This spreadsheet simulates what a party of five level 60 Tree of Life Druids can do with stacking auras and Rejuvenations on one target. The formulas have been tested for accuracy. Also, the aura stacking has been confirmed to work with two Druids on the PTR.

The Tree of Life Rejuvenation HPS Spreadsheet:
(HTML) http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?k...gDt1NrPg&gid=1

If you have a Google Account you can view it via Google Spreadsheets. Here's the link:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k...vp-NlkgDt1NrPg

The sample data is about what a Tier 2 geared Druid would have.

And if you don't want to click a link, here are some juicy bits:
Total Aura Bonus given to party: 345
Total HPS from 5 Rejuvs: 877
Rejuvenations will tick for around 500-550. (Mine currently ticks for 440ish)

(Disclaimer: Because this spreadsheet is being played with, these numbers are likely to be different than that in the spreadsheet.)

Are you talking about Rejuvenation in Tree of Life form? Or in caster form? I had my druid on test (who has about +741 Healing) and his rejuvenation was ticking for about 621 in Tree form.

This is in Tree of Life form, but the spreadsheet can have the Druid's out of Tree of Life form as well by setting column i to 0.

The future of healing in raids consists of a personal mobile forest. Who'd have thought.

Because HOTs are the way of the future now that they stack.

I'll believe it when I see it. Speaking as a rogue and a warlock I've yet to see an efficient use of a HoT. Isn't that what a lot of druids complain about, overhealing/healing inefficiency due to someone just flash healing the target they just HoT'd? I fail to see how an 800/tick HoT will increase effective healing. If I'm taking enough damage to justify 1, or even 2 of those HoT ticks, I'd hope I was in queue for something that didn't take 3,6,9,12, etc seconds to kick in.

Then again, I haven't raided at lvl 70, so I'm talking out of my ass.

HoTs are not the way of the future. Even if you have 10 healers stacking HoTs for 600/tick, that's only 2000 HPS on a player. You're not going to be bringing 10 druids and priests on raids, much less having them spam HoTs. More likely, you'll have 3-4 spamming HoTs (should you choose that route), in which case, you're only getting 600-800 HPS per target.

HoTs are nice on steady raid-wide damage. But they're not that useful for in most other cases. I'm personally upset about the direction Blizzard is sending druid healing.

6 Months ago priest healing mainly with heal 2 would have been considered blasphemy by most. Things change as the game mechanics and player skill evolves.

I agree with you that it's burst damage that usually kills tanks. What a few of you have overlooked is that for each Rejuvenation (and Regrowth HoT) active on the tank, you have a 2100+ instant heal from Swiftmend in your pocket.

I highly doubt that we'll see raids with five Tree of Life Druids, especially in one party. This spreadsheet simply predicts what it would be like.

In response to the Rogue/Warlock:
There are many different types of heals, each with their own use. I think that Shaman excel at what I call spot healing, which is healing any type of random damage done to those who aren't tanking.

Rejuvenation is no longer prohibitively mana inefficient, and Restoration Druids are going to be more liberal in their usage of it.

That's because we don't waste our mana healing rogues and warlocks.

And it's not necessarily the druid's or spell's fault if the latter accounts for overhealing. Blame the lazy, non-druid healer who's too stupid to look at what spells are active and/or for not having a mod installed that shows what HoTs have been cast. Even still, being healed to full while a HoT is active, a tank is likely to take additional, immediate damage that can be attended to by the HoT. I don't see how that's not an efficient and effective use of my mana.

I agree with this statement, though it should probably be refined to "Tree of LoL is not the way of the future." At least at 60, your performance as a druid will absolutely suck balls if all you think you're going to do is rejuv in treeform.

It would be a bit generous to assume that a Naxx-geared druid will have his rejuv ticking for 600 come patch day. That's only 200 health per second. Really, if you're going to cut out Healing Touch by shifting into Treeform then you've just nerfed yourself more than Blizzard ever could. "Oh but rejuvs stack now!" Yeah so? You're still only putting out 200 health-per-second, and if you want to think in those terms then healing touch "stacks" too. So what are you going to do to make up for only doing 200 health-per-second with rejuv? Start spamming regrowth? Or trying to get off perfect swiftmends every time?

Maybe Lifebloom will save the form, I don't know but I'm highly skeptical of it.