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More on Healers & Spirit in Warlords of Draenor

Ever since Blizzard announced that there would no longer be any spirit on the majority of healing gear, aside from trinkets and jewelry, many healers have been concerned about what this might mean for healers and their mana regen (eep!)

One of the ideas raised is for haste to affect how quickly mana regens, since the value of spirit definitely varies between the healer classes.  Blizzard answered a few more questions about the role of spirit in healer gear for Warlords of Draenor.

What about removing Spirit and let Haste be the main factor of mana regen? Throwing ideas around. @Celestalon
Spirit’s value varies significantly between classes. One contributor is what the other secondaries do for regen. (Source)
We’re looking at potential changes in that regard, to standardize that better between classes. (Source)

What about Spirit? On clothes? On Jewelry? Some DPS casters are using them on rings/neck at least.
No spirit on armor may involve increasing the amount of spirit on non-armor. That makes it more complex to change existing armor. We recognize the problem and are planning potential solutions, but aren’t ready to give specifics yet. (Source)

Wouldn’t increasing the amount of regen spirit gives instead avoid that issue?
That may be part of it, but we may change how we itemize non-armor pieces. Just complicates the issue. (Source)

If healers have enough regen with 1-2 spirit pieces in first raid tier, what happens to mana regen later on?
“Enough” is a very ethereal concept. It also varies with other gear. And definitely not from 1-2 items in the first tier. (Source)

Then between 3 and 6 (of 7) slots. If item stats triple again, will only need max 2 spirit pieces in final tier. Also, sockets.
Sounds like you’re ignoring the fact that “enough” changes between tiers. (Source)

Anyone else a tad bit concerned about the spirit and mana changes for WoD?  I remember sucking mana at the start of Pandaria, and at the start of Cataclysm, and praying to the Mana Tide and Hymn of Hope Gods for more mana.

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Where Holy Priest Mastery is going for Warlords of Draenor

Mastery hasn’t been a very strong stat for holy priests, particularly when there is a lot of overhealing going on (which there usually is, unless a guild is deliberately underhealing a boss).  Blizzard answered some questions about the role of mastery for priests and if it is being reworked for WoD.

Any chance on HPriest mastery being relooked at for WoD? Maybe turn all the overheals from it into something?
Echo of Light us something we balance assuming it’s going to be more overheal than average. More of regen than healing in design. (Source)

It’s not really a choice when it maths out to be 25% or less of the value of other secondaries in typical 25H.
That only sounds accurate when significantly overhealing, and only if your goal is topping the healing meters. (Source)
If you’re not overhealing, and your goal is minimizing deaths, mastery can work well. (Source)

And when in the last 3 expacs has there not been significant overhealing most of the time even progression?
I’m referring to using more healers than you need. Doing so results in RShams looking weak, and Discs strong. (Source)

Sounds as though it will be another one of those things that will work well earlier in the upcoming expansion, similar to how priests were stronger at the start of this expansion too.

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Will Resto Shamans see Deep Healing mastery changed in Warlords of Draenor?

Resto Shamans have a love/hate relationship with mastery.  It is great if you are working on progression while also underhealing a fight.  But throw a couple disc priests or an extra healer into the mix, and mastery is pretty useless unless things go sideways and the raid is about to die from some mechanic a raid team member screwed up.

Shamans have been hoping for a change to mastery for ages, and it kind of looks as though Blizzard doesn’t have intentions of changing it at this time.

IMO, Deep Healing would be good as a situational/optional talent, but too situational for a mastery
Deep Healing is indeed situational. Strong for healing people that need healing. Weak for healing people that don’t. (Source)

Having Deep Healing as a talent would be great, so Shamans could switch it up when the raid is running down a healer or on progression.  However, with stats being the way it is next expansion, it would literally require a second set of healing gear – one for mastery and one that will likely be haste and/or crit.  However, if mastery continues to be the go-to stat for Elemental Shamans, it could get use as a second spec gear set for Deep Healing and/or Elemental Shaman.

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Mistweavers will still be considered melee in Warlords of Draenor

For Mistweaver monks a bit on the hesitant side about the changes in relation to Mistweavers and fistweaving can be rest assured that they will still be considered melee regardless of stance.  And it does make sense, as you don’t want to have a mistweaver switching stances and forgetting he or she needs to run in or run out to do it…. I can just imagine all the very unhappy raid leaders when a Mistweaver forgets to run out and gets targeted for something that screws the entire melee.

.Given the changes to Mistweaving/fistweaving you discussed before, will this also change based upon healing stances?
Mistweavers will count as melee, regardless of stance. Don’t want them afraid to swap between stances. (Source)

This could change by the time Warlords of Draenor comes around, but this is the current plan.

This is a bit of a change where Blizzard had previously said:

For the new mistweaver stances, will MWs still count as melee in both?
Undecided, but leaning toward yes. Don’t want someone Fistweaving to feel like they can’t swap back to Mistweaving in emergency (Source)

Ease of swapping will be nice, when a healer dies or massive damage goes out, you want your Mistweaver to be able to pick up the slack.

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What will happen to Druid’s Glyph of Effloresence in Warlords of Draenor

glyph of efflorescenceDruid’s Glyph of Efflorescence has definitely had their fans this tier, tying their Efflorescence to a specific placement of their mushrooms rather than off of a person.  This means Druids can effectively target Efflorescence to a specific place – such as tanks, melee, or range – without worrying that their target has moved somewhere odd (which always seems to happen in LFR!).

Unfortunately, Blizzard is feeling that the healing is on the strong side for what is essentially passive healing, so don’t be surprised to see it tuned down a bit.

– how do you feel the Glyph of Efflo is working? Are we going to see it kept in place for WoD, or should we expect changes?
We like the concept. It’s probably too powerful for something so passive, so we may adjust tuning. That goes for all healers in general though; we want to time down passive healing and smart healing across the board. Most healing should come from actives. (Source)

Sounds as though we won’t see a change until the pre-WoD patch or the drop of Warlords though.

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All secondary stats will be useful to healers

Other than armor, all stats will be useful to healers in Warlords of Draenor – although I can see armor sometimes being useful in specific situations (my undergeared healer had to STAM flask – yes, really – to survive later Accelerates on heroic Thok).

Will there be any secondary stats besides armor that will be useless to healers?
Nope, all secondaries besides Bonus Armor will be useful to healers. (Source)

From what I gather tank will have a unique secondary (armor) and healers (spirit), do DPS get a unique secondary?
Current plan is no. (Source)

Cya hit gems from swapping specs 🙂