Originally Posted by
Samthemann
Yeah I'm all for a free CD we didn't have before that doesn't share a totem with something useful or another spell's CD. My point was that this totem is very situational in its practicality. Example time!
Pro usage: Phase 2 Nefarian: where you're on a pillar and about to go through a crackle and people are randomly taking spikes of damage, drop the totem, HR, and CH to victory. Awesome!
Con usage: Magmaw heads up phase: raidwide aoe and some random splashes but everyone's hurting only a little bit, pop the totem down and you have a 1/3 effective PW:Barrier, gg.
Pro usage: Phase 2 Cho'gall: Some people are affected by the healing debuff from the adds, drop the totem HR and CH and bam they get healed regardless of their debuff. Hell yea.
Con usage: Omnitron Defense System: Fire guy and chain lighting guy are out at the same time, lots of aoe abound, stack totem HR CH again for effectively 10% damage reduc. Meh.
Then there are situations where this totem will kill you and or those around you.
Bad touch 1: Antramedes: 1 baddie got to 100 sound, you pop this totem and watch as that devastation wrecks your raid in stead of just the bad.
Bad touch 2: Chimaeron: Any time non feud, whoops you hit it by mistake and now even though you're 6 yards from ppl, you're not 10 and get someone killed by balancing health and they went below 10k.
If this totem were to go live as is, I'd be fine with it. But my argument is that it doesn't solve the problem that Blizz thought they were addressing. Raid leaders saw that all 5 healer specs were somewhat even on throughput, but still need to pick and choose who to bring. The CD's that Paladins and Priests bring to raids that help through the hardest parts of fights by popping AM, HoS, PW:B, Pain Supp, Guardian etc and ultimately reduce the incoming damage of the whole of the raid or of the tank by a considerable amount is what made them more valuable and therefore chosen first over shaman and druids. This totem doesn't make or break boss fights. 10% dmg reduc when a priest can provide 30% doesn't sell me, the balancing thing when there are so few fights where that portion of the totem really outshines anything else on the table, I don't like it. 3/12 where its great and 9/12 where its situational or merely a weak CD makes me sad.