Thread: Buffs to WHM on 4.5 patch

The changes are really good and were gravely necessary (especially aggro, dear lord am I sick and tired of suddenly tanking after having to raid heal a lot...), but like everyone who posted before, I feel they don't go far enough. There should have been buffs to Stone IV and maybe even Aero III as well as clipping to really be worthwhile. Those are good changes, don't get me wrong, just not enough by a large margin compared to what the other two healers got, and considering that we still have 0 raid utility. Our pDPS shouldn't be equal to the others, it should be head and shoulders above to compensate...

Ah well. Let's see what the Assize buff does, that one at least is pretty darn powerful.

Lets not forget that longer PI will probably cut down on some healing required and also increase dps by a few gcds (I mean.. just typing it out it sounds underwhelming but it's a thing and who knows)

I was also expecting potency buffs to stone and aero. Don't get me wrong, Assize is freakin awesome and remains one of my favorite abilities in the game, but it loses its butter the less targets there are, and the over healing far outweighs the damage it causes. As strong as the ability is, it still has a weakness. They probably should have reduced the enmity here as well.

I was also hoping that SoTL2 would be addressed. My teardrop is frozen on my face. So cold. Just so very cold.

IIRC Lily 2 is just the WHM's version of the traits that AST and SCH use to reduce the cool down of their MP management skills (Lightspeed and Aetherflow). Since they were only messing with numbers here, it looks like they skipped the middleman and just reduced the cool down on Assize directly.

Honestly this is a good step in the right direction, WHM needed these buffs over a year ago but better late than never considering WHM balancing track record. Especially that assize buff, maybe now it’ll actually feel almost as useful as Indom

Originally Posted by Zweiss

Honestly this is a good step in the right direction, WHM needed these buffs over a year ago but better late than never considering WHM balancing track record. Especially that assize buff, maybe now it’ll actually feel almost as useful as Indom

Indom is still superior. 500 potency for 30s CD. At least Assize does 400 potency Damage now.

Just a low-end content quality-of-life update at-best. Obviously a reset button is coming in 5.0.