Holy Paladin State on the Shadowlands Beta - Return to Holy Power, Glimmer of Light, Infusion of Light

Bêta Publié 22/08/2020 à 04:44 par Jaydaa

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This article is written by Jaydaa a veteran healer and contributing writer to both World of Warcraft content and other Blizzard games content here on Wowhead. I've been raiding in WoW for almost 15 years at various levels of progression. I've contributed to the theorycrafting of multiple healing classes, notably Mistweaver Monks and Restoration Druids. Find me on Twitter or on the Wowhead Discord.

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Holy Power Resource System: Similarly to Retribution in BFA and former incarnations of the spec in prior expansions, Holy Paladins have once again inherited the Holy Power resource system. Holy Paladins will generate Holy Power via a number of generators holding up to a max of 5 Holy Power. They'll then spend 3 Holy Power on one of a few mana-free spenders.

Generators: Horion sacré, Frappe du croisé, Marteau de courroux, and Éclair lumineux/Lumière sacrée via Tour de radiance.

Spenders: Mot de gloire, Lumière de l’aube, Bouclier du vertueux, and Séraphin (Talent).

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Aura Revamp: Auras have been extended baseline to all Paladin specializations rather than talents specific to Holy Paladins. Instead of only having access to a single aura throughout an encounter, Paladins now have access to 4 different auras at max level that can be swapped at will. Because these auras do not stack with those of other Paladins, if multiple Paladins are in a raid then there'll need to be some organization to take advantage of this extra utility. Holy Paladins retain the exclusive ability Maîtrise des auras to empower their chosen aura and should be considered when assigning auras for Paladins.

REMOVED: Aura of Mercy and Aura of Sacrifice

REWORKED Aura de dévotion - No longer diminishes the damage reduction based on the number of allies in the aura radius instead just a flat 3% damage reduction. Nerf for any group smaller than 3, but exceptional buff for larger groups. The Maîtrise des auras empowerment increases the damage reduction to 15% for 8s, a 5% nerf compared to its BFA functionality.

NEW Aura de croisé - What was previously the Heart of the Crusader passive has now returned as an aura that affects all allies as well. The Maîtrise des auras empowerment increases the 20% mounted movement speed increase to 60% for 8s. It is worth noting paladins still had this passive baseline, and now must always switch auras to take advantage of this. This does impact Palefroi divin. Personally love the return of this aura because of how impactful this can be for your group E.G getting out of the gate and to different objectives in battlegrounds could be.

NEW Aura de vindicte - The Retribution Paladin passive but in aura form granting 8s of Courroux vengeur when an ally within 40yds dies. The Maîtrise des auras empowerment grants an additional 4s of Courroux vengeur for a total of 16s with the Shadowlands leveling perk. For a Holy Paladin, this aura is interesting as it can be very powerful in the final phase of a fight as players tend to die off slowly as an encounter concludes. Think Uu'nat's final phase if you need to consider how strong this could be. Ideally, as a healer you want to prevent any and all deaths wherever possible so this can be somewhat counter to your main goal; however, sometimes due to specific mechanics players are destined for death and this can be seen as an exceptional boon that Holy Paladins can take advantage. I think the base ability can be quite strong, but the Maîtrise des auras empowerment feels quite weak especially when you consider the precise timing required to achieve the benefit and generally how much more useful 15% raid wide damage reduction tends to be.

NEW Aura de concentration - A favorite aura returns reducing interrupt and silence durations. The Maîtrise des auras empowerment grants full interrupt and silence immunity for 8s. Not since the days of Thok le Sanguinaire have players in PvE been frequently silenced or interrupted, this will almost certainly be invaluable in PvP.

New Baseline Holy Paladin Abilities:
NEW - A more limited Holy Power generator that can only be used on enemies below 20% health or during Courroux vengeur with the level 58 perk. While the ability itself doesn't heal, as a Holy Power generator it does contribute to throughput and the cooldown can be reduced by haste. With the addition of Discipline's Mot de l’ombre : Mort and subsequent Baiser de la mort legendary, there's a general trend toward giving healers execute abilities that significantly contribute to throughput which can be a fairly controversial move. Specifically, the final 20% of a bosses health tends to be high incoming damage burn phases where high healing and damage are required to secure the kill. Having two healers provide both execute damage and additional healing is a questionable call, especially when the two specializations given an execute have typically been heralded as the premiere healers in BFA due to their extra utility and rarely struggle to find placement in Mythic raids because of this utility.

