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Lightning-Imbued Chalice healing trinket buffed

Healers keeping track of trinkets with spreadsheet calculations will need to update once more, because the Lightning-Imbued Chalice has been buffed again.

Lightning-Imbued Chalice now has a greatly increased chance to generate Infinite Power.

It is unclear how much the “greatly increased chance” is, but reports from healers with this trinket found this was underwhelming and underperforming, despite it being the only healing trinket that increases the proc heal with the amount of spellpower the healer has.

“Restoration of the Infinite” is the proc this trinket produces, and the proc can crit, so if you know anyone with the trinket, it is worth checking logs from the last day or two to see what kind of output it is producing.

Note: Inscribed Bag of Hydra-Spawn has now been buffed as well.

For more on this trinket, see the HealersCDs Guide to Lightning-Imbued Chalice

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Mistweaver Monk T15 2pc bonus “nerfed” with bug fix

You can hear all the mistweaver monks with their shiny new 2pc bonus crying into their mana tea with this bug hotfix.

Fixed a situation where Tier-15 Mistweaver Monk 2-piece set bonus could cause Renewing Mist to heal more than intended.

This is the second hotfix to the 2pc bonus – the original from March 19th was “Tier-15 Mistweaver 2-piece set bonus should now increase the healing of Renewing Mist by the correct amount.”

The issue with the two piece bonus and Thunder Focus Tea (TFT) bonus refresh.

The T15 pcs bonus for MW is “Your Renewing Mist heals for 15% more each time it travels to a new target.” and added with TFT’s “You receive a jolt of energy, doubling the healing done by your next Surging Mist or causing your next Uplift to refresh the duration of your Renewing Mists on all targets. Lasts for 30 sec.” was causing a lot of extra healing that was speculated wasn’t quite working as intended, since the 2pc bonus seemed very overpowered.  The TFT refresh was causing all renewing mist heals to refresh as 132% of the healing, instead of jumping by the correct amount as indicated by the bonus of increasing each jump by 15%.

In simpler terms, here is how nukethetuna in the Elitist Jerks thread explains it in their Mistweaver thread:

Correct. Of note is that using Thunder Focus Tea with Uplift counts as a “jump” when it reapplies Renewing Mists to all targets. This was unchanged in the hotfix, so our 2pc and 4pc do share some synergy.

So with the 2pc the possible healing on ReM is:
Initial cast: 100%
Second target: 115%
Third target: 132.25%
Third target + TFT -> Uplift: 152.08%

TFT -> Uplifting will bump each target up a “tier”, per say.

So appears that it might finally be fixed correctly, but we should expect some more feedback to come out about it over the next few days.

There is also more discussion at MMO-Champion.

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Resto shamans buffed 20% on rain, chain and earthliving

There have been a lot of complaints about how resto shaman are incredibly weak this tier compared to other healing classes.  For a class whose healing excels in “stack up and don’t move” raid scenarios, Throne of Thunder is just about as opposite to any kind of stacking up and stand still scenarios as you can get.

However, thankfully Ghostcrawler was listening, and shamans got a buff to their healing rain, chain heal and earthliving by 20%.

The only downside is that Blizzard has given a buff to the healing spells shamans use while the raid is stacked up, namely chain heal and healing rain.  However earthliving buffed by 20% is pretty significant.  It would have been nice to see something a bif more useful for single target or spread out healing, something like an increased jump for chain heal (without the glyph), the chance for a chain heal to bounce back to a previously healed target if they are still the lowest health in range, or even an increased healing rain radius.

It will take a couple of days for us to see if there are any marked inmprovement in the number of resto shamans brought into heroic progression raids (especially since we saw a quite steep jump off from the number of resto shamans in normal mode versus heroic mode).

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Tri-spec coming in 5.3?

trispec

Looks like there is something healers have been begging for for quite some time might become a reality – trispec!  With Mists of Pandaria being such a daily-centric expansion, and with a healer spec really not being optimal for dailies (if it is even manageable), healers have had to ditch running two healing specs, whether two PVE builds or a PVE and PVP healing specs just to have a baddie DPS spec for the mountains of dailies raiders are expected to do.

