Originally Posted by
Supliftz
So every spell damage effect in the game procs atonement, including aoe dps trinkets, but the spammable aoe dps spelled added to disc doesn't heal? How much sense does this make in the context of the rest of the game?
What about how this spell is completely useless if you're dealing with trash packs with any form of group damage period. What kind of gameplay is created by being forced to press single target spells on trash packs with 5 mobs, because your aoe dps spell doesn't heal. Pulls with a couple of mobs should be the highlight of the spell, but because it doesn't do any healing, it's objectively bad to press when hp bars are low.
Also, lol. Obviously Smart healing was a big part of why Blackout Kick cleave was good, but this completely ignores the fact that these spells also outhealed other alternatives by a significant margin if you could use them.
The inability to smart heal isn't an issue here for disc priest, since you can force atonements on the correct targets at all times. Either through sheer number of atonements, or by applying atonements at the cost of mana sustain for raid damage. Old Mistweaver had the problem where it was limited by a dumb smart heal, and it was on a cd.