Originally Posted by
Danner
Allow me to counter the sentiment in this thread so far, then.
I don't like Replenishment. The buff is too required; you will both notice it and feel the pain when the buff is not present.
For DPS'ers, it's a good decent buff. If the DPS'ers have this buff, they typically don't need to use cooldowns on mana-regaining abilities, and this increase their DPS by a notable margin.
There are two dps'ers who fall outside of this however, and that is elemental shammies and boomkins who give their innervates to holypriests. Both these specs will get into trouble when there is no replenishment available. There is nothing more sad than a mana-starved boomkin. He gave away his innervate to the healer to avoid a wipe, and now he's stuck with hardly any DPS.
For most healers, the buff is just too required, it covers more than 1/3rd of our manaregen at the moment, closing in to 50% in the extreme cases. A restoshammy and a holy priest in particular will notice the lack of replenishment to a very high degree. Sure, in a raiding environment you mostly have it, but there is always the odd 10man pug where you do not, and these will be very heavy to heal. Heroics are even worse, when Replenishment is even more rare. I have not managed to heal a CoT Timed even without replenishment. I simply run OOM, and if the group press on, we wipe. Unless I get drinking breaks, we die. And if I do get drinking breaks, we won't make the timer. Sure, CoT Timed event is supposed to be hard. But it's still a bit disheartening that one buff make that much of a difference.
Idealy, if I had replenishment, I could stop worrying about whether my shadowfiend bites the dust as I don't need to cast it. However, in practice, I need to use all my mana regaining abilities, and still run OOM unless there is replenishment around. Healing without replenishment is just painful. Sure, you wanted it to be powerful to allow shadowpriests a raidspot, but... it's just too needed. Especially for holy priests and shammies, but also paladins and disc priests will notice the lack of replenishment. When one buff is consisting of 40% of my regen, and I am underperforming without it, then something is not quite as it should be.
That's why I don't like it.