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Lightwell
Spell holy summonlightwell
  • Lightwell (6 ranks)
  • Priest ability
  • 40 yd range
  • 30% of base mana
  • 3 min cooldown
  • 0.5 sec cast
  • Creates a Holy Lightwell. Friendly players can click the Lightwell to restore X health over 6 sec. Attacks done to you equal to 30% of your total health will cancel the effect. Lightwell lasts for 3 min or 10 charges.
Properties
Class Priest
School Holy
Cooldown 3 minutes
Talents
Talent tree Holy
Talent required 11
Related buff
Spell holy summonlightwell
  • Magic
  • Lightwell Renew
  • Restore X health every 2 sec.
  • Duration: 6 seconds

[[Category:priest abilities]][[Category:priest abilities]]

Each well is a physical manifestation of the Light.[1]

Lightwell is the 11pt Holy Priest talent ability, conjuring a very shiny healing dispenser. Players clicking on the Lightwell will receive a 6 second buff (Lightwell Renew) that heals for a notable amount while the buff is active.

Numbers

Level Healing per tick
1 69
15 82
30 150
45 299
60 1025
70 1687
80 2577
85 2878
  • Lightwell receive a 30.8% spell power coefficient per tick, or 92.4% per charge if you prefer. This makes Lightwell the undeniably best scaling healing spell in the game considering that there are 10 or 15 charges to the spell.

Modified by

  • Inv glyph majorpriest [Glyph of Lightwell] increases the amount of charges on a Lightwell to 15, up from 10.
  • Lightwell ticks are unaffected by priest mastery and haste, and cannot crit.
  • No talents improve Lightwell. This may or may not be intentional.
  • Lightwell receive a 25% healing bonus from the Holy Passive Spiritual Healing. Other heals only receive 15%. This is likely a bug.

Notes and Tactics

  • Lightwell has the highest HPM (healing per mana spent ratio) of any healing spell in the game, even if it is only partially used. However its usefulness is utterly dependent upon other players clicking the Lightwell in order to receive healing.
  • You can click a Lightwell from up to 20 yards away.
  • You can click a Lightwell without de-selecting your current target.
  • You can click to receive a HoT from a Lightwell even when you're:
  1. Stunned
  2. Sapped
  3. Casting
  4. Running
  5. Feared
  6. Falling
  7. Eating
  8. Drinking

PVE:

  • Lightwell is usually not needed by healers, as healers are good at keeping themselves alive. For a priest, the tools overlapping with Lightwell include Spell holy testoffaith [Desperate Prayer] and Spell holy blindingheal [Binding Heal]. If substantial amounts of self-healing is needed, then a Lightwell is not a bad choice for staying alive, but in those cases the priest in question is usually doing something wrong.
  • Lightwell is usually not usable by the tanks since it breaks on damage > 30% of a HP bar. While the extended healthpools of cataclysm mean that such hits are infrequent, they still do occur. Giving a lightwell to the tank often means most of it is wasted. Which is a shame, because most tanks really love the Lightwell.
  • Lightwell primarily serve the DPSers. Unfortunately, meleers are often too preoccupied staring up a mob's crotch to notice it. The primary recipients of Lightwell is usually the ranged DPSers. The Lightwell serve as a great complement or replacement for a bandage.

PVP:

  • Lightwell is useful as a rear line healing dispenser, allowing damaged players to retreat and heal up without taxing the healer mana pool. While it is easily killed, this doesn't often happen.

Controversy

Lightwell is situationally an extremely powerful healing spell, but it has a lot of bad reputation and stigma spanning from years of being oversold by Blizzard while being a rather underwhelming ability. The spell has often jokingly been referred to as "lolwell" by both priests and non-priests alike, and frequently saw more action as a location raid marker than a healing spell.

Since its conception, Blizzard has given multiple buffs to Lightwell, each often doubling the potency of the spell. Since the release of Cataclysm, the spell is genuinely useful since the healing model no longer require everyone to be topped off within 3 seconds, but its value is only there if the priest's group actually use it. There is still a lot of bad feelings connected to Lightwell, and it is very rare for the Lightwell to be used in pugs.

Lightwell has a rather massive healing potential, and a major topic of discussion is whether Holy Priests are balanced against having Lightwell. If this is the case, then Holy Priests will naturally have a lower output than other healers, able to reach the same potential as other healers only if other players actually use the Lightwell. This could mean that Holy Priests put additional workload on their group to achieve the same result as another healer. But on the flipside, if priests are not balanced against having Lightwell, then Holy Priests are potentially the most powerful healer out there as long as the Lightwells are used. No conclusive evidence of either situation has been produced, but either case is perceived as bad from a balance point of view.

Miscellaneous

  • One of the game starting up tips says "Click on the Lightwell!".

Patch changes

  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Mana cost increased to 30% of base mana, healing output lowered
This list is incomplete

References

 
  1. ^ TCG Through the Dark Portal, #73

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