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full breakdown here so can i make the breakpoint and get the extra tick of wild growth and efflorescence when i respec in 4 1 testing it out my options for working this out include spending the gold reforging regemming in game or copying my character over to the ptr where gems can be stupidly expensive anyway using hamlet s treecalcs i d use his spreadsheet and play with the numbers in there using char dev i m at work so i m going for the quick and dirty option of chardev importing glowberry in her current state and i have a haste rating of 1108 i ve been focussing on mastery as until recently my gearing wasn t high enough to hit the 2005 mark without reforging regemming everything to haste i was actually much closer to the lower breakpoint but picked up passive resistor spaulders recently and haven t forged off the haste to mastery yet ok so currently glow s current stats this is with a reforging strat of all haste crit to mastery until lower break point anything else i can t reforge into mastery reforge to spirit and gemming prioritising int mastery result haste 1108 mastery 1637 spirit 2166 mana 103465 so lets shoot for more haste this time i reforged crit mastery spirit to haste where possible and then and spirit crit i couldn t reforge to haste i reforged to mastery i also changed my gemming to prioritise haste aiming for more haste 1 and reforging spirit result haste 2015 mastery 1633 spirit 1476 mana 99719 yay i made it i actually didn t have to go silly with gemming to reach this i still met 20 socket bonuses and just replaced yellows prismatic with quick reds with reckless and any crappy socket bonuses with quick no enchanting changes but ouch i lost a huge chunk of spirit in order to maintain the same level of mastery as well as a bit of int but i expected that okay so what if i abandon the spirit part of my reforging plan what if i still reforge crit mastery to haste where possible but only reforge crit to mastery on items with haste and leave the spirit alone this is what i get aiming for haste 2 leaving spirit alone result this is a bit rough as i went back later to try this strategy so i think i chose slightly different gems but the outcome is roughly the same haste 2051 mastery 1278 spirit 2136 mana 98980 okay so i can keep roughly the same spririt level but lose out on mastery as expected conclusions well a number of conclusions i can easily reach the haste 2005 break point without mindlessly replacing every gem and reforge with straight haste so this is good i ll be sacrificing some int which is to be expected as i have quite a few brilliants at the moment that would go in favour of haste haste blend gems but the int loss isn t as bad as i thought it might be i can get the haste breakpoint while either sacrificing a chunk of spirit or a chunk of mastery or somewhere in between i hadn t considered this before where to from here we re currently working on cho gall where mana is definitely an issue for me late in the fight so if i do reforge regem for tonight s raid it would be with the spirit heavy strategy this is my healing from our best cho gall attempt glow s healing on cho gall i m 10 man tank healing splashing around raid healing as usual argh at tank swapping fights and my hideous low lb uptime argh at only 8 swiftmends what was i doing and 40 regrowths wtf anyway pretending that i was doing a good job here for one moment the main thing to note is the usual pattern for me wg and rj are my highest heals so on one hand the extra tick from wg would be great on the other hand i ll be losing a big chunk of mastery and based on previous mastery analysis in a similar role i tend to make pretty high use of my mastery sigh i m really not sure should i wait for 4 1 to drop and see what the new efflorescence brings before i do this or should i jump right in and see how i go with it on what for us is progression content rate this healing breakpoints druid haste druid healing in 4 1 thoughts leave a comment posted by michelle on march 30 2011 i ve been looking at the changes coming in for druid healing in 4 1 and reading thinking about how they will change how i heal so time for some crystal ball gazing change efflorescence has a new spell effect efflorescence has been redesigned it creates a healing zone at the feet of a swiftmend target but this healing zone now restores health equal to 4 8 12 of the amount healed by swiftmend to the three most injured targets within 8 yards every 1 second for 7 seconds this periodic effect now also benefits from spell haste but the individual ticks cannot be critical effects in addition living seed is no longer a prerequisite talent for efflorescence impact the combination of the ground clutter and the lacklustre performance of the spell are why i dropped the 6 points from this and living seed a while back the new spell graphics are a lot more ground friendly but more importantly the switch to this being a smart heal give it a lot more appeal