Concerned with lack of healers in the top ranked?

[AdamZ]

Is anyone else concerned with the lack of healers in the top ranks? Or so that it appears to me, based on reviewing the ranks and knowing who the better healers are on my data center.

Healer is currently the least que'ed job on average, and if a healer can not influence a feast match enough fewer and fewer PvPer's will que as a healer and the quality of healers will decrease and que times increase, slowing killing the feast.

Hope the classes that tend to be the focus of the topped ranked and the ones at the bottom get looked at for adjustments for season 2 at the latest. (Looking at you Monk for overpowered, and really the rest seem ok, with Dark still < WAR and Pally)

The easiest fix I would likely be something to give healers 2 Purify's on a bit shorter cooldown (60 secs?) As in solo que even a really good healer can't do much by themselves with a ton of CC. (And it is solo que how often are they actually going to get a Purify from a team member)

[kisada]

imo purify should have different durations for different jobs. i think it'd be fair to give healers a 60s purify as opposed to the 90s one.

[TetsuyaHikari]

Considering you get queued up with people within 2 tiers of yourself, you're bound to run across some good healers even in bronze/silver, so I don't really see it as much of a problem, honestly. Now, that's not to say I haven't run into my fair share of new healers lately, but overall, we've had plenty of healers on Primal that knew what to do, so that's good enough for me. Also, I find it surprising you'd suggest MNK is overpowered when DRG beats them in burst damage and no mention of MCH even though it can take you down in 3-4 hits?

Lol

[xxczx]

Also, I find it surprising you'd suggest MNK is overpowered when DRG beats them in burst damage

[Yawnie]

probably because people dont like queing as healers.

I mean they tend to get the brunt of it all.

People running halfway across the arena leaving you to chase after them while someone else is getting beat down.

Already used your purify when you got put to sleep? GG cause no one else is gonna help you out; this then proceeds to them calling you out on why you didnt heal them.

Then you get the common team where no one has a plan and everyone else is attacking a completely different person, making them all run in different directions.

Whoo! Sorry had to rant there for a bit. Anyways, healing can actually be pretty stressful in PvP. And some people certainly don't make it easier.

[Culfinrandir]

Also - the second the Feast starts there's a blast of amnesium radiation from the monitor that renders everyone, apart from healers, able to remember that it's not possible to heal without line of site or from 100 yalms. The radiation blast also causes a bout of extensive verbal diarrhoea from all non-healers to be directed at the healer, including the blame for any, and all, mistakes made by players.

It's an utter joy to be a healer in the Feast... It's nearly as much fun as an infected ingrown toenail.

[Yawnie]

Also - the second the Feast starts there's a blast of amnesium radiation from the monitor that renders everyone, apart from healers, able to remember that it's not possible to heal without line of site or from 100 yalms. The radiation blast also causes a bout of extensive verbal diarrhoea from all non-healers to be directed at the healer, including the blame for any, and all, mistakes made by players.

It's an utter joy to be a healer in the Feast... It's nearly as much fun as an infected ingrown toenail.

I want to cry at this because you pretty much hit the nail on the head lol
It's shocking how people think I can heal someone while they're yalms ahead of me or behind one of the wall thingies.

[FunkYeahDragons]

probably because people dont like queing as healers.

I mean they tend to get the brunt of it all.

People running halfway across the arena leaving you to chase after them while someone else is getting beat down.

Already used your purify when you got put to sleep? GG cause no one else is gonna help you out; this then proceeds to them calling you out on why you didnt heal them.

Then you get the common team where no one has a plan and everyone else is attacking a completely different person, making them all run in different directions.

Whoo! Sorry had to rant there for a bit. Anyways, healing can actually be pretty stressful in PvP. And some people certainly don't make it easier.

I'm a sick fuck and like queuing as a healer, though I'm not top ranked. Then again I also dress in full Twin Adders gear to provoke Flames premades so maybe don't listen.

A lot of people I know get stressed out in ranked play in general because of how intense it can get (one PLD left his first 4v4 shaking he said), and some take it harder than others. It gets to everyone after a bad day.

[PotatoGirl]

I only play heals but you can get burnt out so fast on it. Especially after long losing streaks and the blame always comes back to you no matter what. It doesn't matter if you out healed the other healer. It doesn't matter how many near deaths you saved. If anything wrong happens or you get locked down, 100% your fault. Doesn't matter you're the screw up, not the dps splitting their dps, not the tank trying to get that paladin off you for 5 seconds so you can breath.

My favorite is, if you manage to get to culling time its your fault you can't keep up with the heals. When its all on you for keeping your damn team alive long enough to even get there. I love it.

So
much
fun

[TetsuyaHikari]

Not really sure what this is supposed to mean since 9 times out of 10, I see DRG doing more overall damage than MNK in The Feast and this is coming from someone with 300+ matches under their belt, queuing with bronze, silver, and gold alike, so either you're seeing something different over there on the Chaos server or you've got some terrible DRG players, lol.