Originally Posted by
Protoman
Some strengths and weaknesses are fine between classes of a subset like healers.....but I feel that all healers should have proper tools for both spread and stacked healing, and Resto is still subpar in spread heals IMO. Look at my example of holy pallys, they had a niche before of "tank heals" which was strong, single target heals but poor aoe healing....slowly over time they got stronger aoe heals, first limited like beacon and cone aoe heals but eventually with the standard 0-30/40yd raid heals and multiple aoe heal spells....they can do both stacked or spread healing.
Resto is still concentrated on stacked healing at the cost of spread heals, and this makes our job very difficult, especially in hard mode and 10 mans where spreading occurs more often. Instead of trying to improve our "niche" of stacked heals which is already pretty good they should improve our weaknesses to be more in-line with other healers such as add a brand new Resto only 0-30/40yd aoe heal, or improve current spells like buff the base jump range on CHL. Does not make sense to me that they intentionally make us weak at spread heals to be stronger at stacked healing.
I feel like any healer who is good at spread heals will still be pretty good at stacked heals, a heal that goes from 0-30yds will still be just as good if everyone is stacked at 0-10yds, but a heal that is limited to 0-10yds won't be any good with a raid that is spread out from 0-30yds. Resto shaman could use some real creative design improvements as I feel our toolkit is lacking compared to other healers, its crazy how many more heals other healers have, like holy pallys again which were once just as limited with a niche and much more simple heals..... I still think a simple, new aoe spread heal spell would be best like Priest's Halo ring but a unique resto version on a 10-15sec CD to use when we need it, doesn't have to be very strong but satisfy that missing part of our healer toolkit.