Is it just me or is atonement broken right now?
Leveling my disc priest, atonement is supposed to heal for 50% of spell damage, but I am getting 10% of my damage as heals instead, so I shield myself and smite an enemy for 88 and I get a heal for 8.
This is when I have 2K hp, so it is basically useless.
Am I understanding something wrong?
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I’m having the same issue with my Priest. It seems the only way I can keep anyone’s health up is by using Shadow Mend. It also seems as if my shield is super weak too…usually breaking in like one or two hits.
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Not just you. Leveling up a new priest . Atonement is doing 1 point of healing on damaging an enemy. Only level 18 but still I can see that’s not correct!
So I did a couple of BfA dungeons tonight on my newly squished 45 Disc priest tonight and I felt like I was taking crazy pills! Penance 3 out of 4 times wouldn’t cast. Mind sear NEVER cast. I kept looking to see if I was missing some sort of prereq for using the abilities… they’re just not working. Am I nuts? Anyone else having issues?
I have not had that issue, lag perhaps? I can confirm atonement is messed up for me. Like heals for about 10% of damage.
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This could be a weird scaling issue. I’ve run into this in the past, though not on my Priest. I was leveling my Warlock a while back and there was a talent that dealt damage based on the damage left in the DoTs on the target. In theory, it should’ve dealt something respectable but I was seeing numbers like you saw - like 10 damage when it should’ve been hitting hundreds at least.
As far as I can tell, it’s an issue related to world content and the wonky way scaling works behind the scenes. Essentially, enemy health doesn’t scale - if an enemy was level 10 before scaling world content was implemented, it’s still level 10, it’s just now when it’s ‘scaled up’ to level 30, for example, all that’s actually happening is your damage is scaled down based on the ratio of its actual health to its scaled up health. From the outside it looks like you’re hitting for the same amount as always, but when you have mechanics that function off the damage things take, it gets weird.
In other terms, your 88 damage smites are being scaled down to hit for about 16 against the target’s actual (not its displayed) health pool.
That may be the culprit, but the problem with that in this case is that it makes the healing useless, which is supposed to be the entire point of this spec!
Ran a couple of dungeons, and as it stands I cannot even heal someone for 0.1% of their hp dealing damage, which means I have to spam my emergency heal and run out of mana every pull.
So i walked into Siege (mythic 0) to test and pulling a few mobs the heal from dps seemed to be fine
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Just adding to the choir. Seems like Blizz needs to fix this if Disc is expected to heal anything between 12-45.
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I’m so glad I’m not the only one. I’ve spent the last hours trying to figure out if I’ve done something wrong
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Yea, I noticed it immediately. I just leveled to 30 from 1 thinking maybe its just gear and stats. Yea atonement is broken.
I can second this - atonement is doing virtually no healing :S
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Just adding this as a data point but at Max level Disc is functioning fine.
No issues.
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Yeah it sounds like it’s an issue with the level scaling. I could just level up as Shadow
Went into a 19 shrine with some trepidation of possible atonement issues but yeah was comfy. I felt shadowmend and penance were quite strong which was pleasing
Be warned shadow cov stops you dispelling too lol i had forgotten that
Just tried healing again this AM. Atonement for me does not work. Still healing for 1 to 4 with damaging abilities. Level 18 or 19. This issue ls in BFA instance and open world questing.
EDIT: Just submitted a bug report if anyone else having this issue please reply in bug report forum to help expedite issues your having.
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I’m seeing this too, still. would love for this to be fixed.
It’s broken. Apparently they forgot a zero in the calculation and it’s healing for 5% vs. 50%. They’ve known about it for something like 5 days now. From what I read it seems like it’s only affecting non-max level characters, but who knows at this point.
It was broken for me as well, but started leveling in WoD and it works there
As a new disc priest it is kind of bad trying to learn how to heal with an important talent broken , not gonna last long again in dgn , players get mad and call names and kick , how can they understand when Blizzard doesn’t ? I am pissed