Non-healers are healing way too much.
Why are guardian druids way too good? They can heal better than a healer, with after the wild fire and the instant regrowth full heal, its way too much.
Same with Warlocks, their healing is crazy still even with nerfs. Why should I warlock heal so much?
DH/Warrior/Rogue they have way too much self healing also. Their damage isn’t the problem, its the self healing on a pure DPS class.
This game has dedicated healers for a reason. It’s a core game play mechanic, there is no reason why full DPS and Tanks should heal so much. It’s just bad game play mechanics.
100% agree you know the balance it completely broken when even some hybrids such as boomkins or elemental shamans have less healing on demand and consistent healing than sub rogues, fury warriors, Demon Hunters, Warlocks. The game is a broken mess and all pure dps self healing and some hybrids like shadowpriest need to have their self healing imo cut by 30 to 50% minimum. I shouldn’t be able to visibly watch a demon hunter mash his head on the keyboard while his health bar shoots up doing his one two rotation of damage.
Since we all pushed back so hard on borrowed power systems ion finally caved and gave up on his ludicrous ideology of parasitic systems but now he’s all about the hybrid player! Maybe phasing out dedicated roles like full time healers or tanks. Maybe everyone can just kinda tank heal and dps in a five man group.
He has really really stupid vision when it comes to stuff like this. Don’t expect it to change if he has his mind set on more hybrid play.
If you want to see healing out of control go que up for battlegrounds. You will see tanks doing more damage AND heals in the charts. It’s so sickening. Welcome to ions new vision of wow
believe it or not on my geared pvp demo lock the only people who have openly attacked me are warriors and dks, and a few guardian druids. no mages or casters have attacked me. only melee.
For a while, players were complaining that there weren’t enough healers in random bgs and arenas. Many classes complained that they couldn’t do much to keep themselves topped off so fights felt too “snowbally” for their tastes. So it seems blizzard’s solution is to buff self healing significantly to stretch out kill times to allow players to play the game more.
After a while, they will nerf the self healing enough that people are going to complain about the lack of healers again. Then they will either buff healers again, which will cause players to whine that healers are too difficult to take down, or they will buff self healing again, leading us this point.
It’s just a cycle of complaints and solutions and it has happened many times before. Not only that, it will happen again, most likely a time or two before this xpac is over. Your argument is valid but it is far from new.
Funny part too is the caster damage specs of healers have terrible self healing. Looking at Elemental shaman, Shadow priests. Where you can empty your entire mana pool and not heal to full over several GCDs, yet pure damage can. Mind blowing when you think about it