Malleus2
Dalayan Elder
After having experimented with Healing Sleep over the last 6 months I have yet to find a worthwhile use for it. The only thing that makes this worth having prior to First Aid is the fun you can have making people crumple to the ground. The psuedo FD makes it only useful as a no mana down time heal and even there it is of limited utility as I can Woundbane the MT to full in 2 casts and still be FM before any other caster in my group or raid due to cani (/em braces for the calls to nerf cani). Id like to offer 3 possible changes for discussion and consideration:
Option 1: Change the FD to a slow and/or snare, add silence and add a time duration. This gives the shaman a HoT that isnt self only and has significant drawbacks without making it useless. I believe this is the most viable option as it gives the shaman another heal in his somewhat limited repetior but by severly limiting the capablilites of the target while under the spell you arent just giving cotb to shamen.
Option 2: Make it self only and make the FD a true FD. The slow casting speed and long cool down would make it useless for pulling but give the shaman a possible means to dump agro and heal back up if they slow too soon or over heal.
Option 3: Add slow and/or snare and make it a zero agro heal so it can be used on FD characters. I realize the reason behind the current state of healing FD characters was brough about by the abuse of FD mechanics and healing to avoid anti power leveling systems but like the real FD option the slow casting speed and long cool down would make it impracticle not to mention limited to 65 shaman.
I realize that not every AA is going to be the best or most useful but as it stands Healing Sleep is only really good for entertaining myself at Mallas' expense and you only need it at the first rank for that.
Option 1: Change the FD to a slow and/or snare, add silence and add a time duration. This gives the shaman a HoT that isnt self only and has significant drawbacks without making it useless. I believe this is the most viable option as it gives the shaman another heal in his somewhat limited repetior but by severly limiting the capablilites of the target while under the spell you arent just giving cotb to shamen.
Option 2: Make it self only and make the FD a true FD. The slow casting speed and long cool down would make it useless for pulling but give the shaman a possible means to dump agro and heal back up if they slow too soon or over heal.
Option 3: Add slow and/or snare and make it a zero agro heal so it can be used on FD characters. I realize the reason behind the current state of healing FD characters was brough about by the abuse of FD mechanics and healing to avoid anti power leveling systems but like the real FD option the slow casting speed and long cool down would make it impracticle not to mention limited to 65 shaman.
I realize that not every AA is going to be the best or most useful but as it stands Healing Sleep is only really good for entertaining myself at Mallas' expense and you only need it at the first rank for that.
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