Thread: We're confused. Could we have some developer explanations on the 4.25 PvP changes?

I really can't understand these changes either. The iteration of healer balance is not fun to play as or against. And they go ahead and buff healing, give more survivability, and nerf damage. On TOP of the recent "light medal" status addition.

Here's your player feed back, SE:

• We'd like PvP to be more esports viable, meaning it has to be more fun to watch. Feast needs more deaths.
• We'd like to feel like progress is being made when fighting non-stop for 5 minutes. Feast needs more deaths..
• We'd like to be able to have a chance to win if the enemy team's healer greatly outskills our own. Feast needs more deaths.
• Did we mention that Feast needs more deaths?
• And last but not least, Feast needs more deaths.

And we don't even need to get into Frontlines where a chance 1v1 encounter with a healer is gigantic waste of time.

So let's get back to the direction you're taking, SE. Increasing survivability, buffing healings, and nerfing damage? Let's take that direction and do the complete opposite. There's another direction you're taking, SE. The direction where you ignore all of our feedback? Let's take that direction and do the complete opposite as well.

Or...stay with me now cause this is a million dollar idea here...you could communicate with us about why you've made these changes, and then they might make a little sense to us. Because right now it just looks like you enjoy perpetuating the torture on us that is the current state of healing in PvP, and it feels like you enjoy the fact that hardly anyone likes or participates in PvP.

Originally Posted by Geryth

Or...stay with me now cause this is a million dollar idea here...you could communicate with us about why you've made these changes, and then they might make a little sense to us.

"Our statistics indicate Paladin got a little too popular after the most recent update, so we tuned down some numbers and buffed WAR, which seemed a little underused."
"Healers are still unpopular, so to reduce the burden on healers and hopefully get more people to play it, we nerfed X, Y, or Z burst skill."
"According to our data, people don't seem to use Kakuremi much, so we changed some numbers to make it easier to use."

What else are you expecting to see when the lead dev answers a power question with a popularity argument? And if that's how they answer a question they receive, how do you think they react to feedback they receive? Do you think it's somehow not gonna miss the point? Their entire approach is wrong from the ground up.
They probably heard people's feedback and will make the map darker eventually. I wouldn't be so sure about anything else.

Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

You're still latched on to that one off the cuff remark during an interview, huh?

Maybe, I don't know, it was because wildfire could oneshot people with no counterplay, and still comes very close to that. etc etc....

Wildfire does have a lot of counterplay what...

Originally Posted by Risvertasashi

wildfire could oneshot people

What? I missed something then. I would like to see a video of this and if you are exaggerating.... just stop.

I like to add - it was a team with a WAR composition that won the Aether League. LOL