Talk:VPBE/@comment-25486030-20160129174152/@comment-3308937-20160131051231

Having played it in a couple games it's definitely a huge nerf. Like, at no point did I think "wow, this is actually better," not during laning, not during skirmishes, not during mid-late game teamfights, it just never felt good at it's current scaling.

It's not really a healing buff because you can cast 2 Ws in the span of the 5 second buff (-50 base healing, +90 only at max Q rank over 5 seconds, net loss of 10 healing to an ally). That amount only gets worse when you consider you can cast 5 Ws over the course of 10 seconds (which is a loss of 70 healing, 250 compared to 180). The mana portion of the spell means nothing to me, I never really ran into mana problems as Soraka and gifting 20-30 mana to your lane partner (since your Q won't be being maxed first) at the cost of 100+ mana isn't worth it in pretty much any situation.