NEW - Single target healing Holy Power spender with very few limitations. With the rebalance of Lueur de lumière and the sheer strength of Mot de gloire, you'll want to avoid eschewing your spenders and capping on Holy Power.

Bouclier du vertueux - A defensive and AoE damaging Holy Power spender. Requires you to be in melee and properly positioned to maximize your damage. Overall nice to have a way to deal AoE damage beyond Consécration and Lueur de lumière or even as a minor physical damage reduction. While it's rare for Holy Paladins to use 2-handed weapons it definitely pops up on occasion. Limiting itemization is never a good thing unless there's a meaningful trade off. Remains off the GCD even for Holy Paladins.

NEW (Level 54) A unique tracking ability that will probably have limited uses, but it certainly doesn't hurt to have the ability.

NEW A thematic albeit limited crowd control ability for Paladins on a 15s cooldown for a single target and a range of 20yds. Might see some uses for Shadowlands with a fair amount of undead; however, because it instantly aggros the target and causes them to flee in random directions aggroing other nearby enemies, there tends to be way better more controlled crowd control abilities. Perhaps better in PvP for various pets, etc.

Shadowlands Leveling Perks:

NEW Rank 2 (Level 44) Casting Flash of Light or Holy Light on your Beacon of Light grants 1 Holy Power.

While not specifically a leveling perk received during Shadowlands content, This passive helps offset the cost of directly healing a beacon, similar to the mana return Holy Paladins had before. Due to the low ability to generate Holy Power currently, this may be a mana efficient way to heal, however is a significant throughput loss. Because you need to heal your Guide de lumière target, you lose out on the beacon transfer healing which at the buffed 50% can be fairly significant to your overall throughput. It can feel even worse if your Guide de lumière target doesn't need healing but you still are wanting to generate Holy Power in preparation for incoming damage.

Rank 2 (Level 56)Courroux vengeur

A small duration increase to the Courroux vengeur granted by Aura de vindicte taking it to 12s baseline or 16s with the Maîtrise des auras empowerment. Nice perk but definitely not game breaking.

Rank 2 (Level 58)

Turns this execute generator into one that can be used anytime Courroux vengeur is up. With a few additional ways to gain Courroux vengeur in Shadowlands, Marteau de courroux becomes an even more significant generator for Holy Paladins.

Reworked Holy Paladin Abilities:

Guide de lumière Holy: Wrap a single ally in holy energy, causing your heals on other party or raid members to also heal that ally for 40%50% of the amount healed.

With Guide de lumière transfer increasing to 50% healing this is a large passive increase to Holy Paladin healing on tanks. How much of this will be effective healing remains to be seen especially with other healers receiving fairly significant tank healing abilities. Think the strong legendary Leçon du Titan noir from Restoration Druids with Photosynthèse as an example. Here's hoping that tanks are going to get absolutely trucked throughout the entire expansion.

Frappe du croisé

The bread and butter Holy Power generator for melee Holy Paladins. This change makes it so that even Melee Holy paladins can oom, however it also means there is no room to use spells such as, Éclair lumineux and Lumière sacrée even with Imprégnation de lumière active which are spells that saw larger mana increases. As a side effect of this change Holy Paladins lose the ability to deal damage without spending mana outside of Consécration. While not huge other healers could spend open GCDs with damaging spells to still contribute while generating mana. This means generally as a paladin if you want to play conservatively, or are already oom your only option is to press no or fewer buttons and wait for passive mana regen.

Horion sacré

Holy Power generator for both caster and melee Holy Paladin. The mana cost helps offset the addition of the free Holy Power spenders. Did receive a small hit to throughput in Shadowlands. Last time Holy Paladins had Holy Power this spell had a shorter cooldown, as such Holy Power generation is significantly hampered comparatively to previous iterations of the spec where Holy Power was available.

Imprégnation de lumière

For Lueur de lumière Holy Paladins, Imprégnation de lumière procs were largely ignored except to fill empty GCDs. While this is a core passive for caster Holy Paladins, history seems to be repeating itself for Lueur de lumière Holy Paladins as they largely ignore these procs. The core issue here is that the benefits of casting Éclair lumineux and Lumière sacrée even under Imprégnation de lumière are generally outmatched by Horion sacré or Frappe du croisé as these are both cheaper Holy Power generators. In the case of Frappe du croisé, it helps get Horion sacré off cooldown via Puissance du croisé. Unless you spend Éclair lumineux and Lumière sacrée on a Guide de lumière target, which severely reduces its throughput due to not beacon transferring, then you're just not generating Holy Power.