I know I personally have spent a small fortune in Tome of the Clear Mind switching glyphs and talents on each boss fight, which could be much more manageable if healers were able to have two healing specs plus their daily dps spec.  And if you need to change specs completely (such as a druid who has a resto spec and a kitty spec, but is asked to go Bear/Guardian for a specific boss fight, those druids would have to pay a trainer to unlearn one of their other specs before learning Bear, which not only costs gold (aside from all the Tomes required for swapping glyphs etc) but requires a trip to the trainer to do so.

Of course, this information is merely data-mined, which means it might not become a reality.  And Ghostcrawler has made a couple references to the fact you shouldn’t read too much into datamined information (which has proven wrong in the past).

 

So let us all keep our fingers crossed that this datamined becomes a reality!
 

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What spells cause Corrupted Healing stacks on Twin Consorts

Remember the good old days of Yor’sahj and managing the healing stacks of Deep Corruption so you didn’t blow up the raid?  Welcome to Deep Corruption 2.0, also known as Corrupted Healing courtesy of the Twin Consorts encounter.

When you have one of the tanks on the side tanking one of the adds called Beasts of Nightmares, most heals that you put on the tank will result in the caster gaining a stack of Corrupted Healing.  One or two stacks isn’t a big deal, but ramp that up to 6-8, and it becomes a bigger issue.  And add heroic, suddenly that 10k a tick per stack jumps to 30k a tick per stack  Couple that with the fact some odd spells are causing healers – and some DPS – to gain stacks, it definitely requires some management and knowing what does and does not cause stacks.

Hots pre-cast on the tank prior to that tank picking up the add seem to be fine.

Also, Hand of Purity will remove Corrupted Healing debuff (however there are conflicting reports over whether the casting Paladin will then get a stack) and moving the boss as far away from the raid as possible will prevent inadvertant bounce heals, such as Chi Wave, from increasing stacks on raiders.

Here is a list of what we know causes stacks, and some notes about some heals that do not cause stacks (I will continue to update this list, please post with additions).

Druids

Does Give Stacks: Rejuvenation, Regrowth, Wild Growth, Swiftmend (including near the tank)
Does Not Give Stacks: Cenarian Ward

Monks

Does Give Stacks: Uplift, Soothing Mist (both direct and statue), Chi Wave (all specs), Expel Harm
Does Not Give Stacks: Healing Spheres, Emminence

Paladins

Does Give Stacks: Eternal Flame, Beacon transfers (with Beacon on add tank), Light of Dawn, Holy Prism
Does Not Give Stacks: Seal of Insight, Sacred Shield

Priests

Does Give Stacks: Renew, Circle of Healing, Cascade, Prayer of Mending
Does Not Give Stacks: Atonement

Shamans

Does Give Stacks: Riptide placed on tank while tanking add, Healing Wave, Greater Healing Wave, Healing Surge, Healing Rain (1 stack)
Does Not Give Stacks: Riptide ticking on tank before add is picked up, Earth Shield

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Hand of Purity hotfix makes heroic Throne of Thunder harder

Tuesday’s hotfix of Hand of Purity left many scratching their heads over the unusual wording of the hotfix. Not surprise, it was hotfixed to prevent raids from stacking pallies to make some heroic mechanics a joke in Throne of Thunder.

Paladin
Hand of Purity no longer reduces the damage dealt by effects that ignore immunities.

One use was to chain cast Hand of Purity on those affected by Frostbite on heroic Council of Elders (click here for the Council Healing Guide). It was also be size some progression guilds were using HOP for Ignite Flesh on heroic Magaera (click here for Magaera Healing Guide).

There have been some great uses of hand of purity, most notably wind step on heroic Blade Lord in Heart of Fear. It is unknown if it is still usable on heroic 5.0 raids or not yet, since the changes are so new.