Druid Heal!

As it is now on the PTR the talent Gift of the Earthmother is changing:

- Reduces the base global cooldown of your Rejuvenation, Lifebloom and Wild Growth spells by 20%; to
- Increases your total spell haste with 10% (at 5/5)

Although this is going to be a nerf for our HoTs our direct heals will benefit. Now a nerf isn’t anything we can do about, just live with it. What will be the new (soft) cap?

Total haste rating needed to get a gcd of 1 second is 1640. With the talent that is lowered to 1312,1. That is a lot of haste to gather! But no fear, we have some raid buffs up our sleeves:

- get a moonkin and add 3% haste and lower the cap to 1203
- get a shaman with the Wrath of Air totem and add 5% haste and lower the cap to 1132

If you are lucky enough to have both in your raid group, your haste cap is lowered to: 1018 which is still a lot of ground to cover!

There a few things you can do to get your haste up:

- use haste trinkets, but you will only have a 1 second gcd whenever the trinket procs or gets used;
- consider the use of another balance talent: Celestial Focus and increase your haste by yet another 3% (haste cap 1203 or 902 with raid buffs);
- put Nature’s Grace to use: all spell criticals have a 100% chance to grace you with a blessing of nature, increasing your spell casting speed by 20% for 3 sec.

Now you know the numbers for 3.3. Its on the PTR so remember this can change!!!