Lumière de l’aube

Light of Dawn moves from a rotational cooldown to a free Holy Power spender limited only by your Holy Power generation. Still has all the positional requirements of BFA.

Consécration

While not a huge change, you'll no longer be able to quickly reposition your Consécration should the positioning of the encounter change.

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REMOVED: Aura of Mercy, Aura of Sacrifice, and Aura de dévotion. Aura de dévotion was reworked and made baseline.
Aura system was made baseline with new auras. Existing aura talents were replaced. See Aura Revamp above.

Poing de la justice

Reworked to work off Holy Power instead of Jugement. For Holy Paladins that were rarely using Jugement this is an overall buff to the talent. However, in PvP it can actually be more difficult to generate the Holy Power necessary to see a similar cooldown reduction.

Guide de vertuGuide de foiTour de radiance

Changes meant to bring them inline with the new standard Guide de lumière.

Puissance du croisé

Lumière de l’aube removed since it no longer has a cooldown as a Holy Power spender.

Dessein divin

Functional rework for Holy Power. No longer a must pick for Lueur de lumière builds as it no longer works with Horion sacré.

Functionally the same as the Azerite Trait Lueur de lumière. Currently tuned in the area of 3x Mythic traits worth of the live trait, it won't be contributing as much healing as BFA simply due to losing a lot of the support systems that propped it up. However, it is supplemented by the Holy Power spenders so the playstyle is still quite viable.

Vengeur sacré

Functional change to focus more on Holy Power generation. Very potent but doubled cooldown. Choice on talent tier will be short duration consistent buff, strong cooldown, or sustained albeit more random throughput. Won't be able to always combine with Courroux vengeur.

Sauvé par la Lumière

Overall other talents will do more healing, but the strength of this one is how the healing is delivered when your tank likely needs it most.

Séraphin

With a third uptime, this could be a pretty good short duration buff depending on the damage patterns of a fight.

Éveil

Functional change to make Éveil healing Holy Power spender agnostic. Ideally Séraphin and Bouclier du vertueux will be added to make it truly Holy Power spender agnostic.

Lueur de lumièreLueur de lumièreCovenant Abilities

Kyrian:
Glas divin & Clarté retentissante (Potency Conduit) - 5 Horion sacrés for the price of one. That's some good mana efficiency and a lot of Holy Power. Combined with Lueur de lumière and you'll also get a lot of extra healing out of it as well. The conduit Clarté retentissante takes that efficiency even further starting at base 30% scaling up to 58% at max rank. At a 1 minute cooldown there's not a lot of downsides to this one. Versatile based on your target allowing you to do some pretty serious AoE damage if you're targeting enemies.

Invocation de régisseur - The steward offers some quality of life options like free talent changes or a vendor to sell things, but it essentially boils down to Flasque de sérénité, a glorified healthstone for all intents and purposes. The healing will be nice and contribute albeit minimally to throughput, and the personal curse and bleed dispel for Holy Paladins could come in handy as you can't normally dispel those; when combined with Kleia's Flasque d’ascendant soulbind you might even find a few opportunities to avoid entire mechanics though with Bouclier divin you already kind of have one of these abilities. Might not be the strongest all the time, but solid ability regardless.

Venthyr:
Bénédiction cendrée & Discernement sacré (Potency Conduit) - Essentially a large single target Efflorescence that deals both damage and healing and allows you to use Marteau de courroux regardless of the enemies health. Scales with haste to increase tick rate. Although maybe a bit underpowered, the problems with this covenant ability are largely related to the cooldown, the lack of mobility, and the way the healing is delivered. At a lengthy 4 minutes, the cooldown is just unwieldy. Greater access to a cooldown for a healer will always be better than a bigger one on a longer timer. Perhaps baseline reducing the cooldown or Holy Power consumption reducing the CD would go a long way to adjusting the cooldown. Because you can't move the Bénédiction cendrée during its 30s duration, if the encounter moves across the room you're absolutely screwed. While it's more rare in raid, in Mythic+ it's almost a certainty that you won't be standing in a single spot for too long. Perhaps reactivating the ability to reposition could solve this dilemma similar to Restoration Shaman's Totem carillonneur. Damage in PvE typically comes in waves of burst and it's rare when you need sustained single target healing. If the healing was more upfront, it might be more viable. Finally, the Marteau de courroux ability usage is a weird benefit. Good when you don't have Courroux vengeur up with this spell, but as it's a large amount of healing you'll likely want to have Courroux vengeur to buff the healing and you'll have Marteau de courroux available in that situation already. In its current state it's okay but there are better options currently and the Discernement sacré potency conduit doesn't seem to scale as fast at 10% to 25% increase at min and max rank respectively.

