Originally Posted by
Solemnity
I completely understand how you feel. I love being able to weave my way through fights, rolling around the room, and punching the boss when there's little to heal. Our position in the raid was as fluid, but we ended up being marked as nothing more than a throughput healer. The problem with being a throughput healer is we're simply worse than Holy Paladin, can't tank heal, and they even have some utility. Druids are in a similar position as us, but they have Stampeding Roar and Tranquility is a decent substitute for Revival if not situationally better. People are a little upset with the current state of the Mistweaver preview because they've basically given us a deficit in terms of function.
They revised our throughput toolkit, which now allows us to be a seriously strong group healer. However, a lot of the usefulness of a healer in a raid depends on its utility. Disc Priest and their shields, Shamans have so many cooldowns its limiting design space, Holy Paladins are fast and strong throughput healers with a versatility that we lack. A "decent" Druid can probably outheal a "great" Mistweaver in a lot of situations, and even if that's not true Druids have better healing cooldown's and better utility than us. Blizzard removed our only utility, blatantly saying it didn't really work, but didn't give us anything in return. I'm not going to argue what's utility or not, but if everyone has their own version of Revival, the only contender is Life Cocoon which is a joke. They give us group healing and then leave us hanging. People are a little upset because it's likely going live that Fistweaving is gone, as well as our melee status, but we're really just simpler Druids now.