Originally Posted by
Tiberria
The problem with DOC is that if there is so little healing to be done that you can afford to be spamming Wraths (which is far lower HPET than anything else you can do), the healing that DoC is doing largely doesn't matter. On top of that, you get mana free Wraths as Resto no matter what, so it isn't like not having DoC restricts you from DPSing in down phases. I strongly suspect that the damage portion of Nature's Vigil alone will add more DPS than the 20% extra damage on Wraths for any reasonable amount of Wraths that you will be casting.
On top of that, Nature's Vigil is accounting for a non trivial amount of healing in level 100 testing. It's averaging 7%-10% of total throughput as well as adding as much or more DPS contribution (just from NV) that Disc Priests/Mistweavers are adding. Yes, it was nerfed by about 20% with the hotfix last night, but it's still going to be a non trivial contribution. It's way more healing than you will get from another talent in that row and highly likely to add more total damage as well. I don't see HoTW being a reasonable talent option outside of situations where you want a single huge Tranq and/or Incarnation use. The cooldown is too long and the DPS benefit too situational.