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Healing Pressure

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487 Messages excluding OP
26 Participants unique contributors
71 Reactions thread total
7 Primary asks Balance Change / Multiple

Summary and sentiment

The short read before diving into the detailed asks and evidence.

Overall summary

Players are debating whether healing itself is too strong or whether the underlying issue is uncapped Damage Reduction (DR) combined with the Blitz OS.

A vocal faction of experienced medic and bulwark mains argues that base healing hive output is actually weak (30k HP/s), and that the true culprit is DR stacking above 70–90% making players nearly unkillable.

A smaller faction — mostly NA-based casual DPS players — insists medics and tanks are genuinely unkillable and healing needs a nerf. Both sides ultimately converge on two interventions: cap DR and nerf or rework the Blitz OS.

Sentiment read

The thread is split along player archetype lines rather than a clean nerf-vs-defend divide. Experienced medic and bulwark mains (Ventz, Caelan, Rezo, jim, xwrath) consistently argue that healing hive output is genuinely bad and the "immortal" feeling comes from DR stacking and the Blitz OS — not from heals.

They are frustrated that less informed players conflate the two issues.

On the other side, casual DPS players from NA (agent.nene, deviantsandman, sedoidead, ifozzy) report genuinely unkillable medics and tanks from lived PvP experience and feel dismissed.

A notable geographic fault line runs through the thread: EU and Asia players describe a min-maxed environment where everyone runs high DR and medics are challenging but counterable. NA players describe a server where 700k HP medics solo-rogue the entire zone.

Both groups are accurately describing their regional experience. Emotional tone is engaged debate with occasional friction but no major hostility. Several players express genuine enjoyment of the medic role and concern that overzealous nerfs will destroy it.

Primary asks

Actionable requests extracted from the synthesis.

#01
Balance

Cap Damage Reduction at a hard ceiling (commonly cited: 50%)

Raised by
MaxStriker
Echoed by
Caelan, Ventz, Rezo, JD, JB, Sedoidead, @deviantsandman
#02
Balance

Nerf or rework the Blitz OS — it provides 15% max HP healing and is the primary reason medics feel unkillable, not the base healing hive

Raised by
Ventz
Echoed by
Rezo, mt0386, @ifozzy., @deviantsandman, MaxStriker
#03
Balance

Remove or nerf the Unflinching talent — its 2-second cooldown self-heal makes anyone using it nearly impossible to kill

Raised by
@ifozzy.
Echoed by
@deviantsandman, Ventz
#04
Bug / Balance

Fix post-revive damage immunity — revived players should not be able to attack while immune; revive should have escalating bleed-out (PUBG model) or immunity should drop when the revived player takes any aggressive action

Raised by
mt0386
Echoed by
JB, Xwrath
#05
New Feature / Balance

Give Pharma (Tactical Pharma / Oxi Medic) anti-heal effect on its gas cloud to counter tanky medic/bulwark builds

Raised by
mt0386
Echoed by
(discussed positively in context, no explicit second)
#06
QoL

Add a post-game stat sheet or combat log so players can verify which talents and skills actually function in PvP

Raised by
@deviantsandman
Echoed by
Ventz
#07
Balance

Buff medic healing output if/when DR is capped and Blitz is nerfed — base heals are already borderline useless and any nerf without a compensating buff will make the class unplayable

Raised by
Ventz
Echoed by
JD, Caelan

Community voices

Representative comments preserved from the synthesis.

Voice 01 Discord message
Healing isnt the problem james, its the revive. 2 medic in a squad and its near impossible to end them, unless you take out both medic. Revive imo should be like pubg. You bleed faster with each time you get knocked out. Healing stats is bonkers too. 70% healing recieved only went from 12k to 14k
mt0386 Jun 3, 2026 2 reactions
Why it matters

Most upvoted player message; reframes the actual balance problem (revive + DR, not raw healing) and supplies a concrete solution model.

Voice 02 Discord message
Healing is not too much. People are confusing healing with damage reduction. Same with blitz, it's not the OS, it's the damage reduction that's the issue.
Rezo Jun 3, 2026
Why it matters

Crystallises the core technical argument: healing numbers are fine, DR is the multiplier that makes them feel broken.

Voice 03 Discord message
Pretty stupid to say it's the healing. It's 100% the damage reduction that's why they can sustain themselves with healing.
Caelan Jun 4, 2026
Why it matters

A medic main with 78% DR confirms DR is the enabler — significant because it comes from a class advocate, not a detractor.

Voice 04 Discord message
put a hard cap on DR% and everybody become killable
MaxStriker Jun 3, 2026 1 reactions
Why it matters

Simplest, most actionable formulation of the central ask.

Dev notes

Editorial synthesis for developer review.

The thread's headline ask — "healing is too strong" — is contested by the most technically informed participants, who demonstrate with actual numbers that base healing hive output (30k HP/s) is weak compared to any class's DPS.

The actual problems identified are: uncapped DR reaching 70–90% that reduces incoming damage below the heal threshold; the Blitz OS providing 15% max HP healing every few seconds (an enormous burst at 500k–1M HP); and post-revive damage immunity that creates near-unkillable scenarios when two medics run together.

There is meaningful consensus on the DR cap. Virtually every participant, including medic mains, acknowledges DR is too high and a hard cap around 50% would be healthy. This is the highest-confidence, lowest-controversy ask in the thread.

The Blitz OS nerf has strong support but with an important caveat: if Blitz is nerfed, base medic healing must be buffed to compensate — otherwise medics lose the only thing making them competitive and become the worst healer in the game, outperformed by tech operators.

The thread surfaces a data quality issue for developers: the NA vs. EU/Asia experience is genuinely different. NA players fighting low-min-max opponents face medics who seem immortal because no one on their server runs Target Acquisition or Vanguard Pulse.

EU and Asia players use fully optimized counters and find medics manageable. Any balance change needs to specify which experience it is targeting — what fixes NA casual balance may further nerf specs that are already counterable in the competitive meta.

The Unflinching talent is flagged independently from the medic class. It is available to bulwarks and any toughness build, operates on a 2-second cooldown, and several players argue removing it entirely would address immortality builds without touching class-specific skills at all.

The revive mechanic complaint is structurally the simplest to fix: removing post-revive damage immunity when a player takes any aggressive action would directly address the "two medics = unkillable squad" complaint without adjusting healing numbers. Developers should consider this as a targeted intervention before broader rebalancing.