With the new 10.1.5 changes, word of glory will now cost 25k mana. There are more mana changes but the word of glory one is the main issue.
As it stands right now in PTR u go out of mana within 10-12 word of glory casts. Not to mention big utility buttons such as sac, freedom, bop, dispell, blind, hoj, and taunt needing mana.
This basically means that in a semi-high M+ key in fortified weeks, prot pala will go out of mana within 2-4 pulls. You will either have to drink between every couple of pulls or go in the pull already out of mana, hoping that the 1 word of glory cast every 10 seconds you get from passive mana regen is enough to keep you alive.
A good solution to this, other than reverting the changes, is to make word of glory only require mana when cast on allies and not on yourself. This will still make you reconsider committing mana on allies but won’t affect your own self-sustain.
The last thing a tank needs while pugging M+ is to worry about mana.
Blizz wanting to force healing specs presence in M+ by nerfing off spec healing, while justified on it’s own, but they should also start buffing healers as well in general.
Are healers even that bad? I got to 2500 in 9 days without knowing all of the tactics tbh. Manage to heal 6 stacks of burst on team mates as Resto Shaman, which is kinda mid at the moment. Healing seem just fine to me.
I went oom just attacking dummies on valdrakken and using WoG instead of SoR pretty quickly.
The change is as bad as i feared. There are times when we must heal ourselves. I am not even worried about healing others, but the self healing will be impacted.
same. tested it and could not believe my eyes. prot is oom in few sec and cant generate enough mana for chain pulls. you have to drink after every big pull now and you need very good healer now.
other joke is that i cant even use my abilities…
this is so sick. i dont even know who designed such trash.