Feed RSS RSS feed
2008-09-25 21:28:08
Prayer of Mending threat....
Q u o t e:
It should be using the Priests spell power, not the targets. As for the threat, it should now generate threat for the Priest not the target. The same was done to Lifebloom, Earth Shield, etc.

Does this concern anyone for fights like bloodboil or RoS where it will bounce around to every target and use up all 5 charges for sure? Is it only the first charge or all of them? I never really thought about it until I noticed how much I spam the spell. That could turn out to be a lot of agro yes? Just curious if I'm overreacting or not.

EDIT- Sorry for making a thread if I should have just posted in the other.
Avatar of Draculina
Draculina
2008-09-27 22:31:41
Re: Prayer of Mending threat....
We've really buffed threat generation for tanks. Even when broken classes were doing 4500 dps in raids, they weren't pulling off the tanks. We're trying to back off threat management as a major component of grouping (though we're not removing it). Raid fights should be more about keeping people alive, knowing the fight, and coordinating with your group. As part of this philosophy, we are trying to make more consistent spells with odd threat rules, and PoM fell into that category.

When threat numbers are very low, then things like PoM going off or even a Renew tick can cause threat problems. We think this is a little sucky and are trying to come up with elegant ways to fix it. While the start of a fight can present this problem, I actually think it's worse once a fight is well undeway and there are adds and spawns of some kind that go right to the healer.

Another reason we changed the way spells like PoM healed was so the healing credit would actually go to the Priest in mods that track such things.
Avatar of Ghostcrawler
Ghostcrawler