This ability has no place in Classic. It is too powerful for how simplistic Classic WoW is.
Now that it is here, I feel stronger in this opinion than I did when I first saw it.
Priests are pressing a single button, from range, and doing 50+% of people’s HP in DMG. If they cast it on themselves, they are spending almost no mana to heal to full. It looks and feels like SoD pacing which was the worst version of WoW from a pacing standpoint, by a large margin. If abilities like this exist, pvp will be unplayable, like it was in sod.
If this is going to exist in the game, the damage and healing need to be massively nerfed and its mana cost needs to be substantially increased.
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50% crocs are eating those yellow balls of goodness.
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Those crocs also need massive nerfs and have no place in Classic. Their healing reduction should be 10%, max.
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Try to keep in mind that Classic is still the base for Forever, and that it’s not even been released yet. It supposed to be a progression, not “the game is just coming out, here are all 1000 changes we’re making right from the start”.
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LoH is filling 100% of people’s health bars at range at instant speed since November 2004.
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1 hour cooldown. Strips Paladin of ALL remaining mana.
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the sarcasm went right over your head didn’t it?
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And costs 100% of your mana.
Currently, priests are casting Penance twice and killing people their same level. Meanwhile, they have almost all of their mana left and were able to dot, heal and everything else in between.
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Considering how dumb the counter-arguments have been when it comes to class balance in this forum, you can’t use sarcasm here and expect people to see it.
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I know this. I am making this thread out of concern.
When I saw Penance, I was very worried from the jump. Priest is already the overall best class in Classic, at baseline. Adding something like Penance (which has been one of the most successful wow abilities of all time) to Classic, is scary.
If true, its pretty funny.
Disc for some reason became overpowered around wrath and then stayed there.
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It is, in essence. The devs are quite clear in that mission.
The current Penance isn’t Classic in spirit or practice, at all.
This is not Classic. You must be a Rogue. SoD was the testing ground for Classic+\Forever and guess what we had Penance in SoD and if you played it you would know they adjusted it in SoD and worked out fine.
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Literally. Priest has quietly been the best class in WoW since 2004
I don’t really get the logic behind “this isn’t in the spirit of classic.”
It’s a heal or damage ability channel that procs three times. It’s just overtuned.
You’re acting like they added Convoke the Spirits to druid
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Except it didn’t. Sod pvp was bad from the start and remained bad the entire time.
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Functionally, it is doing the same thing.
Pvp was a blast in SoD put down the pipe. Every phase had some OP class and people would cry and it got adjusted in the next phase. Penance was nerfed I know I played a Priest and Hunter is SoD. I only wish we had the Ashenvale and STV events in Forever
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It was horrific. It was a “blast” for terrible players that finally got to one shot people.
That isn’t good pvp.
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