aaand i might look again at whether i want to push for more haste especially when i m purely raid healing hitting the 2005 haste break point would mean an extra tick from wg and from efflo i m in a ten man guild so i m still not sure whether i m better off sitting on my mastery oriented current gearing but i m looking forward to experimenting with it and seeing what it brings i ll be avoiding those points in living seed my usual role in raids is either pure raid healing or offtank healing with splash raid healing so i ve found living seed to be of little benefit in my healing tool kit and haven t taken it for a while it will be nice to get efflo without ls change lifebloom s bloom effect has been reduced by 20 impact i tend to only let lifebloom bloom in emergency situations or during tree and currently don t take any more points in gotem than i have to so i doubt i ll see much difference here change nature s swiftness when activated your next nature spell with a base casting time less than 10 sec becomes an instant cast spell if that spell is a healing spell the amount healed will be increased by 50 impact ok this is starting to look a bit tastier i loved ns back in vanilla as a tank saver omg ns rotations on maexxna 1 0 but it s slipped further and further into the doldrums with each increase in tank health this will give it a bit more bang for buck especially with my current mastery focussed gearing looking forward to trying this out and having ye olde nsht macro back on my bars change malfurion s gift now reduces the cooldown of tranquility by 2 5 5 minutes druids now innately have 100 pushback protection from damage while channeling tranquility impact well this is the big much talked about change in the druid community is the change designed to bring it on par with power word barrier does this mean it s our new cooldown does this mean we can say goodbye to a proper raid cooldown or tank cooldown will it just mean other healers point at the healing meters and cry that we re once again op doesn t it just enhance a very undruidy spell that requires us to stand still for 8 seconds while there s lots of speculation about the intent of this and what it means for the long term future of druids in especially heroic raid content i am actually looking forward to it and planning where i can use it effectively the pushback resistance is great now i can just wg tq wg without deciding whether to slide a barkskin in there should be fun change raise ally has been redesigned to be a battle resurrection analogous to rebirth it is instant cast but costs 50 runic power to use and has a 10 minute cooldown it shares the same global battle resurrection cap with rebirth and soulstone a dead player can now be resurrected by targeting them using the party or raid frame even if they have released no more hunting for corpses impact these are just nice additions it will be great having another brez in our 10 man raid especially as it means i can be rezzed now sometimes other than as a ghoul the raid frames is a bit of an oh finally reaction for me but i m still wondering whether us night elves will get our corpses back when we release and whether we ll be considered to be out of range for that reason we ll see in conclusion i ll be respeccing probably something like this i can see that with this and the shaman changes blizzard are looking a bit closer at what the we re bringing to the table apart from our raw healing output it will be interesting to see how far they go with that i d hate to see a healer homogenisation go too far in the short term i m looking forward to experimenting with a different spec and hoping it can help our guild push a bit further in our current endeavours rate this healing 4 1 druid resto talents soloing heroic halls of lightning leave a comment posted by michelle on march 27 2011 another weekend heroic this time halls of lightning slowly whittling away at my list usual set up feral tank spec and gear ilvl 346 or thereabouts the clear took about 30 minutes i avoided a fair bit of trash trash the trash in here was fairly easy although a bit painful in the first few groups what with disengaging and knocking back aplenty i cleared the right hand arc of the entry area so i could engage bjarngrim without picking up adds i then cleared through the slag gauntlet pulling them up to the stairs their death explosions don t dent the lvl 85 health pool clearing the slag the i cleared the first elemental pack but stealthed past the rest they didn t present much of a challenge and i wanted to push on onto the statue corridor after volkhan the siegebreakers fear when they die i cleared the first group and tried stealthing past the second but they pop into life anyway and still aggroed on me so i cleared the rest in the last large room after ionar i cleared the entry golems and one pack of stormforged guys but basically stuck to the right hand wall and you can avoid most of this room at 85 even without stealth just keep an eye on the patrols bosses