Warning from my previous experiences facing healers balanced around PvE.

simply put; they end up mandatory. a grp with a healer cannot lose in pvp againt a grp with out one.
i'm active on new world and the current meta is anti heal proc on everything.
it was true in dark age of camelot 20 years ago and it's still an issue today.

love you, cant wait for the alpha.

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Depraved

why is that an issue?
support +dd >> 2 dd
nothing wrong with that.

Effah

because their is one healer class and 7 non healers. do the maths and see how many combination of classes would rather sit in town than get farmed. this is easily fixable by balancing healing differently in pvp and pve. a healer is not supposed to heal the final boss of a 30 man raid AND a grp m8 for the same amount?

daveywavey

Up to now, they've seemed to want mixed groups of players running content together. If your group isn't mixed enough, then go find the classes you're missing.

Effah

that's anti fun, i want 4 people to beat 4 lesser player by being better rather than who has the perfect composition. i'm so tired of sitting in town waiting for that holy trinity. Do it for pve no problem but dont ruin my pvp experience by being intellectually lazy. with that mindset no wonder people just wait for the bigger zerg and actualy never fight.

Kilion

The "solution" or partial workaround that Intrepid offers to groups without healers for whatever reason is augmentation. Augment your primary archetype with a cleric to access healing effects on your dmg oriented abilities.
Of course you won't become a full heal character, but that was never the intent.

Archetypes in Ashes become impactful and unique by offering upsides other archetypes can not offer at all or remotely to the level that specific archetype can. Going without a primary tank will equally result in massive disadvantages, so will having no ranged DDs.

Enigmatic Sage

Combat should be about proper pacing and strategy. If the players are sponges and the healer role is a bottomless water hydrant than the combat just becomes wet sponge warfare that relies heavily on CC and interrupts.

Effah

that's awesome but i'm afraid of that cleric 'type' that dominates every game.

Depraved

P0GG0 wrote: »

because their is one healer class and 7 non healers. do the maths and see how many combination of classes would rather sit in town than get farmed. this is easily fixable by balancing healing differently in pvp and pve. a healer is not supposed to heal the final boss of a 30 man raid AND a grp m8 for the same amount?

well, each party would have their own healer in a raid...

if you lower the heals, then parties would add more healers instead of 1... support classes are less played than dps, and on top of that, there are more dps classes than healer classes, so 7:1 is a good thing if you want a healer in every party.

also pvp and pve are combined. you wont be just doing a boss, you will be doing a boss and pvping with the same build and possibly at the same time. but maybe some skills / augments could give you more or less healing depending on whether you are in pvp state or not

Effah

Enigmatic Sage wrote: »

Combat should be about proper pacing and strategy. If the players are sponges and the healer role is a bottomless water hydrant than the combat just becomes wet sponge warfare that relies heavily on CC and interrupts.

healer are over tuned in every game. most fight revolve around protecting the healer until he out heals all you're irrelevant dmg.

hleV

They just gotta do CCs right and 2DPS vs 1DPS+1Heal will be viable. Not sure if they intend to balance it for 2v2 though, and for 3v3+ you'll obviously want a healer, but if you can't get one then hopefully CC can overcome it.

Depraved

P0GG0 wrote: »

Enigmatic Sage wrote: »

Combat should be about proper pacing and strategy. If the players are sponges and the healer role is a bottomless water hydrant than the combat just becomes wet sponge warfare that relies heavily on CC and interrupts.

healer are over tuned in every game. most fight revolve around protecting the healer until he out heals all you're irrelevant dmg.

the alternative is bdo, no healers and everybody is a dps, or everybody can heal, dps and tank and we have another gw2.

there are games with the trinity, and games without it. this one has it.

we could say the same about tanks. why wait 3 hours in town looking for a tank to do a boss, i should be able to kill every boss, even the strongest boss, without a tank. its not fair the tank can survive the boss swing and i cant, and the tank kills my glass cannon dps in 1v1 and i need to bring 2 other people to beat him, etc. etc.

no one is forcing you to use a healer in pvp, you could just go with 8 dps.

also, your logic could be applied to hey i should be able to have 8 rogues in a party and aoe farm as fast as any mage. i should thave to wait an hour in town to get a mage. my 8 rogue party should be able to aoe kill everything and also own in pvp .

Depraved

hleV wrote: »

They just gotta do CCs right and 2DPS vs 1DPS+1Heal will be viable. Not sure if they intend to balance it for 2v2 though, and for 3v3+ you'll obviously want a healer, but if you can't get one then hopefully CC can overcome it.

balance is around 8 people parties

Effah

answer this, why is it fun to get 1 healer 1 cc 1 dmg every time you move out ? does that make ur experience better ?

daveywavey

P0GG0 wrote: »

that's anti fun, i want 4 people to beat 4 lesser player by being better rather than who has the perfect composition. i'm so tired of sitting in town waiting for that holy trinity. Do it for pve no problem but dont ruin my pvp experience by being intellectually lazy. with that mindset no wonder people just wait for the bigger zerg and actualy never fight.

I've played games where two very good players have wiped my group that had a couple of healers, just because they were that good. Skill and experience will generally outmatch most things.

Depraved

P0GG0 wrote: »

answer this, why is it fun to get 1 healer 1 cc 1 dmg every time you move out ? does that make ur experience better ?

it does. im playing cleric

what if everybody is dps? no strategy lol just combo and dodge and basically play solo in a party

Effah

daveywavey wrote: »

I've played games where two very good players have wiped my group that had a couple of healers, just because they were that good. Skill and experience will generally outmatch most things.

what game was it and how was the healing balanced ? i'm not arguing for the sake of arguing i want people to be creative and learn from the past.
also did thoes competitive players have a healer of their own ? if yes you just proving my point.

Enigmatic Sage

P0GG0 wrote: »

Enigmatic Sage wrote: »

Combat should be about proper pacing and strategy. If the players are sponges and the healer role is a bottomless water hydrant than the combat just becomes wet sponge warfare that relies heavily on CC and interrupts.

healer are over tuned in every game. most fight revolve around protecting the healer until he out heals all you're irrelevant dmg.

You should in a way be protecting your healer regardless of role. It's usually common strategy just as the tank mitigates and intervenes primarily. If your team mates over reach outside of their role, it can go south quick.

Enigmatic Sage

I will add on to it though by saying secondary archetypes with current unknown variables for augments, we could see a wide range of defensives and heals across the group compositions.

Depraved

also, the alternative is a potion spamfest instead of healers, which is even worse. now you win because you have more/stronger potions, not because you are better or more coordinated.

Effah

wont change the fact that the cleric will be able to heal heavy atacks from lillith and dominate pvp by healing the same value.

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