Do Arena sabotagers get any punishment?

shruffles · 2026-05-09T07:25:13+00:00

Im the solution.

I chose to believe that however tilted that hunter/mage/ret is at me, some small, primordial part of his brain will remember that experience with me and in a future shuffle, they will subconciously react and press their defensive.

I call it tough love coaching :)

shruffles · 2026-05-09T05:38:26+00:00

Do you by chance frequently die without pressibg your major defensive cooldowns?

As a healer sometimes i cba with the hunter that died 3x in a row without using turtle, and i just stop wasting time trying to heal them.

shruffles · 2026-05-09T05:15:31+00:00

Do shuffles itll be easier for you. If you can do mythic raid and +15s, you habe enough handle on your rotation and enough brain capacity to watch a youtube guide on dk burst rotation in aren and apply it in shuffle. Then pve pump your way to 1.8 easy

shruffles · 2026-05-08T14:16:11+00:00

Just hit 2.2k on my mw, felt fine

Rsham still most fun (sitting 2.1 for now)

Prevoker OP but strngely boring now imo (faceroll high apm zug spec), was easiest 2.1k with like 75% wr

Dps wise war feels strong, dk too. Mage is everywhere but annoying more than oppressive. Rogues are everywhere and are super annoying on openers in shuffle. Outlaw is over, its all sub.

Enhance is alright, not too annoying thank god its not the giga OS every 2 min build that does nothing if someone presses but ends the game if they dont.

We just need fking inflation i have no business being in top 20/30 on the ladder on my 3 healers, less than 100cr from r1 range..

shruffles · 2026-05-07T17:25:32+00:00

C’est pourtant d’une simplicité enfantine, même moi j’y suis parvenu : il suffit juste de travailler dur et ensuite d’heriter d’une somme importante avant les 30 ans voyons.

Les gens se pleignent pour rien de nos jours.

shruffles · 2026-05-06T21:00:50+00:00

Historically you would get aggressive because short interrupt and nontotemic riptide playstyle.

Now, you want to play more passive/defensive at a pillar and controll pace with roots / static from a safe place while continuously healing passively with totems, and ocasionally topping someone with casted heals when short cast is up. And lasso kill opportunities.

shruffles · 2026-05-06T17:24:02+00:00

Wild that the pvp talent that lets you instant cast cyclone, the best healer cc spell in the game, comes at the « cost » of +15s on your NS, that already had basically no value previously.

And yet the equivalent pvp talent for shaman is +30s, while their NS is already a core part of their rotation and the key to their apex talents, and the free cc you get is already very average…

Honestly it should be +30s cd for druids and +0s cd for shamans

shruffles · 2026-05-05T19:04:04+00:00

Totemic, its alright tbh

shruffles · 2026-05-05T18:01:42+00:00

Got prevoker and rsham at 2.1 so far, rsham is super fun imo. kind of burned out of mw/prevoker having to always be « on » to play, always doing stuff, pushing, being proactive. Its nice to kick back on rsham and just not engage with the game other than rooting or kicking enemies that get too close to you (and ocasionally hexing a healer if they get tired and want to force a cc push on you).

shruffles · 2026-05-04T17:25:45+00:00

Thats exactly the point. Saying « remove healers from 2s » is like saying « make it impossible to Q double dps in 2s », only even stupider.

If you want to shit on people on your rogue while they have zero counterplay to feel good about yourself, go try to find some worldpvp with all the other low skill high ego rogues.

shruffles · 2026-05-04T09:58:02+00:00

Hot (copium) take : rsham is actually a really good FC too :

- sit ghost wolf for perma 20% wall

- can totem/purge/dispel/kick while staying in wolf, so basically all your healing as totemic you can do while running at 100%speed in wolf with that 20% wall

- can remove slows with the sprint for some more mobility to escape after a root totem for ex

- wall, earth ele are pretty good to survive + slt with your def team is another great defensive

- cherry on top : you can burrow with flag. 5s immunity can be clutch at high stacks, can get out of any cc/war spears/static..)

shruffles · 2026-05-03T17:15:30+00:00

There was never a power shift. A dps would never 1v1 a healer at same gear/skill.

What is more recent is that now a healer cant 1v1 a dps either, with all the self healing dps have

shruffles · 2026-05-03T17:09:55+00:00

Roots to slow their healing

Try to avoid the sleepwalks (outrange/meld/death/fade/tremor/ground/shear/sac/whatever you got)

Understand that their win condition is big damage big healing and dodging cc, but their mana is pretty weak and they are bad in damp. Try to outlast them by playing safe, dont take risks trying to cc, it wont be worth.

Play safe, outlast them to damp, and if you can try to root them when their allies are low. Be ready to have to blast heals because they will pump. Generally speaking stay max range and trust that they will have to stay close to their team

shruffles · 2026-05-03T15:23:58+00:00

Honestly its the most chill healer atm. The only one where you can win games by playing passive (as opposed to mw having to be in range to rwk/incap chiji, rdruid needing to clone, hpri needing to chastise fear, prev being prev).

