I think it’s a bit of both tbh. Hpal has no real peels for itself and has next to no protection to getting murdered by dh or gripped and blasted by dk.
Freedom is obviously good, but between stubs and uptime of melee in general I think hpal is one of the best kill targets in the game.
Disc has passive big dr and void tendrils/aoe fear around a corner. Hpriest has the same and fly.
Rsham has static/root totem/lasso/knock/burrow and has totems to stabilize when off stun dr.
Rdruid has hots, infinite shifting, root and bash/clone for two separate drs of ccing DHs.
Pres has hover, rescue, and VE to kite as well as renewing blaze and 2 walls.
100% this. I lost around 300 pts last night just getting back 2 back double dh lobbies. Its literally impossible to prevent them from killing your healer
Every utility i had only made em tunnel my healer harder
Oh don’t get me wrong. I’m in no way saying hpala is good or anything. I just wanted to point out that DH is so broken it doesn’t matter which healer you play. Even as shaman or druid you can’t get rid of them for long since they have multiple ways of dispelling roots themselves. Every time an enemy DH decided to just mindlessly train my healer all i could do was watch in terror how said healer gets eaten alive. Pala being the one dying the fastest obviously.
was fighting the number 2 awc EU team playing their NA alts last night (DH ele rdruid)
Was beating them every game but then they figured out i was an hpal and just started chasing me in circles around the map and killing me in 2 minutes with nothing i could do about it. No essence break no prim wave and id still get 70-0d in a fel eruption xd.
I only had 25% vers tho which probably had something to do with it.
Started playing some dh/war with friends. 11/12 losses were to a DH (or ret/war/fw) just running at and killing our healer. Pally just dies to melee, it’s wild.
Honestly this is how I feel as moonkin most of the games. I never actually die to cds; it’s just a random piss stun go and i die 80-0 with mediocre crit RNG. Oh, and i have 41% verse btw.
On the flip side when I play DH im just passively sitting stuns and blurring out where I’d normally have to trinket and bear form or die. I can always trinket aggro and save glimpse to avoid cc so i can stay aggro. It’s wild.
It’s insane to me that dh has passive 15% magic dr, 5% physical dr, and mail armor during immo aura (which is 50-80% uptime depending on build) AND immo aura self dispels. Unreal.
Na a DH can train an hpal in ss 100% of the round (I have 2 paladins in r1 range in ss atm) and they will win the game. If they do it vs any other healer while on my team they lose and I’m just behind. I’m scared of quing my higher Hpals because if I get a double DH lobby which there is a 50% chance of getting ill just tank.
Like i said, i wanted in no way say that pala is good. I just wanted to say that DH is so broken that they are able to eat every healer. Some live longer, sure, but they will die eventually too. Hpala is the one dying the fastest though.