Comments on: Some Thoughts on Healing as a Tree in Cataclysm

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The Daily Quest: I hear there’s an expansion coming | WoW Strategy — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:13:44 +0000

[...] Speaking of druids, Falling Leaves and Wings has some thoughts on Cataclysm and healing as a tree. [...]

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Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:37:53 +0000

[...] Speaking of druids, Falling Leaves and Wings has some thoughts on Cataclysm and healing as a tree. [...]

By: Arbolamante

Arbolamante — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:23:10 +0000

Seems more nerf than buff to me – say, 80/20 or so. Pushing Lifebloom is fine with me — I still use it, though I obviously don’t roll it and don’t generally go with three stacks unless I know the tank is about to take a pounding. 10 sec cooldown on WG? Apparently this is a response to some people obsessively going 5:1 Rej/WG, which I pretty much never do. Facing something like the constant raid wide AoE of those big spider priestesses just before Deathwhisper, sure, but otherwise no, and Ghostcrawler’s instance that this is all druids do just makes me nuts. Brain dead ones maybe, but there are many, many fights where it is entirely inappropriate.

The insta wrath thing has to be a PvP talent. When do I dps as a resto? Hmm, in 5 mans when we are all wildly overgeared? In certain AoE situations when you really don’t need all the healers? Things like that – obviously not enough to bother spending even one point to get it.

I actually use Regrowth a lot, so Efflorescence is a definite buff for me. This could actually mitigate some of the nerf to WG, as it is quite useful in the same place WG has its greatest utility – healing the melee who are bunched up near the tank.

50% snare? Really? Yeah, ok. Umm, well, I guess Natural Shapeshifter just because a little more useful. In general, I am against ToL becoming a trinket. However, I would like to know a lot more about this phrase – “In addition, some of your spells are temporarily enhanced while shapeshifted.” Let’s all say it together – “AoE Innervate.” Blizz could gain many points with me if they would give us that piece of candy!

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Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:10:30 +0000

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By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:05:11 +0000

I half cried at the changes. I’m not sad to see a change in ToL, I’m sad to see no ToL. Let’s face it, “on use” trinkets suck. Yes, maybe the effect or bonus is nice, but putting it in a rotation of any sort means that it will get lost in the shuffle.

On the WoW site, it’s expressly stated that druids are shapeshifters. Bears are bears all the time for battle – cats cats, etc.

So, why would they say “we want resto druids to show off their armor”? Um…what? First, have you SEEN our armor? Second, what about the other shapes showing off their armor.

I wanted a change in the ToL graphic, not having it taken away.

By: Kanekealikoa

Kanekealikoa — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:43:14 +0000

I would be very surprised to see any serious PvP resto druid take ToL if it goes live with the movement reduction intact. It’d be like hanging a “Hey melee, I just snared myself. Come kill me…” sign around your neck. The already lackluster benefits that we know about/can guess at just don’t hold a candle to losing that mobility.

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Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:22:51 +0000

[...] Speaking of druids, Falling Leaves and Wings has some thoughts on Cataclysm and healing as a tree. [...]

By: Zy

Zy — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:13:24 +0000

I wanted customization of tree form (based on hair/skin color like the new feral skins), not for them to do away with tree form altogether! Like many others I’m very upset about it being made into a glorified trinket.

I don’t think the snare penalty will stick around. They got rid of it for good reasons and they keep saying they don’t want druids penalized. . . Hopefully they come to their senses soon.

The move towards direct heals worries me, when I am on my druid I want to heal with Hots. Yes, there should be some use of direct heals but it should not be the majority of what we do. I don’t know if I see enough in the previews to fix our issue with burst healing (hello LK!) but am reserving judgement on that.

By: zelmaru

zelmaru — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:04:24 +0000

Bleh, I’m not particularly pleased. Honestly, I have 3 maxed-out healers, I’ve changed mains before, and I will simply pick the main that suits my healing style once the dust settles and the changes are permanent.

But it breaks my heart for people who are long-time druids who might find that the “new” druid doesn’t fit the style that drew them to the class in the first place.

By: Anabella

Anabella — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:47:16 +0000

I am so far from happy I might quit, actually. I detest the whole homogenization of healers idea – I want to play a druid, not a paladin HELLO!!!! and not a shaman and not … You get the idea.

Also. Druids shapeshift. Take that away and what am I then? A wanna be shaman? Well, read the above.

For me, my whole WoW experience is colored by my main being a druid. As for alts, I don’t have DK. I have all else. And guess what – it’s my druid that makes me come back to game when I’m tired of it.

I loved druid healing in Wrath, I really felt like I was making a difference in raids with the hots, the mobility, reviralize, CR, innervate and all the other pretty things we bring to the raid.

Also – TREE! The best instruction you can give to a confused raid is “RUN TO THE TREE!” And it works, every time.

Now what I’m gonna do?

“RUN TO THE OCCASIONAL TREE BUT NOT REALLY, you know, that tauren cow that looks the same as all other tauren cows! No, not to the tank!”

/rant ended.

Sincerely miffed,

Anabella