03-17-2009, 12:14 AM
Without addition tuning in place I'm a bit worried about ret mana and damage. But I'm trying to be patient as well.
I do understand why they want to change it. Ret mana does vary. There are fights with enough AoE damage that I don't have to use divine plea. There are other fights that I use divine plea and a pot and am running on fumes. That is an imbalance issue. I would rather have most every fight be one where I can sustain, but have to be smart, as opposed to some fights I don't think about mana at all and others I don't really have a way to get through the whole thing nicely. And as mentioned it was doing odd things to holy as well. I get the tuning thing.
I'm not sure JotW is the best way to address ret mana, but there are ways they can do it.
I've never liked glyphs, because they've pretty much always been just another thing you have to have and not flavor at all. I'm giving up about 50 DPS with Girly's glyphs because there are a couple of glyphs that I really like for heroic healing as ret and for emergency healing as ret in raids. But it bugs me. Dual spec will help with that, though it will remove some of the flavor. I'm worried about the glyph of seal of blood being required as well. Just like glyph of judgement is required.
I'm being trusting that they'll get the balance right and I don't think it's a bad move. Spirtual Attunement was implemented for pally tanks in the first place, what it did to holy and ret was always a side effect especially when alliance didn't have seal of blood anyway and it wasn't always the best seal for horde ret spec either. So yeah we'll see.
I do understand why they want to change it. Ret mana does vary. There are fights with enough AoE damage that I don't have to use divine plea. There are other fights that I use divine plea and a pot and am running on fumes. That is an imbalance issue. I would rather have most every fight be one where I can sustain, but have to be smart, as opposed to some fights I don't think about mana at all and others I don't really have a way to get through the whole thing nicely. And as mentioned it was doing odd things to holy as well. I get the tuning thing.
I'm not sure JotW is the best way to address ret mana, but there are ways they can do it.
I've never liked glyphs, because they've pretty much always been just another thing you have to have and not flavor at all. I'm giving up about 50 DPS with Girly's glyphs because there are a couple of glyphs that I really like for heroic healing as ret and for emergency healing as ret in raids. But it bugs me. Dual spec will help with that, though it will remove some of the flavor. I'm worried about the glyph of seal of blood being required as well. Just like glyph of judgement is required.
I'm being trusting that they'll get the balance right and I don't think it's a bad move. Spirtual Attunement was implemented for pally tanks in the first place, what it did to holy and ret was always a side effect especially when alliance didn't have seal of blood anyway and it wasn't always the best seal for horde ret spec either. So yeah we'll see.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.