#0 - April 19, 2010, 2:39 a.m.
Q u o t e:
We might be okay with the tendency for groups to still assign paladins to tank healing because they are particularly good at it. What we want to avoid are those cases where a group feels like they can't possibly keep tanks alive because they lack a paladin or they can't possibly keep groups alive because they have too many paladins.
What I'm gathering here is that in Cataclysm, there will eventually be raids/instances/situations where a Holy Paladin would be ideal, won't be ideal because there will be buffs to other classes that'll allow tank healing just fine.
Just because a HPaladin is particularly good at that, it doesn't mean that you're saying "Yeah you'll need one."
What I keep getting confused and worried about is that the quote above sounds like we'll be easy to replace, but, even our raid heals won't suffice. Or it doesn't sound like that thus far.
Perhaps it was the example that was given to us (Works like healing stream), or maybe it's the preset notion that Paladins will never be good raid healers -- but I just don't see how at the end of the day what it sounds like is that they are allowing other classes to viably tank heal, but shortening the stick with Paladins by giving us a (from their own words) heal that works like.... Healing stream.
I just discussed this with my friend who has every other healer BUT a paladin and he brought up a good point; Lets say that we have a paladin healing the raid:
You have HH to heal the group that you are standing next to/in.
You have Beacon of Light, with FoL to support tank healing/spot healing the raid.
You have the Summon picking up the person with the lowest HP in raid.
In theory this sounds good, but is this Blizzards desire/design for future raid healing for Paladins? Am I being tremendously paranoid by being worried that FoL/HH won't be enough for the Shamans (Irony I know), and Druids that'll be sniping heals?
If someone could please educate me on this, It'd be greatly appreciated.
TL;DR: What the hell is going on with Paladin healing. Really.