Porte des ombres - Quite possibly the star of the covenant signature abilities, it's hard to say no to a 35yd teleport with a minute cooldown even if it has a 1.5s cast time. This type of movement is almost universally valuable and it's hard to think of an occasion where it'd be useless. Full Venthyr dungeon groups can plan skips around this ability. As a fairly immobile Holy Paladin that needs to get back into melee as soon as possible, I will never say no to more mobility.

Necrolord:
Marteau du vainqueur & Puissance pieuse (Potency Conduit) - A more rotational fairly straightforward covenant ability. Essentially every 30s a Mot de gloire and Lumière de l’aube combo costs only 4 Holy Power instead of 6. The additional Lumière de l’aube can proc Dessein divin and Éveil. From a throughput perspective this one is pretty okay and has a lot of synergy with Dernier souffle de Maraad legendary. There's some frustration if you can't take full advantage of the Lumière de l’aube either because you don't currently need AoE healing or you're not properly positioned. The other issue is it's just kind of boring. The other covenant abilities just tend to be more exciting with bolder visuals etc. It could definitely help if the upfront damage hammer were instead a Horion sacré giving it more synergy with the spec rather than feeling detached in its current state. The ability does feel a bit better when it turns into a personal heal with Puissance pieuse potency conduit scaling from 100% to 240% increased damage at max rank.

Chair recomposée - This extra self survivability will be nice and as an absorb will contribute minimally to overall throughput, but where this one loses me is the 4s channel. Adding a long channel to our toolkit is not exactly something we want. Fortunately soulbinds allow this to be channeled on the move via Chair ambulante d’Éméni or even avoid CC via Forme ultime though with Bouclier divin you already kind of have one of those abilities. Could be an excellent tool for surviving burst damage especially in high Mythic+, but it's a bit of a harder sell against the other movement oriented covenant signature abilities.

Night Fae:
Bénédiction des saisons & Été prolongé (Potency Conduit) via Bénédiction du printemps Bénédiction de l’été Bénédiction de l’automne Bénédiction de l’hiver - A rotating cast of single target buffs for you or an ally. For a Holy Paladin this offers a fair amount of utility but also can be quite the personal throughput increase. You're likely to put Bénédiction de l’été and Bénédiction de l’hiver on DPS players when you can cuz they'll likely make better use of them. The majority of your personal throughput will be in Bénédiction du printemps and Bénédiction de l’automne. For Bénédiction du printemps, you'll bless either your tank, yourself, or a fellow healer. While 10% healing might not seem like much it can amount to a lot. The larger benefit can be the tank, especially tanks that heal themselves like Blood Death Knights. Other healers gain value from healing that tank as well. Strong buff for sure and for 30s too. For Bénédiction de l’automne, the cooldown reduction should not be underestimated. While this essentially amounts to an extra 15s of cooldown reduction which might not seem like a lot, this does include all cooldowns; Courroux vengeur, Frappe du croisé, Horion sacré, Séraphin and even Bénédiction des saisons itself all count all at once. That's a fair amount of cooldown reduction when you count multiple abilities. Tons of flexibility and decision making. Downside of this one is the potency conduit Été prolongé doesn't do a lot for Holy Paladins in regards to healing throughput as it now applies to Bénédiction de l’été instead of the earlier version that modified Bénédiction de l’automne. With the most recent Beta build the cooldown of these blessings has moved from 30s to 45s causing this covenant to take quite a hit.

Forme d’âme - With the recent buffs to Forme d’âme including the instant blink on activation and movement speed increase this one has definitely shot to the forefront of signature abilities. While the Sylvari Mantle soulbind has been removed, this still improves mobility a lot. You likely won't be coming up with skips for such a limited 15 yard blink, but you get 3-4 in the 12s duration so you may have some opportunities to blink over some particularly nasty mechanics. Comes with a cosmetic collecting minigame which is fantastic.

