The Healer Problem in PVP

[Mantrus]

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I addressed this in the main post. It's both that they're too powerful/influential and that they have a large skill cap. If they just had a high skill cap, then even if a diamond healer were better than the platinum healer in a match, the diamond tank or DPS on the other team should be able to carry the match as much as the healer. In this case, healers wouldn't have so much higher win rates than other roles like they do now.

Healer skill caps are higher than other roles, but if one role gets more influence at it's max performance than the other, then it has more influence, plain and simple.

[Cynric]

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This right here is literally hitting the nail on the head. As DPS we can not have anywhere near the level of influence healers have. If we did have that influence we could sustain our win rates a lot more. But if you get a bad healer its instant death, if you get a good healer the game will last its entirety and people will hardly die.

If healing on one side is better than the other, generally that side will be the winner. I don't think DPS should be able to smack a healer to death but something has to give, between blackest night, adlo,protect, bene,lustrate, fairy, cover,etc. Healers have far too much synergy with tanks towards preventing damage and healing any other damage back.

While DPS shouldn't be able to just kill someone by smashing buttons, healers shouldn't be able to create situations that practically force culling time every match.

Then to top off the matter, our damage just isn't anywhere near what healing can be done in comparison. We all require resources for our burst, some of us require more than others, once we dump those resources they have to be rebuilt, but they're usually going to be healed off or stopped, then we just repeat the process.

Many DPS players have switched to healers and achieved better results than when they played DPS. That's kind of a problem. The role is far to dominant on every leaderboard for there not to be an obvious problem.