Blizzard how can you keep making changes to all the classes and for get holy priest. Lightwell needs to have its range inscreased as well as trigger to 75% up from 50%. You can also increase the amount healed a tad and boom good to go.
the fact that you cant reposition it makes it DoA. also its just generally useless in every aspect.
Its not bad needs a few fixes. Awesome spell
All throughout Cataclysm, MoP, and WoD, lightwell needed fixing and they tried several times by adjusting the mechanics. Holy priest was not competitive outside of coordinated groups where the Lightwell mechanics could be utilized correctly, and even then it was only effective in a subset of the fights.
We were the absolute KINGS of heal-over-time (anyone saying Druid was the HoT master during that timeframe… was wrong and never even looked at holy) and hardcasted spells. Unfortunately everyone else (including Druids) had a much, much faster acting toolkit, so outside of progression (where people spent significant amounts of time below 100% health), everyone else would scoop up the healing well before your toolkit was capable of dealing with it.
Lightwell was just another HoT on top of Renew, Mastery, and Chakhra Sanctuary, in a class that had an excessive overload of slow acting healing spells. Literally the only spell that was fast (if you ignore mastery) was Circle of Healing, and that got the target-selection-hatchet along with every other AoE spell besides Wild Growth.
I’ve got bad news for you. The meta still favors fast acting healing spells. Lightwell is not that. Your proposed fixes don’t actually fix it. Taking it out back and putting it out of its misery, like they did in Legion, was the only thing that fixed it.
Light well is terrible in wotlk and will be terrible in retail.
It is just a bad ability
Tuning alone won’t fix Lightwell. It needs to be re-envisioned. Ideally (IMO) as something that follows you around and casts a medium to high heal on allies over a ~3-6s duration. That way you can make it work with high movement encounters, like PVP, or M+, so you don’t leave it behind, or it can heal you when you can’t heal on the move or are interrupted.
Yes I agree we should be able to move it around with us