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Vengeur sacré & Courroux vengeur - This combination of cooldowns plagued Holy Paladins throughout BFA especially towards the end of the expansion as the cooldown of each got shorter and shorter thanks to Vérité ineffable. Because you frequently lined these up, having 2 GCDs before you actually started to heal did not feel good and goes against the immediacy healers have when popping cooldowns. While the cooldowns are less likely to line up as often in Shadowlands thanks to the changes done to Vengeur sacré, it would certainly go a long way in for add upfront effects to at least Vengeur sacré. Instantly gaining Holy Power would alleviate a lot of those issues.

LegendariesGeneral Paladin Legendaries

- A toned down version of the Anima Power in Torghast. While the damage reduction can be good the primary buff is granted when maxing out your Holy Power which isn't too difficult. The problem arises when needing to potentially delay a Holy Power spender to get the buff leading to some awkward decision making.

- Interesting way to get a fair amount of extra Holy Power by turning your Longanimité spells into throughput abilities as well as offering some additional upfront power to Courroux vengeur. When you don't need those Longanimité tools this is a decent way to gain some on-demand Holy Power albeit on fairly long cooldown abilities. To maximize this legendary you'll want to keep these spells on cooldown as often as possible specifically when fight lengths allow for an additional use. In these situations you'll be going into a fight down a lot of your extra utility which might not be the best situation to be in.

- A more sustained Holy Power generator that works for both caster Holy Paladin and Lueur de lumière and nice if you're already using Jugement on cooldown for Jugement de lumière. The downside for this is purely the RNG related. It doesn't work off of a deck system, so often times procs feel like feast or famine.

- Super niche legendary that helps get your utility back up faster for more frequent uses especially if your raid is low on other Paladins.

Holy Paladin Legendaries

Inflorescence du Puits de soleil - The premiere caster Holy Paladin legendary while almost useless for Lueur de lumière melee Holy Paladins due to their lack of hard casting. The wording on this can be a bit a confusing, so let me clarify. When you proc Imprégnation de lumière, you gain 2 charges of the buff. Fairly versatile in terms of either reducing mana usage for Éclair lumineux or increasing throughput for Lumière sacrée. Would almost certainly need to be retuned if consuming Imprégnation de lumière granted Holy Power, but would be a very strong interaction to further increase Holy Power generation for caster Holy Paladin.

Dernier souffle de Maraad A legendary that increases throughput via Lumière du martyr, a spell that hasn't really had a clear spot in the Holy Paladin toolkit for awhile due to its many limitations and overall low throughput. This one does make it significantly better and has a lot of synergy with the Necrolord Paladin covenant ability Marteau du vainqueur that allows for more casts of Lumière de l’aube in addition to the Dévouement intact conduit which rewards more frequent rotational use of Lumière du martyr. Overall could be a strong pick depending on final tuning.

Brisombre, le lever de soleil - Removes some of the positioning restrictions on Lumière de l’aube and offers a nice healing taken increase. Not super creative or exciting, but overall not bad. Has some synergy with Necrolord Paladin covenant ability Marteau du vainqueur.

Barrière de choc Extremely strong legendary prior to the 3 target cap, especially for Lueur de lumière Holy Paladins. This legendary seems to be remenisint of an older Holy Paladin ability however tuning will determine if this legendary is potent. In many scenarios you may end up overwriting your barriers wasting a lot of this legendaries effect.

Conduits

(Potency Conduit) Maîtrise des auras increases the healing of your next 3 Lumière de l’aubes by 40.0%. Ranks: 40.0%-96.0%
Turns a traditionally damage reduction cooldown into a gain of healing throughput. If the incoming damage is high enough that you're wanting to use Maîtrise des auras then it's likely that the beefier Lumière de l’aubes will be helpful topping your group off after. At max rank it's almost equivalent to 3 extra free Lumière de l’aubes. Pretty solid for AoE healing however due to the 3min cooldown it may not be as impactful as other legendaries..

