Holy Priest - Signature ability?

#0 - Nov. 7, 2008, 12:39 p.m.

GC said:

The difference in this case is that we agreed Chain Heal virtually *was* the Resto shaman. It was one of their most signature abilities, like Mortal Strike for the Arms warrior, Windfury for the Enhancement shaman or Frostbolt for the Forst mage. While you might like Circle of Healing, and I know it's a fun spell, we never designed the entire Holy tree around it. Our intent for Holy is that the spec uses lots of spells -- Flash Heal, Greater Heal, Renew, PoM, Binding Heal, PWS, Lightwell, PoH, Guardian Spirit and CoH. It's hard to find niches for all of those sometimes, and CoH had crowded out a lot of those others -- even if you were pushing those other buttons, the actual outcome was that many of those clicks did very little compared to CoH.

Resto druid were in a very similar situation -- lots of tools, but everything looked like a job for Wild Growth.

So what is the signature ability for a holy priest now?

Ghostcrawler

#30 - Nov. 7, 2008, 4:53 p.m.

Q u o t e:
I think he was trying to say was that Priests and Druids do not have one singular signature spell. Resto Shamans (Like me!) have Chain Heal to be designed around, likewise Holy Paladins are designed around Flash of Light. If you'd take notice, neither of those classes have many other buttons to press. We Resto Shamans were blessed with Riptide which, along with Earth Shield and a Glyphed Lesser Healing Wave, allow us to efficiently and confidently heal 5 and 10 man raids, whereas Chain Heal is much more useful in 25 man raids (not saying it's not useful anywhere else because it certainly is). However those abilities don't make up our class.

Druids for a long time were using Lifebloom almost exclusively, and it was nerfed accordingly just as CoH and WG are going to be. You have many tools. You're versatile and adaptable healers. That's your calling card.

If you WANT to have one Signature spammable ability go play a Shaman or Paladin.

This is very close to how Blizzard would explain it.