gangstakago wrote:
This is definitely a welcome addition, but I don't think it will make us the #1 sought-after healing class. We still can't cure disease or cleanse magic effects, but it does go a long way towards increasing our usefulness.
kawainui wrote:
This is awesome the lack of rez was IMHO the biggest draw back to druid healer. As when filling out the last slot of a 5 man if there is no rez except 1 b-rez and I have a choice between another druid or a class with better rez I will really have to think about it. Now I will go druid way more often.
Remember the other classes will be getting overhauls as well, as well as their own kickass new talents. I haven't checked any other class's WotLK talent trees, but could see Blizz giving the other healing classes fancy fun stuff like a talented battle rez of their own, or mass resurrection, or or or or...I dunno, they're more creative than I am. And with both
our potential talents and
their potential talents being nothing more than
potential, who knows how it'll shake out.
But we're a hybrid class and as such kinda need to have some (very very tiny) gaps and (very very slight) weaknesses in each of our roles. Properly spec'd we're currently the only class that can kick *** at a B+/A- level in any of the four primary roles in the game: healing, melee dps, casting dps, and tanking. Hell we're even the 'best of the best' at healing or tanking some types of situations thanks to things like our strength with HoTs, insane armor/hp, or non-polymorphable-ness. That's beyond good for the most hybrid/versatile class in the game -- let's not get greedy and hope for A++ at stuff now.
My $.02