Following last week's blog on the stat squish and CC removal, this morning's offering is a Dev Watercooler on the changes to healing coming with Warlords of Draenor. As ever, the full post is after the break, but let's look at the key summary points here:
- Player health has been increased relative to player damage and healing
- This means that Resilience and Battle Fatigue can be reduced in PvP
- The raw throughput of healers relative to player health has been reduced
- The aim is for more "triage" healing
- Burst damage and burst healing are lower.
- These changes are being taken into account in raid encounter design
- The healing of "smart heals" is being reduced
- Mana efficiency of multi-target heals is being reduced
- Low-throughput, low-mana-cost heals like Nourish, Holy Light, Heal, and Healing Wave, are being removed because they think that while they do add complexity, they don't truly add depth to healing gameplay.
Continue reading Dev Watercooler: Building Healthy Gameplay
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Dev Watercooler: Building Healthy Gameplay originally appeared on WoW Insider on Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://wow.joystiq.com/2014/03/07/dev-watercooler-building-healthy-gameplay/
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