Silver tier woes

[Giglamesh]

Just had a qualifier match that went the full 8 minutes and our drg and summoner had 140,000 damage both. Opposing team dps were in the 200s.

I can't put all the blame on bad healers because I've seen some terrible dps now that I've been queuing as tank.

[Elfidan]

ok before silver most ppl go after the ranged first but now i've been seeing more people wanting to go after melee dps first. is this the norm?

Melee tend to be easier to pin down for burst imo.

It usually depends on who has the attack buff

Yup, I hate taking it because it's a big kick me sign on your back.

Just had a qualifier match that went the full 8 minutes and our drg and summoner had 140,000 damage both. Opposing team dps were in the 200s.

I can't put all the blame on bad healers because I've seen some terrible dps now that I've been queuing as tank.

To be fair total compared to well placed burst is important. Also have to account for cc downtimes when a team gets nin+blm etc.

[Giglamesh]

To be fair total compared to well placed burst is important. Also have to account for cc downtimes when a team gets nin+blm etc.

True. A good healer can save the day against well timed burst. Just like a good pld can save the day with a cover or stun/silence stagger.

It's just frustrating to lose to constantly get paired with bad groups for the qualifier. Like why couldn't I get on the opposing team which steam rolled us. Like my last match to qualify again our sam did 19k damage in 3 minutes. Bard did 51k. I did 51k as paladin.

The best was that the opposing teams tank grabbed the attack buff and the monk grabbed the defense buff. They had a summoner as the other dps. It was set up for us to win but I knew we were doomed because the healer this match was the opposing healer this match and I knew we were done from the start.

[SuperZay]

I've seen 10 stacks often in Platinum-Diamond matches last season. Not much will change except that you'll stop getting first timers after Gold rank. Also you'll start being more careful when to que because it'll be much harder and longer to get back lost ratings if there's new healer around ruining every match.