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[Snuggli]

Datamined from a new PTR patch that's coming soon:

Official Blizzard Quote:

Restoration
Naturalist (New) Increases all healing you deal by 10%. Druid - Restoration Spec.

I imagine this is to compensate us as a HoT class against the battle fatigue nerf. What are your guys thoughts?

It's slight, but not too overpowered. Pretty good tweak in my opinion and will help a little with Druid output (which has been suffering) by maybe just enough.

[Gunther]

Should give disc this buff also.

[Snuggli]

Gunther, on 16 January 2013 - 10:39 PM, said:

Should give disc this buff also.

I was actually really surprised that Disc didn't get this too. Maybe Blizz think it's just their survivability and mana that are the issues and not their output.

[Fleinflex]

Gunther, on 16 January 2013 - 10:39 PM, said:

Should give disc this buff also.

Sadly they will NEVER give disc priest that buff at this point because of PvE. Priest is the mother of all gods when it comes to PvE healing atm.

[warbuxx]

Yeah i did hear they're "slightly increase rdruid healing across the board", first time ive heard its 10% . thats higher then i thought it was going to be.
I think it's awesome, I honestly think Rdruids are going to be even stronger in 5.2

[Hakasa]

Fleinflex, on 16 January 2013 - 10:45 PM, said:

Sadly they will NEVER give disc priest that buff at this point because of PvE. Priest is the mother of all gods when it comes to PvE healing atm.

QFT, spirit shell is EXTREMELY overpowered in pve

resto druids are by far the worst healer atm in pve and that's where this buff comes from most likely, not that i'm complaining.

[Jacquelol]

Its a good change indeed, this and mushroom+lower mana cost of rejuv. Its def going to be interesting to tell exactly how we turn out.

One can never know fully but atleast its something!

[TteSPORTSDoomsen]

Was a really needed Buff but it wont change the fact that we will still have to spam a lot of Regrowths to keep something up.

[Rekkiem]

could really do with a direct buff to regrowth and HT

appreciate the change though

[Zaephyr]

Gunther, on 16 January 2013 - 10:39 PM, said:

Should give disc this buff also.

"Flash Heal healing has been reduced by 30%. A new passive (available at level 10) increases Flash Heal healing by 43% for Holy and Discipline Priests.
"

Edited by Zaephyr, 17 January 2013 - 10:37 AM.

[Enim]

Don't think it will be enough. It's a good start though.

[Kyparnxoxo]

Is this spell passive? or?

[Jacquelol]

Kyparnxoxo, on 17 January 2013 - 01:10 PM, said:

Is this spell passive? or?

yes

[Demio]

I'll take it!

[TteSPORTSDoomsen]

Rekkiem, on 17 January 2013 - 09:58 AM, said:

could really do with a direct buff to regrowth and HT

appreciate the change though

You might have forgotten that we are talking about Resto Druids, a HOT healing specc. So if any spells should have a healing increase, it should be our hots (Lifebloom, Revj, Wild Growth..) and not Regrowth/HT

Edited by TteSPORTSDoomsen, 18 January 2013 - 02:37 AM.

[djp771133]

I was talking with a friend today, and I came up with an idea that might help rdruids.  If they made the tree of life form be like the metamorphosis.  This would give them a way to try to keep up with the cleave damage.  Since I don't play either classes, I only have limited understanding, but from what I do know, is that you can only be meta form for a little bit and it charges up from other abilities.  If they did something like this but for tree wouldn't that be a good option (but not give the power for tree form for overhealing, so you couldn't stack up power all the time and have infinite form)

Any thoughts?  I didn't elaborate much but I think most people would understand

tl;dr possibly make tree of life work like the demon lock metamorphosis?

[Renaissance_Man]

djp771133, on 18 January 2013 - 09:47 PM, said:

I was talking with a friend today, and I came up with an idea that might help rdruids.  If they made the tree of life form be like the metamorphosis.  This would give them a way to try to keep up with the cleave damage.  Since I don't play either classes, I only have limited understanding, but from what I do know, is that you can only be meta form for a little bit and it charges up from other abilities.  If they did something like this but for tree wouldn't that be a good option (but not give the power for tree form for overhealing, so you couldn't stack up power all the time and have infinite form)

Any thoughts?  I didn't elaborate much but I think most people would understand

tl;dr possibly make tree of life work like the demon lock metamorphosis?

Actually a pretty solid idea. Would bring back a wotlk like feel as well.

[Snuggli]

Tree of Life deserves a re-work anyway. It doesn't always get used for it's true purpose in PvE and in PvP it's too good against comps without CC and too bad against those with.

It'd be a pretty cool idea if HoT ticks gave you a resource which slowly increased. Then, when you enter Tree of Life, the resource drains.

Either way, I don't like Tree of Life as a cooldown. I don't know about other Rdruids and their opinions on it. It either does the job too well or not well enough.

Edited by Snuggli, 19 January 2013 - 03:49 AM.

[TteSPORTSDoomsen]

Only thing Tree Of Life needs is to be off GCD. That would help already a lot. They wont bring back the WOTLK ToL form, I'm quite sure

[Hackattack3]

Snuggli, on 16 January 2013 - 10:40 PM, said:

I was actually really surprised that Disc didn't get this too. Maybe Blizz think it's just their survivability and mana that are the issues and not their output.

My guess is it's a PVE change