Return of Reckoning

The game was at its most fun and exciting before the content-specific rewards for Ranked, Cities, and scenarios were removed.

Since then, the overall quality of the game has gone sharply downhill, with no brakes in sight.

I had hoped that the game would improve during my two-year break, but that ...

The Choppa is far superior to the Slayer. It has more wounds and the "Get to the Choppa" ability breaks up order formations, preventing them from building morale in critical moments or from escaping them in open terrain.

But slayer is cooler


No no no no, the choppa isn't "far superior". Both ...

The Choppa is far superior to the Slayer. It has more wounds and the "Get to the Choppa" ability breaks up order formations, preventing them from building morale in critical moments or from escaping them in open terrain.

But slayer is cooler

The data of this weekend


Weekly Shield WP data


Period covered: 02/07 to 06/07
Raw uploaded entries: 302

Main sample, players with 4+ valid entries:

* Entries: 256
* Players: 9

Low-sample valid entries:

* Entries: 11
* Players: 4


Percent columns:


Heal% = Heal/min compared to the ...

Good question.

The percentages are not compared to the top healer.

They are compared to the averaged performance of all other Order healers in the same scenarios.

The elephant in the room here is the underlying assumption that shield specs are designed around scenario gameplay (when I would argue in large part they aren't).
In my eyes, when the healer rework dropped, the shield DOK/WP got transformed into an orvr/city spec when it previously was a 6v6 ...

In the detailed SC data, the shield WP is the highlighted row. I will refer to that character only as “the shield WP” to keep the comparison focused on the build and its performance, not on the player.


- Of course, the quality of data matters
- Of course, Player Skill matters
- Of course ...

If that shield WP had played as a book WP with RR83 and Sov gear:

He would have healed much more simply because book healing is more stable and has a higher critical rate. Keep in mind that the almost BiS shield WP only did 7k more healing than an RR67 book WP using Onslaught.
He would have freed ...

The state of melee healers is pathetic right now.

They heal too little, survive too poorly, deal too little damage, bring no real utility to the group, require a tank permanently by their side, and still die far too often.

Although the DoK version is much better than the WP one, they are still ...

The state of melee healers is pathetic right now.

They heal too little, survive too poorly, deal too little damage, bring no real utility to the group, require a tank permanently by their side, and still die far too often.

Although the DoK version is much better than the WP one, they are still far ...