none of the bosses presented particular issues i tanked them all in bear form and i didn t need mitigation cooldowns so any tank class and probably lots of other nontanks could solo them general bjarngrim as i stated above i cleared the area i pulled him with his lieutenants then popped beserk and killed them before moving onto him whether he was in berserker or defensive stances he didn t do much damage how can it be flesh is not stronger admittedly i didn t try him when he was lightning charged it would have been less waiting for him to patrol but i wasn t sure how i d go i think it would have been fine volkhan another easy tank and spank i ignored his adds and just single targeted him down the master was right to be concerned i guess because i ignored the adds they didn t ever get low enough for him to shatter them i spent spent the whole fight ready to step away from the adds but never needed to ionar again simple tank and spank except for his dispersion once he dispersed i kited the sparks down the centre of the stairs and then back up the side wall so i didn t get any stacks i m in there somewhere but because it was just me i spent the whole fight with the annoying dot going i was on about half health by the time he died loken and lastly another easy ye olde tanke and spanke i didn t run out for nova just barkskinned the first and sied the second but to be honest all of that was unnecessary loken sharp today larry and that s that possibly the easiest of all of the wrath heroics i ve yet attempted rate this dungeons halls of lightning hol soloing wrath heroics soloing heroic ahn kahet the old kingdom leave a comment posted by michelle on march 26 2011 more free time on my plate so back to soloing stuff working down my soloing list sequentially which mean old kingdom was today s project entrance to the old kingdom usual set up feral tank spec and gear ilvl 346 or thereabouts trash trash was fairly trivial except for the spell flingers they do an attack that does 80 of your max health so if you accidentally aggro two groups you will probably die i aggroed two groups i died two of these and you re toast the rest was pretty easy the entrance watchers are stealth detectors so even if you re a stealther you ll need to clear these guys lots of the rest of the trash was avoidable just by walking around it bosses the bosses were all easy except for taldaram elder nadox i went bear and single targeted him and swiped thrashed the small adds as the arrived once the guardians arrive switch to them and kill them then back to the boss didn t take much damage so he was easy elder nadox no druid loot though woe prince taldaram ok taldaram was tough i tanked him in bear form possibly i should have started popping cooldowns earlier to keep my health high so i didn t run out of cooldowns late in the fight his channelling is nasty with noone to break you out not deadly just an unmitigatable dot and a humiliating posture it s not what you think we were just hugging yes well humiliating but i did kill him so i guess i get the last laugh poor bear though jedoga shadowseeker jegoda was fine i tanked her in bear then popped into kitty when she called a supplicant still i only just killed the supplicant in time it probably wouldn t have mattered if i didn t she didn t do much damage herself jedi bosses gotta love them i stayed out of her lightning patches and just burned her down in bear form amanitar he was really easy so easy in fact that the door bell rang and i had to afk for a while mushrooms many many mushroooms didn t need cooldowns just tanked him next to a healthy mushroom and broke it whenever i was shrunk though tiny bears are pretty cute herald volazj lastly mr mind control except not as it was just me he channelled insanity at his 66 and 33 marks but there was no insanity for me he whispers to me about my guild those who dine on lost souls once i realised i could skull bash ll of his mind flays he was a simple tank and spank so that s it one more wrath heroic down and yet again it was the san layn prince that was the hard part rate this dungeons ok old kingdom soloing wrath heroics new druid guide aggro leave a comment posted by michelle on march 25 2011 i ve just finished the text for a new druid guide about managing healing aggro you can find it in the druid guide menu above or here it s basiaclly a five man guide though much of it would be useful for a new druid healer in raid fights with adds like maloriak or thinks draws blank wow blizzard have really cut back on add fights in any case i hope it s useful for new druids as well as any healers struggling in instances where they are grappling with new found friends unwanted aggro during combat images to come it s a bit text y at the moment in any case enjoy rate this uncategorized more quiet busy ness leave a comment posted by michelle on march 24 2011 been away for work for a few days so not much wow activity and not much bloginess i have been 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