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Comment by Cielos

You don't have to be in a party or a raid to consume a healing sphere put down by someone else.

Comment by Toldry

Imagine how difficult it is to convince people to click Lightwell
Now imagine how much harder it will be to convince people to go through your healing spheres (Unless you cast it directly on top of them)

Comment by Toldry

It would probably be useful to set these up before a battle begins

Comment by Andemon

@ Toldry Since people don't actually have to click on the sphere I think it would be much more useful than Lightwell. Especially in a battleground when you just run away from an enemy and pass trough the sphere while maybe self-healing.

Comment by wynaught

Maybe there was some other factor I was missing, but my girlfriend and I both created pre-made Monks on the beta and I noticed something odd...

She spec'd into Windwalker (dps) and her healing spheres were healing me for about 12.5k.

I spec'd into Mistweaver (heals) and my healing spheres were healing me for about 9.5k.

Has anyone else noticed this? I plan to do some more testing on it, but our speculation is that perhaps they heal for more as a Windwalker because the spheres are the main way Windwalkers heal themselves?

Edit: With the only difference in the two formulas on wowhead here being the 20% boost to healing in Wise Serpent the deduction I can make from that is AP vs SP scaling is off for this spell (which may be intended).

Been fixed it seems now. Tested again on my 85 premade monk (fully gemmed and enchanted) and for Mistweaver heals for ~21k and for Windwalker ~11k now.

Comment by 989074

Can be useful for monks who want a small, quick heal by placing it on themselves. It costs energy and heals a little bit more than Expel Harm and it's saved me during duels a couple of times.

Comment by 911678

haven't been able to walk through any of mine at the moment. guessing blizz didn't want you to be able to have a big un interruptable heal thats only 60 energy or X amount of mana. even though hots are uninterruptable you can still remove them

Comment by wynaught

One of my favorite pastimes on my Monk is to drop three healing spheres on the ground in the same spot, mount up and fly straight up a ways then dismount. As long as it's not a fatal fall it's fun to hit the ground and be healed up instantly. :D Can also cast more right as you hit the ground and really be healed up fully.

Comment by Toldry

Costs 60 energy to cast.

Comment by alvasalrey

does anybody know what the lifespan of an unused healing sphere is? i've had this "buff" on my buff bar for over an hour lol its not terribly important but is kind of annoying as i dont remember where in nagrand i dropped the light blasted thing (as u can imagine i cant just click off the buff saying i have a healing sphere active), thanks for your responses

Comment by drbob3002

When I first got it this spell was amazing. Would fill like 2/3 of my HP with one orb!
However, it's pretty underwhelming at max level. If used at the beginning of a fight it could be useful in a pinch, but otherwise I'd need 15 orbs to fill up my life bar, and that would be a whopping 900 energy.

It doesn't seem to scale with anything aside from level, either. When I was leveling up in Pandaria it seemed to heal for exactly the same amount whether I was DPS'ing or healing

Comment by kebokaj

Don't expect people to walk through this.

This would require initiative on the player's behalf.
And as we know, initiative is waay beyond the capability of most dps pug players.
They expect everything done for them, with no action from them.

If you do cast this, cast it near where they might move....and hope for the best.

If they don't, then wait for the abuse.

Comment by sorsa

For mistweavers Healing Sphere is actually a surprisingly mana efficient single-target healing spell, if you go through the trouble of aiming them at your targets feet.

It heals for about half as much as a Surging Mist or 4 ticks of Soothing Mist, while only costing only 2% of base mana (vs 8% for Surging Mist and 8% for 4 ticks of Soothing Mist). It also has only a ~0.5s GCD which means you can spam it at the same target for very high HPS. To test this for yourself just dismount high up in the air and see how fast you can top yourself off with just Healing Sphere spam.

Brewmasters can also pull off some very powerful heals with spheres when vengeance is high.

Comment by evokish

Use these in combination with transcendance for a small heal after you need to teleport, can be the difference between life and death in some pvp scenario's. receiving a small health boost at the landing location :)

Comment by 125795

This spell must be the most underrated heal a mistweaver monk has. On my ilvl472 geared monk, I can spam selfheal(while running) with ONLY this spell at a rate of 75-95k hps, depending on my luck of the crits. Targeting yourself is very easy, because your characters position are static on the screen.

In PvP, with PvP power equal to 20% more healing, but also with -30% from Battle Fatigue(it used to be -15%, but it's -30% now as of January 2013) my Healing Sphere spamming would amount to 67-85k hps. Thats some insane burst heal. Full healthbar in 4-5 seconds with instant cast heals.

On top of this, its mana efficient. It's a mana efficient burst heal that you can use always, because the global CD is only 0.5 sec and the spell itself has no CD.

It's not a matter of IF this spell will be nerfed, but when it will be nerfed. Enjoy it while it last! :)

Comment by Latias714

No one has added, these are now consumed automatically on the lowest HP target if not used within 30s mastery, 1 min hard casted. Consolation prize, but it'll still be a decent chunk of healing, since mastery is no longer "wasted."

Comment by 1105782

Best spell ever for MW monk :D
spam in front of you while running and watch your health never drop below 3 quarters 70 - 96k heals for a 6k mana cost i have done capture the flag as MW with 6 people slicing me to pieces and i just wouldn't die, plus in arena just because of this spell Ive soloed 2 frost mages 2 destro warlocks and 2 warriors cos they cant even out dps the orbs, seriously just target in front of yourself and left click away :)

Comment by frogleby

This spell is pretty overpowered when you first get it and for a long time afterward.

At low levels the scaling is out of whack so it heals you for most of your hp. On Brewmaster and Windwalker this means a huge heal for 40 energy. If you're into wacky self-designed challenges, it would be interesting to see what can't be soloed in the 60s and 70s by a BM/WW monk.

Just one of the ways the low level game (monks in particular) aren't really balanced anymore.

Comment by Arnen

One of the really nice things about these?

If you're at full health but expect to take some damage soon, you can park on top of one, and it'll heal you as soon as your health drops.

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Healing Sphere

Healing Sphere	Level 90

2% of base mana / 40 Energy	40 yd range

Instant	0.5 sec cooldown

You form a Healing Sphere out of healing mists at the target location for 1 min. If allies walk through it, they consume the sphere, healing themselves for [((Attack Power * 0.75) + 9986)].

Maximum of 3 Healing Spheres can be active by the Monk at any given time.

If the Healing Sphere expires before being used, an ally nearby within 6 yards of the sphere will be healed for 50% of the effect.

Spell Details

Duration

1 minute

School

Nature

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

2% of base mana / 40 Energy

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

500 milliseconds

GCD

500 milliseconds

Forms

Serpent Stance, Ox Stance, Tiger Stance

Effect #1

Create Area Trigger (228)
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Dummy
Value: 3
PVP Multiplier: 1
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Flags

No Cooldown On Tooltip
Multi-Click Ground Targeting
Hide Shapeshift Requirements

Healing Sphere

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