I really dislike the mana changes for hybrid heals we got recently… You don’t see warriors and DHs going Perma rage or fury starved for endlessly healing of their rotations.
At the same time I realize you guys don’t want hybrid healing to be out of control…
So how about instead of going oom, you give hybrids a sort of healing decay mechanic where spamming heals after a while starts stacking up a debuff that weakens your heals. Not healing for X seconds resets it.
ret and prot should use their mana too.
Using whataboutism for other classes that don’t have off-healing is bit funny (unless you’re saying self sustain is same as off-healing). Hell I might even do you one better and say lowering your generator cost would be nice, but adding way to conserve holy power would have been even better.
(off topic, Jesus you have Azeroth’s Champion title, that is torture. You have my sincere condolences)
Ty, was a nightmare to get as a casual.
Anyway. Hybrid off healing was never such a big problem in arena. I mean I do what I’ve always done now and I don’t go oom. And we definitely don’t go oom in pve…
It’s more of a solo thing.
We do.
But we’re not healers, so we shouldn’t have to manage it.
Only way you’d go oom before was by hard casting heals, which was impractical anyway.
Do you think off-healers should ne able to do the same amount of healing as pure healers?
Of course not
Okay, so far so good. What kind of tax would you place on off-healers so that they don’t do the same amount of healing as pure healers?
Well that can just be a tuning fix. Or like in my OP, a decay effect
Tuning is too wide of a brush
Decay effect does not put a cap on overall healing possible by off-healers
Either put a cap on their healing or control their resources cost. So which one?
This is just the enh shaman class mechanic.
The goal is to limit it, not put a cap…
And tuning has always been the go to. Making hybrids go oom is the lazy way.
Tuning what exactly? Abilities? You share the abilities with a pure healing spec. Wide brush. What exactly about ret are you tuning?
You tune it per spec.
This isn’t new… They’ve always done this
Okay, you’re tuning ret. What about ret are you tuning?
Well wog and fol. And the associated talents.
Let’s look at SL for example.
Healing hands was over performing early SL and was then nerfed multiple times so that wog wasn’t spammable loh.
Running away on your panic pony to fol is core part of being a ret. I’m not sure how you would tune that.
What do you mean…
Just make Ret’s fol heal for less if it’s pumping too much.
So you’re not putting a cap but rather lowering the healing an off-healer can do?
Yeah, there doesn’t need to be a hard cap…
Healers can heal more than hybrid dps by just having more powerful heals. This has always worked out just fine.
Plus hard casting heals has always made us go oom anyway, which fit the fantasy, but now our instant heals are ooming us for no reason.
Like should healers have a damage cap, lol.