Originally Posted by
Droodeffekt
I play a holy pally and think the healing is too strong, but I think that blizzard are making a big mistake with the 15% healing nerf.
HEALING is not OP, players HARDLY EVER needing to cast a spell is, because you can never interrupt them and get that advantage.
HEALING is not OP, healers have little - no mana issues is the problem because the heals don't stop coming.
HEALING is not OP, considering that through these "OP" heals (getting a 15% nerf) we get people constantly bursting through that. If no one could burst healer teams, then you would say healing was OP, but considering the burst (that is not being nerfed) that is coming out of other classes atm, healing isn't the issue, instant casting and infinite mana are and only if you don't play the stupidly high burst teams.
The issue as I see it is "uniqueness" of a class. Due to infinite QQ and Blizzard's desire to keep everyone happy / make money from this happiness, classes are always "compared to others". For example; Druids now have a stun useable in anyform, similar to a Pally and Hammer of Justice, similar to a mages deep freeze and so on. The issue this causes for PvP is when every class has something, blizzard manage to make one a more "superior" version of the other as they can't make them the same or people would see the 100% similarity and complain about blizzards lack of design.
Pally's get a Hammer of Justice that is a 1min CD, 6 sec stun (can be talented for 30sec cd), but a mage has the same spell on a 30 second CD (yes 45 in nerf). So instantly, you have a mage having a way better spell that WAS a pallys spell and if we want to equal a mage, we have to waste a talent and lose something else(give the choices, it is a big deal as well). Furthermore, for a mage this "stun" gives them a huge boost to their damage, especially burst. Now you have a lower cd, same duration stun, that gives more damage and increased burst potential over a pally. There is multiple examples of this among classes and this is where PvP becomes imbalanced.