Hey, everyone!
Decided to go to the Drustva dot com, to check current Solo Shuffle state, selected tab: FOTM (Flavor of the month), and filtered by:
- Bracket: 2100-2399 (think this rating reflects reality as much as possible, because it is filled with players who have high skill, and most importantly, there are not so few of them in this rank atm).
- Role: All.
And you know what’s interesting? The EU and US regions exist in different planes, they are like 2 different universes with different people, and look how interesting are lines of priests, they are reflected equally on two different graphs, it’s amazing! Switch the region, and the lines of priests practically does not change!
Players are like liquid, they fill the space if there is some kind of loophole.
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Its more interesting that when disc priest got the nerf bat holy took over. According to that site this switch happened within 1 day of the nerfs being implemented. This is how fast people re-roll and are willing to chase the meta if allowed.
The second thing that is interesting IMO is disc priests still have 579 toons in the 2100-2399 range, but holy only has 307 between this range as of yesterday in NA. Does this mean holy isn’t as OP as disc was at the beginning of the season? From that site it looks like disc priest participation has almost clawed back to being the most popular healer again…
It’s kinda different because it’s just 2 different priest healer specs. You just click a button and you can play the other spec. It’s different if say mage is op and then next week lock is now op. People actually have to level/ gear if they wanna reroll so it isn’t as drastic.
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Yes but you would think a lot of people would have a comfort pick and not reroll that fast.
The nerfs to Disc weren’t even that drastic in my opinion, but on drustvar the numbers suggest a 50% drop(from 50% participation to 25% in 2 days) of Disc participation at 2100 level.
The graphs also suggest more and more meta chasing the higher the the rank you are too.
Disc and holy are pretty similar and can use the exact same set of gear.
Also priest is the only class in the game that has 2 healing specs
People seem to overlook this when interpreting data. It would make sense that the priest class is twice as played
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Maybe people just wanted to try something different, since disc has been one of the best healers all xpac while this is the first time holy was viable.
Holy is a different skillset.
In the dynamics of PVP (and shuffle in general), Disc has a much easier playstyle, adds a third DPS to the game if you know what you’re doing, has better and more defensives, and generally plays better into dampening.
Even if Holy is insane, as long as disc is viable, disc is still a stronger spec.
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I want this sentence to be stickied any time anyone anywhere ever interprets data.