It’s mainly if you don’t pick seasons.
I like Seasons without Summer. If Summer got replaced and became a support type of button not focused on damage, maybe focused on utility, mobility or survivability id be far happier with Seasons. I like the other 3 buffs we cycle through, they aren’t game changing but they are still really nice and you can feel their effects (especially Winter and Autumn).
I really dislike hpal damage being tuned around Summer or with Summer in mind and it definitely is, and it’s not even fun. How good it does is entirely dependent on what dps specs you have with you and if they are good at pressing their buttons or not. Not really a fan of that. If Summer goes away then Hpal damage problems can be fixed in an easier way.
So personally I’d love if they just made Summer a completely different type of buff rather than damage. Mobility, utility or survivability would be great imo. Makes it so we don’t need to pick this node, but can if we want more support for our group.
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It’s mostly a raid concern. Mana in dungeons is never really a problem because you can drink any time, when you see someone mentioning mana it’s usually raid or pvp related as drinking is very difficult for hpal in pvp and you can’t drink in raid obviously.
Doesnt matter if other healers oom in dungeons because again you just drink, and as an rdruid you can even stealth sprint ahead to where your group plans on going and start drinking before they get there for example but again mana in m+ rarely matters. Mostly raid and pvp, and hpal does have mana issues in raid.
I’m pretty sure the person I responded to talks about m+.
Even in raid I don’t see much of an issue outside of how it supposed to be.
It is an issue in raid for sure, mostly because hpal doesn’t really have a way to do stop healing and do damage without spending mana. Most healers have a way to not spend any mana if they aren’t healing but still do something ie damage, but hpals damage abilities all cost mana now outside of cons or spamming flash of light. You can talk to any pally at a high level about this, it was an issue this tier pretty badly.
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I just avoid CS, only keep Con and throw Judgment with Infusion procs.
Again, can’t speak for raid as I’m not interested in Mythic Raiding, but can’t say I struggled with mana more than any other healer during my Heroic clear.
Same applies to m+, no issues at all unless I pick all of the mana demanding talents.
Heroic no, the mana issue is mostly a higher end issue where people push buttons appropriately and have good CPM. Hpal is just in an odd spot where we got a lot of mana return stuff but a lot of it got nerfed alongside our active damage abilities, and then mana cost got added to spenders and damage abilities as well.
In m+ like I said earlier there is really no mana issue for any healer in m+. Some can get low but it doesn’t matter because they can just drink, the only time it would be a real issue is if a healer is ooming in 3-4 mins aka the time of a higher key tyran boss fight but currently no healer has that issue.
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