Quote Originally Posted by Aravell View Post
It's actually because survival is more on the individual that I think the healing boost from BH is unbalanced. You had to rely on others to survive fights back then, so the healing boost was justified to make that easier. But now you rely only on yourself to survive, the healing boost is unnecessary because you don't have to work with a healer anymore, it all depends on your own play.
4x15000 heals = 60000 HP. That's literally nothing when 7+ people are trying to bash your brains in. I'm not even counting the BH that they (the 7+ players) might have or their crowd control. You seem to be overestimating the power of recuperate. The real reason why it seems OP is because players don't crowd control correctly. Stun your BH5 target who is at full HP? Chances are he's going to get away, unless you got a whole alliance on him.

I think it IS balanced simply because you can't rely on your healers anymore, so the only way to heal yourself really, is to rely on yourself. A melee in a really good premade back then was impossible to kill. Like literally. I'm talking about 20+ kills and 0 deaths, which was insane back then. The only way to stop a good premade was to make a counter full party premade of PvP players. Now, even premade melees can easily die. BH5 players are easier to kill then BF players BECAUSE anyone can get BH now. So ANYONE can do more dmg, more heals. So that's why I think recuperate should heal more per BH. Also, because of all the AOEs now, it's definitely needed. You remember the fiasco early on of Onsal/New Pvp Mode? Where everyone was WHM/SMN and alliances got wiped before they could even get into melee/mid range. Then they swapped to all SCH (simply imagine 8 buffed SCH debuffs and you have an unbuffed recuperate at BH5, how exactly do you think that's gonna work out?). Then the PLD HG cheese. And now finally we have the DRK/DRG/(AST) meta. Shoot, when Secure first came out, everybody was WHM holy spamming lmao.

Also, if you remember Battle Fever, then you must also remember how hard it was to get (only kills counted, no assists) and how easy it was to lose it (you lost all of it on death, doesn't just halve it like now). You could very easily just lose it all if you got caught by a Cometeor and 2 Bravers back then, unless you had a pocket SCH.
Can't relate, I got BF like 95% of my games, with or without the premades I used to run with.