Originally Posted by Kortar
The major problem I see is with Spirit Link. Conceptually, this is a great idea. Functionally, it seems like it might work well. From a balance standpoint, it's a nightmare.
If Spirit Link can actually have near 100% uptime on a raid tank, it becomes a mandatory ability in a large raid. On the other hand, if Spirit Link has near 100% uptime on a 5-man instance tank, it means that Resto Shaman will need to have horribly underpowered single target healing to compensate - and this would cause Shaman to be crippled in PvP where you can simply dispel the Spirit Link. If you put a cooldown on it, it starts to look like just another "panic button".
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I agree with Dal. From a 5 man & pvp stand point its ok. For G's its not a huge issue, for arena...well I dont arena so I have no idea.
For 25 mans though I could see it becoming an issue, mainly because no other class has a similar ability. It does seem to be something that you either plan raid encounters around or you dont. If you dont I could see it becoming a crutch on encounters with high burst, if it is then you are screwed on those same encounters if you dont have one. The only way to really remove SL as a crutch in my mind would be the raid spike to increase even further making it break all the time. Which would make it useless in raids.
If not, 1 resto shaman will be required for every 25 man. Not a horrible thing for me as I will always have a spot. but look at how hard it is for people now to get resto's.... then again it would only require a single resto which most guilds can put out even on alliance side so maybe it would not be so bad.