Yep this. Couldn’t believe the title.
I am talking about the runes themselves enabling the bubble playstyle folks are used to, not the talent tree needing help. Strength of soul and renewed hope dont feel very good to use
To reiterate, both specs have different strengths, and Disc is definitely friendly to newer healers, as mana cost and the little additional MP5 you get gives you leeway to cast more than needed, but Holy is undoubtedly, mathematically, documented and proven to be better throughput.
But as stated above, there are absolutely 0 viable tools for bubble playstyle in Vanilla. It doesn’t work. You have to use your real healing spells.
PWS, in Vanilla, is by far the least mana efficient heal in the game, across all classes. It’s only good purpose is to prevent cast-time lost by damage on casters or provide some Mitigation just before a big hit. Nothing else.
The way it plays in Wrath is simply not achievable with what we have currently.
Which is why Strength of Soul and Renewed hope feel like wasted rune slots. Seems like they’re trying to enable it but just fail miserably
This is not my experience, I never drink in dungeons anymore. Unless the pull is super huge and messy. Rotate Dispersion and Shadowfiend for mana regen and be the healing god you were meant to be. Disc priest is op AF. Like I literally can’t believe how effing strong I am compared to every other healer.
If you think priest has bad healing runes definitely don’t even bother with the other healers then lol
Penance-PoM- and circle of healing now needs a buff.
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Not in PVP, but otherwise yeah pretty much
I disagree. The other healers are struggling already with their runes, buffing priest’s would further create problems when they clearly need help more. PoM/Penance feel strong, even after the nerfs. CoH is also nice when the situation calls for it.
PVP Disc just gets stomped on. I pvpd a lot in phase 1. Now it’s either 1 shot, 1 stun rotation or, if you have dispersion up, either die during or right after it ends. With all of + damage geared burst, it’s just terrible. And if you think anything else, it’s you who doesn’t pvp.
Dispersion is supposed to make you immune to stuns and slows while active but it does not. Still get slowed and stunned while dispersed. And the fact that I can’t cast spells during dispersion makes it just prolong the inevitable.
That is because the pvp damage in the game is broken. That doesn’t change the fact that disc priest is the best pvp and pve healer in game by a large margin.
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Eh. I still grab Divine Fury in holy but stop there. It makes for less buttclenching tankhealing when you’re using Circle of Healing rune and not Penance.
I run Strength of Soul but I also have a warrior MT. I’ll likely swap to Serendipity at some point, but not now. Also we’re starting to get to a point where we can downrank our spells. You should be doing so.
You are correct with it having inverse synergy with Renewed Hope. Idk what they were smoking here.
Also our rune spells do not proc Inspiration. This is a bug as far as I’m concerned and should be fixed but I doubt Priests will get that.
Priests are currently the shiniest piece of trash in the trash can but in the end healing is a trash can rn.
The other healers can do more than healing, we don’t.
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WCL’s are good for dps but not an accurate representation of healing.
This is just false. Priests have PWS, Fort, Spirit buff and magic dispel. They are far from a “one trick pony”. Until the other healers are fixed only nerfs should apply to healing priests.
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Except it’s completely broken. It does not make you immune to stuns or snares like the tooltip says it should. And the fact that we can’t cast while dispersed means we are just prolonging the inevitable death. Otherwise we die so fast in PVP if this is on CD. Rogue can stun lock me to death in 2-3 GCDs and there isn’t a thing I can do about it. Other classes can also 1-3 shot a disc priest in PVP. You obviously don’t play one.
I agree we’re a lot weaker than we were in P1 we are glass cannon healers now. Though our shields and Penance are not enough to save someone from the current DPS. You have to play with a lot of skill to play disk priest in Pvp now. I’m usually the only healy priest in WSG and AB most games these days, which tells you a lot.
Feral druids need a huge Nerf bat to the face in Pvp their immunity to fear while their destroying a priest is utterly ridiculous and totally unfair. Truly pathetic gameplay Blizzard.
You shouldnt be able to easily solo mobs in healer spec with healer runes that is delusional. The actual solution is duel spec so you dont have to go to a main city and pay anytime you want to be able to solo a quest.
Your post got me researching downranking and that was a whole layer I was not tapped into. Any advice on downranking at 40? And appreciate the inspiration bit, thats good to know.
They are still a factual compilation of what the healers who have managed to do the most healing are doing or using.