Originally Posted by
Cynthesis
Disc is heavily a prevention healer, but lacks in healing output. We can prevent, but we can not recover. If shield was to be nerfed (even more so then it already has) then we would need compensation in another area. Either through increased Prayer of Healing throughput (or some other method to offset the mana cost, and no, not the 4pc). If they were to nerf PWS by adding a cast time, disc would become an inefficient spec. Our output would fall behind the other healers. I like how if you read the blizzard forums, no one complains about Holy Paladins. It's mind boggling, but this is the nature of disc. No one that isn't a priest will ever understand that we are a niche healer. We look good on fights with debuffs or predictable damage, but if you move to a fight with unpredictable damage in random bursts, you will see us fall way behind every other class. Do I like being a bubble spam class again? No, but unfortunately that is what blizzard has made us at the moment because any other play style right now would render us crippled in comparison to other healers.