random.
I have to rotate my CDs so much faster now at these lower ratings that I just lose really early on. People are all just PvE damaging with 100% uptime so damage is higher, people are not pressing defensives anymore, losing me more etc.
Everything about this feels horrible, I try to work to improve and get my rating up but all I get is randomly tanking from almost 1900 to 1300 and the matches increase in difficulty.
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i don’t think they have increased in difficulty as you never got past 1900. you would have kept gaining rating if that were the case.
if you were 1900 for weeks then all the sudden dropped to 1200 i could see it as being a random drop maybe. you are just finding your rating right now. it’s probably a good bit lower than what you are at now as you say it’s very hard.
The only way that I should deserve to be a lot lower than I already am, considering I have 2100 past exp on healers in 3s, would be that all the healers who used to be sub1500 quit the game because its too hard now.
I could absolutely see that being the case, but it still makes this feel entirely unrewarding and like a waste of time.
premades are different. you play a specific comp with synergy and could be carried(or be doing the carrying) by communication or partners.
playing to see slow improvement over time could be worth it for you, but if you were expecting 2k because of premades then it could be a waste.
Yes, but to argue that I went from being able to heal 2.1 in 3s to not being able to stay above 1k in shuffle is insane.
I think the problem is that the entire extreme-low end of healing fell out and now it had to drag other people down to fill those rating ranges.
Depending on how close you were to that range, it will effect you more or less, maybe not even noticeable if you are above a certain skill level.
Let’s also not forget the fact that I watched my warrior friend discord stream to 2k. He had never done arena before in his life and clicks all his spells.
I promise you that he is not better than me at PvP, but he gets rewarded much more than me. That is not me saying that I am amazing, just that there are clear issues with this mode.
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warrior rating is not the same as healer rating. he would not be 2k on a healer clicking his spells. 1300 on hpally is not as bad as 1300 on warrior.
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And this is why there are serious issues with the mode, there is nothing being done to try to keep class, role, or spec around generally the same “difficulty” or “skill level” to achieve a certain reward.
I feel like the effort being put in needs to be more consistent for everyone, right now it just feels horrible to be playing at ratings so much lower than I always was in the past.
Playing at lower ratings AND it feels more difficult, both of those things just make me wonder why even bother with it.
I literally can’t even go for CC anymore at this rating, if I even think about it someone on my team will die.
I feel like my ability to try to play my spec is being taken away more and more as my rating drops.
I can’t even tell if I can sit a CC now or not, I can see my team has defensives but do I know if they are going to use them? No, absolutely I do not know anymore, but at 1800 I knew I could safely sit a lot of CC.
Now I have to instantly trinket the CC, assuming no one will press anything and it feels so bad to trinket a sap out of the gate knowing you will lose either way.
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I feel like if you have rough placement games as a healer it’s really easy to get stuck in the 1400 hell hole. I am by no means a pro healer, was able to hit 1800 on priest this season and have 2100xp as a healer. But my pres evoker is hard stuck at like 1400. and I tanked my priest to around 1600 and it just feels impossible to get anywhere or move up in rating. My friend who is a pretty good healer is having the same issue.
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