Yes its been mentioned before but I’ll say it again. We need AI healers. Try to work them to be performing about the rating they are at. Have REAL healers vs each other only and not AI so this doesn’t complicate their games. When ques flooded with dps just lob 4 of them in with 2 random AI healers and let them go at it and play the game like we want.
Waiting 20mins to 2hrs for the less then 10 people who want to heal in this game is terrible. And no I don’t wanna heal. I did it for a ton of rounds and hit 2200 almost last season first timing it. Its just not my playstyle nor is it the majority of this games.
Expecting people to drop their DPS playstyles to heal is stupid. You either like healing or you don’t. People aren’t subbing to log in to retail PVP and play a class/spec they don’t want for faster que times or community service. Its an MMO we wanna play what we like.
Most dps just wanna kill each other, we don’t care if the healer is real or AI they are battletanks anyway and nigh immortal played right no one is gunning for them.
There is no other change that will improve que times. Healer is a VERY specific playstyle that some people either enjoy and want to do but the majority do not, just like tanking its very unpopular and the vast majority prefer DPS. No one wants to fall on the sword and go play one so implement AI already and accept the L. No amount of class design and rework will ever convince people to heal period.
Shorter trinkets did and sweeping CC nerfs didnt convince anyone to play it.
Immortal battletanks that will spank any dps 1v1 did not.
Healer playstyle is unappealing to the majority and everyone wants to play DPS and kill each other and this will never change.
People blame shuffle for killing 3’s but all it did was shine a light on how bad dps players are / how unfun healing is, and allowed healers to switch to dps when the sunk cost fallacy was gone
Blame it on healer mmr or lack of agency but the fact is at higher ratings healers are just better players than melee dps/hunters and it’s way more competitive and there’s no point in doing it.
The healing rotations are A LOT of spammy button mashing too on healer, 3’s is even worse because games go so long. Legit the only people who actually enjoy it are pve players who just want to chill and socialize without being judged on the meters in raids too much.
The streamers only continue to heal for the sake of their awc team but any chance they get to dps they are having more fun. Healing just sucks.
6 versions of wow currently available, another mode that offers rating with extreme ease in comparison. People getting suspended for calling people bad. There’s a lot going wrong for this game. They could implement this but a simpler fix they could add with zero effort is allowing healers to be abusive in chat. I will main healer, tuckerb will be reinstated permanently, a lot of great things come from this.
They have given every bandaid possible. In ANY mmo and i’ve played MMO since everquest and all kinds of korean ones and american ones.
People DO NOT LIKE HEALING. You either play an MMO to heal, tank or dps.
Expecting people to abandon what they enjoy to HEAL as a community service is preposterous, its like asking someone to stop being a carnivore and be a vegan for the good of the planet.
You either like it and its your playstyle or it aint. People out here flaming people or making snarky comments like hurr durr u go heal and it will be fast ques. Blizzard could offer 1,000 gold per shuffle round played for 6k a lobby and most of us still would not login to sit there and do that.
nah just make it so people who heal shuffle lobbies get a currency that allows them to skip the line for faster queues as dps. As much as some ppl would cry about “bEinG foRcEd tO hEaL” this is what every role based ranked pvp game does and would actually fix queue times instantly.
I would actually just quit WoW if that happened. Not out of protest or being mad, but I just don’t like healing and if I had to I’d walk away. How many others are like me? Hard to say but I don’t feel like I’m unique in that regard.
Bro this is a fried take and you know it. This isn’t a FPS or Moba. Asking someone to LEVEL, GEAR and LEARN to heal an a MMO and commit time to matches just to be able to play your main is rediculous.
Put in the AI, let us play with the 5-10 real healers when they are queing and keep AI out of their matches and while they are busy in rounds let us go play with AI so we can go back to killing each other.
Healers are stupid at this point. I don’t even interact with them besides trying to kick or CC them. They are walking juggernauts that are basically immortal objects. They can kill any dps in the game in any form of instance PVP or open world singlehandedly with little to no effort.
I could care less if its a real human or AI healing me since the result is same. I can’t kill or punish it without 90%+ dampening and my only option is to CC or kick it so i can kill the other DPS.
Who cares if its a human piloting it or not. The only time that thing is dying is with horrendous reaction time and decision making like walking into the middle of an arms war and unholy dk and getting blanketed and stunned to death with no trinket defensives or escapes
WoW PVP does not work this way. WoWs combat system is designed around the holy trinity, tank, dps, healer.
As a mage player I can promise you queing into a mage paired with most DPS will be an absolutely miserable experience for the receiving team. Poly spammed and 2v1’d and you’ll get 0 chance to press ur buttons if its a rogue with a mage before your gutted.
WoW pvp requires a healer. No one is asking for double DPS vs double dps shuffles. Or triple dps vs triple dps shuffles.
Its about the quality of the game. Games with bad/new healers are poor quality much like prot pals. An AI doing the basics and performing at or near the rating its queing into is an acceptable solution.
Healers are giga broken god mode PVP characters already no DPS cares if its AI or human piloted wont notice a diffy.
