Fel armors healing is completely useless

[lightgil]

I've been using fel armor since patch today and it heals so freaking little its completely useless its is less than a healing stream totem thats how terrible it is.

[Deleted]

Coming from the mouth of a healer, any healing is good healing

[Tommy2er]

Because the healing it done before was ZOMGAwsum right?

[BraveNewWorld]

It's now in-line with Vampiric Embrace, what's the problem?

[Deleted]

It now heals for exactly the same amount as Vampiric Embrace.

VE was great in BC (25%), got a rather large nerf in WotLK (15%, 3% aoe heal) and now is almost useless in Cata (6%, 3% aoe)

You may say any healing is good healing, but that will never save your life.

[lightgil]

healing pre-nerf was about like 5k every 5 secs which is way better than like what seems like 20 hps

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Idk but I just don't like it at all I used to be able to just sit with my fel armor on + sl and just sit there and be completely fine now I get like no heals hstone and deathcoil are pretty much 1 time use

[TheLordofPie]

healing pre-nerf was about like 5k every 5 secs which is way better than like what seems like 20 hps

need heals?
use drain life lol

[Micke]

It's now in-line with Vampiric Embrace, what's the problem?

It's not

only demo will have it at 6% as VE
your pet damage doesnt count towards that healing, so 20% healing nerf right there as demo compared to spriest

[Meejum]

Its suckiness is why I am going to try out demon armor, for the +30% heals from effects when talented, which means +30% more SL, next time I run BGs or TB.

Will probably still stick with Fel Armor for arenas for the boom boom.

[Glnger]

WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT VAMPIRIC EMBRACE????. SPRIEST /=/ WARLOCK christ... absorbs + actual heals vs pet and soul harvest. must be the same class amirite?

I went to playing my affliction spec because demo loses too much hp going from one mob to the next. to the point that I feel the need to soul harvest between every 1-2 mobs. and thats with 360 avg ilvl.

[Onorvele]

To get the same healing of 5k every 5 seconds, which equates to 1k HPS, you have to do 1k * 100 = 100k DPS :/

To get 5k HP5 you'd need to have 250k health. Health pool is prolly closer to 100k health, with regen in Cata being around 2k HP5, or 400 HPS. At 3%, you'd have to be doing 13.3k single target DPS to get that. At 6%, you need only 6,666 single target DPS.

Pre-Cata, the 2% HP5 would have been based around a health pool of what, 20-30k health? So more like 600 HP5, or 120 HPS. To get that, you need like 4k DPS (at 3%).

[warlockSTAR]

It's now in-line with Vampiric Embrace, what's the problem?

Cause we can just flash heal ourselves and be full HP again.

[volrat]

Demonology is going to be nerfed to the ground...fact is, i've never felt so overpowered, so i will probably be extremely disappointed, again, and be forced to play another spec, again.

..I'll try an alt,probably, and see if it does catch me playin WoW, i'm not getting involved in cata end-game, it's everything too time consuming, and if i cant even enjoy my class and spec, perhaps it's time for a break...meh..

[KassieDS]

It's great for some things, soloing certain fights and AoE as demo on variant fights.

Even with the immo aura nerf you can now probably stand in black shit on Maloriak hc and outheal the damage you take by just aoeing hard.

Not to say you should do that, but it's there.

[Ashalah]

Besides, to what levels do you want it buffed? Until healers are no longer needed?

[Onorvele]

It's great for some things, soloing certain fights and AoE as demo on variant fights.

Even with the immo aura nerf you can now probably stand in black shit on Maloriak hc and outheal the damage you take by just aoeing hard.

AoE != Single Target

as well as healing the caster for 3% of any single-target spell damage dealt.

[KassieDS]

AoE != Single Target

Ahh sorry, had it down for all damage you dealt. Single target damage would surely include dots on multiple targets though, such as immolate/corruption, no? In which case multi dotting and aoeing will provide a good chunk of healing.

[Deleted]

Ahh sorry, had it down for all damage you dealt. Single target damage would surely include dots on multiple targets though, such as immolate/corruption, no? In which case multi dotting and aoeing will provide a good chunk of healing.

Mhm, and burn a good chunk of mana that we'll have to life tap.

[Phage0070]

The big question is:

Does a given warlock spell deal enough damage that 3% of that multiplied by 1.2 equal or exceed its mana cost?

If it does, Fel Armor results in overall healing. If not, warlocks trend toward death.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Why on earth were you relying on Fel Armor for self-healing? It's called Drain Life. It's been around since patch 1.0 aka Launch. Use it

Or Spec Affliction and never worry about health again.