Saturday, September 4, 2010

Spell Change Thoughts and WTB Resto Glyphs!

Awhile ago spell and talent changes were released on MMO and now the talent calcs are updated with them. =) (Links here and here) Some glyphs have been released for a few classes (Mage/Rogue/Shaman/Warrior). None for druids yet, just have to wait! For shamans they've introduced a cosmetic minor glyph or their ghost wolf form. Maybe they'll make one for us?

Restoration Changes

  • Lifebloom now heals over 10 sec, up from 7 sec. Costs 7% of base mana, up from 5%.
  • The duration is increased maybe to be able to keep it up easier with Empowered Touch? Still sad to see lifebloom going as a single target heal, but maybe they'll implement a glyph?
  • Omen of Clarity is now properly flagged as Passive.
  • Regrowth HoT effect reduced by 60%, now heals over 6 sec instead of 21 sec. Cast time reduced from 2 sec to 1.5 sec.
  • In Cata i'll definitely have to get used to remembering that duration won't have a long HoT. Regrowth will now be used as our "Flash Heal". Also it's going to tick every 2 seconds instead of 3. =P
  • Natural Perfection is now a Tier 5 talent, down from Tier 6.
  • Swift Rejuvenation is now a Tier 6 talent, up from Tier 5.
  • Revitalize revamped - When you periodically heal with your Rejuvenation or Lifebloom spells, you have a 8/16/24% chance to instantly regenerate 3% of your total mana. This effect cannot occur more than once every 6 sec.
  • Regrowth was switched out for Rejuv. Possibly so we have a chance to get it to proc whether we're hotting the tank or the raid?
  • Heart of the Wild no longer increases maximum mana by 5/10/15%, now increases Intellect by 2/4/6%.
  • Instead of our mana just going up, we'll have our intellect (spell power in Cata!) going up as well. I was waiting for this, to be honest!
Another thing to mention as well is Innervate is reduced by 13% (33% to 20%). One thing I wanted to see most was Efflorescence to be increased by one or two yards at least! Hopefully people will be good about standing in it when it procs. =)

As for glyphs, I hope they're released soon for us! Moonra came up with a good idea for one:

"Glyph of Everlasting Rejuvenation: Increases the duration of your Regrowth by 6 seconds, the duration of your Rejuvenation by 3 seconds and the duration of your Lifebloom by 2 seconds."

It covers the lose of the talent we know and love. I shall miss you, Nature's Splendor. *hug*
Hope everyone has a good day and thanks for reading!

2 comments:

  1. I must've missed the Regrowth bit, just checked to be sure... 6secs HoT?, Rejuv 12sec?

    *shouts and screams*

    Druid = HoT healer, but we'll have to have 'decent' HoT spells to do so...

    I loved the long Regrowth *sob*

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  2. I hope they give us something to increase our HoT durations or bring back nature's splendor. They've said that they want us to use rejuv to top off targets in the raid. Probably just not making it last long enough so we won't blanket them like in this expansion. >_<

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