Rejoice, my dear readers, I am back with another Legion Mistweaver article! Today, I want to take a bite of the utility discussion that rages on all forums, in practically every expansion. While utility is heatedly debated in the healer community (the whole utility-decides-raid-spot topic), there’s much I don’t agree and many other points that I think have been overlooked. So in this article I will not only try to explain my point of view on Mistweaver utility in Legion, but also clarify a few things in the debate that I think are a bit misleading.
There are two major points that I think muddies the waters in debates and those are 1) lack of definition of what utility is 2) the importance of utility is often grossly overvalued to 98% of the WoW population due to the discussion about utility in hardcore mythic raiding. And I mean hardcore, as in top 50 guilds that spend months on beta to practice raid, then spend months racing through mythic raids on minimum sleep and probably a crap load of fast food. Top guilds deal with a much more extreme raiding environment; extremely difficult content with bad to worse gear. Utility has a potential for them to be their saving grace, but for us other mortals, it plays a lesser role.
But then people see top guilds discuss utility on forums and very special tactics that use certain classes in very niche ways; it seems to color the debate more than necessary. My point is; while I do want to discuss Mistweaver utility with you guys, also remember that utility is not as important as you’d might think.
And if I here another “but shaman utility” argument against Mistweavers, I swear I will explode. The leading healer classes in HFC >Progresssion< have been Disc, Holy Paladin and Shaman due to the type of healing they provided (absorbs, spirit link totem x2, deep healing mastery, etc). So, don’t even go there, my ear drums will scar of hearing this, I swear to Yu’lon.
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