Thanks. How would you classify Riptide as a Shammy, then? I plead total ignorance here — is it a hot? A burst heal? Strictly a button that could be renamed "Tidal Waves"? I just don't know what to compare it to.
There was a lot of confusion here so I appreciate the clarification. Again, I truly just don't 'get' how Shaman healing works at the high level. It seems like the only tool Shaman has for spread-out people so I put it in Spread, but it also seems strong if everyone's clumped up, so I left it in stack.
I was commenting strictly on 5.4 based on an article at Heliocentric where @Dayani went into enormous detail about how the nature of SoO and 5.4's conversion of CHeal to never drop off lead to it being smarter to just spam CHeal on
anyone rather than waste reaction time trying to hunt up an injured, Riptided target within jump range. If @Dayani's assessment is inaccurate I'm happy to correct it, but I figured she knew more about CHeal than I ever will.
OK but, then how does Shaman actually use their buttons?
I'm happy to correct my misunderstandings but I still don't know what to correct them into.
Right, this is what I'm looking for. Kind of feeling out 'Are Mistweavers just gimped?' or is it more 'The entire WoW healing system is deranged'?
Based on feedback from other classes I'm beginning to lean toward 'deranged'.
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This is driving me crazy!! I
know @GC tweeted that the last raid tier of MoP was the 'wrong time' to remove the party requirement from PoH, but that the devs see it as an outdated mechanic and would be changing it in WoD. It was very shortly before the announcement he was leaving for Riot Games. Now I can't find it anywhere...
Well, anyway. If Priest
is still stuck with the party requirement in WoD (?) then you have my sympathies. That's almost as annoying as ReM/Uplift, and for similar reasons.
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Fair enough, I tend to talk in (obvious) exaggerations for emphasis but I forget how confusing it can be in a serious discussion. Will scale back the language.
My reasoning on Tree is that it grants new spread healing tools to Druid, because you can now put LB on everyone and use the OOC procs to spike Regrowths all over the place (which are now instant). It also buffs your WG heavily.
Pally throughput CDs leave you with the same crippled toolbox, it just hits harder. But it's just hitting not enough people... harder.
Again, open to correction. Just explaining my category choice based on limited experience with other specs the last ~6 months.
It is, but people keep misinterpreting the point of the thread (maybe I shouldn't have been so honest about what I play...). I'm not looking ReM/Uplift sympathy, but more counterpoints from other healers showing if our assumptions are right or wrong that other healers have an easier time
due to the inability to control ReM correctly.
ie, yes ReM+Uplift has issues, but does everyone else also have their own equivalent issues? I'm curious.
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♥ That's cute.
And yes, I completely sympathize with Holy Pallies, since it was my healer alt before I swapped to MW.
Honestly, I might go so far as to say I'd rather keep ReM+Uplift than inherit the Paladin AoE/Spread system.
... Actually, I can say that with complete certainty.
You guys deserve a lot of tweaks IMO.
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Ooh, thanks. Will add a note for this.
A serious issue I've seen multiple Shamans discussing. Am I correct in saying that the meteoric rise to prominence of Shammies in MoP was largely due to how many powerful smartheals were thrown into their toolbox in 5.0 (plus exploding regen levels T15+)?
So Shammy is in a potentially dire place if their smarthealing reliance is turned into arbitrary RNG again, right?
To make sure I'm interpreting correctly — basically, in a world where people are expected to sit lower than 100%, you can also assume incoming damage is slower. If that happens, it means the ability to bubble/absorb people is much less relevant because you're not preventing any damage anyway, instead you need the ability to gradually undo that Health loss before the next damage wave?
So bubbles become more like Spirit Shell tools — anticipate and blunt damage spikes — and not an effective way to just slather the raid in effective invincibility? (exaggeration but the general idea)
Sorry if that ↑ sounds really dumb, I don't like Disc at all (sorry Disc! I still like the people playing it!) so I have very little awareness of its mechanics and benefits any more.