Trying to have fun in PvP again

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Dancer is still the best range. The survivability it gets in exchange for just a moderate burst is way too valuable in solo queue.

I think samurai and monk are pretty even now. They just have different options and samurai requires a little more brain juice so monk edges it out. In top games samurai performs better because samurai can be more jank whereas monk is just walk forward and burst.

Tanks, dark is still in a great position. We've never really seen how a 100% lifesteal works in pvp so I'm pretty interested to see if Warrior can carry games with nascent. Other than that Dark is still the best.

Healers , I know healing the least but ast and whm still have that dichotomy of one is easier than the other and whm is better than ast if you're new and ast is if you're experienced, but with the slight buff and nerf I can see that being a smaller gap and ast being more prevalent. People still gonna rock whm a lot because it's easier, might even get equal whm and ast games. Scholar, no clue, like 2 people played this job before and I haven't seen any of them give an opinion on it.

Yep, still has 3 dashes, almost impossible to catch unless they make a terrible mistake, can still play Bind Recup and be good even with the Conc buff and ofc Waltz, in terms of the buffs luckily Bard now brings similar to the table with either the same uptime but more flexibility (Minne) or better (Wanderers). But you have to play Conc or your Apex hits like a wet sock and I generally don't recommend playing a concless Bard atm the damage difference is just too much it's like a baby LB but instant. But you actually have to be good to even be as close to effective as DNC on Bard and for that reason and due to the nature of solo queue, the safer picks are always going to be the best (similar reason why Warrior has the potential to be one of the best LP tanks, but is going to be dog tier in solo queue still).

WHM is still probably going to be the dominant solo Q pick even though I theoretically class it as the worst LP healer, but it's the easiest to do well on and safest to play, because you're screwed on AST with no counterpressure and will OOM asap rocky and Scholar gets smoked if the foot comes off the gas for even a second and if you get a weaker team on SCH that plays super defensive just consider it a 600 after the first death and if you insist on going down that route you might as well play AST.

In terms of SCH opinions, let's remember Taru thought it was good last patch and still won games on it, but then again it's the same Taru who thinks Healers shouldn't have repose anymore because it's "inconsistent" lol. Horo on the other hand loves it. Idk if Dacien's tried it yet but there were never that many Scholar mains in the past, let alone now so it was always underpresented anyway.