I think a great deal of us have healed late-Wrath and now. We're going into a new tier, people are estimating that stat inflation will make changes, though to what degree, no one really knows
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I am a priest, and I'm insanely happy that I'm no-longer spamming flash heal or shielding the whole dang raid. I like that spell efficiency is important again, I like that I have to watch my mana, and I like that the number of spells I regularly cast has hiked up a bit. I like the way fights feel like a game of catch-up to start with, but develop into a matter of knowing where the damage spikes will be and conserving my mana.
As for the downsides, I am still a little sceptical about Heal-spam. It definitely feels different to Flash Heal-spam as I swap to other spells when the damage comes in, but I dunno. Sometimes I miss the five-second rule, though I've definitely not made my mind up on that one. I hate Throngus. I don't care if I out-gear that fight now, I don't care it's been nerfed pretty heavily, I hate it because it was an utter bastard of a fight for my new-to-heroics gear to handle, especially because people were all STAND IN THE ROCKS YEEEAH.
*ahem*
Regarding stat inflation, I have noticed I'm back to safely flash-flash-greater healing people if they screw up in heroics (well, okay, I use binding heal usually, but). That's actually been a great boon to me in troll heroics, where undergeared PuG tanks refuse to CC and keep Guardian Spirit on cooldown. It does make me think we might have some issues in future, though, where fast-but-inefficient heals become easily affordable. I'd rather that didn't happen. I like my fast heals being my non-CD ohshit!buttons.
As for the downsides, I am still a little sceptical about Heal-spam. It definitely feels different to Flash Heal-spam as I swap to other spells when the damage comes in, but I dunno. Sometimes I miss the five-second rule, though I've definitely not made my mind up on that one. I hate Throngus. I don't care if I out-gear that fight now, I don't care it's been nerfed pretty heavily, I hate it because it was an utter bastard of a fight for my new-to-heroics gear to handle, especially because people were all STAND IN THE ROCKS YEEEAH.
*ahem*
Regarding stat inflation, I have noticed I'm back to safely flash-flash-greater healing people if they screw up in heroics (well, okay, I use binding heal usually, but). That's actually been a great boon to me in troll heroics, where undergeared PuG tanks refuse to CC and keep Guardian Spirit on cooldown. It does make me think we might have some issues in future, though, where fast-but-inefficient heals become easily affordable. I'd rather that didn't happen. I like my fast heals being my non-CD ohshit!buttons.
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