Why?
It was never a problem before, and only when one specific M+ season played to our strengths was it nerfed.
It really feels like players are being punished for the dev’s lack of foresight.
I would wager most people (including the Devs) forgot Mass Dispel even existed.
And let’s be real, it’s not like priest as a class was over here just overflowing with utility. Pretty much any other healer has more abundant and better options.
Bursting is why Mass Dispel is on a 2 minute cooldown.
Are you sure about that? It might have been a problem if anyone took shadow priests to M+ prior to DF…but they didn’t.
Mass dispel trivializes a lot of stuff, though. And presumably makes it harder for them to implement balanced/fair magic debuffs when they know that one class (either dps or healer) can completely negate it single-handedly.
Because it’s insanely powerful.
Don’t forget Tindral and fyrakk. Blizzard made dispels a real pita for those 2 fights.
Primarily Raids, not M+, is why it’s on a 2 min CD as you could just flat out ignore major mechanics by having the entire raid (or affected people) stack.
Pvp really appreciates the M+ change.
25s cooldown Mass Dispel on a super fast cast time was op af, not to mention in PvP.
The honest to God truth is PVP. It’s patently unfun how long it is in PVE.
S2 of DF had a lot of dispellable magic debuffs that would go on most/all of the party all at once, and a well-timed MD deleted the mech
i heard a lot of people theorize that increasing the cd was a part of trying to dismantle the god comp in s2.
if thats the case, plan failed because the dps portion of that comp is alive and well
it’s so it doesn’t become overly necessary and more creative ways are found in its absence.
Because of Fyrakk.
To stop 2 priest from cheesing every raid fight that has a bunch of debuffs at the same time.
They could’ve just target capped it at 8 or something to solve that.
Thanks pver’s for ruining a pvp ability again.
You are welcome for all the pvp talents added into the tree’s too.
Everyone’s blaming all content except theirs, which indicates that it’s old CD was OP basically everywhere.
this was for double tap
Because it’s insanely powerful.
I tend to suspect that’s what it was. Problem with that though is Shadow wasn’t brought to that comp for MD. It was brought because it had high damage coupled with double power infusion which could buff itself and the fire mage, both of which were further buffed by Augmentation Evokers. In addition to mind soothe for skips.
MD wasn’t carrying that comp, it was just a bystander in it that happened to be useful for one season.
It never will be necessary. Any situation that requires dispels will always be designed for any healer to handle it.
Where exactly? Everyone keeps parroting this but there aren’t any specific situations where MD breaks the game. Any healer can handle any dispel situation because Blizz won’t design any encounter to require Mass Dispel.
It’s good for breaking Paladin bubbles in PvP.
Honestly, it’s a god-tier PvP ability, but idk how well it translates into PvE, probably not very well.