Originally Posted by
Aiurwyn
Disc is designed to raid heal about as well as holy pallies, as in they are not. They have AoE capabilities that work in 5-mans but that is it. The moment people start complaining about raid healing as Disc is generally the moment you deviate from it's intended design and are going to have problems.
With that being said the Talents we have that are centered around PW:S are great. Borrowed time is a single target life-saver. It's not meant to have a high uptime, only something you really need in emergencies, kinda like Holy's Surge of Light only 100 times better. Not sure how Rapture promotes regular use of PW:S, if anything it tries to limit how often you use it by putting a CD on the mana returns it. Strength of Soul is again a Single target talent, promoting the use of it on A TANK, the one you will always want to have shield on anyways. For this purpose the talent works great. The only one that might seem to promote using PW:S too much is soul warding. IMO it is there for emergencies when a multiple people ae about to die and you need to help out your raid healers, or maybe you have to pick up slack and heal two tanks at a time.
The PW:S duration nerf will not even be noticed by people that already use the spell as it is intended, IE on tanks or, as you put it, "people who you know are going to take imminent damage." The sole purpose of this "nerf" is to further discourage bubblebotting. That's it, end of story, no sky is falling chicken little BS (Hint: This is where you see the beauty of Soul Warding). The real bonus of this is the INCREASE to the DA duration. It makes our raid SUPPORT even better and allows more usage of our mastery. If you can't figure out how that will help there really isn't much anyone else can do for you.
Speaking of Mastery, it's great, for it's purpose. SINGLE TARGET HEALING. The DA procs help us to keep up with pallys on Tank healing. It also helps Disc priests scale well with all the secondary stats. Using Inner Focus on CD you can put out Gheal crits pretty regularly and those alone will give you a massive amount DA bubbles on your tank. Plus when you PoH during a big AoE, those bubbles make a difference. As it stands, our Mastery DOES effect every spell about 25% of the time, or more with IF usage.