3.2 changes

[Daemus]

With the changes I've been reading about in the 3.2 PTR notes, I'm starting to think that disc healing is going to go down hill a little bit with the increased cooldown in penance. 

I find myself already getting caught with it on cooldown with it already being 6 seconds (glyphed for it).  I realize I'm probably not playing disc to it's full potential where I come from previously playing a raiding Holy Pally (BC) where we could just spam heals like no tomorrow.  I like the Priest style of healing where you can sometimes stop to catch a breath where you have more spells available to you (ie - PoM, PoH, etc..).  I rarely if ever find myself using Gheal at all, but may be forced to due so since Flash Heal throughput doesn't seem to cut it to cover the extra few seconds Penance is going to have on it in 3.2.  This seems to be the major complaint in the Priest forums at the moment.

Holy spec is very attractive to me but I hear it blows chunks when required to tank heal.  I wonder how our 10man Naxx would have went if both me and Stratuspheer were bothing running Holy.  Better?/Worse?  I know that's definately not the ideal setup you would be looking for but I have to ponder about it considering we would have access to 2x Guardian Spirit to help out...

Excuse me for my rambling on during lunch at work - Figured I might spark some interest in priest discussion, or healing in general   ;D

[Goull]

Here are some of the big changes to Priests coming in 3.2 (Stolen from http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?;tpstart=12):

Discipline

    * Penance now has a 12 sec cooldown. (Up from 10 sec)
    * Levitate now only affects a friendly party or raid target.


Holy

    * Holy Concentration now procs from Empowered Renew instead of Renew.
    * Inspiration now     Reduces your target's physical damage taken by 3/7/10% instead of increasing its armor by 8/16/25%.


Shadow

    * Vampiric Touch's replenishment effect now regens 1% of the maximum mana per 5 sec. (Down from 0.25% of the maximum mana per second)


The Penance change will be a bit annoying, I think this a case of a PvP change impacting PvE.  I wish they would have just gotten rid of the Penance Glyph instead of changing the spell.  However, I don't think it will be as bad as a lot of people are making it out to be.  I'll probably end up shifting my style a bit where I don't use Penance every cooldown and will use Greater Healing more while it's hasted with Borrowed Time.

The Inspiration change is pretty cool I think.  While it may be a slight nerf to tank healing for physical damage, armor doesn't help with some deadly abilities like Frozen Blows or Plasma blast.  However, a really nice buff is that when PoH or PoM crit on a non-tank, the Inspiration buff will actually do something.  From a Holy Priest's perspective with CoH, I think it's a pretty big buff.   

[Skippy]

Boo-urns about reduced replenishment.  Are all forms of it being reduced?

[Ethics]

Boo-urns about reduced replenishment.  Are all forms of it being reduced?

yes