What happened?

#0 - June 29, 2009, 11:29 p.m.

The healing forums sure has become a lot like the DPS forums since it's introduction. Mostly QQ about who's topping meters and who deserves nerfs or not. What happened to simply being effective at our job to keep the tank and the raid up? Has healing become so boring that the only extra excitement we can get is meter racing?

When the healing forums were first introduced it was a very positive envrionment, a couple of QQ here and there but mostly everyone was supporting each other sharing the empathy and frustration of healing.

Ghostcrawler

#2 - June 30, 2009, 12:27 a.m.

These things go in cycles. Right now there is a new tier of raid content along the way, so some players amp up their feedback knowing that we are making changes right now and listening to their feedback.

After the patch ships, the discussion will shift for a little while into strategies and how people actually approach the new content. It will take some time to learn the encounters and make the most out of the new gear. For a time, the community will put more of a burden on themselves to learn the new content.

Then a new Arena season will start, and the forums will lean heavily towards PvP and how healers are overpowered or under-powered. You will see posts about how PvP and PvE forums should be separated and how Blizzard only cares about one or the other.

Then there will be another quiet period.

Then we will start working on 3.3 and the cycle will begin again. :)