healer balance is a complete joke right now and we are 2 months into the season
it’s clear it’s not going to be fixed and that this is their new way of “balancing” the meta, by making 2-3 healing specs viable and the rest dogwater
unlikely things will ever get better as they have only gotten worse over time, and it has really taken a toll on my mental in game
back to the osrs ironman i guess
Personally I have a better time when I’m playing multiple classes and specs. Trying to stick with one is pretty rough these days.
That said, if your mental is taking a hit from playing the game, then do what you need to do. Stepping away for a bit is never a bad option.
it really sucks. But every healer is capable of hitting at least 2400.
That being said, it isnt fun when you have to play 200% harder for 50% the results.
Blizz really needs to work on their balance. BM has been out of line for 2 weeks as well, which basically puts down all the other classes otherwise not coutnered by them.
At the end of it, this is a game, and if you arent having fun, then dont play it. But I suggest trying another spec for now. Maybe another healer other than rdruid.
I genuinely feel bad for people that play certain classes that are left in the gutter for extended periods of time. I don’t know why blizzard can’t do a burst of 2-3 weeks of micro tuning after a patch to adjust numbers and viability. This broad stroke method is terrible and extremely myopic.
If your mental is taking a hit, definitely quit.
Its factual that this game ending up in a good place is random.
If imbalance/deflation/lack of support is bugging you too much, literally quit. Thats what i did most of DF.
You can always try DPS. Im Playing Feral, WW, SP, Ele, Warrior and just for funzies, BM hunter. Trying to learn how to actually play rogue as well. Going to level my lock/DH soon and play those as well. Im just playing to play.
It’s fine to be unhappy and unsub if this isn’t what you want, but you’re sounding like a petulant child.
We’ve gotten balance changes every two weeks that have been small adjustments, which is EXACTLY what people asked for; consistent small tunings to buff/nerf outliers.
At the start you played pres/disc or you didn’t play at all. Since then, disc and pres got nerfs, and hpal, rdruid, mw, hpriest, and rshaman all got buffs.
Right now every healer is viable at basically every level of play outside of awc.
The top healers are for sure disc/mw/hpal/evoker and rshaman/rdruid/hpriest are definitely weaker, but not far behind.
It’s totally fair to complain about balance, but to be so ignorant as to act like only “2-3 specs are viable and the rest are dogwater” is nothing more than self-handicapping.
This is true and a good approach. Small, incremental adjustments.
The problem is the cycle. We will never reach a perfect state of balance and more people are becoming aware of that.
Besides, it’s also unprofessional how some of these new additions have been handled and shipped in a halfbaked way as a AAA studio when indie companies are doing better jobs with less resources. Wonder why no one talks about that.
Can you name one ‘indie company’ running an MMO with better PvP balance than WoW?
The two I tried recently (past 6 months or so) had all the same cruddy PvP imbalance they always have. When I think back further to all the other MMO’s with PvP I have tried, they are all the same, PvP balance-wise. They are also all worse than WoW balance-wise and gameplay-wise.
Annnnd I’m not certain any of those companies are really ‘indie companies’. Does any comapny in the ‘indie’ category run a popular MMO?
Look man the changes for rdruid are just moving things around on the talent tree, you think they are buffs but they really aren’t what the class needs right now. You wont see them any where near AWC.
Firebreath + scouring flame > every ability rdruid has up on all targets so why even play it, you may as well just AFK out in the starting room.
You are kidding yourself if you think rshaman rdruid hpriest is not far behind hahaha. go back to your dps spec.
im the “child” (for quitting a game that makes me feel like im wasting my time?) yet you cannot do research and compare the numbers of healers at or above 2400
look at disc and hpal then look at the rest and get back to me when you become literate
i would also love to know which resto druid changes were impactful at all that you’re referring to
you call 20-30% changes in ability scaling small and incremental? the balance patches have had major swings in performance this season, yet majority of healing specs have gone untouched
guild wars 2 arena is pretty well balanced but i havent played it in like a year because the population of plat+ players just isn’t there. they probably have 1/100th of the funding WoW has as well
Arena net kinda annouced GW3 as well. So that’s coming down the line. I think it’ll be pretty looking, but I have no idea what direction it will go, my gut tells me the wrong way for me, but /shrug who knows. GW2 is fun, I really like WvW, or did. But it’s also got balance problems. In some case far worse than wow. Smaller company though, so changes are slower.
The PvP forums there are the same as here lol. Maybe that is a consistent thing.
You’re whining to be whining. Want to quit then do it. Don’t talk about it, be about it.
I wasn’t whining at all I stated facts and the reason I was quitting. One would think the WoW team would want feedback before you quit, but I guess I’m delusional for assuming they read these forums.
If you wanna shill a multi billion dollar company and act like everything is fine then great, you can do that, but don’t expect me to not point out very important flaws.
Okay, bye… see you soon.
They read these forums here Eoj. You feedback is not wasted.
You can also do it in game: Game Menu::Support::Submit Feedback. It gets read there as well, but has to be smaller/tighter/less space.
You didn’t even state facts. The only 2 healers with rank 1 cutoffs not between 2400 and 2500 in shuffle are h priest and druid, which both obviously suck. Every angle that you look at this, hpal, disc, presy, and MW have strong representation with MW on the climb, only just seeing its big rework. and btw, looking at straight representation is just flawed logic. even if all 7 healers were perfectly balanced, we’d see a major skew towards the specs that people prefer over others. for example, evokers look stupid and less people play them just b.c of that.
I’m not stating facts by saying the game’s balance isn’t improving? Then why else are the queues more dead than ever and the playerbase is actively falling off a cliff?
2100 is top 99% atm (look at drustvar rating distribution chart if you dont believe me) and we are two months into the season. over half way into it.
the last entire expansion there have been 2 or 3 very dominant healing specs and the rest haven’t been able to compete, forcing healers to play fotm or be happy with smashing their heads against the wall as off meta specs putting in twice the effort for half the result
disc priest has TWENTY THREE (including alts) rank 1 spots at the moment. that’s how overplayed the spec is
They literally just reworked MW and brought it into the meta w/ the rework? They’ve been buffing healers all season and currently have 4 in very good spots.
Who cares? There are more of them because it is a popular spec. Their rank 1 cutoff is similar to the other solid healers, and their top rating is also similar.