MongoJerry,Feb 4 2006, 10:51 PM Wrote:But now, if Greater Heal becomes useful at 3 seconds (2.5 if the talents are worth it), then the average cast time on priest heals will become longer, making it closer to the cast times that druids use. So, now instead of having priests spam flash heal, all healers will be generally using high cast time heals. This would seem to be a boon to druids rather than a curse.
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Well it's probably to early to tell how the new greter heal will change priest healing.
Anyway, my thoughts are:
There are essentially two types of heals in a raid setting. (Note that I've not been to bwl yet)
Healing a tank, whom you expect to get consistently damaged and cross healing someone whom you expect to not get damaged in the next seconds.
Cross healing a druid stands no chance against a priest. That won't change, priest will continue to use flash heal for these heals. (The reason isn't that you expect them to die, but that you usely have to heal more than one.)
Tank healing is actually something at which druids are good. With two hots running, they can time their cast and choose the minimum rank of healing touch.
And if there is need for additional heal, a specced regrowth is actually more healing/second than a flash heal.
Now if greater heal is actually a lot more efficient, and it certainly looks like that is the case. It might get used for tank healing, in the classical healing rotation.