WOW GOLD-WoW Upcoming Healer Changes
Some healer changes will be rolling out in a hotfix soon. And some details of statements are as follows.
About Priests: Shield is being increased by 33%. While we want Discipline priests to be able to utilize this spell more often and with better results, we also didn't want it to be the main spell used while in groups. We don't find this to be a particularly compelling playstyle and have found that it encourages players to avoid using other spells. We believe that using a shield in a tight moment is totally appropriate, but we don't want it to be incredibly efficient to do so with more frequency than that. By making Power Word, it might cause Holy priests to avoid using it. To that end, we are adding mana savings into the Body and Soul talent. The tooltip will not reflect this change until a future patch, however. Ideally, Holy priests should not notice much of a change to the shield costs.
About Shaman: We are also applying a hotfix for Purification for the Restoration shaman passive from 10% to 25%. We think that shaman healing per second is not as competitive with other healers and while we hope to bring down Holy priest and Holy paladins in 4.0.6, shaman still appear to be behind. In this case, it is simply easier to buff Restoration shaman rather than nerf everyone else. We agree with the sentiment among some players that Restoration druids and shaman are lacking in the healing cooldown department.