I just hope blizz makes it more interesting than what it is right now. Idk I'm not very happy with the changes. Ye I'm fine with the loss of Flash Concentration, honestly it felt a bit dull to just spam flash heal/heal, even though it was rlyyy good in mythic+ environment. But still I prefer using PoH as a holy priest not spamming single heals all the time. Lightwell doesn't seem good so far, I agree with the comment above, they could change it so that it could mimic our holy spells, that would be kind of fun. Possibly make it similar to how the fae guardians work now from NF covenant, instead of expecting ppl to just go close to it to get healed, 10 yards seems a bit too small. PI on our self is a not so good, but you have to choose it to get to the Translucent Image. Because that DR is necessary for our survival, we no longer have any NF blinks or Kyrian potions to use when we get low.
I don't completely agree with Flash Concentration being gone. And as a note upfront: Why is it always, when the playstyle changes, people complain about having to do something different, but when the playstyle stays the same, people complain about that as well?Unwavering Will gives 20% cast speed for several spells, one is Heal. That brings the base cast time down from 2.5 second to 1.5 second. That's the same as 5 stacks of Flash Concentration.For the higher healing amount you would need to set up a renew beforehand, giving you 10% (3.3 Stacks) more healing on that target. A bit of a rotational change, but given the change to surge of light, you would probably want to heal the target with renew active anyway.But this whole tree pushes more towards the use of Holy Words anyway. I have to say a lot of the time in Shadowlands I simply forgot that Holy Words existed, BECAUSE Flash Concentration was too strong. And that play style was kind of annoying. Having to prepare your regular healing spell with 5 casts of wasteful Flash Heal, and then having to make sure you don't let it drop again, because otherwise you would need to waste mana on an otherwise bad healing skill again.And with the change to Cosmic Ripple... yeah, Holy Words will be more in the focus. On top of getting mana for every enemy killed when your Shadow Word: Pain is active, AND a Mindbender that gives Mastery as well, you won't have any mana problems anymore anyway. So we can just pump away as we like.I am just a bit weirded out by the notion of only having to use Symbol of Hope for other healers.
They should make flash concentration baseline, or at least put it as a option and replace one of the lame talents there that nobody is gonna use anyway.