{"id":1444,"date":"2010-10-07T00:03:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T04:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurn.apotheosis-now.com\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2010-10-07T00:03:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T04:03:49","slug":"ptr-build-13156-quick-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/ptr-build-13156-quick-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"PTR Build 13156 &#8211; Quick thoughts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to MMO-Champion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmo-champion.com\/content\/2005-Patch-4.0.1-PTR-Build-13156\" target=\"_blank\">holy paladins are getting buffed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Divine Light base healing increased by 10%<\/li>\n<li>Flash of  Light base healing increased by 10%<\/li>\n<li>Holy Light base healing increased by 10%<\/li>\n<li>Holy Shock base healing increased by 10%<\/li>\n<li>Walk in the  Light (Passive) now increases healing by 15%, up from 10%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, 10% more base healing to all three of our casted spells, plus Holy Shock (our most-used spell) AND 5% more healing to everything we cast.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing wrong with any of this. In fact, for months, I&#8217;ve been saying that the Walk in the Light passive we get that increases our healing vs. a prot or ret in healing gear, has been pretty lame at 10%. 15%&#8230; well, it&#8217;s an improvement, to be sure, and when added to the extra healing we&#8217;re now getting on FoL, HL, DL and HS, it&#8217;s going to feel like a bit more.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m definitely happy about these changes, although since they&#8217;re happening on the PTR, I won&#8217;t be able to play with them until they make it over to beta. (The beta client is supposedly acting as a PTR client, but mine isn&#8217;t working and I&#8217;m not installing 13+ more gigs of WoW on my computer.) I imagine this will make us more willing to use some of these casted spells instead of relying on Holy Shock and Word of Glory so very much.<\/p>\n<p>I still think there&#8217;s something just very wrong with holy paladin healing right now in the beta. Is it just the change to a three-heal system? I don&#8217;t think so. Is it just the overall weakness of our healing, which these changes are trying to alleviate? I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>I think there&#8217;s something very &#8220;wrong&#8221; with relying so extensively on Holy Shock and its clone, Word of Glory.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like they&#8217;ve taken the paladin and not only turned it upside down, like all other healers (poor freaking druids) but also inside out. FoL is expensive, contrary to what it&#8217;s always been. HL is cheap, contrary to what it&#8217;s always been. Paladins are suddenly going to be a very mobile healer, contrary to what we&#8217;ve always been. We&#8217;ve lost some raid utility (JoL, JoW) and we&#8217;ve always BEEN the &#8220;utility&#8221; class for the Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m almost certainly going to play a holy paladin in Cataclysm. Apart from anything else, I KNOW the class and I KNOW the changes.<\/p>\n<p>But it feels to me like we&#8217;ve been changed beyond recognition. Paladins in Cataclysm barely resemble paladins when I first started playing, and even those paladins are somewhat removed from how they were at launch.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways. I&#8217;m rambling and I should get to sleep. It&#8217;s been a long day and tomorrow promises to be even longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to MMO-Champion, holy paladins are getting buffed. Divine Light base healing increased by 10% Flash of Light base healing increased by 10% Holy Light base healing increased by 10% Holy Shock base healing increased by 10% Walk in the Light (Passive) now increases healing by 15%, up from 10%. So, 10% more base healing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,70,48,20,47,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beta","category-cataclysm","category-healing","category-paladins","category-ptr","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurn.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}