Health Funnel

[TZ_Teera]

Terribly sorry if this has been discussed already, but utilizing the search feature showed me no debate on this particular spell and it's future in Wrath.

Seems to me that Blizzard really wants us to use our pets in Wrath, so a re-working of health funnel should be on the table as well.

Basically, I'd like to see it work exactly like mend pet. On my hunter alt, I use mend pet constantly - my dear warlock, however, tries everything she can to AVOID wasting time on health funnel. Heck, even re-summoning a demon is faster than healing it up with funnel..

If our felguard/felhunter/imp are going to be useful in raids, even with avoidance etc, we need to be able to give it some level of healing without sacrificing both DPS and mobility to do so.

Best way of doing that is to make it an exact copy of mend pet, imo.

What do you think?

[nitromoose]

Until this week I've never used health funnel, and even now I only use it to heal my VW up just a little while he is tanking multiple mobs to make sure he makes it through the pull, then he usually gets sac'd and resummoned.

I would love for it to be a HoT type thing, not a channeled link spell like it is now. It would make life that much better for us. The other side of the argument would be that most all of our damage comes from DoT's that can tick away while we channel the funnel so our DPS dosen't stop. Hunters on the other hand don't have much DoT offense so they would not be able to DPS if they had to heal pets like we do.

I would like to see it, but I can see how people would argue a balance issue if we went to a mend pet/HoT kind of spell, so I don't think it would happen.

[Innor]

Just saw the new level of health funnel on wowhead

Health Funnel - Spell - World of Warcraft

(Up from 188 to 520hp/sec)

It is quite a boost compared to the lower level's of it although it is still a channeled spell. With some decent +damage gear this will heal a pet around 1000hp/sec (500hp/sec if affected by mortal strike or something like that).

Dunno, but in PvP this might make it possible to keep a pet from being ganked alive in Wrath of the Lich King if you are demon tallent spec'ed, especially with fel synergy and demonic empathy (this tallent almost outdoo the MS effect by itself). Maybe this will force the enemies to either focus on you or be shure that you are cc'ed while taking out the pet (yes, this can still be done, i know... but it's better than nothing ).

Edit: Typo's

[El Tanakh]

Originally Posted by TZ_Teera

Heck, even re-summoning a demon is faster than healing it up with funnel..

Yep, but i do use health funnel from time to time in arenas, the reason being that it is, on a practical level, uninterruptable and it might give time for the healer to bring the pet to full. I mainly do this if the other team has interrupts (well, nowdays almost everyone has one with short CC) and i am badly positioned to start summoning. Actually i have been thinking a lot of respeccing for the health funnel boost.