August News/Discussion

[Chesspiece_face]

Fine. You have Priests covered. What about Druids, Shamans, and especially Paladins?

Or do they no longer count?

EDIT: Holy Shock heals for about the same amount as Flash of Light (having a higher base amount, but a lower healpower coefficient), and costs significantly more mana. Where is the midrange heal for Paladins, if they're going to remove downranking? What about Shamans? Maybe Druids have it covered in Regrowth, but does that mean they don't get to use Healing Touch anymore if they need some healing right away without blowing tons of mana?

EDIT 2: I do have a small heal: Flash of Light. I do have a big heal: Holy Light. And, currently, I also have a medium heal: Holy Light, rank 7. I typically use r7 HL more than anything else due to the talents affecting it, and because Flash of Light spam starts to suck as you get further into content (where healing for 1700-2000 every ~1.50 seconds isn't enough to keep up.) However, I simply can't endlessly spam rank 11 Holy Light if I don't want to be reduced to twiddling my thumbs between mana potions, so the obvious answer is to downrank to find an agreeable spot that heals enough to keep up, but doesn't burn through my mana so quickly. I still have Flash of Light to top people off, and I still have rank 11 Holy Light to quickly bring people back up to full, but I use a downranked Holy Light to strike a balance between healing done and mana spent. I suppose that, after they rebalance everything (which seems like a ton of work and I'm almost willing to bet money they will screw something up along the way like they always seem to do), I could live with just my Flash of Light, Holy Light, and potentially Holy Shock. But that reduces the complexity of playing a healer - both in PvE and PvP - and I frankly think they're "noobifying" the game enough as it is.

For once, cater to the people that aren't so lazy that they're willing to read the stickied posts on their class forums (which are, typically, about the only posts worth reading in any forum in the official forums) instead of people that have no idea what threat is and how to manage it.

Light's Grace 3/3 - Gives your Holy Light spell a 100% chance to reduce the casting time of your next Holy Light by 0.5 seconds. Lasts 15 sec.

Infusion of Light 2/2 - Your Holy Shock critical hits reduce the casting time of your next Holy Light spell by 2.5 sec.

Judgement of the Pure 5/5 - Your Judgement spells increase your casting and melee haste by 10% for 30 sec.

From what i can tell paladins are getting a good bit of healing skills that can augment and alter the efficiencies of their base healing spells.

edit: Throw in Divine Illumination and it seems to me that paladins will be able to throw out insane amounts of efficient heals in a very short period of time.