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Balancing is different in a MMORPG. And one person having fun really doesn't tell a lot. The point is that when it's done in team games, usually it ends up frustrating most players.
Like say a MOBA had a hero who had a 30% winrate. There might be plenty of mains who don't mind at all and find the hero fun and good. But the stats from a million games tells a better story than anecdotal experiences.
edit remember that in an mmorpg, everyone in a pvp scenario already has a ton of experience in the game, whereas with a moba, you haven't necessarily played one character through hundreds of hours of grinding.
I still think it's okay to have high skill ceiling classes though. It's one reason dota2 Invoker was so popular for example.
They could probably add one healer in a moba or team shooter that has a complicated but rewarding game play.
I never implied otherwise.
But you can't really have 100% healers and 100% tanks who can't deal damage in teamgames like mobas and shooters.
That's why Mercy has a gun, even when it is very rarely used.
Like think about this this way; you couldn't really have a champion who couldn't heal at all either, and did "100% damage". Like, if you did insane amounts of damage, but only had a certain amount of health and no way of getting it back.
It's not exactly the same, of course, but it does highlight something that could sort of never work. (Never say never, but, you know...)