All we can do are curses outside a 2 minute cd. Poison Cleansing Totem was our niche dispel on an already long CD, but now because you added an affix where it’s a 1 button problem solver, our other “regular” dispel is now on a 2 minute cd, leaving us with nothing in dungeons like Ara’kara and its 10000 poisons before the first boss.
Don’t nerf niche utility because of your poor design and low key whingers.
I’m not a fan of the change either, but this is really no different from them nerfing Mass Dispel because it was way too strong during bursting week back in Dragonflight.
I’d love to see poison totem back on a 45 second, or maybe even a 1 minute cd max, but I don’t think it will happen.
As for the poisons on the spider area dungeons, yeah those suck. Even more so for a comp that doesn’t have a poison dispel at all and the healer just needs to heal through it. Unfortunately, Blizzard wants interactions like this to make the healer feel more needed in group content.
It’s just funny to me that PCT was good for decades…then all of a sudden it’s too strong (because of some seasonal m+ affixes). Meanwhile, the entirety of the rest of the game modes still exist. (The same could be said for mass dispel, btw).
At least as some sort of compensation, our Cleanse Spirit needs to be able to remove poison. Right now, it only removes Curses (baseline) and Magic effects (if restoration).
You can totem recall and use it back to back which is still very strong, it was really OP of course we were gonna get punished cause we are the blue man.