1) I’m already much more involved in my healing than pre-WotLK (well, pre-3.0 patch). If a CoH proccs Surge of Light or Holy Concentration, I’m automatically looking for someone to get the free heal. Or I’m hitting Inner Focus if it’s up (for some extra OOFSR mana regen), then looking for a target for the free heal. I’m actually tracking my PoMs a lot tighter now, to make sure I’m getting the T7 bonus extra jump. I’m trying to find 8 seconds of down time to get maximum use of Hymn of Hope. I’m timing Divine Hymn for maximum effectiveness. Toss in some lucky PoM crits proccing and things get even more fun.

Any more “involvement” and I’m going to start “standing in the fire and dying” again.

2) Because I think Blizzard missed on our mana regen adjustment (With BeastMaster doing so much damage and the new exciting pets, when was the last time you saw a Survival Hunter in a 10-man? And is it just me or did DeathKnights step into the role previously filled by Ret Pallies? Where did the Replenishment go now that we need it most?), I’m finding myself using CoH to proc a SoL/HC so I can Inner Focus, cast the free heal at the last second, and maximize OOFSR time for, again, mana regen. This no doubt artificially inflates CoH numbers across the board. In this situation, the CoH is almost incidental; I’m looking for the Free Heal as a gateway into some mana regen. And the greater the Crit chance (which they’ve pushed us towards), the greater the allure of the Free Heal.

3) They say they’re going to adjust the Vortex, but there’s several other fights where CoH is borderline necessary: topping off bad dancers on Heigan. Hitting the “other” group if you’re single AoE healing Loatheb or Sapphiron to even out bad PoM distribution. On the run Meteor recovery during Four Horsemen. Heck, anytime things go just south of “bad” and digging the raid back out of trouble is required. My thoughts are that they’re not going to adjust *all* of those fights or they would have mentioned it in the post.

I don’t know. I would think they could do something else besides a 6-second cooldown: Increase the mana cost so it’s effectively unspammable (although two weeks into 80, iLvl 200+ across the board, more or less, and I’m still in mana trouble on the longer fights without Replenishment of some sort). A diminishing returns debuff. Or start with a 3-second cooldown and work up if needed.