hpal is a proximity healer, your damage and abilities heal those near you. most people dont seem to understand that. If you are running away or standing out in left field then you dont get healed. Additionally, if youre screwing around and not dpsing, you arent healing the group. Healing mythic+ as a lightsmith hpal is satisfying. Hpal could use a means of dealing with sudden spikes of damage like the other healers, but if you have a good tank and not pugging with morons it isnt even an issue.
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I would argue Hpal has good ways of dealing with damage spikes. The only set ups you need is Virtue.
You can always Divine shield + Sac.
Lay of Hands with LS and Tirion’s devotion is a like a 1.5-2 mins CD.
By now everyone has seen how OP prot pal is with Tempered in battle, but guess what, LS abilities like Bulwark and Sacread weapon actually work better for a healer like Hpal than a Tank since both can also be used to control the party’s Health pools.
I really have no idea how they are sleeping not only on Hpal, but other healers like Prevoker/MW/Rdruid and until recently Disc just because the community follows the meta blindly.
We are not in a season where a healer is just insanely OP relatively to the rest like in other past seasons.
Most Prot pallies I see now OUTHEAL hpal. Very odd. Not very Cash money.
Not sure if you talking about PvP but my tank in PvE is a Prot Pal and of course that’s not really the case there.
AC/LS does not have the highest raw HPS of all healers, but its still not in the bottom either. As it should be, since you have Holy Bulwark, Aura Mastery and Tempered in battle.
Prot Pal have the same two abilities from LS, but they mostly use it on themselves. As a healer, these tools are extremely powerful and I think the community is just sleeping on how powerful they can be if used properly. I mean, Tempered in Battle is almost half the reason why Prot paladin is even meta now compared to pre 11.0.5.(others being slightly increased armour, better CDR and some more DPS).
I bet they will probably nerf Prot Pal LS and with that, nerf us as well after MDI or before S2. /shrug
They are nerfing refining fire talent by 1/3 on PTR.
Pally is still squishier than prot war because prot war has higher passive DR, scales better in single pulls and mass pulls, and Ignore pain is superior to shining light.
For lower keys, prot war is a much better choice because players don’t know how to plan out cds. Prot war just passively live through all the tank bursters. But at higher keys, prot pally is the best for its dmg and utilities.
I wonder whether blizzard cares about top keys or low keys more.
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Raid >> Top keys >>> low keys. Top keys meta always bleeds down to lower keys eventually, even if its irrelevant for those key levels.