STILL tinkering with classes when the DC’ing bug has been talked about on the forums ad infinitum.
What makes it worse is that despite all the posts, there hasn’t been a blue post about it from Blizzard.
Holly talked up Ambassadors recently, but what we really need is a sense of being listened to by Blizzard, not players with fancy titles. Though, god help you if you want that job, straddling the fence between frustrated players and reticent developers.
Healer balance needs urgent attention for Midnight. Right now, Restoration Druid clearly outperfom the rest of the healers in Mythic+. Live ranking data consistently shows Resto Druids dominating high keys thanks to their strong sustained healing, high damage, extreme mobility, and efficient mana usage. Meanwhile, Holy Priest sits near the bottom, with Discipline Priest after many ridiculous nerfs which did not make sense. Disc also struggling to keep up now, creating a noticeable gap between Druids and the rest of the healer roster.
One of the biggest problems players repeatedly call out is that Holy Priest suffers from severe mana and sustainability issues that other healers, especially Restoration Druids, simply do not face. While Druids can maintain high HPS for long periods with little risk of running out of mana, Holy Priests burn through their resources quickly and have no reliable regeneration tools. Even when played well, they are often forced to slow down.
Community feedback from multiple discussions also highlights that Holy Priest is widely considered underpowered and under-played in high-end content. Players frequently describe Holy Priest’s throughput as low, survivability as weak, and mana problems as a major limiter on performance. In contrast, Restoration Druids are viewed as the safest and strongest choice, offering strong cooldowns, passive healing, excellent utility, and unmatched consistency**. This strong imbalance makes group composition feel restrictive and discourages players from choosing Priest specs.**
I canno’t speak for other healing spec but there is clearly an issue with resto druid. Either nerf it or improve other specs significantly.
There will always be a best and a worst, but the gap seems annoyingly high. I could understand if resto druid had amazing output, but also had mana limitations - but no, it can’t run OOM and it delivers the biggest hps. This is how you get a locked in meta for the entire season and shut out a bunch of players.
I don’t really want druid nerfed, but my pres evoker and priest would like some of what rdruid has.
(And yes, yes we all know that 99% of players shouldn’t worry about meta. But anyone who ever pugged knows that at least 50% of groups do care about meta and it is a pain pugging on a low ranked spec. Reality matters less than belief - at least in this case.)
Oh and did Arms do something wrong in a previous life? My warrior does not deserve this punishment
I would love to see a pres evoker meta. Such a fun healer. I am a sucker for underdog specs in the meta.
I wrote it in another thread: we will most likely see impactful changes during heroic week and after the race to world first.
Tuning usually „ends“ with the .5 patch.
Some blizzard employee might got bend over by an arms warrior. That last nerf was something personal
Yeah… unfortunately pres is quite good in raids, possibly worth stacking… so it will get nerfed before or after RWF and become absolute dogwater in M+. Priest at least should be spared, it’s not amazing in either and might get buffs
Blizz really need more tuning knobs so that they can separate raid and M+ performance. The all-in-one approach is kind of bad for spec variety (and player morale). I think they underestimate how demotivating it can be to discover your favourite specs are all being rated low for multiple reasons and by a significant margin.
Cries in arms warrior
I wonder how many people end up not playing a season/expansion because they only have a couple of classes and none of them are considered good…
Can we request a review of Windwalker PvP tallents? As shadopan, 1 is locked out to Celestial only. And one is a choice node which is locked if you chose strike of the windlord.
consider allowing WW access to some of MW tallents until you add some more for WW?
From what I gather, the problem is not with Druids. Druids are supposedly at the level every other healer spec should be at, but thanks to Blizzard’s “careful” approach to tuning isn’t. I do not advocate for nerfing the lowest performing healer spec, when all others are simply not up to the task. We’ve had these situations in the past, where one spec was so far ahead of where the tuning should be, but in this case it’s more that Druids might be just slightly ahead of the curve, but everyone else is lagging behind to various degrees.
I get what you’re saying, and I agree that in theory druids may be closer to what a “complete” healer should feel like. The problem is that in practice, the gap is still too large to ignore. Whether it’s because druids are slightly overtuned or because everyone else is undertuned doesn’t really change the outcome for players: resto druids dominate keys, while other specs struggle to justify their spots. They will always be a meta, but the issue is the gap that is clearly too big.
The strongest issue isn’t just raw numbers, it’s efficiency and sustainability. Druids can maintain HPS with very forgiving mana management. Why are they the only healer that gets this benefits? Priests, especially Holy, are forced into constant conservation and still fall behind. That’s not just “lagging a bit,” that’s a structural disadvantage in real content. I’m not even talking about all the utility that this resto druid has because one can argue it’s class “identity”.
I’m not arguing for nerfing Druids. Honestly, I’d much rather see other healers brought up. But right now, balance is being shaped around one spec and group composition will keep revolving around Druids, regardless of player skill.
So whether the solution is buffing others, adjusting Druid efficiency slightly, or both, something needs to change. The current gap is big enough that it affects how people play and who gets invited.
Also for playing both I don’t find resto druid particularly hard to play especially now. Evoker requires much more skill and is currently far behind every healer in mm+.
I fully agree, but I’d rather see the opther specs brought up to a level of HPS, DPS and overall utility/sustainability than to see Druids be nerfed down to where the plebs is.
