Druid Heal!

Which spells are we going to use in WotLK? What will be my main spell? What will be the difference between raids and other dungeons?

Ghostcrawler (a Blizzard Developer) wrote an interesting note on the beta forums:

In our minds, your go-to spells when healing anything bigger than a 5-player group are Rejuv, Regrowth and Lifebloom. You are probably not benefiting your raid the most if you are chaining Healing Touch on the tank while the paladin is trying to keep everyone up with Beacon of Light.

Healing Touch, Swiftmend and Wild Growth are all very useful spells. But they are intended to be used in smaller group or when something unusual happens in a raid. If the entire group takes a lot of damage at once, that’s a good time for Wild Growth. If a melee dps class is very wounded and you don’t have time for the bloom and Swiftmend is on cooldown, go for the Healing Touch.

If any class is the “fill in the gap” healer, it’s the Holy priest. Their strength is in versatility — they have single-target heals, group heals, instant heals and hots. The standard (but by no means only) way to heal a raid is to have a Holy paladin on the tank along with a Resto druid, have a Resto shammy AE heal the group, and then put the Holy priest wherever you need them. We are also trying to get the Disc priest into a role similar to the paladin, but based more around damage avoidance than efficient, quick heals.

Nourish is supposed to be a Flash Heal — fast but expensive. It may be too fine a line for a class that already has Swiftmend and a (much improved) Regrowth.

The new world event leading to Wrath of the Lich King has reached stage 5. Zombies everywhere! It is going to be interesting where this will go. There is a lot of new stuff to be gathered. A new *ahem* tabard (it is an achievement too!), gear sets (with + damage to undead) from the Argent Dawn. Thing is, these sets are cat viable only (lots of attack power). If you want spellpower you will have to settle for the cloth set. If you have t5 range gear these are not upgrades for you. However the cloth set does look better!

I hope us druids can do our thing and keep Azeroth from becoming Scourge!

I have been busy with work lately, expect an update soon!

BTW we need more achievements!

Glyph? Some short comments. Lets boost some spells and abilities! Here’s some of major glyphs:

Glyph of Regrowth (Req. lvl. 15) – Increases the healing of your Regrowth spell by 20% if your Regrowth effect is still active on the target.

A must have! period.

Glyph of Swiftmend (Req. lvl. 40) – Your Swiftmend ability no longer consumes a Rejuvenation or Regrowth effect from the target.

I don’t like this one, are you kidding? Swiftmend becomes soooo much more powerfull with this one.

Glyph of Healing Touch (Req. lvl. 15) – Decreases the cast time of Healing Touch by 1.5 sec., the mana cost by 25%, and the amount healed by 50%.

Only viable when you love pvp (flash heal for druids) or when you go for a dreamstate build. With the Naturalist talent you will have a 1 second cast. If you go Tree ‘n HoT don’t use this one.

Glyph of Rejuvenation (Req. lvl. 15) – While your rejuvenation targets are below 50% health, you will heal them for an additional 50% health.

I don’t know what to think about this one, it could be very powerfull. Need to test some more!

These Glyphs are less viable, not even going to talk about ‘m:

Glyph of Rebirth (Req. lvl. 20) – Increases the amount of health on a character brought back to life via Rebirth by 100%.
Glyph of Innervate (Req. lvl. 40) – Your innervate ability now has an additional 20% strength mana regeneration effect on you, in addition to the effect on your primary target.

On to minor Glyphs (they could be called FUN Glyphs):

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Since the new patch 3.02 is pending I was not sure to show you my level 70 resto talent build. I was planning to make a full series per Tier. Decisions, decisions…. I will post my level 70 build now and will not delve into details and continue my Tier series. Here we go!

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