Comments on: Improved Barkskin? Really?

By: Kae

Kae — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:36:40 +0000

I don’t need the damage mitigation as often There are times were it’s certainly useful (the previously mentioned hodir and xt hardmodes), but as a resto druid, I spend more time snapping heals than getting hit. Since I don’t have a bubble or shield to throw at a tank, NS+HT is my cooldown lifesaver, and I use the imp. healing to HT talent to buff it.

Consider how often you are close to death, vs how often a tank or aggro-pulling DPS is close to death. In a situation like a 10-man with only two healers, where I’m healing both the raid and the tanks, I use NS+HT a lot… a whole lot more than I am having to pop barkskin! I play a feral druid as well, so barkskin use is ingrained into me.

If there is any resto ability I find I do not use often or forget about, it is Tranquility

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:47:50 +0000

@Buddhist – /wave

@Kae – I often forget to utilize barkskin…but that doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t be using it more, it just means that I’m fogetting something that I could be using to improve my play. I mean, it’s free damage mitigation every minute! (Even tonight when I was trying to make a concerted effort to remember to use it during our work on hard mode hodir, I often forgot )

Do you use NS+HT more than barkskin because you are like me and forget to use barkskin, or do you use it more because you just don’t need the damage mitigation barkskin provides?

By: Kae

Kae — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:19:40 +0000

I use NS+HT more often than I use barkskin, even counting hodir/xt hardmodes Go go clutch heals in 10-man!

By: Buddhist

Buddhist — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:23:26 +0000

Ive been using Imp Barkskin in my build since it was released. As you already mentioned 3% crit from Natural Perfection is not anything special and I would definitely consider that talent a much more pvp oriented talent simply because it only procs on critcal strikes against you.

The reason I use Imp Barkskin is because the less time I have to spend looking at my own health bar the better. Fights where raid healing is intense and damage is predictable make having imp barkskin really worthwhile. Hodir, XT etc.