Do you understand low levels?

#1 - Jan. 6, 2011, 10:30 p.m.

Obviously i don't want an answer to this since i already know the answer, however I want to vent.

In your latest patch notes you will be moving healing touch to 78 or some such, and replacing it with nourish at low levels. Why? This makes healing for a low level druid in a pvp environment impractical to the point of ridiculous; nourish just can't do the job, regrowth is unusable and the mana reduction on rejuv is nowhere near enough to compensate. I cannot believe that this change was to make it easier for lowbie druids in dungeons, because they certainly were not struggling before.

Other notable instances of poorly designated spell levels include swipe, intercept, hamstring and many others.

If you like i could come up with an extended list of your failings at low levels, i would be delighted to if it meant you paid them the slightest attention.

Lylirra

Community Manager

#19 - Jan. 7, 2011, 3:01 a.m.

We felt that druid healing at lower levels wasn't as strong as it should be. While Healing Touch is a powerful healing spell, it's not nearly as efficient as Nourish and we've found that many druid healers are having a difficult time in lower level dungeons, running OOM after as little as 4 to 5 casts. Having a slow, but efficient heal available at level 3 should give druids a bit more flexibility early on and, perhaps more importantly, greater longevity. Though it might feel really cool to top off a tank's health bar in one big cast, if you can only do that for the first 15 seconds of a fight before depleting your mana, your overall effectiveness is going to suffer (read: your tank is going to die).

We understand this may have some impact on PvP healing and do want to look over balance at those lower levels at some point in the future. In the meantime, we definitely appreciate your constructive feedback. Keep testing!

01/06/2011 2:30 PMPosted by Soymilk
In your latest patch notes you will be moving healing touch to 78 or some such, and replacing it with nourish at low levels. Why?