Dear lord are healers broken right now. Just did a BG where 4 of us were piling on 1 resto shaman without any help and was healing through it like it was a joke. we’d get him to around 30% - full heal. Get him back down again. Full heal. Went on for about 6 minutes.
Battleground after that, Resto Druid literally dragging 5-6 people trying to kill him with zero chance of dying (was on our team). I was just watching in awe as how he’d pop out, roll Hots, jump to bear form, and just not die for well over a minute.
How in the world is this possible?! Is this the worst PvP has even been in regards to healer balance? It sure feels like it. Right now I’m considering unsubbing for the first time since WoD. I just can’t find a single thing in this game worth doing. Is everything other than raiding just trash right now? Is it just me? Am I crazy. I’m enjoying ESO about a thousand times more right now than WoW.
I wish stunning and interrupts worked as people on the forums say they do. If it was that simple healers would be on here ranting about how hard it is to stay alive in pvp.
A good healer can drag several players easily around a map, a bad healer will melt with a couple dps on them.
Idk man, my healing classes are the only classes I feel comfortable hopping into BGs under-geared with. My Rdruid was hopping into randoms with 100k HP and doing GREAT. Can’t do that with dps classes. I’m no healing god, but it takes a high skill cap to take down a decent healer solo.
yep. they r literally gods in BGs. this is why in arenas they had to add the dampening mechanic… otherwise the games would literally never end, because one heal is like 3 times as potent as 1 damage attack.
and its worse than its ever been now because most healers dont even have to cast, they just use all instants and are god mode the whole game.
it also doesnt help when ur team mates only do 1k dps. u need good team mates who know how to actually do damage and stun/ purge / etc.
I guarantee you guys didn’t land a single kick. Classes like rogue or dk can solo a healer if they land a kick into a lengthy stun. I have done it on my dk a few times and I’ve had it done to me by good rogues.
Most of the time a healer can’t be 1v1d but that shouldn’t be a thing anyways.
Lol did you watch the arena tourney at all? Literally nobody plays disc for example because the enemy team runs at them all game long and they can’t live even with people peeling for them.
A good rogue mage in 3s will swap to a healer literally all the time and kill them in a kidney.
The actual reason every arena game goes to dampening is the only classes you see have ungodly defensive cool downs. If you simply listen to the announcers they explain the strength of dk is live lording but dampening is their weakness due to self healing reduction. Half the games the healers spend 10s drinking because they’re oom from stupid Mana changes and their dps still haven’t died because the defensive CDs are out of control.
Seriously buff all damage by 5%, that’s it, and gut everyone’s defensive CDs. Then you’ll see stuff die.
I guarantee you’re wrong. We most certainly interrupted hard casts, but there are so many damage mitigations and instant heals that it’s irrelevant. I can 1v1 bad healers too, but a competent healer (not even great) can drag at least 3-4 people along almost indefinitely. Its madness.
Also, to say healers shouldn’t be able to be 1v1’d is just pure ignorance. Healers should need support to survive and people to peel for them. The Developers in this game once understood that.
Are you serious? if healers could be 1v1d they would be useless. And you should know by now that druids mostly have instant casts, use your stuns, etc. DKs have PLENTY of tools to deal with healers and especially rogues.
Healers you want to interrupt are monks, paladins, and priests. For everyone else interrupts aren’t as effective. (Because of their instants) Stop mashing buttons and try to figure out how to deal with healers rather than calling for them to all be killable 1v1 which is completely stupid.
Lol dude you didn’t land a kick I guarantee it. I juke bad dps for days in bgs. Everyone kicks the first fake cast. Everyone.
If I don’t juke a single kick from any of the viable dps classes I can die very easily 1v1. I also killed healers on my dk 1v1 all day long in season 1. Dks have two kicks for heaven’s sake!??! Bad dps will be bad. That goes for specs or players
Seriously go watch the tourney. Healers aren’t healing at all. Disc is literally unviable because 2dps can ride them even with peels and they die or oom so fast trying to heal themselves.
Bad dps will be bad
Lol dude your ignorance is showing. If a single dps could kill a healer easily the spec would be non existent and useless. Bgs are 7 dps and 3 healers. It would be smarter to bring 10 self healing dks
Unless i’m severely outgeared, I can hold my own and keep myself alive with feral affinity 1v1. As long as i’m not fighting a Unholy DK or Fury warrior.
I’ve seen different classes running healer going cc immune before even hitting 50% health, so I doubt op isn’t obeying the mechanics, even post mana regeneration nerf.
I have a max level toon of every class. I play every role. I have Knight-Captain title from Classic. I’ve been PvPing since 2005. I know how to interrupt and interrupt well. I cleared Naxx 40 when it was current. Keep telling me how bad I am. I’m certainly not the best, but I am more than competent. I was keybinding when 95% of the playerbase was still keyboard turning.
Keep laughing and mocking, but anyone who PvP’d in Classic or TBC understood the old rock/paper/scissors system of PvP just worked better for an MMO. The attempt to makes its PvP into an esport has been a complete failure that has lead to homogenization of roles and classes.
This is pretty hard to believe if I do say so myself. If you all were doing it right, that healer would of been dead.
There were four of you on one healer? Four people on 1 person typically spells doom for said individual. Im assuming he was very well geared where as I’m assuming your teammates were not. On top of that I’m willing to bet that none of you thought to attempt to interrupt him and if you did, he probably juked your interrupts.
CC/chain stunning typically does the trick in against most healers.
So sadly this has nothing to do with the healer being OP. Has everything to do with you and your teammates not playing against him properly.
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