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The talent row balancing comments are something we'll probably look at in a little more detail slightly later, though there is a simple buff in the pipeline for
Сияющая преграда.
On the base rotation: while we don't want it to be as burst-oriented as it was in Legion due to
Ярость Света, we are looking to add a little more texture back as far as moments of higher damage/healing. In the next build, we're trying out
Сила темной стороны as a baseline part of the spec.
On
Слово силы: Щит (based on various comments in a lot of different places):
Слово силы: Щит will definitely be used a lot more than it was in Legion (obviously, due to not having a cooldown). But, we neither expect nor want it to be like the
Слово силы: Щит spam of Mists or Warlords. In those days, a rotation based almost entirely on
Слово силы: Щит did sufficient healing to make a Disc using that rotation into a top healer. Therefore it was doing roughly an entire healer's worth of healing in the form of absorbs.
Disc in BFA should not be able to put out that level of absorption, even if it uses a higher portion of casts on
Слово силы: Щит. Using
Слово силы: Щит, and absorbs generally, is still a core part of Disc's identity, but reaching full healing potential still requires a significant contribution of other mechanics like
Искупление вины. We don't see it as a problem if
Слово силы: Щит is a major workhorse spell of the rotation in all contexts, but the opportunities to apply very high amounts of shielding are cooldown-limited (
Вознесение and
Сияющая преграда), and current talents that buff PW:S generally do so without adding absorption (
Кротость and
Моление).
