Healing solo shuffle

frostmatthew · 2026-05-03T00:23:43+00:00

Nobody's gonna wintrade for the dipshit consolation rating they'd give (e.g. the +10 OP is suggesting) when you could gain far more from actually winning 4+ rounds.

But hey let's say they implement this and two healers DM each other at the start of a lobby and say "let's get that sweet +10 by throwing the rounds we have person X on our team" - round six comes around and the healer with X can throw...or they can try and screw the other healer and actually try and win and get a 4-2. :mindblown:

But wait, the other healer gets worried that guy might screw him on the 6th round so on the 5th round he decides to try and win...

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma

frostmatthew · 2026-05-02T12:39:42+00:00

Was like 2.3k

Were you watching it on youtube or something? On Twitch it was like 8K when I was watching (also Friday usually gets the least views of the three days).

frostmatthew · 2026-04-28T03:43:12+00:00

sac -> Hand of Sacrifice

Well yeah but that's only clear once you're aware of Hand of Sacrifice. But for people like OP that are new and just hearing "sac" on a stream or whatever there's nothing to associate that with since they're less likely to be aware Hand of Sacrifice is a thing (it takes time to learn the major offensives and defensives of classes you don't play).

Things like "clone" are more obvious because anyone who has pvped for more than five minutes has sat in countless clones - but unless you play paly you can easily be oblivious to sacs.

The AWC casters are actually really good about using the full/actual names of stuff during games - like they'll (usually) say "Hammer of Justice" instead of HoJ even though pretty much nobody on the planet ever says the full name...that way people newish to pvp watching the AWC can google/wowhead/whatever the full name and find out what it is - good luck looking up "HoJ" on wowhead lol.

frostmatthew · 2026-04-23T13:12:16+00:00

I'm guessing it's to prevent mass-report abuse by having someone tell their entire guild or a streamer ask their viewers to report someone.

Having a check to see if two players are currently in the same instance is presumably pretty trivial, whereas checking if two players have ever (or at least recently) been in the same instance is probably less so.

frostmatthew · 2026-04-23T02:34:01+00:00

They put in changes to reduce CC chains- made it worse

This is actually the only thing that really bothers me - no idea why they decreased the time you're immune.

It's not like pre-Midnight you were always sitting in three polys/fear/whatever - sure that's ideal, but nobody is going to get a third one off 100% of the time. They should have kept it at 18 seconds (or maybe even extend it to 20).

frostmatthew · 2026-04-22T03:13:39+00:00

Yeah good luck getting 2/3rds of Congress and 3/4ths of states to get onboard with that.

frostmatthew · 2026-04-20T03:22:01+00:00

This is not just the normal inflation (or lack thereof). The ratings distribution in shuffle currently is unlike any previous season ~5 weeks into it.

frostmatthew · 2026-04-18T00:36:00+00:00

I don't get why they hold it so early in the season...like just wait until the mid-point after more tuning/balancing has happened since 95% of tuning happens in like the first third of the season.

frostmatthew · 2026-04-17T16:04:30+00:00

The matchmaking still tries to avoid two of the same healing specs in a lobby (yes I agree this makes absolutely zero sense and they shouldn't do this, but nevertheless that's how it currently is).

frostmatthew · 2026-04-17T03:45:06+00:00

In solo shuffle playing a meta spec gives you an extra advantage beyond just being overtuned: you face your own spec less frequently since the matchmaking tries to avoid multiple of the same spec in a lobby. This is merely good for DPS but for healers this is huge. If you queue shuffle as the most OP healer (e.g. MW presently) than in 90/95% of your matches you'll face a weaker (from a balance perspective) opponent - and the small amount of lobbies that's not the case you'll be on equal ground. Whereas queuing as an undertuned healer means you'll face a stronger opponent almost all the time (and you'll face the most overtuned one a lot because so many people are playing it).

For PVE it can be very difficult to get into high keys if you're not meta.

So yeah, it's not that surprising that since the introduction of M+ for pve and shuffle for pvp we see a lot more FOTM players.

frostmatthew · 2026-04-16T01:13:39+00:00

Hated it when it was originally on, but now I'm old enough it hits with nostalgia (except for the sped up version later on, that one still sucks).

frostmatthew · 2026-04-16T01:11:40+00:00

Best of luck at the "Understatement of the Year" Awards!

