playing arenas this season as healer is not fun and i’m always the one to blame if we lose, its like my DPS partners never do anything wrong. i’m 100% a pug player/no comms which makes me wonder if i should quit trying to push some decent rating at this point. Any other healer out there is feeling the same way? or its just me lol
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let me guess dps running out of earthen and claiming they’re not getting heals
yes, also insta trinketing a fear when i have tremor totem down 
This meta can be rather unforgiving as it currently stands, but will probably slow down at least a little when people gear out in about another 6 weeks.
Id suggest trying to jump in comms with people, to better coordinate defensive cds.
If you really wanna stick wiht no comms just talking about before the game when you want to trade defensives. Something like hey mr. warrior, when that mage combusts I want you to parry high, or fear into blot it, something like that.
I would say another tip for no voice lfg push would be to be very aware of what your partners are doing so you also dont overlap defensives with them, try to cc when they want to do goes too. Something like omni CD is really nice or ability team tracker.
Also really try not to lap dispel with stops on maledict if u really dont have to. Can be super killer if you do.
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Surprisingly I’ve yet to encounter any blame gaming out of LFG, though I’m sure as many of my losses have been my fault as it’s been the DPS’s. But as I’ve read DPS sit in queue for an hour to find a healer, just kick them and get someone less ragey. You’ll always get apps.
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When the meta is fast it’s way more important for dps to avoid damage
Tell em to pound sand
The only time I want to spank a healer is when they reset a dr with <5 seconds left on something for no reason
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This is kind of how its felt since I returned back in Legion.
Larry there’s something I need to tell you before you ask me to do arena again.
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If you need help, find us a teammate and I’ll get you to a minimum of 1600. I help people who are at a huge disadvantage all the time. aka. people stuck because of gear or item level. I can help you weekly. I don’t take 3v3 seriously and it’s a throw-away bracket to me. My rating in it is determined by random korthia or green geared people with bad W/L ratio. As long as they get geared in the process of playing, Idc. Add Lazarus#1542 if you really need a good teammate.
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I’ve noticed this as one of the most important aspects this meta. If your dps isn’t doing something to prevent damage, you will get ran over. At low rating, regardless if your pillar humping, or playing aggro, the enemy team will use cooldowns. I’ve found juke go’ing and simply playing the avoid game until you can make a hole in their defense. Forcing dispels is the move for offensive pressure right now. When you maledict is of utmost importance. Just because the enemy team dispelled doesn’t necessarily mean just blow maledict either. You need to be perceptive to if they can kite/wall through it. If they can. Hold off and try to force another dispel soon when things are looking more in your favor.
The teammates I’ve climbed most well with, have been teammates who know when to retreat, or when to swap interrupt. Those are winning the games for me right now. A lot of bad dps players assume you’re supposed to be able to heal them through everything (mostly 2’s perspective, not 3’s) when in reality, a good pillar retreat or interrupt can stop any threat or wasted mana.
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If you say “oopsies” or “ope” when you do it it’s fine.
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A lot of times people use defensives to get away instead of using them to go offensive and flip the pressure
Notice that too
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thanks for the offer but im at 2100 in both brackets lol.
Also, i dont have issues using comms, its usually my partners who refuse to join a discord server. Just had a game playing with a rogue from LFG and a spriest, rogue added me on btag, we win 2 games, we lose to jungle and he insta leave the group AND deletes me from my btag. baffling
play ancestral vigor if your teammates aren’t using earthen totem. it’s actually really good in itself.
I had the same thing happen with a Hunter last week on my alt. We won 5 in a row, lose our 6th and he bails and removes me–after he sent me the btag to begin with. xD People are super weird.
I’m not sure, as Rsham and even my MW I’ve pugged with no coms to 2300. The only super frustrating thing to play against is Jungle because eventually I’ll get CCd. That’s just washed up to counter.
I’d just heal melee cleaves, specifically Ret/Warrior, DH/Warrior, TSG, and Hunter/Ret. Healing casters is rough. Most WWs are trash below 2200 and just flop because they use their defensives incorrectly. I suck at healing. It’s pretty doable though to get rating.
im talking about 3’s, 2’s is a meme bracket and i dont take it any serious lol. Healing 3’s this season is just awful
ruh roh! arena forum’s arent gonna like this, Mikey!
LFG is complete aids and filled with braindeads that have inflated egos don’t let it get to you man.
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Sorry you had that experience man. A lot of people echo your sentiments.
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