Healer Suggestions Megathread

[ForsakenRoe]

Tbf, that was due simply to a single tank outlier, Protection Paladin. Imagine oGCD Clemency on steroids and with frequent free-cast procs and augmenting effects.

If it was an outlier, why did they not just nerf the outlier, rather than 'nerf the outlier, and everything else too'? And by 25% no less, one patch after they effectively nerfed all healing with the same method by 40% for the launch? There's more to it than just 'oops one tank was too good' I'm pretty sure, and it looked to me like it was a case of 'we have to either fix it by doing this (make heals effectively 'worse' by making friendly HP bars bigger AND monster damage bigger), or we have to just increase damage without adjusting ally HP, which leads to the spiky '80%-to-0% in a single global' gameplay that nobody likes', because that just turns everything into mit checks

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[Shurrikhan]

If it was an outlier, why did they not just nerf the outlier, rather than 'nerf the outlier, and everything else too'? And by 25% no less, one patch after they effectively nerfed all healing with the same method by 40% for the launch?

Apparently, they had wanted to make damage less spikey (or, healing more gradual/attrition-like) by that amount from the start.

But, yes, there was only one tank capable of so keeping the whole team up. Anything else relied on taking a ton of hybrids... all for typically less efficient effect than just taking a more standard comp (granted, Ret and Enhance buffs would have made it less punishing now).

And they did nerf that tank's external healing. Greatly. I just wish they stopped at that.