Originally Posted by Aphyrax
It requires you to give up 4 piece arena bonus. Which alone makes it inferior. +15% speed > all. I can't even fathom how godly a set bonus would have to be for me to give up that.
Even as an instant cast, regrowth still costs 1.5 seconds (GCD) and is a mana hog that is heavily backloaded. As such it should still be avoided. When watching top druid videos, how often do they use regrowth? Next to never.
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If the impression that I gave was that I'm running around shifting in and out of bear form to use instant-cast regrowths and neglecting my other resto abilities, I apologize, that was not my intent.
The 'Nurture' buff lasts 15 seconds, and is not dispellable by conventional means (I have not had a priest try to mass dispell it, but I did find out that if you shift out while cycloned, you are immune to gaining the buff). The way that this set bonus has affected my gameplay is that I can use it to respond to burst damage and to supplement HoT's, Swiftmend, and Nature's Swiftness.
If at any point during the match you are forced into bear, and any time that you Feral Charge, you have the ability to Regrowth (with a very high crit rate), Swiftmend, and NS - HT, for a huge amount of burst healing. In my opinion and with limited experience in mid-level arena, it greatly outweighs the loss of 15% movement speed.