Multiglad resto shaman and currently over 2400 in shuffle. Its really not fun having to play with low rated 1400 DPS.
I disliked shuffle already due to the zugzug playstyle, but after tuesdays changes I really dont see myself playing it anymore. Its pretty terrible to push and then have to play with people that have no idea how to do their rotation.
For the most part as a healer, you don’t have the ability to do game changing damage while maintaining HPS due to how fast dampening ramps up. This means you are dependent on your DPS actually knowing how to play. When you’re matched with low rated played that cant even press defensives or use half their abilities (Dh players only reverse their own roots) it is extremely demoralizing. Why play healer if you’re just going to be punished for it every match? Blizzard tried to make dps queues shorter, but I think that this will have the opposite effect and healers will just not play.
It’s not fun losing because your teammates are trolling you.
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As a wise man once delicately put it,
your insignia was yummy
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I agree OP. It’s actually fried that their solution was to butcher healers even more when it was already harder and more frustrating to climb as heals than DPS.
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The opposite is happening as well.
had two 1500 healers in a 2200 match. Not fun for anyone involved. =/
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Great post- do you think a strong change for healers would be to just push the dampening back deeper into the clock?
Still keep the game time at 5-6 minutes through progressive dampening, but dont let it ramp up so fast so soon
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The solution is to revert the MMR change to how it was previously. Why push rating if you’re going to be forced to play with people that will actively tank you?
You think Lebron wants to keep dunking on highschoolers?
Just win your games and you play with better players. Like 100 games will get 2700+. Your teammates troll you just as much as your opponents so it all works out fine. This is soloque in a nutshell. You lose games you dont deserve to lose sometimes but also win games you dont deserve to win for the same reason.
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It feels a bit RNG if the DPS troll both healers equally, or if one healer gets screwed because they were trolled more often.
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I’m actually dumbfounded that blizzard so widely expanded the mmr range that healers can now que into. It especially sucks as a healer but it sucks as support classes that need good healers to survive.
Like queueing as a caster dps into a loby of 300 cr healers with 1900cr dps, all melee dps except for the caster, that caster is going to get absolutely dumpstered and lose a ton of cr for 0 reason other than Blizzard altered healer matchmaking and put healers way out of place in a lobby they dont belong.
This just happened to me queing ele, literally just casually queing the toon around 2k cr and get a lobby with all melee dps, a priest who doesnt life swap and an evoker who doesn’t emerald communion or wall because they’re both low CR and still learning. As the only caster in the match with healers that quite literally don’t press buttons I got absolutely shredded every round. It’s just bad gameplay.
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Lmao 
Well some of us healers are hard stuck here so roll up your sleeves and get to work.
If you’re so good you should have no problem handling it.
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You won the placement match lottery and now you refuse to do the work?
Nope, the number of healers is shrinking by the day and you need to pay back the free CR you got.
It’s mind boggling that there has been no comment from Blizzard about this. There is no way this was an intentional change that someone thought through and decided was good.
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So what I am hearing is that its even less worth the pain as a healer in RSS now?
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Seems they buffed the drop on loot boxes for healers though.
So this explains why it seems this week healers just can’t heal at all or one healer goes 5 or 6.
low/mid tier blues. It’s actually pretty hard to dig out of this level.
Just started healing last week and now I’m getting such massive MMR difference lobbies it’s impossible to tell if I’m improving or not. Crazy idea I guess but I want to play with people at my skill level. Instead we now have an MMR system that’s trying to rival Apex Legends in terms of awfulness.
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^ This. Games are more enjoyable when everyone is around the same MMR.
I wonder how bad DPS queue times would be if they reverted the new healer matchmaking system.
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It’s not only bad for healers, I was in an 1800 lobby just before except for whatever reason one of the healers was like 300 rating, now all the dos got 3 wins and the high rated healer got 6 wins, it’s extremely frustating being in a lobby with 1 decent healer and 1 terribad one for like 30 minutes to get no rating change, I’d honestly rather lose rating and it not a huge waste of time because one healer doesn’t know what theyre doing. Also how does a 300 rated person even get into a 1800 lobby? with atleast me having a decent mmr it shouldn’t be possible I don’t get it
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Yep. Went through this last night. Was awful. RSS has done nothing good for the game other than give people who couldn’t bother networking and forming actual teams an inflated bracket to get time sensitive rewards they shouldn’t be getting in the first place.
WoW is a team based game. We shouldn’t be catering to the people who can’t bother finding one.
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