Blue Post - No more Spirit link? WE MIGHT BE GETTING A HoT!Follow

Source: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=8202381435&sid=2000&pageNo=2


Edited, Sep 18th 2008 3:12pm by lauisifer

I was just looking at the three other healing classes 51 point talents and they are all really awesome sounding...why does ours suck?

Whoa... I thought it was gonna be, ya know... a "straight HoT" HoT. That's closer to a instant heal than an HoT, it's just got some residual healing after the fact for the Chain Heal mechanic. That's actually worlds better than Spirit Link would have been in PvP.

My name is Gaudion, and I approve this change. Still switching my main to a Priest, but I approve nonetheless.

Well, for starters, I'm assuming that would be rank one of the spell and there would be at least one more rank by 80 considering you can get it at... what... level 60? So yeah. If that's the case then it's not really even in need of any buffs. Let's not start putting it down just yet.

It'd be nice to have a HoT though. I mean, look at all of our healing abilities. They all take some time to cast with LHW being our fastest casting time, and that's not saying much. Druids have (what is it?)lifebloom?, priests have Renew... Don't know much about pallies to say what they have, but all us shammies have are semi to long casting times on healing.

Edited, Sep 19th 2008 8:22am by xNocturnalSunx

That's still not so bad. I'm not sure what its coefficient is, but the final rank of Priests' Renew heals for 1400, and it doesn't get that nice instant chunk. Of course, Druids win again with Rejuv healing 1690, but again, they don't get that instant chunk.

You can't really let a mini-insta-Regrowth get that powerful or else it very easily becomes too powerful. My one beef with this spell is that it's still following the Resto Shaman mantra: heal through it. Mortal Strike effects are now, even more than they ever were before (and that's hard to believe), the single worst thing that can happen to us. But come on... it's still an instant heal! Even I have my limits when it comes to complaints and I'm happy to see good things when... I... see them.

All I can say is that Blizzard had better make this spell work and not shaft us. I am using up my entire optimism budget for WotLK on this spell.

GotN is actually pretty useless at the moment because of its cast time more than anything else. But they're removing pushback on the spell in WotLK, so there's that, at least.

The thing is that the coefficient is VERY low considering we are switching over to spell power. Though I agree the "best" comparison is regrowth.... Riptide has a 6s cooldown, Regrowth can be spammed (AND SWIFTMENDED INSTANTLY AFTER). I consider this mechanic to be a reverse Regrowth basically.

Druids can cast Regrowth (2s cast, 50 FRIGGIN' percent crit chance + natural spell crit, plants living seed in expac for more healing, nice chunk healing, decent hot). Then for the duration of the HOT, it can be swiftmended instantly. If said swiftmend crits you also get another living seed. All of their new talents have so much more synergy. All of ours are like a 5 year old crack baby trying to paint a house and choosing colors at random. Each color may be pretty but they don't work together. Riptide/Chain Heal is an instant cast on a target with a hot on it. Now, you LOSE the hot to buff the chain heal on the person. I honestly think it SHOULD NOT consume the hot. The main heal/hot isn't enough to warrant the casting alone most of the time due to mana efficiency, so the reason to cast it is for the buff to chain heal... meaning you would cast Riptide (1.5s) followed by a Chain heals (2.5s) [total 4s] meaning you'd get 1 tick of hot making it the MOST MANA INEFFICIENT SPELL WE HAVE to buff chain heal (our most mana efficient spell). :X **In raids you would still be better off just chain casting chain heal... and only use riptide to save someone from imminent death**

Don't get me wrong, Spirit Link was ONLY working for fun in pvp, and then they nerfed the spell SO INCREDIBLY BAD that it was useless altogether. So, I actually like this spell better than that crap. However, it still has a ways to go before I think it's worthy of a 51 point talent.