Originally Posted by
Cowfluffer
Im expecting holy pallies to be a thing of the past. Lets be honest, gaining a raid spot is about necessity, so what does a new age holy pally bring to the table? I honestly cant think of a thing. Stand back and bubble people when they pull threat once or twice a boss fight? I haven't seen a single mention of the rediculous costs for max rank flash of light. 420 mana for a ~600 heal. Instantly demoted to the most inefficient heal in the game and it doesn't even get strengthened. If thats a bug or a misprint, someone correct me please. That basically forces you to use the BC rank. I think its safe to call that a nerf. The aoe heal is, as was stated pretty well, a joke in all honesty. The "reactive healing" spell is paltry. 500 health saved at lvl 80? Maybe it has a 300% coeffiecient like earth shield? So basically what I'm reading from all of this is that holy pallies are emergency healers only. HL when the tank takes a big burst and heal melee with the aoe, put hand of salvation on high threat dpsers 3 or 4 times a fight, put a judgement of wisdom or light up...and rest of th etime take a seat.
Then compare all the above with the new druid. Flourish, Nourish, Living seed, empowered rejuv, all restoration spells working in treeform. It's disgusting.
Raids need 1 holy pally for utility, 1 resto shaman for the bosses i expect that will 1 shot tanks and require 3 tanks using the 51 talent, 1 disc/holy priest for fort, and the rest druids.
Honestly, if you dont understand why druids are going to be so rediculous its because you've never healed with one and dont realize the implications of Flourish and Nourish AND living seed. The only weakness druids had in single target healing was burst healing (2s for a relatively weak direct heal or 3s which could never be considreed burst healing..). Nourish fixes all of that. I can already heal up to 3 tanks with spot healing help.
So, the final quesiton is. Why take a holy pally as anything other than a utility position? What does it offer that a druid, priest or shaman cant deliver better now?