Game-Changing New Powers

[Monkey]

True. I just can't expect this to last. Blizzard will find a way to move the mechanic back to aggro on the healer. Either that, or they really wanted to change the entire game strategy to allow healers to dump aggro on their tank directly. That's a huge change. Being able to throw aggro right onto my tank against every mob he's facing before I start whipping out Greater Heals works wonders for my survivability rate, and I'm going to milk that for all it's worth.

I concur--A priest friend says he's going to abuse the spell enough to personally make Blizzard nerf Prayer of Mending just in PvP...when I told him about the PvE applications, he said I should start counting the days until the nerf.

So back to the 5-man situation. Especially if we're talking Heroic Mode, any Rogue getting aggro and going into evasion-tank mode could easily take 5000-8000 damage when they get hit. Getting 3000 of that damage mitigated could go a long way towards either letting him get off that Vanish in time or else deciding to risk buying the tank/healer a couple more seconds before Vanishing. I was purely referring to Rogues in that example, who could dump all their aggro so that the Prayer of Mending aggro would be irrelevant. Hunters fall under that scenario as well, but Hunters ain't tanking squat for very long. :)

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That's a fair assertion, then. Of course, my black heart thinks of other ways to use this: To kill people annoying you in PuGs. Load 'em up with heal aggro then let 'em go! Much as I expect hunters to do with Misdirection....:shuriken: