Lightwell has looked exactly the same since it was introduced in vanilla so it’s about time it got a face lift. Right now Lightwell and Lightspring look indentical and that could lead to all sorts of confusion as people try and click on the Lightspring and whine that the Lightwell didn’t heal them automatically. What I would love to see changed however is the visual. Options are always good and whilst it’s not my particular cup of tea, I’m sure there will be some Priests who like it or who find a niche for it. That said, I’m glad Blizzard have added it. Obviously we don’t know enough about encounter design yet but I really don’t see me using this glyph. Lightspring is specifically designed to work against that with it’s lack of interaction, 5 second cooldown and 50 percent health minimum. The fact that you can click the Lightwell whilst stunned or otherwise cc’d also adds to it’s unglyphed appeal. When I consider the fights where historically I’ve got the most out of Lightwell, it’s been ones where multiple people get hit at once and can all click for healing there and then. In PvP (talking battlegrounds), I’d hate the idea of the undergeared squishy waste of space player on 10 percent health who has contributed virtually nothing “stealing” the charge I was rather hoping for when I’m being beaten up. In 5 mans, I know at least one fifth of the group (me) will use the unglyphed version which is good enough for me. Lightspring also isn’t clickable at all so in certain environments like LFR where other healers attempt to use all your charges when out of combat to boost their own healing on the meter and the dps are mostly concentrating on standing in bad stuff it might have a place. So where does the glyph fit in? Well right now and much to my surprise I might add, Lightspring is providing exactly the same amount of healing as Lightwell (albeit when you’re below 50 percent health and only every 5 seconds).
If I’m playing with afkers, muppets and the sort of people who show up to lev 70 battlegrounds wearing the gear they got at lev 1, well then at least I can use it. In my experience, proper raiders will click on it to stay alive because they’ve already figured out that dead, they can’t top the damage meter. Now that’s something I never expected to see. The added icing on the cake was tonight my Lightwell provided over 2 million healing. I remember my first raiding recap post at the start of Cataclysm where I talked about this: With Lightwell as it currently stands, I can yell, scream, bitch, name call and generally persuade people to click it.
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The biggest issue I’ve ever had with Lightwell was the control aspect, I fully admit I’m a complete control freak and I like to have full control over my healing arsenal. require you to be dead!), have huge cooldowns (confessions) or take away what little control we already have over a spell (Lightspring). I wish I was, I really do but they’re either massively situational (i.e. The latest crop of healing Priest glyphs have finally made it onto the beta and can be purchased from everyone’s favourite oversized Tauren in the Temple of the Jade Serpent. 2 manning Achievements Ascreenshotaday Blog Azeroth shared topic Druid Exploring Festival Fun and Frolics Hunter IntPiPoMo Legion Lists Mini Pets MoP my characters Patches Practical stuff Priests PvP Quests Random Musing Ranting RL Scenary Screenshots Things which aren't WoW Transmogrification Uncategorized Warlords of Draenor Whining WotLK