Comments on: Thoughts on Rapture and Mana Regen

By: David Begum

David Begum — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:39:35 +0000

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Duct Tape and a Prayer » Linkathon: Square Day (3/3/09) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:45:27 +0000

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By: Nei SWC

Nei SWC — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:46:57 +0000

I will miss the Divine Aegis returns and the general rapture/crit relationship. Is putting Disc priests back in Spirit/MP5 gear really the best move? I thought we had a nice new little healing dynamic there, I specced back to Holy for a couple of encounters and hated it. It was boring as hell. I really hope they can come up with a balance…

By: Zusterke

Zusterke — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:58:10 +0000

With a 25K manapool you can actually gain mana from a fully talented shield
By refreshing it on the tank, you should be able to get the return every 15s and turn shielding the tank into a mana resource. It will not add up like rapture did in 3.0 though.

By: Nei SWC

Nei SWC — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:52:51 +0000

Okay, please tell me if I’m way out on this… but the other maths didn’t add up for me…

Rapture (Tier 8 ) 3/3. When your Power Word: Shield is completely absorbed or dispelled you are instantly energized with 2.5% of your total mana, and you have a 100% chance to energize your shielded target with 2% total mana, 8 rage, 16 energy or 32 runic power. This effect cannot occur once every 12 seconds.

80 Base Mana: 3863 (From DwarfPriest)

Power World Shield (%23 of Base Mana) = 888.5
-10% Mental Agility = 800
-30% Soul Warding = 560(?)

With a 22k Mana Pool the new 2.5% Rapture return will be ~550 mana?? Did I miss something? I’m not on the PTR so can’t test it. With the glyph thats a free heal and time bought. Maybe I’m being too optimistic but this sounds great.

By: Zusterke

Zusterke — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:50:54 +0000

For holy, it’s clear that OFSR dancing is getting a serious blow. Not only is it becoming harder without clearcasting but it’s also less efficient. But we are not being penalized for spam healing. Some of the theorycrafters at plusheal are pointing at a 50% to 70% uptime of the holy concentration buff. While there is no clear consensus, I would think it’s safe to say that we’re getting a hand in our regen.

We are no longer able to exploit clearcasting effects to the same extent, but it is clear that we will have a more stable (and reliable) regeneration while casting. The net value will be an acceptable nerf and in some spamheal fights we might even come out with a comparable or better regen.

By: Erwyn

Erwyn — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:23:27 +0000

Thanks so much for this post, I was worried about the mana changes, the blogs/forum posts you linked to with math are awesome!

I was wondering whether you had a chance to heal on the ptr yet? I’d love to hear about it once or if you do.

By: Tarqon

Tarqon — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:40:39 +0000

I don’t really care whether the new rapture is more or less mana return, what matters to me is that this new form is simply a much less interesting mechanic. Can we please leave some complexity in the game, instead of narrowing everything down into mediocrity?

By: Matticus

Matticus — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:08:15 +0000

@Viktorious: Heh, I think those guys rerolled Death Knights.

By: Viktorious

Viktorious — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:57:37 +0000

good points all around, Matt. I was just on the healing forums and couldn't believe all the nay-sayers downing Disc because of the Rapture changes. Totally agree with your earlier post about there being too many Disc priests and Blizz doing something to level it out; but where will all the CoH-spammers turned Disc go now? Back to their warlocks, maybe? lol Viktoriouss last blog post..Malygos Down