Healing Throughput and Mana Generation in Patch 10.2 - Resource & Cooldown Changes
Blizzard has released additional information and context on the changes to healers that will be coming in Patch 10.2 — Guardians of the Dream. Blizzard wants to make resources matter more, improve single target heals, modify raid survivability cooldowns, and more.
We’re hoping our changes reduce the amount of overhealing and make mana matter slightly more, which should make healing across the game a more enjoyable experience.
Single target healing spells currently don’t feel like they move the health bar enough. We want these heals to be impactful and have a purpose, and hope this makes healing a Mythic+ dungeon less stressful for healers.
Group healing spells have seen a lot of modifications and increases to their total throughput over the course of Dragonflight.
These spells often feel like they are rapidly increasing a raid from a damaged state to a full health state. We plan on adjusting the effectiveness of many of these spells.
Raid survivability cooldowns feel like they have all entered the territory of making your raid feel nearly invulnerable when being used.
While it’s a great moment for everyone to stack in a Power Word: Barrier and reduce damage taken and stack a few healing cooldowns, we think the combined power of these has escalated to a point where they make the raid slightly too sturdy.
Mana generation is a problem that’s related to all of the above. We want mana to feel like a finite resource and for the few ways you can still generate mana to be.
