Originally Posted by madrix
I can think of a dozen or so fights that this could help, including bruttalis tanks and burn victims. Illidan, council, bloodboil, ect ect ect. It is about toning down burst damage. It will not kill the targets it gets chained to (as the damage max is not enough to do so.) But the idea of having a tank taking 6K+ less damage bursted, instantly is very promising.
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I've already made my point about bloodboil, sans using it on tanks. Of the rest of things you mention only council strikes me as a fight where the skill would actually be useful on. Brutallus can simply destroy a tank, so if your tanks are using CDs reactively on stomps they're probably not very good at this game to begin with and SL won't save them. Otherwise though, wasting a GCD on moving 2200 damage to soakers is just as bad as dropping a LHW at best, death to someone at worst.
It's a mostly useless ability still. It should be replaced by warlock type buff placable on someone with a sizable duration instead of a cap. Then at least it will serve its purpose on the gimmick encounters.
Uncontrollably spreading extra raid damage around in encounters like those that are in sunwell screams terrible. In the end you aren't actually healing anyone, you're just spreading the damage around and getting farther behind with each cast of SL.
It does give resto shamans an awesome new edge in pvp though. Except that I would bet money its dispellable.