Nioreh

I was always under the impression that if you dispel one out of 3 lifeblooms, it blooms non the less. Could anyone clarify if this is true, or if nothing happens when a lifebloom stack is reduced from 3 to 2 via dispel.

 

Aciara

It isn't reduced from 3 to 2. It's cleansed off completly if the purge/dispell goes through.

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Karoo

Are you absolutely certain about that?

I am almost positive I've had felpuppies eat magic when I had a stack rolling and it just consumed a charge, not the entire thing causing it to bloom. In fact that's why I only use one stack til It gets dispelled if I'm being spammed.

 

doogless

Uhhhhh, are you sure about that? Every time I play, it functions the opposite way from what you said.

 

rehtonAesoohC

That's not true. I've dispelled stacks of 3 lifeblooms down to 2 on accident when trying to clear innervate.

 

Duncan

3 stacks get cleared from 3 to 2 to 1 to bloom. It's a bit unlikely to purge all 3 stacks before the stack runs out or gets refreshed by aplying a new lifebloom, though. At least if the druid has 5/5 subtlety.

When you purge one out of 3 or 2 stacks it doesn't bloom, it only blooms when the last lifebloom fades or gets purged.

Besides of that you should protect your HoTs with rank1 Rejuv, MotW, Thorns and eventually even Regrowth, against Teams with a Priest, Shaman and maybe even Warlocks with felpuppy.

 

Herrera

Because druids don't have global cooldowns. If you're talking about 2v2, I can understand using this to protect innervate, otherwise, you can't afford so many GCD's.

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Tainter

A far better way to protect your innervate is to be out of sight of anyone who can get rid of it. Of course in 5v5 that could be a bit harder, but your team mates can snare Shamans and Priests and Druids can run away pretty effectively. If you can't escape a Felhunter then wait until it consumes rank 1 thorns and then put it up.

 

Duncan

When i face purge/dispel heavy teams in 2on2 i definatly have to have the the time to apply rank1 buffs or it's a lose for sure. Just think about those nasty priest/rogue teams, where priests don't have to do anything, but chasing the druid and spamming dispel on everything. If you can't apply abolish and keep it up for some time you're doomed (at least as druid/lock). Of course, it's not always good or necessary, but it comes in handy from time to time.

Protecting your innervate is more or less another story, LoS does the job on it's own, in most cases. And yes i was talking about 2on2.

 

silvergun27

I would like to add that trinketing the Kidney Shot can also be a very bad idea, depending on whats happening of course , because you will be faced with a blind right afterwards and then with a vanish/ stealth, sap combo which will effectively take you out of the fight for 20+ seconds unless you are into a form where you can not be saped. If this happens and you used your trinket for the KS then say goodbye to your partner. It is a very delicate situation that requires more than just skill.

Indeed. Always start with roots on an enemy warrior since you will probably get him to blow his trinket sooner rather than later which is a huge bonus. Sublety working on roots is also a great advantage for this phase of the game. Use rank 1 moonfire and faerie fire to scramble a dispellers attempts to remove roots. Keep the warrior controlled until the healer partner blows some heavy cooldowns and then just switch the CC train to the healer and nuke down the warrior.

To be honest you will not be finding dual mage teams all that often if at all. Finding warlock + mage however is not really that rare. Having a felhunter on you and facing two spellocks at different times will be a handful and it will probably see you bitting the dust faster than you would like but the key here is to just LOS and trow out intants while you let you warlock/ rogue do the work for you. Even if you dont get spellocked you are still facing a 6 second full silence from both the mage and the felhunter that if used in succesion it can see you or your partner dead.

Also do not feral charge if you are not certain that a pillar is nearby for you to hide behind. If they opt to CC your rogue/ warlock and come for you then you are in for a difficult fight depending on the arena. Blades Edge you will be having a fairly easy way of escaping them. Nagrand and especialy so Lordaeron arenas are your bane.

