So resilience is being changed and apparently so is the way that burst is being handled. With the patch 3.2 changes coming in pretty much the crazy out of control burst is going to be toned down so players won’t be pushing so much damage, however. The burst healing issue has not really been addressed since within one or two global cooldowns, anybody can be healed to full (assuming there’s no mortal strike debuff).
What if resilience affected heals?
We considered the idea that resilience acts like a debuff for heals, but we’re not happy with what that might do to the game. You’d be in a situaiton where sometimes you might not want extra resilience since it lowers your healing. Resilience is already something of a trade-off since it often comes at the expense of other stats (though hopfully less after these changes).
There is a possibility that if fights go on for too long that dps casters may run OOM more than they should. That is something we may have to adjust, but we don’t think it’s simple to math out what kind of buff casters should be given at the moment. Note that the intent is not to turn every Arena match into a 20 minute slog. The intent is to have fewer 30 second matches.
I do see some people saying that healers were already in god mode and this will only buff them. Just realize that player perceptions or intentions are different. For one person, a healer in a 2 vs. 2 shouldn’t be able to keep their partner up alone. For another, having a 1 healer, 4 dps team in a 5 should be perfectly viable.
So with these changes, what’s up with Dots? They’ve always been double taxed and now they won’t be?
Dots were (and currently are) lowered when they do normal damage and lowered when they crit. I don’t think anyone is arguing that fact. What dot-classes often contended was that this design wasn’t fair, while our position was that they were balanced around that design. It didn’t make sense to us that dots that couldn’t crit (say the player didn’t take those talents) should be able to do more relative damage. If anything it made those talents a mixed blessing.
What is changing is that we decided not to continue this design going forward since warlocks and shadow priests could stand to be buffed. If anything, you could say everyone got the warlock design, and perhaps that is a more sensible design in the first place.
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