These changes that I keep hearing about are making me disappointed I got my warlock to 80 and am now leveling my druid. I still don’t understand what everyone’s complaint about the Affliction rotation is. It gives me something to do and also taxes my brain from falling into that dps tunnel mode. Granted this could come from playing a Ret Paladin, where I had very few buttons to push all on cooldowns. At least with my lock, I’m constantly on my mental toes trying to figure out what the next spell to cast is. I love all my DoT’s and will be severely disappointed when they nerf the rotation. Yay, for having less buttons to push and more time to shadow bolt spam.

But back to the point, I wanted to play a healing class and considering the fact that I loved playing my warlock so much I figured a druid would be my best bet for healing. Now I’m looking at nerfs to their healing and mechanic changes before I can even get to 80 and learn everything. The way this is looking, I should just wait to even touch healing until 3.1 comes out so that I start on a fresh note and stick with boomkin. /shrug I just wish that Blizzard would make up its mind as to what they want to do with this game. Having to learn the class mechanics every time a major patch comes out is beginning to get frustrating.

All classes get roughed up sometimes when these changes happen to them.
I also understand that.

It just seems that our big three this go around:
The mana regen / spirit change
The regrowth crit talent change
The life bloom change

comes with little to no plus side.

Oh wait! We can now cast thorns without shifting.

Trees are being pruned for doing their job too well.
I get that, but there has to be a balance. Take something away, give something in return.

They are taking away a playstyle that we have been honing since BC and we are given;
A reworked nourish that is interesting and fun?
A changing of known weak talents?
New skins for our characters (that we have been promised for years) that looks half as good as the mobs we face?

No.

We get to cast thorns in tree form.

wheee.

Thanks for your reply and I do understand that keeping 3 stacks of LB on the tank (never letting it bloom) will be at double the current mana cost.

I was just thinking that if you used LB to heal 1 raid member for each renewal on the tank then because of getting 50% mana back on the bloom then it would make the tank renewal cheaper

Top up LB on tank costs 1000 mana
Heal 1 Raid member 1000 mana

2000 total mana spent (double current cost)

BUT the raid members blooms and gives 500 mana back

Total spent on 2 LBs = 1500 mana

1500 / 2 = 750 mana to top up tank (and 750 for the raid member) Still more expensive but not as bad as it first seems.

Because of timing, GCD, lag, bloom you wouldn’t get the benefit on every renewal but depending on how much you raid healed with LB the cost would not just be a pain and simple “double the cost” as is suggested.

Thanks

But I’d like to reiterate that tough I think we’ll be fine in PvE, in PvP this efficiency nerf is going to hurt badly. Just hotting up myself and a teammate, which is standard against rogue teams for instance, will use without exaggerating half my mana bar.

The way I see it, reliance on replenishment in PvE causes guaranteed problems for druids and priests in PvP, but that’s a topic for another time.

Just a quick note – Derevka posted a Addon that will take into account the Priests Shield.

This is taken directly from his Blog “Tales of a Priest” @ http://www.talesofapriest.com

Discipline Priest AddOn, DiscRecount. (http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=68238&p=725586) This mod is developed by Para11ax, who essentially modified Recount to be able to add Aegis mitigation and Power Word: Shield to effective healing. This mod replaces your existing Recount, and provides a fairly accurate way to see how much mitigation a Disc Priest can actually provide.

Please correct me if I’ve misunderstood this but…

Lifebloom: Mana cost of all ranks doubled.

Ok so say LB currently costs 500 mana before now it will be 1000 mana

3 x LB = 3000 and then 1000 every 10 secs (in my case)

When Lifebloom blooms or is dispelled, it now refunds half the base mana cost of the spell per application of Lifebloom,

1000 mana half refunded = 500 back ?

so if you HoT the tank as normal and hot another person and let bloom that would reduce the cost by:

2 x LB, letting 1 bloom = 1500 total cost (was 1000) 33% higher
3 x LB, letting 2 bloom = 2000 total cost (was 1500) 25% higher
4 x LB, letting 3 bloom = 2500 total cost (was 2000) 20% higher

I understand that with the timing this actually wouldn’t be the case because you would need the raid HoTs to expire slightly earlier but you get the idea hopefully.

So wouldn’t raid healing with LB start being more useful and maybe taking a quicker bloom might become the norm?