Hey y’all, just thought with the general vibe of the forums, I would share what I am enjoying about PVP.
First of all, started DF as an Arcane Mage, and had a solid time pushing Solo 1800, despite the queue times. I met a group of friends along the way in LFG, and eventually bit the bullet and became the healer for the group, running Fistweaver.
This was lots of fun, and ‘facerolled’ my way to 2400 by the end of the season in solos, and duelist in 2s.
Long story short, I now have a fistweaver, casterweaver, and hpriest in 10.1 that I have been playing and enjoying (despite there being different stat priorities for the same spec between 3s and solos due to dampening).
Not only is there always demand for my presence when my friends are online, there are also insta solo queues when I’m on and they’re not. I have variety of specs for different comps and situations, and no downtime.
This is pleasant, and I salute all you DPS queuers, for now that I know what it’s like to be able to play whenever I play, I would be hard pressed to go back.
TLDR: Heal, it’s fun and you’ll make the most of your leisure time
Yeah. something like aff lock will just get dunked on if placed in a lobby with 2 hunters and a warrior and even in lobbies where it does well it has minimal peels to prevent its team from feeding. It’s also not very good against certain healers like rsham with curse dispel and fat passive aoe healing or mw with gigachad hps and revival.
Meanwhile something like current mw or start of expansion pre nerf rdruid will excel in every single situation.
maybe i’m using the wrong word then, it sounds more like viability than agency. my understanding of being an s tier healer spec is that it positions you to win any winnable games. but the fundamental remains that a dps player can create winnable games 1v2 if both healers are bots, while even the best healer spec struggles to move the needle when all the dps are bots.
what i wanted to ask is how frustrating it was for this guy-and anyone else who swapped to healing, sure-to deal with being unable to actually kill enemy players and win games manually, or whether it was frustrating at all.
I mean every class can succeed, it’s just that if setting up an alt takes literally less than a day and rewards are account-wide it seems silly to play the bad or underwhelming thing relative to the spec that’s just 10-30% ahead of the alternatives.
I think 30% might be a bit of an exaggeration. A practiced player on his main will be more valuable than a reroll on a class that’s 10% stronger. It’s the herd mentality that’s making people fail, not their class.
Current mw is at least 30%-50% superior to hpal in a solo shuffle environment.
Source: I have healed games up to 94% damp on mw
On Current hpal it is mathematically impossible to heal through damage somewhere during the 50-65% dampening mark depending on the matchups
Brain is quite literally skillcapped on hpal and even he stopped queueing up on his Hpal after going back to back to back 3-3 in his solo shuffle lobbies.
Yeah, healer imbalance really is quite detrimental to shuffle where people just can’t even be bothered queuing up on some classes because there’s no point.
