Pipe Dreams: Green Mage

[Parawill]

I finally stepped into WoW and rolled a Resto. Druid and am happy to see some ideas taken from there; however, the proposed potencies and cast times are completely overshadowed by the three other healers. If we put the lesser of the three healers in contrast with the proposed ideas and potencies, Astrologians are far beyond Green Mages, especially since they have access to front-loaded healing on a regular GCD and more frequent usage of their instant heals.

Also HoT healing is very unreliable in this game due to the chance of missing one tick of all HoTs (thanks MP-Please for pointing this out \o/) depending on application time. The HoT/DoT tick is on a separate interval from the resource (HP/MP/TP) tick, so it is very difficult to gauge timing of application of said HoTs, thus making all HoTs potentially weaker than they are stated.

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Questions:

06 Quicken - Restores target's HP. Cure potency: 300. Cooldown: 5s.

Is this an off-GCD or GCD heal? I know it's under spells, but it seems strange that the only single-target direct healing that GRM has without expending lengthy cooldowns shoves a huge burden on the main healer's gameplay.

40 Profusion - Infuse energy into the land, healing all allies within 20y for 9s. Cure potency: 200. Cooldown: 60s. Auto-attack ends upon execution. Effect ends upon using another action or moving.

Does Profusion act like a placed Collective Unconscious, which ends if the caster moves or uses another action? Or does it apply a HoT buff which disappears if no action takes place.

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Feedback

I like the direction this is going, but I cannot see it ever being used in end-game progression especially with how damage has been dealt in this tier's raid content. There are a lot of cooldowns that help with HPS, but to fit an off-healer's role, there are a variety of mechanics that need a shield to prevent the secondary mechanic from happening. In addition, it is evident in this tier that Scholar is far more superior than Astrologians in the aspect of its high mitigation against burst damage in contrast to Astro's stronger sustained mitigation, which would mean GRM would be far from welcomed if established this tier. This would also make VIT Melds a requirement because more HPS does nothing against damage that is over your MAX HP.

Also keep in mind that in Heavensward tier raid, Stoneskin seems to be more of a luxury than a necessity (unless sac'ing or a death occurred) since there is almost no time to Stoneskin 8 players.

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Side Note

Some of these ideas seem really appealing to Astrologian. It fixes the lack of non-GCD healing (Flourish) and also works around with its concept of time and divination (Weald's Canopy).

Off-Topic

I wish we had more forms of cleansing debuffs. At this very moment, GRM would be a pretty sick PvP healer in this game.