Yea mine says it will shield for 98k, which is higher than it would before the patch but then it only shields for 79k. I'm not sure why they'd make the tooltip average between normal and crits. Only thing I can think happened is it's accounting for the old mastery and not the new one?
I was sorta interested in trying out Binding Heal but it costs nearly 22k mana so now I'm not sure it's even worth it over using the Weakened Soul glyph or other glyphs. What do others think?
Last edited by Kalliope; 2013-03-06 at 12:03 AM.
Did they revert that change on the new Shadow Word: Pain? It doesn't appear on the new patch notes. =/
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Probably only a HPS gain for most players. Or maybe I'm in the minority and just assume everyone uses HF >= 4 times a minute for AA. Bottom line is if you tend to utilize your HF you should look into it, if not then mind bender offers an alternative that returns less mana but requires less attention to utilizing your toolkit. :P And lets be real latency isn't going to make up 1/3 of every minute.
Any half-awake DPS manages to get off their key abilities within miliseconds of them coming off cooldown just fine, in the face of such terrifying obstacles as latency and GCD lock. Have you never played shadow?
It's a HPS loss, but it's not like we healers strive to utilize our max theoretical output for any meaningful amount of time anyway, though I guess that might change in T15 with all the spirit we'll be getting; maybe the fights just won't let us waste that many GCDs on such a weak heal, but that sounds unlikely. Seems like it'd still be worth it for disc anyway, since they need to stack evangelism with something.
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I don't know, I used tried it on my raid tonight and I don't like it (disc priest). Maybe if you're undergeared or or having mana issues for some reason.
Not at my computer atm but what is its healing like? I am assuming ~50k plus like a 1500 hot is that accurate?
Why has no one bothered to support the Shadow Word: Pain claim with a link? That's just silly.
Anyways, here it is: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...?page=114#2280
I'm getting shields equal to my Shadow-spec tooltip, no matter what spec I'm in (holy, disc, and shadow). I'm guessing when they were changing the scaling coefficients for all specs to make both healer specs have stronger shields, they futzed the numbers somewhere. I do get the expected tooltips though (with disc showing the strongest shield, followed by holy, then shadow) Disregard, think I was going by old patch iterations :L
edit: I'm definitely not seeing the pain buff, hopefully it was an oversight, same as the PW:S stuff
Last edited by Copulatingduck; 2013-03-06 at 02:03 PM.
If they aren't live yet, they should be soon. Sometimes there is a lag for late changes, but we haven't reverted them.
Source: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...93861?page=121
Shutting this one since it's not on the PTR anymore and the State Of Priest thread has been updated.