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Reading through the thread on Cata Healing below I was struck by several things that were said about changes in healing styles over the life of the game. The emphasis on the changes mentioned seemed to me to be concentrated on the "what" almost exclusively and very little if any on the "why". Lets look at the why for a moment.

Here are the only two reasons that I can come up with that could explain things in a more or less normal way.

1) With the introduction of a new x-pac the content of game in will no longer respond adequately to the healing techniques followed previously. (assume talents are unchanged and spells are proportionally more powerful for the sake of discussion). If that has ever been the case nobody has bothered to mention it here.

2) The changes represent fine-tuning. But that's not how it is feels to me.

That leaves something not normal. Something on the order of change for change's sake and that's what I think we got to a large extent. My theory is that they are going to keep on changing things every x-pac in order to keep a degree of freshness in the game. Obviously some classes will vary less than others from x-pac to x-pac but on the whole that's what I think.

Theo get the duck!!!

After playing a Raiding Mage for about a year, I'll go ahead and tell you that they do absolutely change things for seemingly no apparent reason on a regular basis. Even without announcing it sometimes.

Everyone might not notice it, but when your scrounging for .2%s on DPS, you definitely do. These changes do not always seem fair or fun, trying to figure out what works best now and then again a week later, but there IS a reason behind it all: Blizzard has a way they want each class and spec of each class to play out and they will totally mess with you if you try to get around it.

So it just boils down to that, then. They have a new way they want people to do things. As far as healing goes, it's supposed to be more hectic, very much harder than Wrath yet still not as unforgiving in a lot of other ways.

Haha JDLKY strikes again .

You are wrong when you think the changes are to try and keep the game fresh .

I believe changes are made for several reasons , things like trying to balance classes or customer feedback spring to mind .

More so it is the developers trying new stuff out that they have learnt about the game in the way things work not because it makes the game fresh but that is just my opinion .

I like all the changes and yes some things will be "fine" tuned but that is the way it has always been.

Things like the Talent Tree changes were because the trees were getting large with pointless talents to get to decent talents so i applaud the developers for that change although i think it could have been done a bit better.

Things like healing have not really changed that much apart from now the group needs to think about the damage they take and dps to stay out of the damage zones to survive.

You could have made an interesting thread if you had said some examples of what you were thinking and the changes that made you think it was changes for changes sake.

Ummmm.... Yes?

Well the developers do listen if they think something can improve the game , my guess is having seen the blizzard boards where many people complain a lot that some complaints are taken on by the developers to see if anything can be improved.

Sometimes if a mechanic ? in the game is not working well they will try many different ideas to fix it as not everything works well together which is i believe why some spells are changed completely to fix faults that have been made in the game.

They do bend to customers at times an example is hunter pets . They gave all pet classes pets at level 1 as well but hunters got a huge boost with the amount of pet slots they now have and the developers for years said it was an impossible thing to implement .

From what i have seen and tried of all classes in Cata i really believe all the recent changes were needed and as they adjust the spells i really do believe that the game as it is now is about right and it is us that needs to improve our game .