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Today I discovered what paradigm-shifting spell that Prayer of Mending actually is. It's not readily apparent how powerful this spell is on first read of the description but with a little experimentation, it becomes apparent that this heal is going to become a class-defining ability once people learn how to use it.
First a little fact sheet:
* Has two talents to reduce its cost. Fully talented it costs 273 mana.
* With the correct talents and about 900 healing from gear it heals for about 1350 per charge.
* If all five charges are consumed, it gets a total of 215% from bonus healing.
* Threat applies to the player healed, caster receives zero threat.
* A single charge has the same efficiency of a flash heal and is more efficient if talented.
* Jumps to the person with the lowest percent health in group/raid within range (I'm 80% sure on this, needs testing)
All taken together, it's a spammable, threat-redirecting, efficient, intelligent, medium-throughput heal. Quite simply, it is amazing. I've taken to solely using PoM for the first 20-30 seconds of large pulls. I spam it on the tank as fast as it gets consumed. After about 20 seconds it's very difficult for me to pull agro. It doesn't quite have the throughput to keep a tank up if you're the primary healer in a heroic or if you're doing Karazhan, but in regular 5 mans, or if you're raid healing in a 25 man, or if you're the secondary healer, it is absolute godmode.
The question isn't whether this is an insanely useful spell, but if all its effects are intended and if not, which and when will they be nerfed.
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