August News/Discussion

[Jester]

I think it's crap that I now have to choose between spending no mana for no healing, or spending a lot of mana for a lot of healing that's going to become overhealing. Why can't I cast a spell that costs a medium amount of mana and heals for a medium-high amount of health?

There's no rational thought behind this change, so far as I can see. I can only see it hurting everyone, particularly healers.

First, as I have pointed out several times, you do have small heals. Every class has small heals that aren't just downranked larger heals. It's already in the toolbox.

Second, I really don't understand the mentality here. This is a game. You get certain tools to deal with certain problems, and applying those tools to those problems generates fun. You are not "hurt" by a change unless it makes your class less desireable relative to other classes. Since this is happening across the board to all healers, it's just a mechanical change that all healers will have to adapt to equally. Encounters will all be designed with this in mind, as will gearing, talents, etc...

So, the game is changing. You're not being "hurt" by it. At worst, it's changing in a way you don't like, but since your character can't even play the content this will apply to yet, you're not losing anything, you're just having to adapt to something different in the future.

As to the idea that there is no rational thought behind this, that's just silly. Blizzard clearly never liked downranking as a mechanic, tried nerfing it to preserve balance, and found instead that it just broke their ability to balance regen/throughput/difficulty mechanics for cutting-edge encounters. Like it or not, this is a long-coming, thought-out change, not a clueless one.

-Jester