How can healers enjoy arenas?

[Alythena-ravencrest]

@Ðrpøurritûs-les-sentinelles

people since shuffle/blitz (and also sl s2) think they are god at the game cause they reached peak rating.

Retocalypse peak ratings

[Ivnashaman-drakthul]

Normal rated stuff is dead and there shouldnt be any rewards. Nobody is playing clasdic arenas bgs… Its like making playing baracuda card game olympic sport instead football…

[Gageris-kazzak]

@Kluring-ravencrest

I just finished playing some arenas around 2.2-2.4 to test out this expansion and it was a horrible experience. How can any healer have fun playing right now? Every game feels exactly the same, meaning the only way to win is in deep dampening. Cc time is so short, all classes have so many defensives, meanwhile dmg is way too high/healing way too low leading to you as a healer having to spam your buttons like crazy the whole game like it’s a mythic + dungeon you are doing. Everyone just go in and pop cds instantly without any cc, and they actually go through healing and multiple cds by doing that, when in reality they should not even force a single button. Awful, awful game design.

You can discuss all you want about how the game is dying due to crappy mmr, annoying micro cc, no rating incentives or that it has too many game modes currently. The truth is that the gameplay following dragonflight season 2 overhaul is so terrible that it’s actually not fun enough to play. That’s why wow arenas are dying.

You don’t. Healing in pvp is only if You want to feel stress and get flamed.

I enjoy healing in m+ (though this season was so bad, I haven’t even played m+), but I will never go to heal arenas. I want to relax

[Kluring-ravencrest]

@Gageris-kazzak

@Kluring-ravencrest

I just finished playing some arenas around 2.2-2.4 to test out this expansion and it was a horrible experience. How can any healer have fun playing right now? Every game feels exactly the same, meaning the only way to win is in deep dampening. Cc time is so short, all classes have so many defensives, meanwhile dmg is way too high/healing way too low leading to you as a healer having to spam your buttons like crazy the whole game like it’s a mythic + dungeon you are doing. Everyone just go in and pop cds instantly without any cc, and they actually go through healing and multiple cds by doing that, when in reality they should not even force a single button. Awful, awful game design.

You can discuss all you want about how the game is dying due to crappy mmr, annoying micro cc, no rating incentives or that it has too many game modes currently. The truth is that the gameplay following dragonflight season 2 overhaul is so terrible that it’s actually not fun enough to play. That’s why wow arenas are dying.

You don’t. Healing in pvp is only if You want to feel stress and get flamed.

I enjoy healing in m+ (though this season was so bad, I haven’t even played m+), but I will never go to heal arenas. I want to relax

You can compare it to the insane increase in permanent pump that came along DF s1. Then after DF s2, they removed cc as an impacting factor in arenas and the game became even more reliant on spamming your keys until they fall out of the keyboard. Still somehow, there remained some differences between shuffle and arenas where they were not played in exactly the same way. Then came TWW and what we have now, leading to healers not wanting to play the game since it is not fun playing pve m+ in pvp.

So I strongly disagree that this is a “pvp in general” related issue. Just look how Shadowlands was cc and burst oriented with strong burst heals, and BFA was even more heavily leaning towards cc. For Legion, same analysis applies as for BFA, just that it was slightly more complex. The terrible pve feeling of playing healer was not there in past expansions due to the lower amounts of dmg/aoe and how it was really easy to outplay all these ppl just doing their pve rotation. Remove cc and what you have left is an awful experience for healers mainly, with full uptime pve pump to counter.