Had a shower thought… prayer of healing can be turned in a channeled 3 second heal that ticks every second (healing in total for a little more than its doing now). But every tick it will consume up to 2 harmony charges (can hold up to 10 stacks or something), each stack granting the remaining portion 50% increased healing. This means that lets say now it heals for 100k a person, it would heal for 40k each tick, but if you have 4 stacks, it would heal for 40 k on the first tick, 60k on the second tick, and 80k on the third tick. You can then update revitalizing prayers to increase chance of renew to go off on the end of the cast, at 20% + 20% per stack at the end of the entire cast, so if you 4 stacks it will hit renew on everyone. The way to get harmony stacks is by casting holy words, so sanctify would give 2 and serenity/chastise can give 1 each, Salvation can give 5 or something. This would then feel really good getting off fully (incentivizing haste) and would give use to a spell that just doesnt feel good casting right now.
Thoughts?
Prayer of Healing has two problems.
- The priest class has not had a developer on it since 2004. So wildly enough, Prayer of Healing is not a smart heal. It will just heal the 4 closest targets to your current target, which leads to it doing less healing than it should in raid. It is as far as I am aware the ONLY heal in the game like this.
- It’s numbers are too low such that it’s not worth pressing over a single target heal.
Fix those 2 things. Super easy. And it’s fine. Probably like 1 dev 3 hours one evening. But that would require them to have a dev look at Priest for the first time since 2004 which they clearly will not do.
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Yeah I don’t ever want PoH to be powerful till they fix the smart healing. The spell is just awful to use even if it actually does healing because of how it targets.
agreed smart healing! but i think mod on it would be fun too 
It would make it good for M+ tho
Even in M+ with the whole group damaged, Prayer of Healing uses more mana, takes more time, and heals for less than Flash Heal with Binding Heals and Trail of Light talents.
It’s a terrible spell and doesn’t even belong on the bars and that’s a shame because it’s the basic “group heal” spell. It would certainly be nice if I was using it instead of Flash Heal in raid.
The idea of it being channeled and all this increased healing based on stacks of harmony doesn’t appeal to me at all. As others have said, the spell is fine but it needs a buff and needs to be changed to a smart heal.
As it is now, priests have three spells attempting to do the exact same thing - CoH, PoH and Holy Word: Sanctify, and two of them completely suck and one of them is marginal (and can be modified to be decently strong).
I won’t pretend to be an elite game designer but something should be done about that.
PoH has been off my hotbar for 2 expansions now.
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