I was really excited about the prospects of healing solo shuffle. Unless you are playing meta (which is to say just Prevoker), you aren’t going to see very much success as a non-high tier player. It’s a decent match vs any other healer, but I’ll lose EVERY TIME to an Evoker. I suspect that is largely due to a healing Evoker out dpsing a third of the dps classes, while out healing every other healer, and CC and mobility for days. WoW’s days of providing a remotely balanced PVP experience are clearly over.
If the choice is between having a new class or just another class the devs can’t seem to balance…I would rather not have new classes in the future, and I think a LOT of other people feel that way.
Restoration Druid seems comparable.
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What rating are you at? In my range of 1500 to 1800 there are plenty of beatable prevokers. Maybe at higher ratings the prevokers are unbeatable though idk.
rdrood /evocer its 2 dogs who need nerf
Just had one gecko gap the other so hard that in the sixth round he just walked in and died to cleave. 
I am a pretty average player, never go pass 2k, came back at end of BFA and start first Arena.
Yesterday, I decided to play my disc in SS. As an average player, I am so surprise how well it went vs resto and evoker. Every game wasn’t as easy as my evoker, but it seems like I have enough mana to last the whole game. And my disc is already at 17xx, maybe luck, maybe I met not so great healers, but who knows. And I often forgot I have PI too, lol!!!
My point is, Evoker/druid is good, less effort, but I think for <1800 bracket, most healers are capable.
If we’re talking solo shuffle specifially Hpal is right up there with prevoker and rdruid, even 2 discs in top 100 (out of all 10 healers there).
The meta is a bit different and can favour weaker classes due to the nature of RSS, same as mongo self setup dps classes being very strong there whereas they might not be as strong in regular 3’s.