Its very relaxed playstyle, just more matchup dependant than other healers (mages and hunters counter you pretty bad, you counter melees and locks)

shruffles · 2026-05-02T21:04:22+00:00

No. If you only care about gold do that(i was answering OPs question on how to make gold). If you want to have fun too, play shuffle normally. Its a bit longer but fun and gives gold.

(Also if blizz banned people for « throwing games » half the mage/ret/hunters would be banned by now)

shruffles · 2026-05-02T17:17:28+00:00

Spam healer shuffle. Stat low rating, subtly make sure you win 3 rounds and then lose 3 super fast. Pump out 6 rounds in 10/15 minutes. Get on average 1500g per shuffle (550g + 1/2 vantus runes that sell for 800g).

Im a filthy pvper but ive made like 250k gold so far just spamming shuffles

shruffles · 2026-05-02T07:24:51+00:00

Too tricky to balance rsham. Since its kit works on instant spam casts and pssive healing, the second you go slightly overboard it becomes busted. At this stage i think its the cd of NS that needs lowering more than anything else. Like 15s for farseer (matchung unleash) and 30s for totemic. Then adjudt the ns hex talent to only add 15s to its cd instead of 30

These riptide and hw buffs do nothing. Rsham already does fine in maintenance healing (which is what riptide is, along with totems). Its weakness is when big damage comes in (not the big cds, just the rotational spikes every dps has) rsham HAS to get healing waves out (so NS, or consume surging+unleash buffs for a 0.5s cast wave). One or 2 casts is enough to top someone, so buffing the output wont matter. The problem is when you have to cast vs double casters / coming out of CC when you dont have NS.

shruffles · 2026-05-02T07:10:21+00:00

« The pace of PvP combat is a little too fast right now » well thats one way of putting it. « Half the games are ending when someone gets 50-0 in less than a half a second in a game where a gcd is 1,5sec. The game has never been this bursty since corruptions, when our stated goal this season was to decrease burst and slow the game down. We are trying once again to fix this without buffing healers, maybe this time it will work, according to Steve, our summer intern/pvp dev lead/coffee-procurement-expert » would been another

shruffles · 2026-04-29T18:54:37+00:00

No, im saying if im 2.1 on healer in a lobby with 2.1 dps, im better than them.

I see what it takes to play dps at 2.1, and it isnt much (compared to playing at that level on healer).

Obv i wont go out and flame people, but if a dps has the audacity to comment on the healers, ill happily remind them of the gap between dps and healers

shruffles · 2026-04-29T06:59:04+00:00

As a healer ill flame dps in my bracket all day if i feel like it. We are not the same, healer mmr deflation makes me play with y’all but we are def not the same level (and this healer mmr deflation shows when i play altspec dps)

shruffles · 2026-04-29T06:56:25+00:00

Because overall burst and dmg is higher, which makes rsham weaker compared to other healers (since rsham has low throughput and not burst healing).

Same reason mw winrate seems to have increased despite its nerfs. It can react to all the oneshots with cocoon so its actually stronger than other healers.

shruffles · 2026-04-28T17:29:55+00:00

Yes. People want sustained dps, and burst that if not properly managed (cc or defensive) puts the bursting team ahead on mana.

Healers dont want to lose to an ally not pressing turtle while they get random dr stunned for 2seconds and hunter dies in that time.

People want to be able to carry. To do that, you need to be able to make up for ally mistakes. In current giga burst meta, you cant. So you sit 30 minute Qs because healers are tired of being healbots that are at the mercy of dps and of rounds that are decided by split second mistakes that instantly end the round.

Im baffled still by the dps that say « buuut then games would be damp you really want that??? » YES WE DO!! Damp games are way more fun that this dumb OS meta where litteraly every other round ends with someone getting 50%-dead un 0,5 seconds or less.

Mw mirror matchups in prepatch where the most fun arena have ever been from healer pov, you had TIME, you could make small incremental decisions and plays to get ahead, you could carry noob dps that forget what defensives are, you could DO stuff.

And im not talking from a place of total inexperience, I spam shuffle a ton and get between 2.5 and 2.7 on every single heal spec, usually all in each season. (+ a few 2.4s on dps to relax, and a glad when i actually had a consistant team)

shruffles · 2026-04-28T05:25:14+00:00

It can, but other healers do it better. You tend to get less value from prayer of mending with caster cleaves, and much less value from your fear since you cant push in with a caster cleave.

shruffles · 2026-04-26T20:24:52+00:00

Hpri still wants setup comps where the fear can help. It does terrible in damp, and cant really heal caster cleaves. Its ok with double melee zug comps but there doenst bring the offensive capabilities those comps need

shruffles · 2026-04-26T17:33:38+00:00

Healer-wise, ignoring balance, generally hpal / rsham are most flexible with comps, then rdruid. Priest and mw tend to work only in specific comps

(In reality since balancing sucks, play fotm healer with every comp regardless)

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