Technical details on spell downranking

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The way things are currently, people with 500-1000 in healing can downrank far enough that no reasonable amount of damage can scare them. They can chain cast for days without going OOM.

Not people. Paladins, whose talents let them spam their already more-efficient heals. I find it funny you should say:

Mana management should be part of healing

because that's _exactly_ why I use lower-rank heals (mostly Heal 2 and GH2) on my priest:) I just hope mana pools scale appropriately for the size of the hitpoint pools we'll be healing; some downranking will be possible (and HoTs stacking will obviously help), but for the raid bosses we'll have higher hitpoints on our tanks to be healed by fewer healers.