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Here's what worries me:
The same stuff was worrying me pelf, that's why I said "some buffs and some nerfs" in my first reply. I just tend to get more excited about new stuff than worrying about removed stuff :D(also pelf, no more 6% attributes on SotF!)
Fellow Resto Druids,To appreciate many of these changes I think we need to stop thinking like WotLK healers and keep in mind a lot of what they said about how they'd like the healing playstyle to change.1) You won't be GCD limited. If we're casting spells every second we're going to run out of mana. This means that talents like Fury of Stormrage might have a use in PvE. (If I've got a free Wrath cast and nothing else to do, why not contribute some extra damage?)2) We'll be using a lot more of our spells and picking the right one for the job. This means we can't keep writing off anything that affects HT as "useless." We probably will find times when casting HT is the right thing to do.
I am a tree druid. Soon I will be a druid. But it looks like some of these talent cahnges will even out the difference.
Looks like Swiftmend is getting a lot of love and when Druid's targets are below 25% we will start to really heal.Also many spells have weird ranks(A 3 rank spell has 5/10/15/20% healing increases instead of 3 ranks, or a talent with 5 ranks only has 4 upgrades.)
I guess I'll have to try out the way they want to make healers play in cataclysm before I can really judge the new tree form, but for now I really don't like it. I avoid trinkets that you have to click on to use (apart from the ones that give back mana) simply because I end up never using them. There's no point using them as soon as they're up like a dps, because you tend to keep them for when you really need them, rather than using them when there's not much healing to be done. But when I really need them, I'm too busy trying to keep the raid alive to have time to think about using my trinkets. The same goes for the new tree form IMHO, I'll have one hell of a time knowing when to use it, and taking the time to press a key or click, especially when I'm desperately trying to keep someone alive.I can see myself giving up healing altogether with this really bad change. I want my permanent tree form, period.
I'm liking what the Feral Tank spec is looking like. I really like the idea of 'Pulverize', as well. Looks like Druid tanks are staying def capped with talents, so that's awesome :PLooking at the Restoration spec, I'm starting to get uncertain. First off, I don't like the idea of a 45 sec Tree form. Even deep in the Resto tree, DPS talents. I don't know what it is, but I like the idea of being a healer and not dps'ing. Also, I don't know if this is a little glitch or what, but when I was putting in some points in Resto, once I filled the talent in, it would change entirely what it did. (Efflorescence and Empowered Touch did).