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've played a resto shaman as my raiding main since mid-late BC. While I believe they've fixed the vast majority of the issues we experienced in late Wrath (well, most of Wrath, which was one pile-on after another of negative reaction to late BC), I can't say I am super enthused about the overall state of healing right now. Whew, that was quite the run-on sentence.
Basically, I'm happy that my main isn't fucked over anymore, if you'll pardon my language, but I think they need to find a balance between reactive and proactive healing. They haven't yet.
I'm also hoping the firelands dailies will tempt me into playing alts. I used to enjoy alts so much that I had one of everything at max level. Now I have 4 or 5 85s, most of whom I never touch, and a bunch of 80s and below, again not played. Cata was visually spectacular, but playing the zones feels like a huge drag for little reward.
I agree with so much of this, and I wonder if my opinion is different because most of the time I was playing a resto shaman when everyone except us and disc priests were doing so well.
I think that it's not as fun as it could be to be on content where it's RNG whether the tank dies (Wrath) or content where you spam low-cost heals because you can afford it and it gives you a bit more time.
I haven't had time to play alts because I want to reduce the amount of time I play and want to play, and because it takes a lot of time from RL AND my main. No more 30m dungeons, since it takes so long and I'm not so geared, it takes a lot of time from my main.
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
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Basically, I'm happy that my main isn't fucked over anymore, if you'll pardon my language, but I think they need to find a balance between reactive and proactive healing. They haven't yet.
I'm also hoping the firelands dailies will tempt me into playing alts. I used to enjoy alts so much that I had one of everything at max level. Now I have 4 or 5 85s, most of whom I never touch, and a bunch of 80s and below, again not played. Cata was visually spectacular, but playing the zones feels like a huge drag for little reward.
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I think that it's not as fun as it could be to be on content where it's RNG whether the tank dies (Wrath) or content where you spam low-cost heals because you can afford it and it gives you a bit more time.
I haven't had time to play alts because I want to reduce the amount of time I play and want to play, and because it takes a lot of time from RL AND my main. No more 30m dungeons, since it takes so long and I'm not so geared, it takes a lot of time from my main.
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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 ( ... )
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Wrath healing was too easy. Spam Rejuv and absolutely wreck the healing meters ( ... )
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