Here's what I'm NOT going to miss hearing in Cata dealing with healing strategy/philosophy:

"If they continue to increase mana regen, we are going to be back to LK-style flash heal-flash heal spam."

Well, what would you know? Here we are nearing the last major content patch of Cata and I've yet to see any healer who is (again) a one trick pony with unlimited mana regen. Sure, they have played with our many of our regen mechanics, but stats wise, I could always see my personal regen/spirit going UP. (Especially nice since my OS is a holy priest).

The thing is, whatever you thought of the increase in stamina pools relative to our the power of our heals in Cata, they just never were going to be strong enough to top tanks (or DPS) off like we did back in LK as quickly with much efficiency. Even as we have gained greater spell power/int, everyone's stamina has gone up as well. The water pouring into the bucket with the hole at the bottom may have been trickling in faster, but so did the size of the bucket. :)

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