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alassenya in wow_ladies

Sod you, Blizzard

Nov 24, 2010 10:13

Why, oh why, have you removed Holy Word: Aspire? First you make us holy priests use a completely novel healing system and then, just as I was getting used to it, you take away the most useful part of it ( Read more... )

priest: holy, expansion: cataclysm, discussion: class

Comments 10

dharmacide November 23 2010, 23:36:24 UTC

In all honesty, Chakra lost it's novelty for me really, really fast. Why can't all my spells be really awesome at the same time? Why do I have to enter some pseudo-stance to make one or two spells work well? It looks good in print, not so much in an actual raid setting. Maybe I should wait until 85 to make any final judgements, but I'm sticking with Discipline for now.

alassenya November 23 2010, 23:44:27 UTC

I know, it's a real pain to use Chakra. It got a little easier once I developed my macros and hot-keyed them, but even so, it's a pain. But I was getting used to Aspire - my style is Renew-heavy anyway so it suited me - and it was by far the most effective of the three healing Chakra states (which is undoubtedly why they removed it). Grrr.

quixotic_coffee November 24 2010, 00:05:05 UTC

I like the change. It makes more sense for there to be only two healing Chakra states (singling target healing and group healing). I do wish that all the new "heal" spells only had a 1.5 second cast time though, that said the spell is practically free.

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alassenya November 24 2010, 02:14:47 UTC

Yes, and while I do like Renew and I appreciate the shorter cooldown, I loved what Aspire was doing. *sigh*

sophiaserpentia November 24 2010, 00:11:43 UTC

I kind of like Chakra but I'm also like -- wait, they spent all this time talking about how they wanted to make healing about having to choose between several different spells and then they give us this thing that buffs one single spell for a full minute. I can see this easily becoming something that locks holy priests into a single-spell rotation.

alassenya November 24 2010, 02:13:27 UTC

Yes, it's totally inconsistent with what they were saying previously. *sigh* I guess I can say goodbye to my Holy tank healing experiment.

quixotic_coffee November 24 2010, 03:37:06 UTC

Serenity is and was always the tank healing Chakra.

alassenya November 24 2010, 07:20:04 UTC

But the Renew chakra was wonderful for keeping the tank topped up, and Aspire just kept on going. Oh well, I have a good disc spec, I'll juststick to that.

eureka00 November 24 2010, 00:14:54 UTC

The Chakra renew is now a talent. So you get all the benefit still from your renew all of the time without having to use Chakra. Also, Heal -is- a free spell. Go ahead cast it continuously, you will not lose mana. Heal is going to be so important because the Cata healing model is drastically changing. If we try to heal as we did in wotlk we will oom very quickly. Yes, things will be more challenging to heal, but we should relish the challenge it is a game afterall. Godmoding through heroics the past year or so has lost its appeal.

alassenya November 24 2010, 02:11:39 UTC

"The Chakra renew is now a talent." - not in my holy tree. HW: Serenity will refresh Renew on ONE target IF it was already applied. I can't see any talent giving me Chakra + Renew. And while 347 mana is certainly less than the 700 or so it was in 3.3 (IIRC), it's not free, and it still takes far too long to cast.