Look like I should weigh in on this thread as well.
Won’t ever happen. You have options around this, however.
Play with friends, make your own groups, or swap to another class. Forcing everything around you to change for your opinion is very self centered.
Doesn’t mean your opinion isn’t valid tho.
People have the right to express themselves, even if it’s wrong or unpopular.
This isn’t true, and I also played in MoP. Fistweaving was absurdly strong in dungeons when RJW existed, but in Raid casting was stronger in most cases if I remember correctly.
Also, most people who heal want to contribute outside of high damage moments, and this is a way for them to do so while feeling the impact of each global.
I don’t agree with you. This is honestly the best iteration of Fistweaving we have to date, as well as the most impactful, especially in Raids.
Now note: I don’t do dungeons much at all so it’s primarily going to be Raids and Arena/BGs for me.
We actually have really good healing right now. Damage is decent and our globals flow very well.
In terms of Arena CC it’s a tad bit rough but it’s very possible to perform on it rn.
If anything, we don’t use our mana bar ENOUGH. I’m sitting at close to full mana at all times in Raid without Tea (20 stacks), and in Arena most of the time I hover around 20% without tea+Talent (Again, 20 stacks).
Would be interesting if there was a spell that had a high mana cost that healed 5 targets for a moderate amount, that could only be cast while FLS/JFS was active.
Chi’Ji right now is an absurdly strong cooldown and those changes thay made still have me in disbelief to this day. Every single time I push that button I carry an entire Raid with my healing for 25s (Or 12 depending on boss+timers), and in Arena/BGs I’m basically a God (Until CC, but in coordinated groups or R-W-FW you can work around that).
Also, Gusts healing isn’t divided by players, and if you’re Fistweaving, you should be running Mastery since Gusts for me do 350k-400k each before Resplendent Mists + Critting, and they tigger a lot during Chi’Ji.
This will never, EVER happen and if I end up being wrong I will give out 1m gold and a public apology lmao.
The reason for that is because right now Haste/Mast for FW is the go-to. If they were to make it a base 1s GCD, that Haste would now go to Crit, and now you’ll have a class that can be 40 item levels below everyone else and still, at minimum, match every other healer in raw healing, because critting Gusts + Resplendent Mists would be the most disgusting healing in the history of the game.
I’m confident they’d have to cut all Fistweaver-related healing by roughly 40-50% to keep it in line with what it could do with that one simple change.
And ye, I’m aware it was like that in MoP, but the class then and the class now are completely different.