The rest of the changes, the buffs, are solid. However, the panic appears to be unfounded and early testing shows that it may just work like Monks’ Vivify, with the smart heal component baked in. This, of course, caused a panicked reaction that the smart heal component was removed, putting Prayer of Healing back to how it was in previous expansions when it was limited by group. “A powerful prayer that heals up to 5 injured allies within 20 yds of the target for (200% the target and the 4 nearest allies within 40 yards for (250% of Spell power).” The controversial part has to do with the removal of the word “injured” from the tooltip. Prayer of Healing’s range has been buffed from 20 to 40 yards, and spellpower buffed from 200% to 250%. The basic change is pretty straightforward. Prayer of Healing is one of the more controversial changes, surprisingly due to a tooltip change. Not to say that Holy can’t AOE, but spamming individual Flash Heals on the raid has often proven to be more efficient than Prayer of Healing. Holy has more or less devolved into a single target spec due to efficiency. As a quintessential raid healer, Holy obviously knows its way around AOE healing, but as players are wont to do, they figured out a better use of their spells. Holy has an eye toward AOE in these changes. Discipline has few updates, with a spell adjustment here and there, and I assume Blizzard is relatively pleased with its performance and gameplay so far. In this case it appears to be use of AOE spells. Of our two specs, Holy sees the most updates with this patch, showing us what Blizzard thinks is missing.
The numbers will continue to be tweaked throughout the PTR’s duration, but the large changes will likely remain. We can glean information about what Blizzard is thinking about our class based on the changes they’ve put in. This early on in the PTR cycle, everything is of course subject to change, but I think the overall changes and tone are important to discuss. The patch 7.1.5 PTR launched early last week, and along with it came the usual datamining.
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