Comments on: Monday Musings: Is Nature’s Bounty Worth It Edition

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:26:25 +0000

I still have 2/3 Furor and 1/3 NB, but I’ll go with your spec tonight and see how it goes. For last night, my Nourish was 8.9% of my healing, so I think it will be worth it… My style, at least for now, is hotting the hell out of the raid and then filling in the gaps with Nourish/HT/Regrowth on Clearcasting proc. I don’t know if I’m doing it rong or not, but I have a feeling I’m going to like this spec (fingers crossed for my mana!).

By: Keeva

Keeva — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:08:19 +0000

(or cheaper)

By: Keeva

Keeva — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:07:53 +0000

I’m running two specs now, one with Efflorescence, one with maxed NB.

I went with the NB build this week, but after a few pulls of Nef, decided I wanted Efflorescence back. My other druid healer did the same.

After another two pulls, I felt much better, and stuck with that build. He, on the other hand, hated it, and went back to NB (which I think is cool, because I think it’s good to have different specs in the group). We were very close in healing after that, but I was often edging him out.

I’m not seeing me getting much use out of NB in raiding, to be honest. My friend would disagree, he is loving it. So I’ll likely stick with my Efflorescence build, unless it’s a fight where everyone is spread and it’s pretty much entirely pointless.

I just wish they would make it a bit stronger.

By: Jasyla

Jasyla — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:30:21 +0000

Are you having mana problems without Furor? If not, I think the Nature’s Bounty points are worth it. I’d never consider dropping Efflorescence to get Nature’s Bounty though.

For me, the almost guaranteed Regrowth crits are the best part of Nature’s Bounty. I thought the hasted Nourishes would be nice, but in my last week’s raids Nourish accounted for a very small portion of my healing.

This week I tried out a spec with no points in Furor and only 1 point in Moonglow. It worked out pretty well. It allowed me to take Genesis and put full points in Nature’s Bounty (of course, I don’t take talents like Nature’s Swiftness and Swift Rejuvenation).

By: Oestrus

Oestrus — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:06:08 +0000

I know, but it was all about the bragging rights!

“Oh Em Gee, look at those healers who need Mana Tide. Gah, that is so not me!” *hairflip*

Now I can’t do that!

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:47:51 +0000

Since Mana Tide is now raid wide, that shouldn’t be too hard!

By: Oestrus

Oestrus — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:46:13 +0000

My priest’s name is Obscene, so I did chuckle a bit when I was reading that part about the Mysterious Potions.

Back to the post. I really like that you and Brade are being so thorough about your raider evaluations. Kurn is exactly the same way, though she places most of that burden and work on herself. I’m sure most of us would contribute or give our own feedback, if asked. But I agree in that it does lead to an increase in performance from all involved. I appreciate Kurn doing that and I hope your guild appreciates the two of you doing that, too.

As a holy priest, I have been pretty fortunate to not need mana pots up until recently and that’s only because we’re working on Cho’gall. I’ll usually try a Shadowfiend first and then go to Hymn of Hope if I’m really hurting. I usually try and save pots for last resorts and I was using PoC until recently. I would imagine it won’t always be that way, especially in hard modes, but I’m prepared for that. I like that I can’t rely on being that leetsauce to get by.

Guess I better get back in the Mana Tide group while I still can!