Good article, with the initial skill reshuffle, I went from an amazing healer, to an awful one, as I had a whole new toolbox and spells I relied on weren't doing what I expecting, and I had to relearn, I don't feel confident yet, still working on getting to 85, but I'll learn to make my class tick again, but really the 4.0.1 patch was a massive game changer, this combined that my healer being ICC geared at the end of wrath, and could face roll through hcs, earlier hcs (HOS etc) I was capable of ignoring the hits mobs laid on me if I dumped a lot of heals and it wasn't an issue if a tank lost aggro, as sometimes you still bumped into new tanks looking to get to raid gear. We're all used to out-gearing the content, and most of us no longer do, it's back to building up to raid gear, building up to later raid gear, and we will look back at all the hcs in a years time and see face-roll material, but I remember getting smacked around in wotlk hcs when I first hit 80, and cata's hcs seem a little bit more complex from everything I've seen.

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