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Beorn24 · 01/24/07, 8:20 PM

As I get closer and closer to 70, I've been doing a lot of thinking as to what the best spec would be for a druid healing. Having not played beta, I'm not entirely sure how effective druid healing is in certain contexts (i.e. whether regrowth/rejuv/lifebloom are good enough to be bread and butter healing spells in tree form or if healing touch is still the primary spell in the druids arsenal). Basically, it seems like there are two big healing specs, both with advantages and disadvantages.

First was full resto, which focuses on the power of HoT spells in addition to regrowth and swiftmend.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...50531502531051
Only the essential talents to the build have been filled in as they are pertinent to healing. Basically, this build is the HoT build. It gives you the most powerful HoT spells in the game and gives you tree form, which helps whichever group you're in as well as making regrowth, lifebloom and rejuvenation much cheaper and more manageable over time. Here is the dilemma:

Healing Touch spec:
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...00501502000000
This spec has the most powerful healing touch in the game, no contest. Key balance talents such as Lunar Guidance and Dreamstate play off of the druids intellect, adding more mana regeneration and more healing. Moonglow also reduces the mana cost of your healing spells, and Nature's Grace is just butter. This spec has the most powerful healing touch spell in the game, and it's predominantly balance. Bonus points because it lets you farm a bit better =D.

The real question is, what is the most effective method of healing in TBC, in both dungeons and raids, and which spec would you rather use? There are definately variations on each, but the basic question remains the same: HT or HoT spec?

EDIT: After looking at the specs more, you could also spec improved FF over Dreamstate if you wanted to add some more raid viability to the build. It's pretty flexible, the only real talents that matter are Dreamstate, Imp. FF, and the three below it. All the other talents are just filler.

01/24/07, 8:20 PM	#1
Beorn24 Glass Joe Eratun Tauren Druid <THE CHETS> Mug'thol	As I get closer and closer to 70, I've been doing a lot of thinking as to what the best spec would be for a druid healing. Having not played beta, I'm not entirely sure how effective druid healing is in certain contexts (i.e. whether regrowth/rejuv/lifebloom are good enough to be bread and butter healing spells in tree form or if healing touch is still the primary spell in the druids arsenal). Basically, it seems like there are two big healing specs, both with advantages and disadvantages. First was full resto, which focuses on the power of HoT spells in addition to regrowth and swiftmend. http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...50531502531051 Only the essential talents to the build have been filled in as they are pertinent to healing. Basically, this build is the HoT build. It gives you the most powerful HoT spells in the game and gives you tree form, which helps whichever group you're in as well as making regrowth, lifebloom and rejuvenation much cheaper and more manageable over time. Here is the dilemma: Healing Touch spec: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...00501502000000 This spec has the most powerful healing touch in the game, no contest. Key balance talents such as Lunar Guidance and Dreamstate play off of the druids intellect, adding more mana regeneration and more healing. Moonglow also reduces the mana cost of your healing spells, and Nature's Grace is just butter. This spec has the most powerful healing touch spell in the game, and it's predominantly balance. Bonus points because it lets you farm a bit better =D. The real question is, what is the most effective method of healing in TBC, in both dungeons and raids, and which spec would you rather use? There are definately variations on each, but the basic question remains the same: HT or HoT spec? EDIT: After looking at the specs more, you could also spec improved FF over Dreamstate if you wanted to add some more raid viability to the build. It's pretty flexible, the only real talents that matter are Dreamstate, Imp. FF, and the three below it. All the other talents are just filler.