 

jon3k

The Druid Wiki » Macro's and Addons
Bound to my middle mouse button, incredibly useful.

 

Spookeh

/run local f="Cat Form";f=GetSpellCooldown(f)>0 or UnitMana('player')>XXX or not IsUsableSpell(f) or CancelPlayerBuff(f)
/stopmacro [form]
/cast Cat Form

That macro casts cat form if you're not in GCD + have less than XXX energy. its a powershift macro for feral DPS.
I don't understand how it works really, but could you steal the GCD check from it to add to the reshift macro?

 

Duncan

Theorycraft says: Remove "or UnitMana('player')>XXX" and it should still do the GCD check and the check if the spell is usable or not. I think the last part checks if you are stunned or generally unable to do something, before it cancels the form?!?

So, without testing, it would look something like that:

/run local f="Cat Form";f=GetSpellCooldown(f)>0 or not IsUsableSpell(f) or CancelPlayerBuff(f)
/stopmacro [form]
/cast [stance:1] !Dire Bear Form; [stance:2] !Aquatic Form; [stance:3] !Cat Form; [stance:5] <Tree of Life Form / Moonkin Form>; [nostance, flyable, nocombat][stance:5?6] !Flight Form; !Travel Form

E: Might only work with cat form, though, due to the fact that the first line only checks for Cat Form. The other forms should be added there as well.

 

◊ Shadowed

That macro abuses the fact that CancelPlayerBuff isn't secure, so all it does is.

1) If the cooldown is 0 (Not on GCD), we have the mana to shift, and it's usable then cancel the cat form buff
2) If we are still in a form, stop the macro
3) Cast cat form

In the macro that jon3k gave, adding "!" before the form name in /cast will make it so it only recasts the form when it can meaning you could spam it while in bear form for example to reduce how long you're in caster and making it harder to be caught in caster form. Something to remember, is that if you have auto unshifting disabled (CVar autoUnshift) then the macro jon3k gave won't work as it should, instead of reshifting you when it can it'll cast the form only if you aren't in it already, type /script SetCVar("autoUnshift", 1) to make it work like it should.
Depending on your preferences you can just make macros for each form (or modify your existing ones) to look something like the below.

#showtooltip
/cast !<form name>

 

maelfurion

My hunter and me (druid) do really well against Mage/Rogue teams. We struggled against them when we just started playing together but we found a good strat that almost never fails.

In every arena, fight around a pillar. If you get stunlocked in the open, u are dead. What we do is:
As soon as Rogue pops on my hunter, hot him, then hot me. Keeping hotting ur hunter if the rogue is staying on him. Ur hunter cannot go LOS on you. 80% of the time, the rogue will switch on you and try to get u stunlocked while the mage is trying to pull shattercombo. When this happens, pre-hot urself and start running around a pillar. Have ur hunter drop a Frost trap around the pillar. While ur staying out of LOS of the mage. Ur hunter needs to: 1. Vipersting Mage whenever its up. 2. Spam wingclip on the rogue and serpent sting the rogue to avoid vanish. Drop a flare too. When u got a bit of breathing room and out of the mage's los, cyclone the rogue. THe mage should be OOM at this point. then its GG

 

telcontar

I play Restokin/Rogue; we went up to 1813 yesterday, finished out at 1727. Several of our losses occurred to Priest/Warrior. Anyone have suggestions on this matchup? We tried to play it like a normal warrior/healer. I split off the warrior and solo him, while my rogue solos the healer. However, they played very aggressively; they priest chased me around and DPS'ed me every time I got stunned, while dispelling my hots.

Also, we finally played a good Hunter/Druid. (The hunter was a glad) We killed the pet in the first 10 seconds, but he trapped my rogue and I ate a 6 second cyclone right after, and he got the rez off. Is it worth blowing the trinket on? I'm assuming that he'd just do it again in 30 seconds if we stopped him there. If he does rez it, should we kill it again?

