I'm not saying we need the healer name binds back, I just think we need a new system. The biggest issue is that you can't find this new bind stuff in game. With how much has been made accessible in game, a small info window for this would be a great start. At the end of the day, we need to avoid this DPS meta we are falling into. Especially where some classes are completely unbalanced to this new clicking system (IE: Runeblade)
That's not a issue of the system, that's just lack of information from the server to players. The binding configurations should be posted at the Tutorial Dungeon.
We're in this DPS/Caster meta because of the 1.9 clicking system. Melee users are just simply outclassed by magic users. Classes like Runeblade can make up for this 1.9 clicking system because there damage doesn't come from melee, it's from their runes.
This type of system would even make it way harder for healers to heal. Not only does the Healer have to find the intended target in the middle of a PvP group fight cluster, the healer actually has to be able to get close to the target. And you may be thinking, "Well, that's easy. Just sprint right up to them with the W and Sprint key and pop your heal." But in an actual group fight scenario, no one would be standing still. Everyone would be moving around, including your intended target to heal. And of course, you're not gonna get a free bypass to your target. You're gonna get hit by skills and melee hits trying to get to your target.
1. This can bring some income to Wizards; however, like every map, there will always be that one wizard who undercuts everyone and brings the price down. But personally, I think the ability to warp to spawn for professions should remain. It would get annoying spending more than 10 minutes sprinting to hero gates or spawn. Also, with our custom terrain, there are a lot more humongous mountains and hills that are just a pain to go over.
1. No. Necromancer already has really good damage and decent sustain, with an AoE blind and silence.
Speed pots were removed because they directly take away from Heroes. People would avoid using their speed skill so it wouldn't mess with the speed pot. Provided certain advantages to some classes, so on so forth.
1. I have played Necromancer this map and it is easily one of the strongest classes right now. It's a class that you can actually use to kill max level players as a Necromancer below level 30. Its damage may not seem much, but thats because most of its damage is DoTs so you don't notice the "burst" too much. To give you an idea, 2 bonespears + decay + plague + drain soul is enough to get me half HP as dragoon.
If we are gonna make it so Accelerando does not break in combat, I think Speed 1 is the highest buff we can give it to. I know Speed 1's effect is barely noticeable, but at the same time Speed 2 puts way too big of an advantage. But I guess we could make it Speed 2 but low duration.
Also why disciple is the only real healer getting played a lot, only 1 targeted heal that really is only used on self most of the time.
There is already a whole massive thread about the 1.9 attack speed and what we got was a 'not going to happen'. For such a big change that drives a lot of people away, it wont be reverted even considering the new system is not giving anything 'good' to us.
I like the system, it just needs some heavy changes to heroes to work right.
Sadly heavy changes to fix all the problems with the attack speed requires reworking close to every class that uses attack speed so it fits and flows well, Runeblade being the exception. Why stick with a system that will require a lot of work on everything to keep things together instead of setting all attack speed to a reasonable value (like being able to swing 8 times in a second, the average click speed someone will get)
It's cuz Disciple's kit is overloaded, CC, heals, self sustain, damage, disruption. It's a jack of all trades that ends up out classing some classes when it really shouldn't (See Druid)
some members have good intentions but others just join the team to keep their favorite class in favor/OP. Hell even Pugglez knows it and yet they don't care. Kainzo doesn't care about the Balance Team nor the current state of classes because he doesn't even know his own Heroes classes. I'm not trying to flame him, but it's true; to know the classes and meta you have to play the game and he simply doesn't have time for it.
Like you said it yourself, "sometimes change isn't good." And the 1.9 attack system is one of those changes that isn't good. Since you bring up the subject of the "old feel of Herocraft that everyone loved," if you look at the previous maps back then, you would notice that most things were very simple. No complicated or complex plugins and content. If you ask many PvPers what maps they enjoyed the most when it comes to PvP activity, majority would say either Dragonrade or Bastion. And in either those maps, classes were also simple. PvP was fast-paced and simple. No attributes and no enchanted gear. If you lose to someone in a duel, you lose fairly. No overpowered gear to put your excuses to; and best of all you instantly got to keep their stuff as there were no death chests. With 1.9 attack system, you just lose that fast paced PvP feeling when your a melee class. In a group fight right now with the 1.9 attack system, there are so many skills being used and so many things happening, but as a melee user you're in a fight trying to time your hits and it just feels so slow and awkward compared to how much is happening in the group fight.