
Originally Posted by
Menaace
Now that a warrior can 3-shot a cleric, PvP is balanced?
In a balanced game, a cleric should be able to solo heal against anyone 1v1, because that's his only job is to heal. If he can't heal through your damage all things being equal, then it's unbalanced. People should have to 1.3 or 1.5 v 1 to down a healer. That's one guy full dps and another guy half dps. That way it promotes teamwork to kill healers, not button mashing.
Besides that being the way to give healers clout, DPS are balanced when each can kill each other 1v1 easily with the winning factors based on who's CD's/reactive abilities are up, and who is more talented of a player. And on that note, DPS was balanced between mages and rogues, but warriors were under par slightly, now they are over par, and unbalanced in that any warrior can beat any mage 1v1 in almost all circumstances no matter the mage build, unless I blow all my CD's including heat wave on you, you will kill me.
Rift's PvP was balanced in 1.7, and warriors just needed a boost to add to the DPS to make clerics die faster, not giving them a mega boost AND reducing heals... that was a bad choice. In 1.7, where it took two people to kill a healer, that was the way it should be. The 5v5's were challenging and to win was to have to time and coordinate 2-3 cooldowns at once with your teammates which made victory less button mashing and gear, and more who had the better teamwork. MMAC never lost to any one particular 5-man consistently, and the other top 5-mans always put on very good shows and would beat us as much as we'd beat them. Victory would be random based on who outsmarted who on a particular choice or two, not "who has more warriors"
You want to know what the ideal 1.8 team is now?
Chloro w/synth, blight on focus target
MM to eradicate
3 Warriors.
That smashed through a team I was on which was 2 clerics, 2 chloro's and a warrior like we were made of tissue paper. Clerics have no reason to play this game anymore, and they aren't
Oh, and your comment on where do you want to see PvP go from here? To GW2. In about 45 minutes. Have fun in Rift you can 3-shot bads all day long. It's time for warriors to shine, but they will be the only star left in a vast emptiness of space of what could have been the greatest PvP game ever made, if the content supported it.
#1 in Diamond, and bored with this game's zero PvP content
-Menaace (GM of MMAC), NA's first Defiant annihilator in wPvP
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