I leveled one Disc Priest purely as an experiment to see how the MMR behaves for a completely fresh healer.
First game ever on the character, didn’t even know where half of my buttons were… and the system instantly threw me into a 2150 MMR lobby.
No warm‑up, no placement games, no previous healer history — just straight into high MMR because “new healer = must be a god”, I guess.
I wasn’t trying to push rating, I literally just wanted to test how the system reacts to a brand‑new healer entering Solo Shuffle.
And yeah… this is the result.
It’s not high mmr, it’s legit starting point at this moment
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I get that this is the current starting point — but that’s exactly the issue.
A completely fresh healer with zero games played shouldn’t be thrown into 2.1k lobbies right away.
It doesn’t matter if the system considers this the baseline.
From a gameplay perspective it makes no sense:
• no warm‑up
• no placement
• no previous healer MMR
• no calibration
Just “welcome to high MMR, good luck”.
So even if this is the “legit starting point”, it still shows how off the system is for new healers.
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Well, to be fair the system cant also assume that everyone are fotm roller on new class. It assumes that people would know their class but we know that arent even remotely true these days and anyone get thrown into 2200-2300 for first games is just wild for everyone else there. Shuffle games are so low quality all in all its barely playable, they should just removed the whole mode ages ago.
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I get where you’re coming from, and you’re not entirely wrong — the real issue is that the system tries to ‘assume’ everyone plays at the same level. In reality, Shuffle throws together players with wildly different skill levels, and that’s exactly why the whole thing feels so chaotic. The problem isn’t new classes or FOTM rollers, it’s that the matchmaking can’t distinguish between someone who’s still learning and someone who actually knows what they’re doing. So in the end, everyone suffers — not just the people trying out the latest meta spec.
2.2k MMR in solo mode is equivalent to about 1.5k in the normal arena. The numbers are just way too high. Don’t be fooled. Players who normally play at a maximum of 1.8 in arena are at 2.4 or higher in solo and get elite titles (lol).
That’s not the problem either, but rather how to progress as a healer, because you can’t really carry like a DPS unless the other healer is bad or let’s call it “overwhelmed”.
Bghjdfjkzfk (yes that’s a name), just made a post about that in the same forum.
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You’re absolutely right that Solo Shuffle ratings are inflated compared to regular arena, but that’s exactly why healer progression feels so strange.
DPS players benefit the most from the inflation because they can actually carry rounds — a single good burst window or a smart target swap can swing the entire lobby.
Healers don’t have that luxury.
Your rating is tied to the overall quality of the lobby, the DPS you get paired with, and whether the other healer collapses or not.
You can play extremely well and still go 3–3 simply because you can’t force wins the same way a DPS can.
So the issue isn’t just the inflated numbers — it’s that the role itself doesn’t scale with the system.
Healers are expected to ‘progress’ in an environment where they have the least control over the outcome.
“And just to clarify before anyone asks:
I’m posting from a level 10 character with a weird name simply because I play on EU servers, and EU characters can’t post on the US forums.
So I had to use an old low‑level alt on this region just to be able to reply here.
The level and the name have nothing to do with my actual experience or rating — it’s literally just the only character I can post with on this forum.”
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