Can disc priest (the dps healer) get a buff to holy paladin DPS levels?

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Apparently holy paladin is doing 15k DPS. I’m not able to get nearly that high of numbers when I am shooting at training dummies.

This seems severely odd to me that THE literal DPS healer, the disc priest, would be dealing such staggeringly less damage.

Where is the balance? I feel like I’m missing some core design philosophy. Disc priest is the defacto DPS healer that does damage to heal… damaging is their core thing…

So why is holy paladin doing like literally double the DPS?

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/sigh

You are wrong.

The best holy pallies are bursting to 15k for 40 sec with an optimal dps set up once every 4 minutes.

Outside of that burst window, they aren’t much better than other healers normally.

The setup also gimps their healing as they need to use a dps legendary instead of a healing one.

It is much ado about nothing, really.

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Presuming you saw one during the 30 sec of power. Unless your group is pulling around those windows, it’s not as OP as you are thinking.

Healer distribution at high keys (15+ favours Shaman/Druid over Paladin though it has respectable numbers).

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Ok and a disc priest has power Infusion which is like zero burst if you call 1.8k Dps compared to 1k Dps burst

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So you want disc priests DPS to be bumped up by 200?

Well, Im sure in return Paladins will want their heals buffed by 200

Well, that’s not true anymore. Paladins have to use their DPS abilities to increase their healing output, so now there are more than 1 DPS healer…or how about fistweaving monks?

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15+ barely favor Rdruid over Hpal only cuz other Hpal are already at 20+

its either Hpal/Rshm/Dpriest are op and Rdruid is fine or rdruid/MW and Holy need a buff.

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It getting to be a game now, how many posts will there be trying to nerf paladins based on one guy in one instance on Youtube playing for maximum dps instead of maximum healing.

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It’s the ultimate troll that keeps on giving.

The highest (probably the guy from the video) Holy Paladin DPS is still only 2.4K overall. All the calls for nerfs are just silly.

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/facepalm

HOLY PALADIN IS LITERALLY SET UP TO BE DPS, TELL BLIZZ TO MAKE THEM HEALERS,

DO YOU EVEN PLAY HOLY?

WE HAVE TO BE IN MELEE RANGE TO PLAY.

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It’s not just burst damage. Their overall dps is way higher than any other healer:
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/26/#class=Healers

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Top 6 healers in the world are paladins.

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But there are more Shamans in the top 20…what’s your point?

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There are more Shamans in the Top 20, 100 and 200.
And I thought people didn’t want Blizzard to balance around the 0.1% ?
Cause focusing on the top 6 is like the 0.0000000000001%

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Here is better data showing healer representation in the +15 and higher category

Paladin is 3rd

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Disc is not a Dps healer…

Disc is a healer who do damage to heal. If the damage is too high then It would be op, cuz the heal would be too high too.

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There are 8 paladins and 8 shamans. Count again.

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Good call…

But linking this again showing how paladins are only 3rd in representation in the +15 and over category

And they are 2nd in the +20 and higher category

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I think it depends on what level of the game you’re playing at. I find holy more powerful and safer to use than discipline in heroic and Mythic 0 or 1 instances. Its a mistake to balance for the top end exclusively.

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Mages and monks are doing 100k+ aoe in MDI. Nerf these classes.

That’s how you sound.

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