I can’t really explain how happy I am about this.
This. This is exactly what we needed.
Although our specc conduits are still poop, and our spells are still as buggy as ever (lol @Chi-Ji getting double healing from EF, but is still unaffected by Resplendent Mist and Jade Bond’s CDR), at least all of our leggos are good in the right situation!
While it’s buggy, (doesn’t correcly convert damage to healing, nor apply crits and versatility properly into the equation), the new ATotM finally gives us something that embraces true Fistweaving, and actually makes us want to dps to increase our healing, rather than to dps for the sake of the boss has to die.
However, I’ve seen monks who’s been worried about the possible mana consumption of pressing EF on cd, which ATotM more or less requires to keep the buff up at 100%.
Couldn’t a solution to that be that ATotM is changed to something like this:
“Your Tiger Palm, Blackout Kick and Rising Sun Kick heal an injured ally withing 20 yards for (20~50%) of the damage done. After casting Essence Font, this healing is increased to 250% of the damage done for 15 sec.”
That would slightly alleviate the mana toll, as well as simply being a pure quality of life change. You can still keep 100% uptime on the buff, and you probably will in most scenarios, but if you want to let it drop off and only heal very light damage, you can do that too.
It won’t be OP by any means, and Tear of Morning and Yu’lon’s whisper will still be our best legendaries by a long shot. However, I sure think it’s a quality of life change that is worth considering!
Thoughts about this? =)