Healing Spheres in Warlords of Draenor

#1 - July 16, 2014, 12:25 a.m.
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I have a plea that I would like to have answered by a Blizzard Developer. I would love for healing spheres to stay for Monks in Warlords of Draenor. They are not a clunky mechanic to everyone and I quite like the way they work and I’ve never experienced any troubles using them and I know plenty others haven’t either. They make our class different than any other, it makes us unique and gives us our own appeal. When I first decided to try out a Monk I was mostly messing around, I was quite dedicated to my Death Knight, however I slowly began to become more interested but, oddly enough, while I was attacking the Fe-Feng with Ji Firepaw I saw these green orbs on the ground just floating there and I thought they were quite cool and interesting. I realized that they would heal me when I ran through them and I wondered if that was an ability available to Monks and when I found out that it was, I was quite excited and it swayed me that last bit to become hooked on Monks. They were one of my favorite things and I loved how their mechanic worked and how new and different it was. But this has been in the midst of the Warlords of Draenor and I was quite solemn and disappointed to find out that they were being removed. I realize that we will still have a heal in the form of Surging Mist but it isn’t even slightly the same. It gives us a normal cast heal just like every other class and takes away from our uniqueness. They are invaluable in PvP, but I can understand getting rid of them for Mistweavers and I think Detonate Chi is a slightly better ability anyhow, but for Windwalkers the ability is so useful and so much better than Surging Mists. I implore you, please keep them for those of us Windwalkers who enjoy and use them constantly. Thank you for your time and please respond.
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#12 - July 16, 2014, 2:22 a.m.
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As others have pointed out, Healing Spheres aren't going away completely.

Monk - From: Warlords of Draenor™ Beta Patch Notes
Ability Pruning
One removal of note is that of Healing Sphere. The active ability to place a Healing Sphere was particularly awkward to use, but overpowered if used perfectly. So we removed it, and replaced it with Healing Surge for Windwalkers and Brewmasters.

  • Healing Sphere has been removed. Abilities that can summon Healing Spheres, Mastery: Gift of the Serpent (Mistweavers), Gift of the Ox (Brewmasters), and Afterlife (Windwalkers) can still summon Healing Spheres.