Power Word: Shield’s absorption has been reduced by 15%.

[Koix]

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/3...es-january-12/

Sure hope they dont nerf it by that much.

[Deleted]

I sure hope they do.

[MDWiemann]

Meh, 63k hps on a pug heroic butcher tonight, @ 75% PWS would knock me down to 57k hps

[Rahzra]

I don't think 15% is enough to change our spell priorities. According to Adinne's numbers, PW:S will still have more hps and hpm than Heal AND PoM. So still no PoMs and still no heal filler. Clarity of will have a very close hpm to PW:S but will still lose out in hps by a long shot. This is all for a 660-670 iLvl from highmaul gear, which I assume most of the population is in.

[Replica]

I sure hope they do.

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[Eiffel]

Nerf PWS all they want, but if they could actually fix the rest of our toolkit would be nice as well, that'd be nice.

[Deleted]

This won't prevent people from whining. People won't be happy until the spec is unplayable sadly.

[ceddya]

On the bright side, this nerf will probably allow people to realize how OP H-Pals are too.

[anon5123]

Problem isn't solely PWS being OP, it's PWS being OP because it's literally the only good non-single-target heal Disc has, for the most part.

Nerf PWS, buff Holy Nova, maybe add some spell synergy in there somewhere...fix Disc so that PWS spam isn't optimal.

[Dorfie]

Won't change our healing style at all. PoM, Holy Nova and PoH (outside of Empowered-AA) are all trash spells that shouldn't even be on our bars. I guess our HPS will be brought down a bit, but they could have done so much more.

[Koix]

On the bright side, this nerf will probably allow people to realize how OP H-Pals are too.

They nerfed rejuvination by 5% and yet didnt bother to touch double beacon. Wish this "buff/tweak other talents so they wernt mandatory" would happen soon.

[Deleted]

i'm not disc too, but spamming PWS all fight and still do more hps then me kinda makes me mad lol

[Vurdah]

http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/3...es-january-12/

Sure hope they dont nerf it by that much.

We can only pray that they do or maybe even nerf it by a larger amount.

[Floopa]

personally i don't think 15% is enough however i don't think you can nerf the spell more without buffing other spells, which would require a content patch imo.

[Senel]

Since they are too lazy to make some mechanics changes, they are just gonna keep changing numbers around.

[Deleted]

My vote for what they should do:

Bring back rapture but massively increase mana cost of pws
buff poh and pom. make sure pom's a smart heal so it doesn't sit on the dps who's at 99% health (i'm not sure it does that so plz correct if i'm wrong).
delete holy nova from game, stop pretending it's a real spell

Again - bring back cata disc.

I wouldn't mind if cata disc was brought back actually. For the short amount of time I played it, it was cool.

I hope that they never bring mop disc back though.

[Fascinate]

This is an odd change to me, we will still be casting PW:S every GCD lol. What they need to do is buff PoH to be worth casting.

[Floopa]

This is an odd change to me, we will still be casting PW:S every GCD lol. What they need to do is buff PoH to be worth casting.

well no, disc needed a nerf. it just needs a nerf which doesn't get removed with gear.

[Fascinate]

Ya not sure about that, our hpally keeeps right up with me on most fights and beats me on a couple.

[Dracodraco]

Ya not sure about that, our hpally keeeps right up with me on most fights and beats me on a couple.

Logs tells that disc is about 5-10% ahead of most other healers on most encounters. The only outliers being Tectus (druid's tranq whoring the AOE is something disc can't keep up with), and Butcher (which is perfectly designed for a holy paladin due to the beacons+steady tank dmg on 2x targets).
That said, paladins are in an extremely good spot right now. But if the paladin beats you hard on all fights after this, it's a L2P issue.