Feels way more difficult to climb rating. Also can we get a prio Q token for dps alts? Like every healing round you get a token or somthin? Can’t stand healing these mongo warriors who like to run around pillars on the other side of the map. get stunned, die, and then blame healer.
That’s how it has always been, and the entire reason no one wants to heal that mess. 3/3 typically gets you nothing at all, just a big fat waste of time. Doesn’t matter if it happened because you’re clawing your wins out evenly matched with the opponent healer or because some dps is deadweight and dying every time. You don’t get to take rating from anyone except the other healer.
DPS tokens don’t solve anything. It would only encourage more hardstuck 1200 rating healers slumming it out and make higher rating dps queues take 2 hours if you aren’t exploiting it. Healing itself needs to be fixed.
Honestly it just needs to be one game.
It solves the leaver problem. Solves the 3/3 problem. And i think que times would be ultimately unaffected or improved as healers wont have to waste 6 games not moving mmr for a bad dps (or a good one)
And when the healer is better than me i get to only lose to him once instead of 6 times.
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I appreciate them trying with the conquest, it aint enough. It may have been enough to let healers be fully geared for their troubles after week 2. Maybe not. Queue times are gonna skyrocket even more soon, solo shuffle is a good idea but needs tweaking, the dps need to punished more than the trying their best healers.
Healers trying their absolute hearts out, only for DPS to forget how to kill the minute they get on your team. You keep everyone at 75% to full health for 5+ minutes (time yourself how long a game lasts from the top rated streamers in SOLO SHUFFLE not normal ranked 3v3) and lose.
I got 1600 the first week, dropped from there on in pure frustration.
Healers should gain rating for going 3/3. Probably close to half the time it’s immediately apparent within like 1min of the first game that you’re going to go 3/3 just because one DPS isnt as good and everyone just piles on them every game. I mean, I would too obviously, everyone else wants to win, but it’s pretty frustrating from a healing perspective knowing that you’re about to waste 20min~ of your life for little to no benefit
As a healer, I like this. If I lose 1 game because my DPS is bad, that is fine with me. Move on to the next game. This is the change.
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Dragonflight season 3 showed how to fix it but Blozzard doesn’t have the stones to go through with it. During season 3 for a brief period Disc priests actually had the damage to be a threat. If a DPS stood out in a bad position with 50%-75% HP the disc priest could solo swap them, and burst them down.
This actually gave the healer agency in ending the match beyond just hoping and praying the DPS did something relevant before dampening made it impossible to heal vs even the most garbage of players.
If you want healers to participate in the game mode you must give them some level of control over the outcome. You can’t make them completely dependent upon the DPS to end games.
This is an incredibly frustrating experience for sure, but it also goes both ways because you get just as many wins when it happens to the other team as well.
I agree 100% with this. What are your suggestions? Personally I like ALL healers having meaningful damage, but it needs to be within reason. Currently dragon and disc offer WAY too much damage relative to health pools, which is concerning when a healer can 50-0 better than most dps. However, I think if you bring those outliers down and buff hpal/rsham/mw damage (and mana), healing becomes a lot more balanced.
More chances for rating gain when going 3-3. That’s the primary reason healing SS sucks so bad, it’s a lot of pressure and work for a big fat nothing. Let it contribute seasonal inflation, who cares.
I have always wanted interrupts to be on a DR to make healing less miserable but it seems like that will never happen.
Delete SS. The format blows. Solo queue 3s would be way better to heal.
Just don’t queue it, they’ll eventually have to fix it or it’ll die.