This spell feels so bad to use that I’m not sure many of us will feel 10%?
I’ll take it but…meh?
Or is this a big change??
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It’s a nothing change on a garbage spell.
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It is our best healing spell in raids and m+, it absolutely did not need a 10% buff. Many of our other spells need buffs like HL/wog/fol even HS as Hs is potentially losing a lot of power going into 10.1.
Lod was the last thing that needed buffing lol. It is one of 2 healing spells we actually use (hs, lod) the other small things like LH do leech levels of healing. Buffing one of the only spells we press for healing doesn’t help outside of just giving hpals a slight numbers increase, doesn’t help with any of the gameplay issues.
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I don’t have the exact numbers at hand right now but LOD is one of our top heals in Raid I want to say it’s around 30% of our healing plus the contribution to Beacon, but if we also take into account that some of that will go to overhealing since we use LOD even when no healing is needed then I think it should be like a 3% maybe 4% buff…
That should bring Holy Paladins up since we were lagging behind a little bit… Based on current logs I think it will be Holy Priest, Resto Shaman, Holy Paladin and Disc Priest in that order but very close to each other in HPS… (For 20-man group).
So from that perspective alone the buff looks correct and those 4 healers will be well in-line with each other… But we are clearly still having the big outlier in Preservation Evoker that is about 7 to 8% ahead of the other pure-throughput healers (R Druid and MW Monk) which are already ahead by about 7% of the ones I mentioned above.
I think those gaps are a bit too large still, yes the pure throughput healers should be slightly ahead but not by 7% (more like 3-5% I think) and then Evokers should definitely not be another 8% ahead, I understand it’s the new class and all but make it maybe like 3% above the other pure throughput ones.
It is getting some decent sized nerfs in 10.0.7, came out in the notes today. So we probably won’t see anything for prevoker until that goes live.
I didn’t see any nerfs can you link them
It’s our best heal if you can hit multiple people with it. In M+ on stacked fights it’s insanely good.
You can heal 9 stacks of bursting without any effort if you have virtue up and hit your group with a couple light of dawns.
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It’s in here. Their stasis ramps largely get affected by this, will be much weaker now.
The problem with the buff is they probably just looked at our top heal in raid, buffed it and called it a day. It signals (to me and others who point it out) that they are not interested in hpals issues or do not know what they are. LoD being so good is actually what is causing some issues, our generators do no healing because a majority of our power is behind spenders. It can’t really work any other way though unless they redesign holy power to be about giving us access to different types of healing spells as opposed to flat out stronger ones.
On top of that, WoG is really bad for a single target spender. It barely gets used in comparison to Lod in m+/raid, and in pvp it doesn’t really move health bars much either it’s just the only thing you have to spend holy power on.
Hpals did need a bit of a buff and I’m sure the intention was just that, a numbers buff, but it was a very weird spell to buff. Hpal is not using infusions, ignoring hl/fol, holy shock heals for 30k outside of wings/4set proc, etc. I don’t see any indication any of this will be solved in 10.0.7, so I am doubtful about 10.1, so buffing lod furthers this thought process.
This is for later on, not right now but holy shock is losing 29% healing going into 10.1 (potentially) and 9% healing going into 10.0.7.
Oh ya there’s legitimate problems that need addressing, but I don’t think we’ll see them looked at until late in the expansion or in 11.0.
The fact that infusion of light is still the way it is boggles the mind and it’s been talked about endlessly on the forums.
I desperately want a word of glory buff as well. Single target healing outside of a 4 set proc or during wings is really bad. When I don’t get awakening procs on bosses that murder my tank, I feel pretty helpless sometimes when word of glory doesn’t cover the damage they’re taking.
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Wish they would add Lightforged blessing to it for Holy. Does its regular heal and with lightforged add a 2% of target heal added to it