A ww rework isn’t needed. Just talent tree adjustments and buffs that help scaling
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i mean that’s the fkn truth. if more people played monk this would absolutely happen.
Another thing they seem to be ignoring/forgetting about with us. Just realized with all these 10.1.5 changes to hybrid healing we monks are also stuck in the position of being the only(?) hybrid spec that uses our builder resource to cast off heals? Correct me if I’m wrong or you’re more familiar with other classes/specs.
(cds referring to big off healing and noting other big “hybrid” options)
Feral - mana / cds
Boomy - mana / cds
Deva - mana
Aug - mana
Spriest - mana / cds
enh - mana/cds
ele - mana/(cds?)
Ret - mana/holy power/cds/sacs/immunities
WW - energy / generous pour / close to heart
Now is this something that matters for most of the complaints we’ve had about the class up to now? No. But I find it really strange that this is the case since literally every other hybrid has a separate or multiple separate resources for self healing or off-healing. With some of those specs druid/sham/spriest/ret that can potentially be dungeon/raid changing as separate healing cds and another reason they are included in a comp. I’m not sure what kind of offhealing evokers do but outside of them monks are likely the worst offhealing spec? idk if or how you would be able to quantify generous pour or close to heart but that’s about all we’ve got besides energy starving ourselves to top a single person.
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As far as Blizzard seems to design, WW isn’t actually a hybrid heal, since you only have like one? targetable healing spell compared to everyone else having at least three or four.
That’s essentially my point as the one class with a healing spec and basically no options for off healing that change spec to spec. We do roughly equal damage as other “hybrid” classes but outside of FLS or chi burst literally all of our healing is a single target self healing and worthless compared to Ancestral Guidance, Vampiric Embrace or Natures Vigil for specifically timed spot healing.
Which is why in my general class tree mock up, there is a talent node which invokes Chi Ji for WW (assuming you already take Xuen).
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This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It just so happens that our heals suck giant balls, so it sucks extra hard that it costs builder resource.
It would feel significantly less crappy is Blizz reverted the nerfs to Expel Harm, and made Reverse Harm baseline. That and condensing a few of our healing talents and/or improving them to synergize better with each other would take our healing ahead in leaps and bounds.
Imagine the raw girth of our self heals if Expel Harm was a 10 sec CD again, had the un-nerfed 60% more healing and 1 extra chi from Reverse Harm. Then imagine how much stronger it’d be if Blizz designed Strength of Spirit to also have an increased chance for Expel Harm to crit based on missing health to synergize better with Profound Rebuttal (big crit heals for Expel Harm). Then imagine if Close to Heart was just fused with Grace of the Crane.
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Idk I might be alone in this but I really like having to potentially eat 4 talent points for expel harm to be useful just because the pvp community cries about WW/EH and the devs don’t understand how to use pvp modifiers for self healing.
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And to no surprise, there’s no WW updates in a recently posted Wowhead post for “underperforming specs”.
It’s almost comical at this point.
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It’s past comical. D4 is out, my sub is being left to expire. **** these devs
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