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Don't nerf CoH!

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Gnoid
#0 - Dec. 6, 2008, 10:37 p.m.
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I'll be very upset when this happens.

Any person/class that cries that CoH or Wild Growth is overpowered doesn't know how to play thier class.

CoH and Wild Growth are currently only useful in a couple of fights currently in the game. If you put a cooldown on CoH or WG you'll turn so many people away from playing these classes.

Also, if you do actually put a cooldown, then you have to obviously put a cooldown on Chain Heal. It wouldn't be fair for Druids/Priests heal 5 (6 if glyphed for Priests) people every 6 or 8 seconds, when Shamans can heal with Chain Heal over 10 people in the time that CoH and WG finish the Cooldown. So you can tell that it doesn't seem fair at all.

Like I also said, CoH and WG are only useful in a couple of fights and I'll list them.

Malygos - It's very useful in this fight for only Phase 1 to heal the raid. After you get to Phase 2, it is no longer useful.

Sapphiron - Useful in this fight, but not as useful as PoM. From my WWS and Recount Meters, PoM is very powerful for this fight. But without CoH/WG/PoM this fight is very hard to deal with.

Thaddius - Lots of raid damage going around, so 1 or 2 CoH to keep the raid topped off and a renew on the MT is just enough healing for this fight.

Gluth - Didn't want to mention this, 'cuz you only need to CoH a couple of times only through the 2 Decimates he does before he keels over.

Grand Widow Faerlina - PoM is most useful here because people are constantly spreading out from the Rains of Fire. CoH only when they're grouped up or on Melee.

THAT'S IT!!!

How is CoH/WG overpowered when it's only useful in 5 fights from a total of 18 Raid Fights in the game!!!

It doesn't make any sense in the logic of nerfing such an amazing spell yet only used in special circumstances because of an ability from Malygos? You can't even heal 5 people during the Vortex since they're all swirling around and get thrown away from each other. You have a couple of seconds to CoH after Vortex finishes and move into position quickly before he does his Arcane Breath on the MT after Vortex.

Please reconsider!

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Ghostcrawler
#22 - Dec. 7, 2008, 5:41 p.m.
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We don't think Chain Heal needs a nerf at the current time.

Unlike CoH (and to a lesser extent WG) it isn't used to the exclusion of other shaman healing spells. It also has some pretty severe drawbacks compared to CoH -- cast time for one.

But if after we add a cooldown to CoH and WG, we find that CH is making AE healing too trivial or if we find that shamans are being invited to heal raids at the expense of priests and druids, then we will absolutely nerf CH too.