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Tiandihui · 05/22/07, 3:32 PM

Can't seem to find a thread directed at this particular issue. I've only recently hit 70 on my druid, and have specced full resto for healing.

On the official druid forums (which I probably shouldn't read anyway, as most of them seem a bit...off) I've read that healing druids have nasty aggro problems, which is something I have yet to experience personally. Posters claim various things. One suggests that healing proactively causes more threat than healing reactively, which seems to make no sense to me. I was under the impression that healing threat = ([amount healed]/2)/[number of enemies] per enemy, so I don't see why functionally it would make any kind of difference.

Others claim that Regrowth causes huge aggro, which again I do not understand as being specific to that spell (beyond it having a high crit rate talented, but critting in and of itself does not produce extra threat to my understanding).

There is also wild speculation as to how the threat from lifebloom is assigned.

Can anyone help me out?

05/22/07, 3:32 PM	#1
Tiandihui Glass Joe Tiandihui Night Elf Druid Dragonmaw	[Druid] Different threat produced by different heals? Can't seem to find a thread directed at this particular issue. I've only recently hit 70 on my druid, and have specced full resto for healing. On the official druid forums (which I probably shouldn't read anyway, as most of them seem a bit...off) I've read that healing druids have nasty aggro problems, which is something I have yet to experience personally. Posters claim various things. One suggests that healing proactively causes more threat than healing reactively, which seems to make no sense to me. I was under the impression that healing threat = ([amount healed]/2)/[number of enemies] per enemy, so I don't see why functionally it would make any kind of difference. Others claim that Regrowth causes huge aggro, which again I do not understand as being specific to that spell (beyond it having a high crit rate talented, but critting in and of itself does not produce extra threat to my understanding). There is also wild speculation as to how the threat from lifebloom is assigned. Can anyone help me out?