03-28-2008, 12:27 PM
Now that I've been raiding this week under 2.4's new spirit regen model, I have one thing to say:
I really, really feel sorry for Paladin and Shaman healers.
The new mechanics are ridiculous. There are fights where, if there's a shadow priest in my group, I can't spend my mana quickly enough. I'm literally TRYING to spend my mana and can't, so I'm even dps'ing around in some raid fights when there's nothing to heal just to try to blow my mana.
Without a single piece of T6 set raiding gear, I'm still hitting 1000+ mp/5 out of the five second rule when fully raid buffed + elixirs. I'm back to using my Darkmoon Card: Blue Dragon that I've had in the bank for almost two years (never, ever throw out a percentage-based item). When it procs, that's 3000 mana returned in the next 15 seconds...just about a Fel Mana Potion. It's insane.
My only beef is the itemization hole that currently exists in gems. Priest raid gear doesn't have red slots. +heal only gems are red, so most Priests will look around for Purple gems to throw in their blue slots to get +heal and +regen...but there's no high-end +heal/+spirit gem, just +heal/+mp5.
Another Priest in my raid last night realized that any food buff that gives +20 spirit was giving them the same regen as the Blackened Sporefish +8 mp/5 buff. And a Paladin cried.
It's not that I don't LIKE the changes...the regen is great. I just don't know if it's balanced now between Priest/Druid raid regen and Paladin/Shaman raid regen. When the raid buffs start stacking in, boosting Int and Spirit to the stratosphere, the benefits start going off the deep end. Paladins and Shamans don't gain those benefits nearly as much.
-Bolty
I really, really feel sorry for Paladin and Shaman healers.
The new mechanics are ridiculous. There are fights where, if there's a shadow priest in my group, I can't spend my mana quickly enough. I'm literally TRYING to spend my mana and can't, so I'm even dps'ing around in some raid fights when there's nothing to heal just to try to blow my mana.
Without a single piece of T6 set raiding gear, I'm still hitting 1000+ mp/5 out of the five second rule when fully raid buffed + elixirs. I'm back to using my Darkmoon Card: Blue Dragon that I've had in the bank for almost two years (never, ever throw out a percentage-based item). When it procs, that's 3000 mana returned in the next 15 seconds...just about a Fel Mana Potion. It's insane.
My only beef is the itemization hole that currently exists in gems. Priest raid gear doesn't have red slots. +heal only gems are red, so most Priests will look around for Purple gems to throw in their blue slots to get +heal and +regen...but there's no high-end +heal/+spirit gem, just +heal/+mp5.
Another Priest in my raid last night realized that any food buff that gives +20 spirit was giving them the same regen as the Blackened Sporefish +8 mp/5 buff. And a Paladin cried.
It's not that I don't LIKE the changes...the regen is great. I just don't know if it's balanced now between Priest/Druid raid regen and Paladin/Shaman raid regen. When the raid buffs start stacking in, boosting Int and Spirit to the stratosphere, the benefits start going off the deep end. Paladins and Shamans don't gain those benefits nearly as much.
-Bolty
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