January News/Discussion

[Swiss Mercenary]

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/27/1413309410...t--healers.html
They're trying to get away with a staple of Arenas in TBC - 15 minute matches because it required perfect alignment of cooldown usage to burn down someone in 3v3 when only one healer was supporting them.

Which had everything to do with how slippery Resto druids were, and how easy it is for one to jump off the middle, drop combat with the pet, and drink in Blade's Edge arena. You didn't see those kinds of games on Ruins of Lordaeron, unless both teams were playing far too defensive.

And that was in particular, a few problem teams, based around a single problem class. HOTs were way too powerful with full S2/3/4 gear.

And I'd take a game like that any day over 10 seconds of button mashing deciding the game.

But you shouldn't need to drain/CC/Silence AND burst on a healer to kill them.

What do you mean you shouldn't have to BURST to kill a healer? Are you saying that a healer should be brought down from 100% to 0% during the duration of a silence/stun/school lockout without having to be bursted? Or that simply draining a healer should be enough to kill them? Or that they should be able to be bursted down without draining, silencing, and CCing them first?

I wasn't aware that Arena was supposed to be about doing your PVE DPS rotation on a healer, and then watching them die.

Ever try to take down a resto druid in pvp? Or a disc priest? Or a resto shammy? And no I don't mean the terribad players - the good ones.

I'm somewhat biased when talking about disc priests, since purge shines against them, but they bleed and die like everyone else. Shamans would get destroyed by mortal strike + interrupts. I'll give you resto druids as a freebie - only warlocks could kill them reliably (Shadowmeld was a HUGE offender, and has since been nerfed...)

You didn't need 3 DPS to kill a healer. A single DPS chipping away at them, and then combining cooldowns with his healer assisting with purge/fear/interrupts/CC on the partner were completely capable of killing a healer. Double DPS was completely capable of killing a healer. Certain DPS were less effective against certain healers, but that's Rock/Paper/Scissors for you.

It shouldn't take three dps to take them down - and this is coming from someone who arena'd as the black sheep of healers - a holy paladin. Thats what GC was talking about.

Question... Does any one of those three DPS on you know how to kick?