Ghostcrawler
Khendra, we have no objection to using
Молитва исцеления when you need to heal a bunch of people. That's what it's for. But when you're using
Молитва исцеления in preparation for future damage because
Божественное покровительство and
Щит души make your AE heal better at shielding than actual
Слово силы: Щит, then that even further reduces your options. (In 10s, Disc tends to use
Искупление вины more, so they're doing something more than just
Молитва исцеления spam. In 25s, we see some
Искупление вины use, but it's fit in when possible and healers in 25s are just always going to be able to specialize more.)
We might in the future add another AE heal for Disc (I think you can make a compelling argument that in this day and age, healers need a variety of interesting AE heals and maybe only a couple of ST heals, while healer design for years went in the opposite direction) but that's not the sort of thing we want to drop on you in the middle of an expansion. In the meantime, if Disc uses
Исповедь and
Слово силы: Щит some more (and
Быстрое исцеление in PvP) and doesn't trounce all the other healers, we will be satisfied and hopefully so will priests.
Priest
- The problem with
Щит души benefiting from mastery is that it changes
Щит души from "I want to bubble because we'll be hit by a lot of damage soon" to "I want to use
Щит души because my PoHs will be bigger." Once it is a throughput increase, then
Щит души loses some of its identity as a tool and it just becomes a cooldown. Now, we could just nerf Spirit Shell in some way ("you make a bubble weaker than a heal would have been") and then let mastery increase it back to base level again, but we would have to nerf it.
- On the topic of
Слово силы: Щит, back in say LK, the Disc play style was to tab through every target and
Слово силы: Щит them. It was effective, and boring. We wanted to move away from that and we were successful. However,
Слово силы: Щит is still supposed to be a core spell for Disc and we're seeing very little use of it on live. There should be room in the rotation for Spirit Shell,
Молитва исцеления and
Слово силы: Щит and there isn't right now. This isn't a change in philosophy -- any time you see a spec using one spell or ability to the exclusion of others, you can assume we're probably not happy with that. As I said before, if you need to heal damage on a lot of players at once -- use
Молитва исцеления. But if a lot of incoming damage is coming, you should probably
Слово силы: Щит several people and not use Prayer of Healing. On live, you'd still just use PoH because it's your best AE heal and your best AE absorb.