Greater Heal is a problem spell and merely functions as a bandaid for Holy’s weak single target healing in PvP, when it’s effective it creates an awful experience for teams fighting against a comp with a Holy Priest healer and when it’s not effective Holy becomes absolutely useless for Arena.
The other problem with Greater Heal is that it renders core rotational heals like Flash Heal and especially Heal completely pointless outside of Guardian Spirit and Surge of Light procs.
One suggestion I’ve had for a while is to take Greater Heal and base it similar to the old Serendipity passive but instead of reducing cast times on Heal and Prayer of Healing make it increase the healing that the next cast of either of these spells do along with a slight increase to the mana cost of Heal and Prayer of Healing with the buff active.
Napkin sample:
Successfully completing a cast of Flash Heal increases the healing of your next Heal or Prayer of Healing by 35% and the mana cost by 15%, stacking up to 2 times.
Alternatively, delete Greater Heal entirely as a talent and just give Holy Priest a flat 25% buff to their overall healing in PvP.
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Yea no idea what blizzard was thinkin bringing in % based abilities into pvp.
Dunno how your numbers would work out, but they need to figure out something other than gpyro and greater heal.
One big thing about arenas, things should not only be fun to play, but also fun to play against.
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Exactly, get rid of gpy,rift,shimmer,mage shields, pure dps heals,healing do to much dps. 
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Ignore this guy. OP makes a good point. G heal is not a good mechanic. It is entirely a band aid for a poorly designed spec.
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Didn’t say it was a good design, just mentioning other things also…Calm down
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Holy isn’t even poorly designed this expansion, it’s just really undertuned outside of cooldowns and honor talents; I don’t know why Blizzard didn’t just take the Legion PvP tunings they gave to Holy’s baseline spells and carried them over.
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Because they need like 5 honor talents to function decently. Pom used to be to strong, renew used to be to strong, casted heals were fine now there all trash tier and you just spam greater heal while cycling the occasional guardian, mind control, spam purge, gg. Horrible balancing this xpac i must say on all counts.
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I absolutely loved mop hpriest, but usually when hpriest is in the meta, it’s an answer to the super dampening rdruid/rsham comps because in the past you could outlast everyone with PoM and renew and staying at 40yds. Legion hpriest numbers were better, but the play style of holy tends to be on the “let’s just afk until we win” side. Just buffing their numbers while removing gheal would make them better, but with their current design, we would just start seeing hpriest comps trying to outlast everyone else, and the meta would take a turn for the worse. Although, at least priests would be in the meta again…