(Potency Conduit)Horion sacré15%Ranks:

Currently it is unclear how this conduit is *supposed* to work. If it acts as the tooltip suggest and adds an extra 15% chance to crit, it is a solid conduit for both melee and caster Holy Paladin. Melee Holy Paladin has an increased cast time of Horion sacré thanks to the cooldown reduction provided by Puissance du croisé so will gain a fair amount of extra throughput. Fantastic for caster Holy Paladin in terms of gaining extra procs of Imprégnation de lumière and will be key especially when maximizing the benefits of the Inflorescence du Puits de soleil legendary. However it is currently providing a lot less critical strike chance than the tooltip suggests. This is hopefully just a bug

(Potency Conduit)Lumière sacrée5.0%Ranks:

For Lueur de lumière melee Holy Paladins, this one just doesn't have a lot of value. Even in a scenario where consuming Imprégnation de lumière procs is a core part of their rotation, the likely scenario is they'll mostly be consumed with Éclair lumineux. For caster Holy Paladin this offers a small AoE component and extra throughput and efficiency to one of their most cast spells. At max rank you're nearly doubling the efficiency and throughput of this spell. Not bad for a conduit. But it all relies on you actually casting Lumière sacrée , which currently doesn't seem to be in the cards.

Dévouement intact(Potency Conduit)Lumière du martyr5%Ranks:

Because of the infrequency with which Holy Paladins of all types cast Lumière du martyr, this almost has to be playstyle-defining in order to make it worth the soulbind pathing and conduit slot. Lumière du martyr needs to a major part of your casts and healing breakdown to warrant it; dropping stacks and having to rebuild them will be crushing. That being said could be a very valuable asset in the Dernier souffle de Maraad/Necrolord Marteau du vainqueur build.

Infusion of Light and Holy PowerImprégnation de lumièreImprégnation de lumièreÉclair lumineuxLumière sacréeÉclair lumineuxÉclair lumineuxImprégnation de lumièreFrappe du croiséLumière sacrée

Imprégnation de lumière doesn't represent a meaningful choice

Lumière sacrée and Éclair lumineux are ignored in the melee playstyle.

Casting Lumière sacrée and Éclair lumineux regularly as a caster runs you oom quickly.

You don't have an option to generate mana, or play conservatively outside of not pressing any buttons.

The Caster build struggles to generate Holy Power.

How would this change impact the Melee Playstyle?Frappe du croiséHorion sacréÉclair lumineuxFrappe du croiséImprégnation de lumièreImprégnation de lumièreLumière sacréeÉclair lumineuxLumière du martyrLumière sacréeWhat are the benefits of the Caster play style?Imprégnation de lumièreLumière sacréeLumière sacréeFrappe du croiséPuissance du croiséYou simply do not have access to enough Holy Power.Imprégnation de lumièreInflorescence du Puits de soleilImprégnation de lumièreHorion sacréHorion sacréLumière sacréeLumière sacréeMot de gloireJugementPrisme sacréDon de foiHorion sacréLumière sacréeLumière sacréeJugementPrisme sacréDon de foiMot de gloireLumière sacréeJugementPrisme sacréDon de foiLumière du martyrLumière sacréeMot de gloireMot de gloireImprégnation de lumièreLumière sacréeÉclair lumineuxPuissance du croiséImprégnation de lumièreImprégnation de lumièreFrappe du croiséDon de foiPuissance du croiséImprégnation de lumière

Imprégnation de lumière doesn't represent a meaningful choice - Now, with this change Imprégnation de lumière creates a meaningful choice, due to the increased efficiency of Lumière sacrée, the Melee play style is forced to compromise in Éclair lumineuxs or Lumière sacrées depending on the state of their current haste values and cooldowns. With the caster build, you may need to increase the pace of your rotation else you will be wasting precious Imprégnation de lumière charges so you may Éclair lumineux to do so.

Lumière sacrée and Éclair lumineux are ignored in the melee playstyle - Due to the high throughput of Éclair lumineuxs generating a holy power now, this build will naturally want to take advantage of those charges, forcing it to worry about mana more. Some of the mana cost of Frappe du croisé may need to be clawed back in this scenario, but that is healthier for the class overall due to problem #4 in this list. As mentioned above ideally this build would be casting Lumière sacrées as well but has a much faster-paced rotation, as such may not have the time to do so making it a constant choice.

Casting Lumière sacrée and Éclair lumineux regularly as a caster runs you oom quickly. - This problem still persists at some level. However, it is alleviated as Holy Power spenders by nature of costing Holy Power do not cost mana, as a result, the mana efficiency of the "Caster" playstyle goes up significantly.

You don't have an option to generate mana, or play conservatively outside of not pressing any buttons - If Frappe du croisé had some of its mana cost clawed back both builds could opt to let Imprégnation de lumière go to waste, in order to be a bit more efficient.

The Caster build struggles to generate Holy Power - The caster build has a respectable amount of Holy Power generation as Imprégnation de lumière, and Lumière sacrée is at the core of this build far more than the Melee Healer playstyle.