Way too many healers in arena

#0 - March 29, 2009, 6:53 a.m.

I remember early in the season healers were all complaining about too much burst damage.

Now that it's apparently been nerfed extremely hard, are healers still complaining about it? Reason I ask, is double DPS 2v2 is almost completely unviable atm, it's basically get a healer on your team or get out of arena.

Now please tell me, how is this fair? Sure 4/10 classes play a class that *can* heal, but you know as well as I do 4/10 players are not healers. There are ret paladins, feral druids, boomkins, ele shamans, enh shamans and shadow priests.

Lets say for arguments sake, 2/10 PVPers are healers. How is it fair that roughly 95% of 2v2 teams have a healer on them? If anything, buff burst and extend CC & lockout durations. I know someone will point to mage rogue (yeah like thats viable anymore), but honestly it's healer/DPS or get out of arena. Totally unfair that double DPS has almost no chance to compete.

We've all seen the backpeddling, clicking, facerolling videos of paladin/DK. Let me ask you, whens the last time you've seen a mage/rogue video like that? You haven't, because double DPS takes such ridiculous skill and timing to even have a chance at being in that 2% of top arena teams that aren't healer teams.

I don't know what the solution is, but theres way too many healers in arena, especially in 2v2.

Ghostcrawler

#31 - March 29, 2009, 7:38 p.m.

About 50% of these threads say healers die too fast. The other 50% say they are impossible to kill.

Nearly 100% of these threads suffer from the syndrome of "Other players will probably disagree with me, but they are wrong."

Ghostcrawler

#93 - March 30, 2009, 5:34 p.m.

So it is your contention that when players say "I can't kill healers in Arena" what they really mean is "I can't kill Holy paladins in Arena?"

Ghostcrawler

#165 - March 31, 2009, 9:04 p.m.

It wasn't a snark. I was trying to get the debate beyond "Healers are too hard too kill." "No , they're not."

The reason I mentioned paladins was it also seems a little strange in a land where so many people are saying "burst damage is too high" to then say "but I can't kill their healer." Those two statements are not exclusive of course. However you could also make the argument that all healers need to be that resilient.