Every other healing class has gotten reworked or buffed. Holy paladins cried about CS and the next day it was removed. Holy priests have gotten two overall healing buffs. Even MW got some buffs. Can Blizz please buff Pres so they’re more viable in Midnight? Hardest rotation with the lowest throughput sucks so bad.
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To be fair this was a major reversal from the months of beta without CS and dropping that bomb on folks, specially in the way it was mechanically, riled the hpals, as it should have. All blizzard did was reverse the reversion (tho they did tweak some other weak areas).
I agree Pres needs something to make them more desired, specially in M+… I just don’t have much hope for that.
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That’s fair, and I am glad they reverted the change, I’m just a tad salty about it. Coping hard for a buff for M+ too my friend.
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Give back spiritbloom 
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1000% this would solve all my issues!
They’re saying there’s more class changes coming on the 10th. If pres isn’t included in those then I’ll start to worry.
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At this point I don’t even know if getting Spiritbloom back would be enough.
I don’t think it’ll come back unfortunately.
Would be nice for the pres tree to get some work with how many nodes feel mandatory. Tough to have much build diversity that way. Would be great to have some stuff made baseline and replaced with some new options or at least free up a point or two.
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The more I think about it and compare to other healers, the more I’m convinced Pres in much more trouble than I initially thought.
- Somehow blanketing my party in Reversions doesn’t give me good HoT healing, compared to other healers, even if I Echo’d them all.
- Saving my empowered casts and charging them to full power doesn’t give me good burst healing compared to other healers.
- Talenting into the prohibitively expensive Temporal Anomaly doesn’t give me meaningful absorb shields compared to other healers.
- Using Echo and my fairly long VE CD after also talenting into it at the very bottom of the tree doesn’t give me good spot or single target healing in comparison to other healers.
- The Pres mana situation is significantly worse than every other healer in the game but the combination of Energy Loop and Essence abilities being generally awful means spamming Disintegrate is common and accepted practice, purely for mana returns.
- Planning out and executing Stasis well doesn’t give me good CD healing, either. Any other healer pressing any other CD, especially those on 90s or 2m CD’s does significantly more healing. Even some other healer 1m CD’s are stronger than Stasis.
The list goes on and on for Pres, imo. Getting Spiritbloom back wouldn’t even fix half the problems the spec has and either would generic aura buffs to make the numbers look acceptable on meters.
I think it’s safe to say that whoever was responsible for Pres in DF is long gone and the spec is going to be languishing and/or forgotten until someone with vision takes over and reworks it from the ground up.
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It’s a weird direction for sure. We go from the biggest burst healer to a weird HOT based healer with so many ways to reduce damage taken with stretch time, dream breath shield, two charges of time dilation, DR portion of our apex on top of obsidian scales and zephyr etc.
- We need to be able to lifebind 5 targets (including ourselves) through echo again. If they aren’t willing to do that then remove it and put lifespark in its place and put a new red capstone talent where lifespark was.
- Resonating sphere needs to part of TA baseline.
- Font of magic and power Nexus are dead talents.
- Time Lord and flow state could be made 1 point talents.
- Inner flame is a cool new talent, but don’t really have the points to take it.
- New tempo charged isn’t good, or not working properly so it’s not taken.
- Energy loop is mandatory but healers do no damage so it doesn’t feel good to press.
- Dream/deep breath should have the scale commander functionality baked into them. It’s just so good and fun to be able to control where I’m going mid flight.
- I’m very negatively biased to blossoms and want them gone so I’m not going to suggest ways to make them better because I don’t want to use them at all.
Those are the biggest problem points in the tree from my angle.
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As someone dipping their toes on Pres, I found this really bad. Healers like Disc, Rdruid and MW (out that I can remember) have mana regeneration tied to active abilities, and none of them have to sacrifice an important spec resource to do so.
At this rate, I feel it would be ideal to make Azure Strike free and tie mana regen to it somehow. It’s either something like that or make Pres mana economy better. 
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Just building the mana return into Disintegrate would probably be fine. The biggest issue is it hard locks Pres into right side of the tree.
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My issue with Disintegrate is the whooping 3 essence cost… That’s an echo and half, and not only that, you still have to channel it to net the entire mana gain (plus that’s many seconds of no healing being done or prepped). If at least it was just 2 essence, maybe wouldn’t feel as bad to reallocate healing resources just to get mana back.