Wait….?? Disc priest got divine aegis back??!! Didn’t they remove this cause it wasn’t balanced? Whats happening here?!!! 
When it was in the game before it was absorbing crazy amounts, you’d have mini bubbles for almost someone’s entire Hp amount with one heal crit. This new iteration is not that powerful. Maybe a 5k absorb if I’m lucky, it’s fine.
I mean I’m fine with it but “old” blizzard always said it was impossible to balance and thats why they removed it. Personally I’ll wait and see but it seems absorbs are gonna be king again. Rshaman also got double stone skin.
I dunno, I’m really happy that they are bringing back the absorb play style, it’s virtually why I picked up my disc priest again.
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The issues were actually atonement auto or smart heal back in Pandaria. There was no apply atonement , you just attacked the boss and its would spam heals on every players that had lost hp .
Then came late SoO and the the holy nova spam started 
.Divine aegis was just too good with this.
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Oh my bad I thought they were talking about when disc was basically a shield bot, before atonement even became a thing and PW:S and DA were your top heals every fight.
Well I hope it ends well cuz I’m enjoying disc again so I don’t wanna get aegis back only for it to be ripped away again. Hopefully cuz I i like it.
That’s not why they removed it. They went in a very anti-Absorption/healing game design direction because they said it wasn’t fun for healers without absorbs. Which is the reason HPal has the BS mastery it does now.
Not gonna lie, getting a DA absorb for an entire health bar was fun as hell for me as a disc priest back then, but I can see why other healers hated it.
They were very dramatic about it back in the day
“HUR DUR …ABsORBS AiNt ReAL Healing, GIT GUD”
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