Hello,
I am a 20 year WoW veteran player. I have achieved several AOTC’s, high end ratings in PvP and have bought several items from Bnet, through the shop.
I believe if you want to improve this game, increase subscriber count, and retain players, you would be wise to read and listen, to what I have to say…
I think you are failing to retain players, because PvP is so terrible for healers.
-Why?
I play several healers this PvP season alone, and with conquest tokens, honor warband transfers, and Prized Equipment Chests… So essentially playing, and suffering to heal in solo shuffles allows me to send alts full gear and conquest to get up to level in PvP.
The problem is, Im sick of gearing and learning new alts. Maybe the goal for @Blizzard, is to make players want to play, enjoy and master every alt, and ‘meta’ class, race, spec, talents, gear… Only to try and stay relevant in ratings. It seems far fetched though.
I can’t tell anymore if I am legitimately playing in ranked solo shuffles against real players, or if there is some outlier, bot, who im supposed to help win, in order to see some rating increase.
It is incredibly devastating, to play several healers, around 1800-2000 mmr, and CR, to spend several DAYS, if not WEEKS climbing rankings. Just for there to be potentially hidden ‘tech’, or nerfs, stealth hot fixes, to stay at a decent and respectable rating in PvP.
I swear, this game is ‘cooked’. There is either a lot of RMT win trading happening in PvP ranked solo shuffles, or healing is absolutely fried.
I have spent thousands of dollars on this game. Bnet shop items, wow tokens, expansions, character level boosts, faction, race changes, etc…
Im genuinely afraid that if @Blizzard, doesn’t help the healer community, the ones playing the ‘Call to Arms: Healer’ for PvP ranked solo shuffles, this game is going to continue to decline and lose new players who may be interested.
All I am asking, is that you stop devastating your healers in ranked solo shuffle arenas on their rating… Im fully geared, gemmed, enchanted, vision helm enchanted, etc. Im a 1800-2k xp this season healer. I am literally telling you that, this game is fried if you don’t stop completely devastating healer ratings in solo shuffles.
I win a fraction of the amount of points I can win from a single lobby. Ive dropped 300 points in 4 games, from a rating that took me weeks of playing and mastering to accomplish. Do you see the problem and why this will not retain players? If you can’t see it. Look at twitch streamer viewership as live streaming continues to evolve. People are fascinated with the best and most popular games, it interests them to play and try it out. If a new player buys the game, subscribes for 1 month, boosts a character, tries PvP as a healer and hates it, and never comes back, the game will continue to decline.
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