Gee, Thanks Priests! /glare
Now, this has been mentioned by other places already, but it got my leaves rustled enough to chime in myself. If you’re still unsure what exactly I’m talkin about here, it is a statement from Ghostcrawler on the blizzard forums that a nerf is incoming for Circle of Healing and Wild Growth.
Circle of Healing and Wild Growth are definitely on our radar. This would be a good time to discuss them.
Our concern is that they are turning two classes with a large arsenal of healing spells into single-button healers. Meanwhile, ironically, the other two healing classes have fewer heals to use in the first place.
We have seen raid parses where 75 to 90% of a priest’s healing is through CoH. It’s a good spell, useful in a variety of situations. But I think you can understand our concern.
A Priest said to us the other day “Please nerf Circle of Healing so I can push another button!” He’s even thinking of going Disc.
Now, while trying to remain as objective as I can here, I can certainly see his point about CoH. I can. I’ve ran with enough CoH priests in various circumstances now to know that there is definitely an issue here, where CoH becomes the generic i-win button for almost any situation presented to them. But I honestly don’t see the same problem with Wild Growth. I haven’t as yet seen any Druids – myself included – use it as their faceroll button of choice. It just isn’t worth it. Yeah, it is handy to cover people when there is raid wide damage as a fast – but small – tick while you get some more serious heals into play.
But there is the difference! With Wild Growth; there is something else to follow it other than more Wild Growth. I don’t see how the story given about priests there can be so directly tied to WG. It is just rediculously mana inefficient to even consider spamming WG because we wouldn’t see anything remotely close to it’s full heal potential. CoH of course, being a full heal burst, well, that’s another story.
So that’s definitely got me gritting my teeth a little. Nerfs for good reason? Sure, I’ll take those and not QQ over them a great deal. But I really can’t see how these two can be struck with the same bat this way. Does anyone actually heal this way? Has anyone seen another druid heal this way? Was it really all that effective to spam Wild Growth to the exclusion of other heals 75-90% of the time? I could maybe see this working overgeared through a normal instance as a sort of ‘lolrun’. But in a heroic or raid environment? Really?
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