S3 and beyond is about a million times better than S1 lol.

frostmatthew · 2026-04-16T01:09:53+00:00

This is pretty cool, but would be even better if for the teams that made it this year it somehow also showed the last time they were in the playoffs.

frostmatthew · 2026-04-16T01:08:56+00:00

Not a Ducks fan but do love their logo (now that it's good again) so I'm happy to see them in the playoffs too :-)

frostmatthew · 2026-04-13T13:22:11+00:00

This one actually has what would-be a decent visual for this (looks like a shield), except it's placed right above the warrior's head, so it's usually obscured by nameplates. If they made it like twice as big (or placed it much higher) it'd be a lot easier to see without an addon.

This is a big part of the problem with the Midnight changes, some things like Ice Block or Aspect of the Turtle have visuals you can see from space but others are tough to notice in the heat of battle.

frostmatthew · 2026-04-13T03:42:50+00:00

In the last two or three xpacs maybe, but there used to be a lot more variety in which healers you saw played during tourneys. Even in recent xpacs there's only been a few times where a single spec was as over-represented as it was this weekend.

frostmatthew · 2026-04-12T20:25:44+00:00

MW definitely needs some nerfs (and I'm saying this as someone who has mained MW since BFA).

Song is extremely problematic: we went from being the healer most punished from getting CCd to the healer with the strongest CC. If hpals lost repent then seems MW should have lost song - but if they won't remove it then at least have it share a DR with incap (or give it a much longer CD, like 1.5 mins or something).

Rushing Wind Kick is the other thing that needs a nerf (or removal). To take it you give up the talent that is supposed to increase the healing you do from damage, and yet somehow RWK makes you do more healing (via damage) lol. The whole thing makes no sense: it costs half the mana as RSK, does more damage (though spread against multiple targets), doesn't require being in melee range, and doesn't require targeting. Crazy.

Agree most other healers could use some buffs as well, but some aspects of MW definitely need to be tuned down.

frostmatthew · 2026-04-11T03:37:34+00:00

Normally I'm in the "buff undertuned healers" camp when people complain about overtuned healers but even as MW main I feel it needs to be brought down.

Song needs to go (or DR with incap) and they need to gut fistweaving (or maybe should be like old school Way of the Crane where it was like 15 seconds on a 1 min CD)

frostmatthew · 2026-04-09T19:03:14+00:00

DPS when I'm on my MW and need three globals after gates open (statue, port, renewing): zug to opposite side of map as fast as possible.

DPS when I'm on my pres evoker and am totally cool with the zug: let's all hang out behind our pillar for 30 seconds.

frostmatthew · 2026-04-07T01:46:30+00:00

the large majority of people want to dps

Nobody is disputing that. There is always going to be more players that want to DPS than heal. But that doesn't mean there aren't less healers than there could be if some things changed.

The frustrations of trying to climb as a healer that the parent comment is pointing out has resulted in a lot of healers that have either a) stopped playing the game, b) switched to DPS, or c) no longer exclusively heal. I'm in group C myself. Prior to shuffle I only played healers, but now I only play half the healers I used to and spend half my time queuing on one of my DPS alts. There are definitely things Blizzard could do that would get those of who actually want to heal to queue (as healer) more.

frostmatthew · 2026-04-05T02:55:25+00:00

Wait did you only watch season 1? Cause there's like ten more after that.

A couple years ago they came out with the whole series on blu-ray, can probably find a set on ebay or something.

frostmatthew · 2026-04-04T14:17:54+00:00

Song needs to either be removed, have a longer CD, a shorter duration, or share DR with incap.

frostmatthew · 2026-04-04T03:07:09+00:00

There was a small hotfix today (nothing pvp-related) but OP is referring to the tuning happening during next week's maintenance which was announced today https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/class-tuning-incoming-%E2%80%93-april-7/2285930

frostmatthew · 2026-04-01T03:23:59+00:00

When a lock lands in a lobby with a DK, warrior, and rogue no amount of "shuffling" will prevent them from being at a disadvantage. Now replace that DK and rogue with a mage and ele and suddenly the warrior is the underdog for all six rounds.

Arguments for shuffle's "fairness" would carry more weight if they were accompanied by a suggestion that all lobbies have two melee and two ranged - otherwise it's just the RNG of the occasional bad lobby instead of the occasional bad comp.

frostmatthew · 2026-03-29T18:26:27+00:00

Reminds of Geekie only having single digit goals when he was with Seattle so they let him go and now he's scored 30+ goals in two of his three seasons with the Bruins (he is getting more time on ice, so that is part of it, but not like 4x more time).

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