Because of the damage creep throughout the game, self healing has also increased exponentially as well. This is because your healing tool tips are bound to your WD/SD. So DDs actually have more raw healing compared to healer builds, who usually build for more sustain and resistance, rather than damage. So with increased self healing coupled with everyone and their mother using a resto to stack h.o.ts makes it very difficult for non damage builds to even make an impact on a DD's health bar. This is also why they can also heal themselves from 25% to full from one self heal and then turn around and give you a good smack. In regards to healers, I think that because of these factors their role has changed as well. A little extra healing is nice, but not usually needed. Healers are more appreciated for their abilities to buff their allies, to help with their sustain, and to purge negative effects (Although with PB even that's tricky to do) more than anything these days.

I agree, the healing in this game is out of control and I fear it might get worse with players now being able to pull from both mag and stam heals via the hybrid changes. I don't think nerfing is healing is the solution, but i think separating it from SD/WD and joining it to your max mag/stam pool would help. That way DDs wouldn't get free high healing tool tips with their damage. Instead, healers building for larger stat pools would. And as a result, healers would have more of an identity again.

All I know is, something changed in the past few weeks for me in BGs. My character's gear hasn't changed at all, but I'm now dying a lot faster, usually within 2-3 seconds of engaging with an enemy if there's a stun involved. Breaking stun actually takes time, and by the time I break my stun it's too late. My heals actually seem to be just about as effective as they were, but I guess what I'm noticing now is that I'm dying much faster than before, so I'm overall less effective as a healer.

If there was a damage creep, I don't like it. Whatever they did, it ruined whatever semblance of balance existed prior to the change in my view. Upping overall damage was not the answer, if anything just rebalance certain classes or abilities that were OP and don't just increase overall damage output of everyone.

Mulgorrah wrote: »

All I know is, something changed in the past few weeks for me in BGs. .

Have there been any updates affecting this in the past few weeks? That is the first place to look if something recently changed.

Mulgorrah wrote: »

As a healer during the pvp event in BGs, I was usually top 1 or 2 spot on my team. Now I'm around the bottom, which is evidence enough for me that whatever they did broke my gameplay. I recall they've done something like this before years ago and it made me leave pvp for a long ass time.

Couple of things could have happened. Both involve the level of competition. Might have been PvEers doing the event and now you are getting PvPers. Or you moved up in the little background rating system. Probably both as there probably is only one tier worth of players playing now that the event is over.

Get ready for the next patch too. It's going to be even more annoying and insane.

Nothing better than 2-3 Templars running Major/Minor Courage and Powerful Assault between themselves.

12k Jabs hitting you plus Burning light of 6k is pretty much instant death. Good luck healing through that.