Playing skirms, maybe 10 or so and every single one has depleted both healers mana.
This could very well be due to low gear/bad players not able to secure a kill window, but also hoping it’s not some damp fest season 1 either.
Idk, but I’m about to trauma dump my feelings on my wife if I have to fight frost mage/insert second caster dps/rdruid or pres all season.
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“Honey, I know you told me you were hoping I’d last longer, so I wouldn’t let myself finish until this mage+aff+rdruid dies… I’ve bit off more than I can chew and It’s been three days, please send help”.
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Game is closer to damp than not atm (assuming people are geared).
We really gotta be reverting that healer 90s cd back to 2 minutes.
Game slower than dragonflight season 1 that is for sure. Too bad I thought dragonflight season 1 was very fun
Deep dampening means PvP is in a good spot and most classes are balanced.
I’m gunna start just reporting these posts as trolling, I never report but enough is enough.
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lol what? The skirms I’ve played so far have been absolute nuke fests. Most games last less than 30 seconds.
Sure, but who wants to sit in an arena match essentially waiting for dampening to kick in? Much more enjoyable to either smash them or get smashed in the first 2 minutes and queue again.
I mean you shouldn’t be sitting there but that is the problem with Arena it doesn’t work for this genre which is why dampening exist in the first place. When Arena is in deep dampening that means PvP is in a great spot in the rest of the game.
Besides 7-10 min matches feel better means some counterplay happened and the better team won. Instead of someone died in an opener you had no chance of stopping.
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This stops happening past 1400. I don’t think most people enjoy watching heals go down to nothing or run oom. Doesn’t feel good to win or lose like that.
There’s a happy medium between 20 second games and 10 minute games.
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posts like these are why we need a laugh emoji.
if things stay the way the are unholy will be giga broken because nobody is mana barring healers better than unholy.
add in aff lock you will experience true damp + rot.
The happy medium is 7-10 min games. 5 mins is almost too fast and 15 mins is too long.
If the game last only 5 mins then someone likely made a mistake. Which is fine.
We weren’t able to test regular 3s on beta. It was only shuffle available. It felt very dampening based in the beginning but got better in the end. There are still overtuned healer though like pres and disc, but also shaman seems be not too far behing.
Interesting side note: Games get usually a lot faster when you try to get some swaps onto the healer, or depending on your comp and the enemy healer class, tunneling him down. If you let him free cast doing PvE stuff, healing output seems crazy high!
At least as long as you aren’t fighting Affli + another good DPS like Fury, Frost Mage, etc. Affli is just really broken op currently, so when you stack him up with someone who has already good kill potential, games become very fast! They do unhealable damage when played correctly.
No. It usually means that healer are too strong, because damage isn’t high enough to kill something without deep dampening, even when doing cc setups etc.
It also means that classes with the most non healing/absorb based defense (walls, immunities, max cc) will habe a huge advantage over those specs with a defense based around it, as their defense isn’t affected by dampening.
That is the opposite of balance!