Comments on: Same Problems, Different Day Part IV – All Hail Our Priest Overlords

By: Horka

Horka — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 04:12:54 +0000

Hi,

I agree that our toolkit is quite average to say the least – i mean we are pretty much the only real healing class that hadn’t had a significant change to their healing tool kit.

Shrooms are too cumbersome and their range is small – they would have been suited to Dragon Soul but not MOP in general.

My only real suggestion is:

1. Make shrooms have a raid wide range (i.e. 100 yards etc) + increased output to them, which will likey never happen cause the GD dont want shrooms included in our rotation > dammed if you do and dammed if you dont.

Give us a spirit shell type ability like “Mass Lifebloom” with a small cd like the priests shell – the intention is to make it work like spirit shell / prayer of healing, rather than waste so many GCD’s trying to bloom ppl in anticipation for incoming damage.

Your thoughts?

By: Celestelle

Celestelle — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:14:12 +0000

It looks like I might be getting back into the raiding scene soon. I see how much I’m running on fumes in LFR and at 476 ilvl I feel like I’m still going to be undergeared for normals. I used to be an H mode raider through wotlk and Cata, so for me to actually have doubts about my abilities is really a first. I guess I can feel fortunate I’m no longer in a 25 man raid guild.and will be 10 man raiding.

By: Kess

Kess — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:51:48 +0000

On a side note, the monk nerf makes me feel just like one person described their druid above, “awkward”. I feel like I have several choices, but all of them are bad. By that, I mean the wrong people will get healed, my mana will tank, or I won’t be set up properly to handle future raid damage. I think that the nerfs were as much about killing a playstyle as about curbing throughput. Renewing Mist/Uplift was so effective before because you could get good coverage on the raid, and Uplift did a lot of healing. Since the nerfs, the RNG and delay of Renewing Mist is really exposed as a weakness. You have to be hyper vigilant of the cd for Renewing Mist and keep it constantly ticking to make Uplift worthwhile. I don’t experience flow at all, and for that reason more than anything, I’m tempted to go back to my holy paladin. The toolkit is just so much more responsive and intuitive.

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:51:52 +0000

Huh?

I’m not sure what you are trying to say!

By: mondka

mondka — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:47:00 +0000

It is interesting to see you just 5k below a priest in total healing over the course of a fight, but with 40% activity.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:55:31 +0000

Preach it sister,

One progression 25 man resto druid to another, it blows. I get by, I earn my spot, I (still) love my class, but I’m just depressed that we haven’t gotten any real attention for so long. Even in Cataclysm it wasn’t great, we did good HPS, but lacked utility compared to other healers. Now monks have perhaps, slightly less utility than us(but still some) but better HPS and they gut out our niche.

I love my druid, and I can’t see myself swapping to priest, but I feel like I have to work 3 times as hard as others to keep up with mediocre healers of other classes.

I wish they’d give HoTW a healing component. I’m so jealous that when priests smite they dont really sacrifice HPS. I’m not really into meters, but I hate that popping HoTW and assisting DPS pretty much guarantees me bottom place.

Bleh.

Sometimes I wonder if druids just lack the ability to collectively whine as loudly as other classes in order to get buffs.

By: Caenem

Caenem — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:54:46 +0000

I understand where you’re coming from, and it’s definitely frustrating to see that my place tends to be at the bottom of the meters. I’ve noticed that even with equal active times, the other healers are getting more oomph out of their spells, and have higher raw healing numbers than I can manage. It sucks when you’re working on progression and you’re the one that has to sit for a kill, but it’s something to be taken in stride. As far as my guild’s concerned, there’s always going to be a raid spot for a resto druid. I just try to ride the “I’m AWESOME” high from Tsulong for as long as possible during the raid week, and throw out some DPS where I can.

By: Tazor

Tazor — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:53:24 +0000

Same old story 8 years later. Blizzard cannot balance their game.
Wow is the best and worst game I’ve ever played.

By: Peachasaurus

Peachasaurus — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:42:01 +0000

I had a good laugh at the title- this is how I feel. ALL HAIL THE DISC PRIEST OVERLORDS. /is levelling sanct as we speak.

By: silvetica

silvetica — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:50:42 +0000

10 man is absolutely fine still. (sory Beru i know you hate 10 man references).
our monk healer rerolled after patch and our paladin and shaman have just got used to be way behind me. currently only 6/16 hc so hardly cutting edge but still.
anyway my reason for posting is why the huge differnece between 10 man and 25. It seems only the 25 man resto’s that are complaining. I don’t see how you could heal less than 10 man druids so is it that the other healers heal for significantly more in 25 man than they do in 10 and thus druids fail to keep up?
Just curious.