they need nerf Disc priest, and Paladins DPS, warrior maybe slightly especially fury, boost a bit unholly and blood, mage, and evoker, and maybe boost holy priest and resto shammy (and give shammy fae transfusion back !)
Dude, they just buffed our st healing, which didn’t need a buff. The buff to sanctify is laughable, they could buff it by 400% and it would still suck.
They have no idea what’s wrong with holy priest. It’s like they’re not reading or checking what causes the problem - we have no spammable aoe healing worth spending talents into because they’re healing way too little.
Renew as an ability shouldn’t even exist in its current form. You’re throwing if you press it.
Agreed. It’s insane how holy priest has multiple AoE abilities and they’re all bad.
Holy Word: Sanctify is much too weak for a 1 min CD. It only moves health bars by a few pixels.
Prayer of Healing: it’s so weak it’s not used in any content.
Circle of Healing: same.
Divine Word’s buffed up HW: Sanctify should be a strong cap-stone talent, but it’s still super weak and not played. Its duration of 15 seconds is also much too long - there’s no fight in M+ or raid that involves people stacking for 15 seconds!
Archon’s Halo: it was very good at the start of the expansion, but it doesn’t seem to scale at all with ilvl. Now it just feels good for giving free Surge of Light (which gives instant case Flash Heals) stacks.
Divine Hymn: the channeling speed is much too long for M+ and even in raids it’s hard to get the full value of it sometimes because you have to dodge of get knocked back.
Holy priest is basically just a whack-a-mole Flash Heal spammer at the moment, in all damage pattern situations.
But there are RShaman builds that forgoe chain heal in favor of a whack-a-mole ST spam. And they are not bad. They used to be as competitive as Chain Heal builds in DF, not so much today.
Thing is that its harder to triage with ST heals. So its not that bad to not have AoE heals. If the ST heals slap and cleave some of the heal to other party members.
It’s only on our heal and flash heal and only on 1 target, the target we healed previously to the current target. The one we healed previously might not even need healing. And it’s only 25% of the healing.
This talent got nerfed from 35% to 25% as well with TWW. It was 35% in DF.
I’ll go for something much more likely:
Nerf Holy Paladin to the ground!
It’s a time honoured tradition for Blizzard, no matter how good (or bad) Paladin is at the time
All the toddlers in the comment section crying over a healing class , there is pres avokers/resto druids doing 17 keys , while all people here probably stuck at 10 weekly no leavers asking for other class nerfs , crazy. just buff the underperforming specs , its not that hard.
But if AoE heals imply everyone is taking damage. So it sounds like a cool skill to have.
It only depends on how big flash heal is of course. If it heals like peanuts then no. But if it slaps then yeah.
I mean, you have to consider that I cannot just cast 1 chain heal and top the whole party. There is some “pre-casts” or “set-up” involved to heal the party to full with spamable AoE heals.
So if you replace clever set-up + Chain Heal by clever sequence of flash heals… as long as you get the same result I see that as something cool and unique of HPriest IMO.
Fae Transfusion would be great to have, and boost to holy priest and nerf Dpriest, also boost to resto shammy as its seem to have those weird talents at the end as spells but they are quite unnecessary