The reason Oracle Disc dominates high keys is its massive shields. To address this, Blizzard should nerf Power Word: Shield even harder, instead of reducing Penance and Atonement healing. The current approach won’t stop Oracle Priests from dominating high keys, but it will seriously hurt Voidweaver, who is already in a rough spot this season, especially in raids.
A better solution would be to revert the nerfs to Penance and Atonement and instead cut the absorb value of Power Word: Shield by half—or even more. That way, Oracle’s dominance in high keys would end, without punishing Voidweaver’s already weak raid performance. Otherwise, people will continue choosing Oracle, since the shield is still strong even after the nerf—absorbing around 30–40% of total health
The reason Oracle is so powerful right now is because of its massive shield. No one is complaining about the need to nerf the shield; in fact, I personally agree that the nerf for pws should be even harsher.
However, the issue is that Blizzard is not addressing this directly. Instead, they are nerfing other aspects of Oracle. Can you understand that?
I don’t think nerfing PW:Shield is gonna change much unless you completely gut it.
I thought they would directly target Oracle, but I guess not. They went the placebo route of fake nerfs to hush people up about the meta.
Oracle has a crit build that is going to require more than a slap on the wrist to get rid of. But builds that only work when you stack a stat usually don’t get the nerf bat too hard. Most people probably don’t even know about it. Most people just now switched from VW to Oracle, there is no way they know unless they already stacked crit or are top players.
I don’t think it’s really that overpowered in the first place that it needs major nerfs.
It doesn’t seem like it completely trivializes mechanics the way Cataclysm era absorb spamming could on some fights. You can’t spam massive shields on the entire party. Someone surviving a big hit because of PW:S is the kind of thing that makes playing a healer feel like an important and fun role. All healers should have life-saving moments, otherwise you’re just playing a different kind of DPS meeting generic HPS checks.
I was wondering how high we could push crit this tier. I’ve been crafting crit on all my crafted gear on priest, but it doesn’t seem like it’s that high. If we were in Legion with these talent trees that would have been a lot of fun since you could push 50% crit from gear even in the first tier that expansion.
I was hoping we were getting legit corruptions when they were announced, including the secondary stat ones from visions but the only secondary stat one isn’t anything like what you could do in BfA unfortunately.
