Well, the holy rework is everything I hoped it would be. Vanguard’s can use some work, and there are a few bugs, but overall it’s a blast. I ALWAYS go retribution for doing dailies and world quests and stuff, but I’ve been just staying holy the past few days and it doesn’t even feel slow. My upper limit of damage has almost tripled in dungeons, when I don’t have to worry about healing too much. It all feels great.
But.
How bad are they going to nerf our damage back? Is there a chance that maybe, possibly, our rework is just at the front of incoming changes to return healers to doing appreciable damage in M+? It feels good, but it feels TOO good. Like how I felt playing my shaman until recently, but an order of magnitude better.
When you’re at the top you can always expect the bat. That being said they let evokers be on top for a long time, maybe it’s our turn?
Even the non meta builds appear to be performing okay. I just hope they don’t do an aura nerf forcing people into playing one build.
Nerf specific over performing talents or bring the others up.
I do hope we see some further tuning for the hammer of wrath talents. Even with vanguards momentum I feels much weaker than the other options especially considering how low value the two nodes before VM give us. I also think (gulp) AC could use some buffs.
Besides our damage, Tyr’s Deliverance is the only thing that feels overtuned. And i am expecting it to be nerfed any day now.
And possibly Barrier of Faith, i got a 2.8m (total) absorb of a single cast of Barrier of Faith during raid the other day. Sure, you usually get like a 10’th of that. But i feel like a 2.8m absorb off a 30s cooldown shouldn’t even be possible.
2.8m of total absorb though. That required a massive amount of additional throughput to generate that value!
Sure damage went up but I easily out dps my holy paladin on my lesser geared shaman, evoker, and monk. I don’t play priest a whole lot so have not tested that.
Dps for holy paly is better for sure, more competitive yep, overtuned it is not though.
Of all the things that they should and probably will nerf us, I dont think damage is one of them.
Tyr’s deliverance, daybreak + triple HS talent, Holy Light, and probably beacon will get though, since the HPS, spot healing and AOE of the class is insane right now, and of course as a DR class with heavy utility we should not be beating evokers, druids, monks or h priests out of the water by 10-20% of their healing in raid