COH 6 sec cooldown BAHFollow

A change to CoH was needed, the cooldown was not the solution. I'm hoping to see a buff on renew, PoH etc to see something making those spells better in a heavy AOE encounter (Sapphiron etc) and not just COH! COH! COH! COH! COOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I haven't found it too annoying so far. Spamming COH was the best way to run out of mana quickly before the nerf anyway.

I do wish they'd make us just a tiny bit less **** in PvP, in either of three specs, but I think we're good in PvE. And a 6 sec CD on a situational ability isn't going to change that.

I'm disc specced now and that's pretty cool, I can stay alive a LONG time through cunning use of spells despite my cloth armor although not tested too much in PVP as yet. I just went into OS though and I got hurt the least by the fire wall thing on last boss somehow.... COH cooldown, pah go Disc spec instead. The darkside has me now and I won't go back I tell you!

Sigh... the lag in Naxx was so bad tonight (as usual) that my "instant" casts were taking six seconds to land anyway, so I really didn't notice it.

druids also have the same CD i believe on wild growth.

But evenwith this CD, priests are still amazing at AOE healing.

Doing Hc Loken today, a PoH followed by a CoH was all she needed to do to keep us up through the novas and there were no times when my balls went back into my stomach with fear of someone dying.

Last night was a fresh week in Naxx, it was no problem with the new cooldown and if anything I have to wonder if we were going a bit too mad on the CoH spam previously. OK so we only cleared the 4 quarters and still have the fun of Sapph to go.

It wasn't really comparable with chain heal when it was a party-only heal and the 2 heals had their place. Then they changed it and circle of healing became just ridiculous. It had the potential for almost (but not quite) twice the heal/sec of chain heal, plus the big benefit of being instant cast. To bring it closer in line with the heal/sec of chain heal would've needed something like for it to heal only 3 targets or a 3 second cast time or cooldown. I would've hated a cast time on it and am very glad its still instant cast.

So sure I would've preferred a slightly shorter cooldown (3 secs is still too short, 4-5 secs perhaps), but can understand why as long as 6 secs. Us holy priests have much, much more than just CoH.

If prayer of healing heals a full 5 people its already an amazing spell, more efficient than circle of healing or chain heal (I think, I've not double checked this), and the 30yd range makes it easy to heal up a group thats perhaps a bit too spread out for CoH or chain heal to work optimally - as ranged dps/healers often are.

Taking into account our variety of multiple-target heals, it really just depends on the fight and the raid set-up as to whether a shammy or holy priest can handle the raid healing job more easily, I'm not sure why one should be preffered over another.