Originally Posted by
tibbee
I 100% disagree. Stacked healing is our niche, and our toolkit is balanced around us being very strong in that niche (i.e. our spread raid healing tools are very lacking.). Under that design, we have every right to expect to dominate stacked healing, and GC confirmed last week over Twitter that their intent is that Shaman are better than every other healer when the raid is stacked. In T15, we are actually behind every other healer on 25 man stacked healing fights. When you are in last place in something that you should be dominating, you need significant buffs in that area.
If these buffs were to go live in ToT, sure we would probably be the #1 overall healer. However, ToT is going to be largely irrelevant the second 5.4 drops, and SoO fight design (and we have seen something like 11 of 14 fights) is more antagonistic to our niche than Firelands or ToT. That is going to prevent it from being a huge balance issue. However, the phases of fights where we can stack up, we will noticeably shine, as we should given their design intent for our "niche".
Overall, I don't think we were overbuffed, in light of the fight design and how I expect the buffs will play out under that fight design. We will potentially be close to Disc/Druids/Mistweavers when we play well and manage our CDs effectively. It might be the first time Shaman will be better than below average since arguably T6.