Sotanyavejin@Guk wrote:
Thanks for the thoughts. In response: 1. I agree, 15 minutes is fine as a recast timer for an emergency spell. The problem I have is that I feel like spending AA points on something I can only use every 15 minutes is a waste unless those points reduce the recast timer or make the spell so good that I don't care if it's only every 15 minutes. Yet two of our Recovery AA abilities are for our "emergency" spells, and the one that reduces the recast timer does so by a negligible amount. It contributes to the feeling of being shortchanged on healing enhancements. If the other abilities were great, I wouldn't care as much. If the other abilities enhanced our core healing abilities, I'd even welcome these as an addition to the tree. 2. I absolutely LOVE Pact of the Cheetah, so please don't get me wrong here. I just think it's yet another ability in the so-called "Recovery" line that contributes nothing to our overall healing abilities. I'd rather this be included as part of the Animalism line, which is where it feels like it belongs. 3. I cast it frequently on a large encounter myself, I just don't see a point in casting it more often than every 9 seconds. If the mobs are dying that fast, it doesn't matter if each of them gets Feast on them or not; the effects don't stack. And if they aren't dying that fast, 9 seconds is time better spent debuffing, healing or nuking anyway. Disagree. I enjoy grouping quite a bit, and I don't want the Recovery abilities to be solely raid-focused. The problem is that right now they are raid-useless. There's really almost no reason for a raiding fury to spend AA points in this tree, when they could better help the raid by putting those points in Animalism and Energy, for group buffs and dps respectively. That shouldn't be the case for a healer who wants to focus on improving their core function: healing. Setting aside the raid issue, I do think that most of my concerns still hold up for grouping. Thanks again for the response.
1. Good points - and I agree about feeling shortchanged on healing in the AA lines. I still wouldn't trade the points I put into my emergency heal, though...having it "bigger" has saved my husband's zerker butt on many occasions! 
2. Ah - agree with you here that Pact of the Cheetah makes MUCH more sense in the "animalism" line. Good thinking.
3. You're probably right that every 9 seconds isn't necessary - but when you're in a group that's killing things super fast, it's helpful to be able to cast it quickly. Even if it doesn't stack, the new occurance of the spell overrides the previous one (doesn't it?) so the effect can last "longer" because it's happening multiple times...at least, that's my perception of how it's been working...am I wrong? If it's not overriding itself, thus refreshing the countdown timer, then I haven't noticed and I'm wasting power...ugh! Pls. post if this is the case!