I created the post originally on EU battlenet forums. However unfortunately I dont have any character on US therefore I can't post it on there. If anyone could share this post on official wow US forums for me, I would really appreciate your help. Here is the link for the original post:
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After the resto shaman buffs, mistweaver officialy became the underdog in the raids in terms of HPS potential (and was already the worst and still the worst at utility department). Meanwhile holy paladins are the best of the best just because of a single trait called "Glimmer of Light" which also requires almost no mana whatsoever.
As a mistweaver-born healer, I can't stand this tragedy anymore. Thus, I will provide some suggestions to fix the crucial problems within the mistweaver and hoping to be heard from developers.
Mistweaver's main problem is the lack of identity. What I mean by is that we have no role in both utility and HPS department. Solving the utility problem can be hard in the middle of a expansion, I understand that as a developer myself. However, the HPS part can be fixed. Our toolkit has so much potential for HPS, it just needs some attention to shine. Then finally we can have an identity that we deserve and crave for a long time: "Mistweaver the HPS Machine"
Problem 1: Has the worst mastery among all other healers by far in terms of scaling and usefulness in the raid environment. Furthermore, The scaling issue causes / will cause even more problems in future raids.
Solution: Change the mastery such that it works on vivify's cleave healing as well ( i.e the healing that goes to renewing mist targets also procs mastery).
- Vivify procs mastery on all targets it healed. Vivify's healing can be reduced by %5-10 in order to balance things out.
or
- Vivify procs %50 of the mastery on other targets it healed.
Problem 2: Inefficient mana usage of spells.
- 2800 mana for Renewing Mist,
- 5200 mana for Enveloping Mist
- 7200 !! mana for Essence Font.
Solution 1: Lowering the mana usage such as
- Renewing mist: 2800 to 2600
- Enveloping Mist: 5200 to 4750
- Essence Font: 7200 to 6500
Solution 2: Mana usage stays the same but the spell power coefficients increase accordingly.
- Renewing Mist: %7 increase
- Enveloping Mist: %12 increase (this spell needs to be cheaper so badly though. Thus, I prefer low mana usage all day compare to healing increase)
- Essence Font: %5 increase
*I strongly prefer solution 1 but both are at least viable solutions in my opinion*
Problem 3: Worst healing CD of all, Revival. Has very low spellpower coefficient and it can even wipe the entire raid just because of its dispel mechanic. Hello High Botanis, Za'qul and others that I dont remember.
Solution 1: (my favorite one so far) Change Revival such that it also procs %30 of your mastery on targets it healed.
Solution 2: Remove the dispel effect and increase its healing by %10
Solution 3: Bring back the Blessing of Yu'lon.
Blessing of Yu'lon: Activating Revival summons the spirit of Yu'lon, healing all Revival targets for an additional %30 of Revival's heal over 6 sec.
Problem 4: Low impact of talents.
Solution: New talent introduction, rebalancing the numbers of some and making some current talents baseline.
- Make Jade Serpent Statue baseline and introduce a new talent called "Dancing Mists" (the artifact trait in the legion)
Dancing Mists: Renewing Mist has a %20 chance to immediately spread to an additional target when initially cast or when traveling to a new target.
*It would also have a really good synergy with the new mastery I mentioned before*
- Rising Mist: %30 increase
- Replace Chi Wave with a new talent called "Secrets of Mist"
Secrets of Mist: Soothing mist can chain up to 2 additional allies within 10 yards of your main target at %70 power.
or
- Replace Chi Wave with a new active talent called "Hidden Power of Soothing"
Hidden Power of Soothing: Your next Soothing Mist heals for %50 more and can be channeled while moving. (45 sec cooldown, Instant, No mana cost)
I am sure there can be variety of suggetions that can improve mistweaver. However, the suggestions I mentioned can really help the general flow of mistweaver in terms of synergy, mastery scaling and most importantly "the fun".
Let's give Miistweaver the identity it deserves!
Thank you for your time...