Sane players know healers.
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Delivering what Arena is supposed to deliver, in a stand-alone environment wouldn’t be impossible, but it would take time and considerable resources to spin up.
I have some ideas myself, but the PvP dev team doesn’t, so this is what we have to work with.
I would say it isn’t very fun to noodle around until CDs come up, and I wouldn’t say its very fun for the win condition to be ‘stop other player from playing’, but healers can be killed, and making them too easy to kill would be sad and making them too tough to kill would break the whole system.
I think its a little dramatic to say DPS are held hostage by healers. I didn’t choose this for us, my brother. Its also pretty disheartening how quickly this discussion devolves to name calling and poo-flinging, but that’s to be expected for fans of a mini-game of a mini-game.
Sounds awful
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Bad news, thats how all successful pvp games works.
League has healers
League has supports, which supports allies just like a retribution. And the game is not balanced around they.
Seraphim, Sona, Nami, Soraka, etc are all healers
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Some of the supports are healers, but there’s no designated healthbar refiller like in wow.
They are supports, Sona does more damage than healing.
You can play without any of them just fine.
Yes, the game has no balance around them, you can play with pyke a full assassin and deal with a soraka just fine.
Maybe for about a week while everyone tries it out until they realize that class counters exist, as they should, and you pretty much know who wins before the gates open.
It looks like rock-paper-scissors with zero depth.
No she doesnt unless youre playing some full ap build for some fried reason
Bad news, this already happens without this mode.
All druids and monks know about this when they play against disc and prevok 
Fluent is really cringe
Do DPS want longer wait times? Because that’s what happens.
Yall be right back to complaining about it.
They should be buffing the healers people dont play so you dont see Disc and Pres all the time. Doesn’t DK still counter Priests? Those are everywhere.
its not an argument its a question. MMO pvp is a really niche unique gamemode that u cant rlly judge its success by comparing its popularity to pure pvp games like league. Just really dumb thought process there.
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I would say WoW does PvP pretty well considering it really doesn’t try very hard with probably about 90% of the development efforts being focused on PvE and other in-game activities.
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Mmo pvp has never become popular for a reason. It doesnt work outside a very small population of junkies. To call wow pvp a good pvp game when every expansion/season is just patch note players is fried
Its an unbalanced, inconsistent mess of a game
I like wow obviously cause it can be fun but most arena players literally only play wow and dont have perspective about balance in games
I mean you can tell how imbalanced pvp is based on what toons people are posting on per season lmao. Everyone rerolls, and ive seen 95% of everyone here fotm for rewards outside of covlol, amatox and nasj tbh
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Overwatch has healers.
afraid to quote me like a kid muttering something under his breath while walking away after being scolded so his mom can’t hear him
Humm yeah, i don’t know much about overwatch but i presume you can play without healers on your team?
But lets assume it is balanced around healers, the numbers are not good for this game. Its significantly far from PvP games that aren’t based on healers.
So if the game is not doing well it actually makes my argument stronger, another reason why games shouldn’t be balanced around healers.