 

Chucifer

Rogue should be all over their priest. This should prevent the priest from rushing you. If the warrior helps the priest with peels, use CC's to help keep your rogue on their priest (cyclone warrior, root priest, apply trash debuffs of rank 1 moonfire and rank 1 faerie fire). If the warrior gets on you, drag him behind a pillar and cc him there to force their priest to hobble there to dispel. Fake cast if you need to. Have your rogue call out long kidney shots on the priest so you know when is a good time to move from your position.

Hunter/Druid, there are few times to use your trinket. The best times are 1) to keep them from pet rezzing and 2) to keep them in combat so they cant drink. An OOM hunter has very little DPS that you, as a restokin cant outheal, even when oom.

 

whysoez

Emphasis on the 2nd part. Generally it's not that crucial to stop a pet res because it takes a LOT of mana and the pet spawns with half health. Oftentimes I can get a quick kill on the pet right after it gets ressed which can be huge.

 

CasT

How do you guys reason when it comes to Idols?

Is the [Idol of the Emerald Queen]still the best item? Or do you feel that the boom becomes more viable now with [Brutal Gladiator's Idol of Tenacity] around the corner? Looking at a recount of each Arena, the numbers clearly state that I my main healing is LB ticks. But dispellers really are getting annoying.

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Duncan

Depending on the situation, i'm using:
[Idol of the Emerald Queen] - mainly for long matches where almost all healing comes from stacking lifeblooms that i keep rolling
[Vengeful Gladiator's Idol of Tenacity] - for purge/dispell heavy teams
[Idol of the Unseen Moon] - 2on2 as restokin

If you let it bloom most of the time [Vengeful Gladiator's Idol of Tenacity] ads more heal than [Idol of the Emerald Queen], ofc.
If you max rank Moonfire DoT and/or rank1 MF a lot [Idol of the Unseen Moon] is really nice, since it adds very often 140 heal/damage - it can proc in a row, seems there is no hidden CD and it basically procs almost every time when you "renew" MF on a target after the DoT is about to expire.

I have all 3 in my backpack and switch them when switching is necessary. However [Idol of the Unseen Moon] becomes more and more my main used Idol for 2on2 in most cases. It really shines, once you get used to it. Note: I'm playing 34 balance/27 restoration.

 

Cupid

Now that S4 is just about to come I have finally made LVL 70 on my druid alt. I will be playing 2 vs 2 with a rogue, both leveled together, though I was (and still am) feral. I'm planning on making this char my PvP alt, so all I do is some Kara and BG's/Arenas.
I have 4 pieces from the reputation set, giving me a bit over 100 resi, and well, healing is around the 1000 mark.
Was wondering what do the more expert people suggest, should I go full resto for the beginning phase of arenas (still learning to play together, getting 1'st pieces of gear etc) or would it be better to go DS and start working on that?
Since S4 is coming, I was wondering about my honor points aswell. We know that most honor items need team ratings, but since we're that low geared should I stray from S4 right at the start and start compiling my gear with S3 pieces and maybe S1/S2 (chest, help, legs, gloves etc), or should I try to push it and get the needed 1700'ish rating on my team with sub par gear?

Thanks in advance.

 

◊ Yes

This works for me

/run local f="Travel Form";f=GetSpellCooldown(f)>0 or not IsUsableSpell(f) or CancelPlayerBuff(f)
/cast Travel Form

Functions same as
/cast !Travel Form


but without the error spam

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crimsonsentinel

I'd say to go full resto for now since with your gear, restokin will have pitiful heals and few outs. However, you can't expect very high ratings either way so it doesn't really matter. You might want to play restokin just to get the feel of how you'll be playing once both of you gear up.

As for gear, I'd say get full S4 gear. Start by getting the peices with no/low ratings reqs and by the time you build up enough points for higher rated items, your rating might've climbed up as well. I would obviously recommend getting the S2 weapon/shoulders because it might be a while before you hit over 1800. But everything else is well within reach.

 

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