Comments on: If You’ve Ever Wanted to Give Blizzard Your Two Cents…

By: Erinys

Erinys — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:02:41 +0000

Agree about living seed, I think buffing it slightly to make it more useful would also help in PvP, an area where currently resto is lacking. I’d prefer the absorb option to an inspiration clone though.
Having just levelled another druid, yes yes yes about the mana issues whilst levelling and the other issue I had was the level at which we learnt some of our heals. Priests get Greater Heal at lv 38 and Druids get Healing Touch at 68 for example, I know different classes are different, but I do think it should have come quite a bit earlier.
I’d also like to see travelform usable indoors, I’m a sad kitty when it comes to chasing shaman around the WSG bases.

By: Deppi

Deppi — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:53:00 +0000

My feeling is that the very first questions aren’t probing enough. How I perceive resto druids right now, raiding 10s, 1-2 nights a week, at 400-800 latency in a fairly ordinary Oceanic social raid team is quite different to how a 25s US progression raider such as yourself perceives us. And my strong suspicion is that the player hemorrhage is from my end of the spectrum.

I need a clutch heal. We don’t see the fire until later, we’re slower to move out, and there’s only 3 healy classes on the team. The Tranq CD reduction put me even further on top of the meters but did NOTHING to help us down bosses.

I’d also like a sensible way to change from tank healing to raid healing between encounters. I’m happy to use a second talent spec as a tank healing spec but collecting a second tier gear set that can be gemmed and forged for Mastery is a total pain for a very casual player. I am VERY over ZA and ZG.

You are so right about mana when leveling. When you’re the level before the new mana drink it’s murder trying to top up. ‘Need’ every Demonic Rune in Dire Maul is my advice, those things are better than gold.

By: FeralTree

FeralTree — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:29:05 +0000

I’m always a little bemused at how many posts said they don’t use Healing Touch or Nourish very much, as I use them a ton. I suppose I generally end up doing a lot of tank healing along with my raid healing so perhaps that’s why I end up using them a lot more. While it makes up for less in my healing breakdowns in logs (WG and Rejuv simply by their nature will be high up), I still consider them crucial spells for me and use them a lot. I’ve actually started using Regrowth more as well, though in a different way than most it seems – I tend to most frequently hear druids using Regrowth for tank healing (which I find odd as it’s so expensive and doesn’t hit nearly as hard as Healing Touch, which is cheaper and stronger). I’ve been using it a lot when covering the raid primarily, mostly when in Tree of Life form – spreading Lifeblooms all over the raid then all the free instant Regrowths on all the OoC procs. Great for covering the raid and really mana efficient ^.^

I’m really happy with how druids play right now too, I hope they don’t end up changing it too much. Our talent tree could use some improvements (Living Seed, BotG and Nature’s Bounty could all use some work imo!) and I’d still like a damage reduction of some sort, whether an ability or just a damage reduction on heal crits like Inspiration for priests.

I imagine a lot of this is looking towards the next xpac rather than 4.3. Hopefully druids will keep staying good into it 4.3 I wouldn’t think would see too many adjustments, as healers seem fairly balanced now (though resto shamans are still kind of screwed for aoe heals on movement/spread fights).
I left a post too on the page (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3123249662?page=7#132), though I placed my feedback on my site too which is probably easier to find by this point So many pages on the druid feedback thread :O I hope they do go through all of it and find the better posts…