The thing that would solce solo shuffle queues is a different healer MMR!. Its extremely pubishing for healers and dont take into account how healers tend to go 3-3
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People act like this is an idiotic idea… and well , it is a idiotic idea but it might be the better alternative. Allowing a 2v2 RSS that can queue with or without healers would solve the healer shortage. problem is certain classes would be even more imbalanced. So pixk one. Imbalance or queue times
I rather have imbalanced classes and fast queue times than struggle through 3s, that has instantly high dampening and terrible gameplay i.e. people cleaving and breaking CC.
And mages, hunters, paladins not pressing block, turtle, bubble in the opener because their healer does not preheal in SS lol. SS it is way more important to prebuff because dampening stacks so fast and so high lol. Rated 2s, its not as important but sometimes can be.
Balance will never be achieved, the best that can be done is to shine a light on imbalance and hope that Blizzard will fix things.
In the meantime, we can ask for systems that will make imbalances less of an issue for players that play at the highest level of each spec. One way to do this is the following:
If the top 2% of players with the highest rating get Gladiator (or other title) today, then instead make it so:
- Only the top 1% (or 1.25%) of players with the highest rating get Gladiator, and additionally,
- The top 1% of players with the highest rating for each spec in the game get Gladiator as well.
(The additional 0.25% for top rated players absolutely is to account for some overlap that will occur between the two groups).
This should be the way it is for all rated PVP brackets.
Incentives to play non-fotm specs would be cool but this ain’t it. 
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Why not? I think it would be a solid idea so long as Elite is also a prerequisite to getting Gladiator so some specs cant just get it at like 2100.
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Incentives to play bad specs could be lower and glad on bad specs just turns into a game of who is most easily carried by real specs, like blood/assa with a fw or pres last season. 
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Yeah, but I feel like intentionally gravitating to certain partners is something like 95% of arena players are guilty of regardless of the spec they play.
At least with spec-based % titles we can never end up with a season where 40% of the Gladiators were Destro locks like in BFA S4. Spec-based % makes it extremely difficult for people to reroll FOTM for glad.
solo 2s no healer , 2 dps vs 2 dps would be the best.
2s should be a dps only bracket my personal thoughts love beating bads that play healer dps
random Rated 2’s would just be
Bad class synergy insta lose
Good class synergy insta win.
No fun in this. Just luck of the draw.
Random 3’s reduces this greatly especially in the homogen meta.
Imagine queing priest lock into war sham lmao.
Atleast in non-random 2’s you get the choice to play something good or not.
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Not sure I understood your word choice here: “Incentives to play bad specs could be lower.” This should have the opposite effect; incentivize playing non-meta (“bad”) specs.
And isn’t glad already a game of who gets carried by meta-specs? At least there would be more spec diversity in games.
Do you feel the same way about this for solo-queue content? Less ability to carry there.
just copy the old AT private server system and call it a day
6 round shuffle is stupid
OR, we could quit asking Blizzard for the 65th different form of content that dilutes the player pool, and instead just request better tuning?
Should also just delete 2s entirely, and make RSS a one round, random match 3v3 format.
Also combine the player pool, hot take. Or just take the standard rewards out of it.
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If it was double dps only, I would never q it and just play rated 2s. I love a challenge and longer games, facing healer+dk as frost mage+rogue.
I took high offense to this and wanted to cus you the heck out! Clearly you don’t understand the game 1 bit or are obviously joking! Terrible take! Rated 2s is the best game mode this game has.