Interview with Jeff Kaplan.

[vor_lord]

Changing healing gear so it grants a percentage of its +healing to +damage won't ruin healing gear... as long as they do not actually reduce the +healing.

That's true. I'm not sure how this will work with their itemization formulas. It still doesn't mean anyone will wear it when soloing.

I think they are changing how +healing works, similar to how they changed how much stamina is worth.

This has been needed for a long time -- but I'm not sure how they will fix it.