Restoration WotLK Talent Preview / Discussion - Page 27

Logros · 10/31/08, 3:58 PM

Originally Posted by Lord BEEF

100ish more spell power from gear

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The main part of it though was simply not getting enough healing out of the spells I cast. Lifebloom and wild growth just aren't giving enough bang for the buck. The mana cost on them is fine, the amount healed is not, which means I have to cast more heals than I should.

Are we sure this isn't mainly just a gear issue? I mean right now on live people are running 70 heroics in gear that is far beyond 70 heroics - when you first hit a heroic like this in TBC live with your blue/whatever gear, wouldn't you have been strapped to heal then as well, with no battery and missing some buffs, and felt like your heals didn't heal for enough?

I'm all for buffing the class I play and I'm still reading the thread, and there are alot of valid concerns gear won't fix, but I always take a wait and see approach when there are any complaints about throughput and mana, which seem to be gear problems more than balance problems.

Anaram · 11/04/08, 1:27 AM

Originally Posted by Raised

This also could extend into tanks, requiring even more use of stopcasting for Priests and Pallies because they can't afford to waste mana by keeping a tank constantly topped off and risk substancial over-healing. With no crushings anymore, perhaps tanks will float around 80% health as their normal value rather than the 95%+ that current encounters need to avoid RNG gibbing of the tank.

I'm fairly sure this won't happen (except in isolated situations which you also had in TBC). Mana management was much more of an issue in vanilla wow than it is in Wotlk and people were still keeping the tank topped up. In

Raid healing with hots might happen, however - old Sapphiron was much like that. That said, the balance is extremely fragile. Rejuvenation with idol and set bonus is is brutally efficient compared to any other single-target heal (and even AoE heals other than Wild Growth) - balancing between healer classes can easily turn out to be totally messed.

Toolzy · 11/06/08, 2:45 PM

Hi. I'm new so I can't really make new threads yet. I'm sorry if I am posting possibly in the wrong thread but it's related in general. I just wanted to know if anyone has an idea if living seed works properly now on the live 3.0.3 patch. I was trying to test it out last night but I couldn't get a crit heal before I was completely healed. =\ Please let me know.

thank you.

Lord BEEF · 11/06/08, 4:25 PM

Originally Posted by Logros

Are we sure this isn't mainly just a gear issue? I mean right now on live people are running 70 heroics in gear that is far beyond 70 heroics - when you first hit a heroic like this in TBC live with your blue/whatever gear, wouldn't you have been strapped to heal then as well, with no battery and missing some buffs, and felt like your heals didn't heal for enough?

I'm all for buffing the class I play and I'm still reading the thread, and there are alot of valid concerns gear won't fix, but I always take a wait and see approach when there are any complaints about throughput and mana, which seem to be gear problems more than balance problems.

The post of mine you quoted was really old, and before the wild growth buff.

I was doing heroics which have since been nerfed pretty heavily. The last boss in halls of lightning in particular, people were having to bring two healers to keep up with the damage. I was one of very few who actually managed to single heal it. It's now very much doable for any healer so nobody has anything to worry about there.