Whats your opinion on removal of Heal for Holy in Midnight?

Hello everyone. I’m just wondering what your take is on the removal of Heal in Midnight. I’ve mained Holy Priest for the past six expansions, and having the choice to cast both Flash Heal and Heal was always part of the spec’s healing strategy. A longer cast, bigger heal with lower mana cost was useful in many situations.

For instance, I always cast Heal first when I have a stack of Surge of Light, since I can then instant-cast Flash Heal and the total healing is usually worth it. With talents like Resonating Words, this is a good strategy to significantly heal previous targets. In PvP, I often use Heal to bait interrupts.

I think it’s good that Midnight is trying to simplify the rotation, especially with the removal of spells like Renew (which feels more and more useless to me). But with the removal of Heal, I think the spec has lost some of its much-needed depth.

This is the one change I’m worried about.

I’m not gonna miss Renew and Symbol of Hope.

I like Lightwell and Premonitions but I can live without them.

But Heal is integral to our “rotation.” Weaving Flash Heals and Heals is much more fun than being just a Flash Heal bot like we were in DF. And weaving in Holy Words while other mechanics are going on is even more fun.

I’m really concerned that removing Heal will make Holy boring to play, especially if Prayer of Healing stays weak and spamming Flash Heal will be our only way to heal people … again.

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