Comments on: First Impressions of 3.2

By: HolyPally

HolyPally — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:25:53 +0000

“The FOL/Shield HOT SUCKS. Its useless. Never has time to tick.”

Yes the FoL HoT isn’t that great, but as for not having time to tick… you shouldn’t be casting directly on your tank except to refresh it, so you shouldn’t be having a problem with ticks. That’s what so great about the new beacon. They made it fool proof to heal the raid while healing your tank all at the same time. Before you had to hope your heal landed before someone else, now – who cares? you are still going to land the heal. :)

By: Obitussancta

Obitussancta — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:15:38 +0000

The Bubble spec is great.
I have been holding on to some MP5 gear and switched over.
I have not hurt as bad as I thought I would.
The FOL/Shield HOT SUCKS. Its useless. Never has time to tick.
The Beacon change is incredible.
I suspect they will nerf it.
The bubble spec is alot of fun and has so far worked really well.

By: Brangwen

Brangwen — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:10:42 +0000

I have really run the new nerfs out on hard modes and a serious algalon 10 run (if you want sheer single target healing, there is a good test). I was running with about 500 MP5 10man buffed.

on the whole, I found that the MP5 changes are not enough to keep up with the healing required from the fights.

I found that setup time now is increased as there is more required GCDs to throw up before you start healing effectively (bubble, judge, bacon, first heal to get your HL haste rolling) For fights where the boss really hits hard in those first couple of blows, I recommend setting up before the run in not as you run in or your tanks go splat.

By: franklin

franklin — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:43:09 +0000

@mally
as far as ret goes, use judgement and divine plea every time it’s off cd and you should have few to no mana issues. don’t cast exorcism unless your art of war proc is up. and make sure you’re using the right seal for the right situation, that can make a huge difference.

By: Captain Howdy

Captain Howdy — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:02:40 +0000

Heh, I haven’t changed my spec from good ol’ 51/3/18 and I haven’t had any mana problems.

Could be the mp5 gems, dunno.

And I agree, the new beacon is sexy.

By: candy

candy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:34:44 +0000

The transportation changes for my alt babies is honestly what I’ve been most excited about.

By: Lofzy

Lofzy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:03:39 +0000

I’m currently test driving that bubble spec atm. I agree its fairly harsh on mana but it is manageable.

Let us know what you think of it.

By: Mally

Mally — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:51:20 +0000

Really looking forward to seeing how things go with your Holy/Prot Bubble investigations. I’m sorely tempted now that I have the t8 4-piece bonus, but looking for some slightly more empirical evidence than “hmm, why not!” before I actually take the plunge.

Incidentally, mana seems to be a bit of a pain when healing in Ulduar now (perhaps as it should be? Discuss!), but at least it wasn’t as uncomfortable as playing the Ret off-spec; the constant oom and the cast time on exorcism has seen my dps plummet through the floor! Could we be seeing the return of the Shockadin…?

By: Larsi

Larsi — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:46:49 +0000

The mana regen nerf is pretty big. I know I was feeling it in Ulduar (got the achievement for killing the 9 million scrapbots that spawned). The MP5 boost helps but doesn’t really match imho. So I am now focusing on int stacking even more. I thought Blizz was trying to get us Paladins to not stack int?

Also the beacon changes are huge and I expect them to be nerfed. And the SS + FoL is very underwhelming in most cases since it overwrites and if you shield your tank and end up beaconing them it is wasted.

By: Silk

Silk — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:42:18 +0000

Hearing you re downtime – I raid from good old Australia so Wednesday night was restarts, Thursday maintenance.

I’m running that bubble spec at the moment in CC – its pretty damn harsh on mana for a fight that doesn’t have extreme damage (except when your tank likes to get 8 stacks of that damn debuff…)