Ok, i made an account just for this nerf, the reason im so happy :
above 2000 rating priests become unretarded, meaning they know how to use their primary healing spells, as 51 pointers go pennace is so much better than all healing ones
Pennance : heals roughly 10k full duration, god knows how much if it crits
Riptide: crits for about 4500 normally 2.7k with a 800 per 3 sec hot for 15 secs = 4000
so even if it crits and and u wait 15 secs full of it all to tick its still less than a less than a 3 second pennance
Beacon Of Light: xD isnt even worth thinking about, i feel for holyadins here
Wild Growth : another terribad 51 pointer
Clearly penance owns them all, even the fact it costs less mana than riptide aswell annoys me as we have lost about 6 games where we have oomed the priest and then he survive's 3 mins straight just shield and pennancing.
The reason why priest rogue is a strong comp and why pennance makes it so much better :
they have wound poisen, surely gimping any healers mana pool, mass dispel for pallys and can also dispel innervate, they can sap blind fear mana burn and stun galore, they have a lot of buffs and even more dispel resistence to boot, as a shaman ive gone through 6k mana ( 350 mana a purge, u do the maths) of pure purges just to purge both the rogue and priest, if you somehow survive there burst which is hard enough in itself you then have to content with ooming them, if u do THAT they hymn of hope and dont say its rubbish, ive watched it do 6k mana to a priest in about 2-3 seconds, and then if u oom that u have divine hymn, thats why it was nerfed angry priests, because u just cant kill a priest anymore
anyway sorry for the wall of text but i hate how priests r tunnel visioned into seeing only there point of view, message back with anything CONSTRUCTIVE or alternative nerfs rather than the glyph or even further nerfs , again i dont want to see rogue priest representation die, its pointless to just condemn them because there the new fotm but they do need a balance
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