Some mischeif is definitely afoot. They are either legitimately embarrassed or are going down the “we are being brigaded” line.
Either way they deserve the negative feedback, and messing with the thread just makes it look worse. If anyone at Blizzard is listening, the right thing to do here is share more information about your direction for the future of our classes and the meta. By this point it should be clear to you why the community is displeased.
These kinds of thoughts are what got us to this garbage meta…
Gee because playing skillfully is bad for the game right? Na let’s just keep mindlessly spamming clones and polies all game.
Can someone explain to me why the class with two healing specs (priests) had zero representation among both specs during the previous tournaments and yet received no buffs? And why is the insanely overturned physical damage especially against cloth wearers not being addressed?
Also, lightly nerfing lifebloom isn’t enough, they need across the board nerfs.
You are right, I think they should remove Nourish, do a blanket nerf on all heals by 40%, increase the cyclone cost by 150% and remove bear form. That’s how they would fix the game.
And after all those nerfs Druid’s would still be more viable than priests, that’s how horrible the game is balanced right now.
Tell me about it, before all this came about I’ve seen people complaining about Rdruids. Which was funny because back before the mana nerf I’ve seem healers (Monks & Paladins to be specific) not fall below %98 mana the whole game into dampening while I just get drained, even worse fighting dh’s. You can barely use your whole tool kit without going oom now.
If changes are going to be made, then I think my demographic has dibbs on the “REQUIRES IMMEDIATE ATTENTION” label.
I know this change is a response to arena problems but the fact that only one class had a few screws wrenched and there was no indication of any future changes makes me irritated to the point where I question even putting this in the PvP forum and not the Druid section…
It’s pretty clear that our definitions of “playing skillfully” are very different.
Why was this unstickied guys? This is useful for the community to better understand the balancing being made to this game!
Somehow Activision-Blizzard is able to consistently worsen the game.This whole mana regen nerf subsequently followed by specific healing nerfs in this case it happens to be rdruids detriments the game further.Instead of making 5 horrid changes consecutively they could of just individually (buffed) increased other healers’ HPS.They need devs’ from past expansions to replace their BfA one’s quickly because this is almost becoming irreparable tuning at this point.It’s going to take more than hot fixes now to come close to even considering fixing healing, mana, and damage proportions.
According to Arenamate, above 2k rating (using this rating just to get a good number of players because the rating is not inflated)
There are:
Considering all the healing specs (excluding Holy Priests for obvious reasons), only Resto Shamans are under represented and only by a 2% difference (total).
https://www.arenamate.net/?region=&realm=&rating=2000&ladder=3v3
So … do you want to revisit your statement about disc priests not being viable?
Yeah, people are just biased and have a weird disc priest fetish.Discs aren’t far worse than what 99% of what the arena forum community think.You do see a fair amount of disc priests queuing accurate to the description you just presented.
The fact that you use representation numbers for viability is sad…
If something is not viable on pvp, like holy priests , MM hunters and FDKs, for example, you can tell by their representation (which is stupid low atm)
Although represntation may not be a 100% accurate to measure viability, it still shows that a given class/spec is actually viable or not because it is being played at high rated games.
Putting a bunch of spells on the gcd was also a wow april fools joke from like 06…
What you just did right there is a prime example of what blizzard (and yourself) are doing that is wrong. Just looking at the numbers and not actually playing the game. Not understanding the mechanics. Just lookin at the numbers is all. Not seeing or understanding how matches feel or play as other classes.
Although, it is understandable comming from someone who is playing a clearley overtuned spec right now. Makes sense Why you would have blinders on right now.
Underperforming doesn’t mean unviable. That’s all I said. Disc not being viable would be as if Disc Priests were on the same position as of Holy Priests, which they clearly aren’t.
Let’s do a hypothetical so you understand why posting numbers like that is pointless.
Let’s say there are 10,000 Disc priests and only 2000 Resto druids. Would your numbers posted still be relevant to the point you’re trying to make? Obviously not.
Factor in comp diversity and you’ll notice a problem really quickly.