Purification (Resto passive) buffedFollow

For anyone not following all the recent blue posts and hotfix notes, I thought I would mention that a couple days ago Purification was buffed from a 10% healing increase to a 25% healing increase, for a net gain of about 13.5%. Also, Blizzard is talking about adding a defensive CD to both Resto Shamans and Resto Druids in the next an upcoming content patch.

Like a priest's Pain Suppression - something to reduce the incoming damage to the tank that you can use during high-damage phases.

Pallies have mostly throughput CDs, stuff that increases healing done by the paladin or healing received by the target. Lay on Hands, GoAKs, Avenging Wrath, Divine Favor. Hand of Sac works like a defensive CD, but you end up taking the extra damage, so you need to be ready to heal yourself.

Priests have more damage-reduction CDs. Guardian Spirit (Holy) increases healing, but also prevents the next killing blow; Pain Suppression and and PW: Barrier are straight damage reduction. There's also Divine Hymn, which is really just a Tranquility clone.

Druids have ToL form, which is kind of an output CD, but doesn't do a lot for single target output. They also have Tranquility.

Out CDs as Resto shamans are Ancestral Swiftness Spiritwalker's Grace (run while casting for 15 sec, neither output nor defensive) and Mana Tide Totem. Each healer already has a mana CD, ours just happens to be raid-wide.

Edit: Yeah, Ancestral Swiftness is the run-speed talent, second tier Enhance.

Edited, Feb 21st 2011 6:28am by AstarintheDruid