That won't be "slightly too good", that will be borderline OP. Also i think it's very hard to code it that way. If blizzard will add chain heal to imp. water shield talent, 15-20 sec cd will be needed.

I like your Riptide suggestion though.

OP, nah, to good with CH ? maybe, but thats easy to fix by increasing the mana cost of CH again some to offset the very big chance of a CH critting.

15-20sec cooldown ? lol. We're talking about 400 (430 talented) mana, with a 20 sec cooldown it's down to around 95mp5, not that much for our main mana regeneration system.

All the internal cooldown should do is make sure one CH can't trigger multiple globes, nothing more.

Oh I was under the impression that's what I was trying to get across. I think I'll edit the original tool-tip I wrote up to make sure this is the case.

After some thought about Riptide I will post my own idea here.

Riptide (Rank 4)
12% of base mana - 40 yd range
Instant cast - 6 sec cooldown
Heals a friendly target for 2315 to 2599. Riptide also fully recharge the casters elemental shield.

1. We get an good emergency heal.
2. The initial heal will get the full spellpower coefficient, thus scaling much better.
3. It refreshs our current elemental shield. Most of the time, this will be Water Shield. But it should also work with Earth Shield or Lighting Shield. We are using an precious GCD to top heal someone instead of just refreshing our Water Shield.

Riptide should be still affected by "Improved Water Shield" and "Tidal Waves".

Reading GC's recent replies to the beta forums makes me very nervous about the class designers.

And it definitely pushes me further away from resto.

The original Spirit Link had several issues. Links transferred huge amounts of damage, thus could cause the linked targets to die. This caused all kinds of special conditions to be put in place to break the links. This just made the spell overly complicated to implement. It was too powerful in PVP. It was undispellable, broke CC and worked at any distance once linked.

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Spirit Link v2:
Protects the target with a Spirit Link. Incoming damage is shared with up to five nearby group members, 5% per player. If shared damage would cause player to die, damage is not shared to that player.
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Coding-wise, this uses almost the same logic as CH or CoH, only in reverse. Make the range the same as Chain Heal (5 yards?). Adjust the numbers to balance as needed.

In PVP, make the buff dispellable. Also, due to the 5yd range, it won't break CC all of the time.

I said it needs an internal cooldown IF IWS would work with CH, plz read

I'm wondering that myself.

Blizzard giveth raid mobillity, and Blizzard taketh away. Now we're back where we started. Great.

I have an idea : Whirlwind doing Shield Dmg as well.

That mean the Prot Warrior while not tanking can jump to Beserker Stance, doing Shield Slam, Devastate and Whirlwind dmg with a 1H weapon and a Shield

The idea that Dev team trying to make Fury mean hit stuffs with 2 Weapon, Prot = hit stuff with a Shield is nice, but currently Prot warrior DPSing while not tanking rely on Devastate and Heroic Strike only and plus Warrior DW 2 1H weapon for DPS while not tanking.

When Whirlwind, the Warrior twisting around and hit stuff with both of his weapon, and Shield Slam can count as a Weapon as well. Whirlwind will do Shield Block Value dmg(as weapon dmg) , dmg from a Shield with Whirlwind will be lower than Shield Slam dmg and Whirldwind don't have 15% Extra Crit from Talent, so this new change to Whirlwind to do Shield Dmg and Weapon won't make the DPS from Prot Warrior too OP.

Just some extra nice Idea about hitting stuff hard and harder with Shield as Prot Warrior.

This is just plain wrong. BM will probably still reign supreme and survival will be the gimp side-spec for those who want a different play style. MM burns mana like a bushfire. Nonconstructive as this comment may be - fuck this.