Terrible. You seriously nerfed hpal? We’re not OVERLY PERFORMING YOU DUNCES. MY SUB IS CANCELED SO HARD. 11% IN A MONTH IS WILD. w-the-actual-F****
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Because you cant really nerf shaman without flat out removing some of our abilities. Shaman arent dominating keys because of healing throughput. We’re dominating keys because we have comparable healing to other classes AND the most utility. Nerfing shaman healing throughput doesnt make sense. What does make sense is buffing other healers because they dont have as much utility.
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They won’t. They don’t give a flying fork about what we think or say. They are redundant. They make no sense.
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I second this.
I have mained resto druid since Legion and I am afraid you have dropped the ball on this one Blizzard. The spikey damage I have experienced (despite the promises for it to be gradual dmg) requires a major buff to our hots on top of the aura buffs you have provided. We are working overtime to do less healing than other healers. The only power we possess is in Tree of Life and even then my instant regrowths dont heal for as much as my holy priests instant heals - 800k vs 1.5-2 mil consistently! 610 ilvl for reference. In a pug setting or one where people are trying to push up to 7s, which is your majority player base, we are struggling. There is no time to dps in these types of groups. We are not grouped with the top 1% where stops and every pull is perfection. Give us something to counter the spikey damage like you have the other healing classes!!
I have switched to a holy priest because my guild is more raid focused and archon is great right now for raids. Even Holy priest a mid healer in mplus handles the dmg far better than resto druids and in raids druids are ooming to keep up. Forced to switch because you sent resto druid live half baked or not at all. Tanks and players have blacklisted us in the pug setting because why take a resto druid when there are a thousand shamans to choose from? Please get it together and listen to your players!!
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Im surprised indo isnt here defending this nerf.
They need to roll back this announced change for Holy Pally. I have seen no evidence in the majority of their player base for this. My class has been in the garbage since the season started (resto druid). I get the feeling of being pushed to play other classes. I hope they listen to the players soon or healer drought will be real.
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I just hope they dont over compensate by nerfing shaman healing into the ground when thats not the reason for the current disparity.
Could have seen this coming a mile away with the way they just trashed all healing. If healing is going to suck, may as well bring the class with the most utility.
They really just needed to make ONE ability scale correctly after 5 targets so m+ hpals didnt get totally dumped on because they screwed up and ONE ability wasnt working right in raids.
Hpal also isnt doing anything for damage… and shaman can do like 300k with only using acid rain and nothing else. Thats getting nerfed tho
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While I wholeheartedly appreciate the damage buffs. I would STILL rather see mobility changes for priests. I don’t understand why this plea from the priest community constantly and continuously goes ignored.
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I said this a week ago during a chat with guildies. They cant nerf shamans without taking away abilities they have had for years. That doesnt make sense and wont happen. I enjoy my shaman alt, i dont want to see their healing nerfed. I want other heals to have something to bring to the table. In my case thats more hps for resto druids (my main). Shamans seem to have an answer for most any situation. Feels good, but makes other heals look so undesirable.
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Why are you nerfing Hpal repeatedly instead of just fixing the Dawnlight bug? Can you not fix it? Why is your communication so poor with us? We’re already underperforming in m+, are you even considering this? Could we get any kind of reasoning behind this?
Hpal is already completely reliant on virtue windows in m+, this will only compound that further for no good reason. You reworked us to be spot healers again in beta but now our heals are becoming so weak again that we won’t even be able to do that, we’re just becoming the same monstrosity with no identity we were in Dragonflight s3/4 where we just excel at nothing and all we can do is pray the group survives until virtue comes up if we don’t have wings. I have to click like 10 pages in on Raider io to even find the highest timed key by an hpal, and it’s a 12. You actually think a 5% nerf is warranted for an already underperforming spec? Even in raid we do nothing outside of wings and it’s only because of your stupid bug that wings is so strong there. The initial 6% nerf I kind of understood and didn’t mind but this one just confuses me so much. Could you at least buff Eternal Flame to compensate if you want some power out of Dawnlight? Ideally you design us so we do more than we do now without wings up and less during it.
Also please stop buffing Lightsmith numerically and just accept that it’s fundamentally designed terribly and needs a redesign if you want it to be played. It might be the single clunkiest thing I’ve ever attempted to use in this game in the 20 years I’ve played it.
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given they have known about this bug for months, im not sure if they can fix it or just dont want to.
I believe the 5% nerf is to address raiding, and m+ just gets hit. Really sad they couldnt figure out a better way to adjust raiding and honestly buff m+healing
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Right… any they didn’t even touch Priest healing which has no way to remove Poison which is the majority of DoT damage in M+, while having no reliable AoE heals outside of Halo, which is a long CD
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RShaman and PEvoker are the only ones with reliable AoE – Pallies and Priests are suffering right beside you. Our “AoE” healing is single target spam because AoE healing is absolute trash right now.
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Lightsmith is terrible, yet you nerf our main healing again and buff the worst hero talents. I loath you blizzard. Loathe. I truly did cancel my sub. My guild will die with me. 700+ Members.
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This exact mindset is the reason tanks arent tanking. Be quiet and sit down.
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Lack of mobility and meaningful interrupt for healing priests ignored again 
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Hmmm. These delvers are clearing their delve too quickly with their bm hunters. Let’s fix that, we want them in there.
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They’ve ruined BM at this point. Basilisk collar was a poorly designed talent to begin with but they should remove it and replace it with something better and not just nerf it into uselessness
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At least in the priests case I can say their single target is highly superior to address the damage. I know there is definitely issues for others as well. I have an easier time on my priest but they are just mid.
Exactly right. Hopefully bliz understands this. Lol