Originally Posted by
Kelesti
@Meow:
Something that doesn't exist? Breaking the 5 second rule and loving every second of glorious glorious spirit regen is what being a Holy Priest was all about, since vanilla. Getting our "free spells" from IHC, SoL, and Inner Focus, your point seems to be that that's enough, well if you think about it, it's not really. Just pushing the button instantly as the proc comes up? Less return than holding it through until it's needed, and stopcasting your next heal. Oh hey, look, it's been how long since I last spent mana? I have a bigger blue bar again!
Let's take a look at the set bonus for t6 (irrelevant, but just to make a point) Greater Heal increase of 5%. Now throwing out a number: 6k greater heal. With set bonus, that makes 6.3k, okay. Lower numbers than 80 of course, but this is my point: You're healing in a 25 man, you're not the only one doing said healing. Nor are you the only one spending mana. Unless you're the ONLY one able to land a heal on that target (or a solo healer on a multi-tank fight) you're not going to notice the difference:
Exception: Serendipity. But of course, given latency, healthstones, other healers, judgement of light, Prayer of Mending, etc (list goes on) you're likely to be already getting the procs anyways, so difference is small.
Since when has being a priest been all about "Spend as much mana as possible" I thought that was a paladin thing? We're conservative healers, doing what we need, and making it count. If healers start going down when you're oom, congrats you have nothing to fall back on. And saying "you were never in a shadow priest group" blah blah, oh well? Chain Chugging potions is what got nerfed. How many innervates did your guild have to stack on you? What if the druids were dead and couldn't support you? The point is to carry your own weight, to not NEED anyone else.
Edit: Two things, firstly it's called "Test of Faith" not Twisted Faith, unless you're playing Shadow thanks. Secondly, if there really only is one PvE holy tree, then you can't say it's "Copying" you. Get over yourself here, you're not the inventor of the spec.