Healers

[Synestra]

Solo-Feast is the ONLY way to get into PvP on Chaos.

Lastnight after midnight Shatter had almost if not insta ques and all matches were 72mans, tho it seemed it was mostly premade vs premade vs premade and it lasted approx 3 hours untill it went back to 24man and 20min+ ques and this is where i stopped and went to bed so not sure if it kept going after that. And i must admit it was pretty fun for 72man as most matches were pretty even and player quality was better than usually.

[Enlial]

If that were true then we'd see a more disproportionate amount of healers on the top 100.

I think its more to do with the amount of skill needed to perform adequately as a healer being fairly high in pvp (in sharp contrast to pve). Passing as a healer depends not only on understanding your own abilities but knowing what every other job is capable of and maintaining a strong awareness of everything thats happening throughout the match. Shouldn't DPS and Tanks also? Of course, and "Good" dps/tanks will. But if you take a group of mediocre players, its going to be the healers fault for a loss every time.

On top of that, like I said, healing is commonly viewed as the "easy" job in pve. So what ends up happening is you get all these healers in the process of finding out that being able to "heal pretty good in ex roulette" doesnt make you ready for ranked pvp

New healers who are that terrible usually give up after a few games, you see terrible melee for months because they have no idea how bad they actually are.

Heh, there's actually a term for this, its called the Dunning-Kruger effect

[StrejdaTom]

3rd gold promo this week, 1st fight bronze healer in my team, plat healer in enemy team, fight took 1 minute.

[Kai_Lee]

Reduction of points is not the way to go. Adding 1-2 utility to tank, possible but what? War and pld are in good position IMO. Sometimes you can win against stronger odds by using better strategy. Also dont just relay on 1 strategy if it doesn't work.