Why was Riptide nerfed?

This is still a mystery to me. Was there any explanation as to why Resto Shaman lost their most iconic spell?

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Its still a HoT and boosts chain heal on them; but yeah, the nerf seems weird to me too. Surely its little direct heal on a cooldown wasn’t all that OP. Most of the serious complaints have been about PVP as it was the only instant direct heal, and had a shorter cooldown so it could be applied to more than one target.

Think they are trying to limit how powerful those non-original-classic abilities are and are being extra cautious about what they add.

because it was incredibly broken op af

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBZBauS1_PU

This seems like a (not the cool voodoo kind of) troll. Someone theorycrafting a build that wastes a ton of points?

Not sure I follow this. Every other healer has an instant heal.

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and they were all nerfed as well. Riptide being the most op of all of them.

it was nurfed because Enh shamans were taking it for pvp