09-08-2005, 02:04 PM
lfd,Sep 8 2005, 06:20 AM Wrote:...and the holy priests wept.[right][snapback]88589[/snapback][/right]Yeah, didn't Druids just get/are getting big buffs to their forms? And now more work?
Eyonix has started posting to the Priest forum as of late, giving Priest players some hope that attention is being given to their class - especially when Eyonix posted that he didn't consider Holy Nova to be worth the talent point investment, instead going for Inner Focus (that's right, a 21 point Disc talent beats a 31 point Holy talent). He's also going to spec in Master Healer, giving the players there some amusement...with the new 5 second rule mechanics, Master Healer is even more not worth the talent investment than before. Hopefully he'll see that and report it.
Buff Holy tree too much, and Priests not only doom other healing classes, but they doom shadow Priests. Every group will demand a Priest with a Holy spec and it would become a requirement for raids. Druids will be thrown out. So Blizzard has a challenge - how can they make the 31 point Holy spell good enough to get without upsetting the game balance?
Every time I look at Mage talents, I think of how well designed they are. Sure, there are some "useless" talents like Wand Specialization, but the fact that the Mage was the first class to get talents shows. They've been refined all throughout the beta and are what they should be - a set of choices and tradeoffs between lots of juicy talents that make you really want to respec a lot.
For Priests, there's very few options for decent talent builds. If you're going for power in PvE healing, the 26 disc/25 holy build is the gold standard. Going for PvP, the power goes into the shadow tree with a few backup disc talents. Heavy use of the Holy tree is considered a "variant" by most, because the tree is so disjointed!
What it SHOULD be is that there would exist raging debates on talent choices between the trees and what tradeoffs to make. But when a 21 point disc talent is better than a 31 point holy talent, something's wrong. Inner Focus will save a group's butt far more than Holy Nova will. Mmm, a free high-chance-to-crit Prayer of Healing, yummy.
-Bolty
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