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GridStatusLifebloom adds a timer within grid target boxes counting down Lifebloom duration with a progressive color change indicating the number of Lifeblooms applied.

If I have to believe WoWWiki, 15.7 haste rating is 1% faster casting. So, in order for the global cooldown to go from 1.5 to 1.0, you'd have to have 33.3% faster castspeed, resulting into 33.3 * 15.7 = 523 haste rating needed.

The question is, how much added "value" would 1.0 sec global cooldown have for resto druids? We would be able to squeeze in more hots per Lifebloom rotation, but how much do we need that? My initial feeling is that the sacrifice on +healing or mana regen would not be worth the extra hots per Lifebloom rotation, even though *theoretically* you would probably have a much greater healing output capacity. Only fight where you can exploit that is RoS as you can't throw hots on enough people in p2 and p3. Furthermore this change would mean you can not only keep Lifebloom up on 3 tanks, but also Rejuvenation next to it and even have time to Swiftmend on any of them without putting your Lifebloom rolls in danger. Downside to this is of course that mana will be more of an issue, as you will burn your mana a lot faster. Would be rather interesting to play with haste rating oriented gear and see what the possibilites are, so I guess I'll go get me some pieces.

Just looked up an old post of mine about the 4 leather haste rating items, the difference between those and the commonly used healing gear is:

You gain: 30 sta, 6 int and 140 haste (8.88%)
You lose: 96 spi, 28 mp5 and 68 +heal

Big difference in mana regen mostly, while that is the thing you would need more of when using haste gear, I suppose. Of course there is more haste rating gear out there (ring, cloak off the top of my head), but I think getting the 523 needed is rather impossible.

I think it just allows a resto druid to actually consider taking an item with haste if that item is otherwise attractive for them, instead of being a wasted stat.

Yea, that's a fair point... spell haste really won't help Druid single-target healing, now have it increase the rate of Lifebloom ticks and we're in business, maybe...

But it will definitely help for spot healing. It'll just be hard to do a numerical analysis of its value, though. I guess you could look at the extreme case where you're continually throwing lifeblooms to see how much spell haste helps.

There's also the cloth badge gear, though that may not have enough stats to outweigh the haste. The way I'm seeing this is that there are two effectiveness breakpoints. Think of a 6 second cycle as you refresh Lifebloom on the target every 6 seconds (is that actually true? duration is 7, with haste and good latency could we refresh every 6.5?). Anyway, we have our cycle length X with 0% haste, which currently allows four GCDs per cycle. The far breakpoint is the new theoretical maximum, Lifebloom every 1s for 6 GCDs per cycle, unobtainable with current gear. The middle breakpoint is probably the relevant one - how much haste would you need to get 5 GCDs per primary Lifebloom? Haste less than that won't let you do much besides get the initial stacks up slightly faster.

I could only imagine doing bloodboil with 1s lifeblooms, keeping almost the entire bloodboil groups alive for such a small mana cost. But yea, while haste will not be a useless stat, it's also to the point where we can't really get close to enough haste for it to really matter too much. Just means that I might bid min dkp to get the haste gloves from teron next time we go, and might want to spend some point on illidan cloak and so on. The annoying thing is most haste items are also not the best +heal item for their slots, I'd gladly trade my mana regen for more haste, since I often get a spriest, and thus mp5/spirit is close to useless for me, but trading healing isn't so hot.

Might change with sunwell items, and might be the reason they're changing this. Hell maybe even the tier 6.5 set might actually have a set bonus that does something for lifebloom, like reducing its GCD to by 0.2secs. Enough with the Healing Touch/Regrowth set bonuses.

EDIT: And I'm an idiot... I can't read WoW forums at work, but I got the info that the post starting this haste discussion came from in another thread. My fault. (feel free to delete this post, mods)

I just did the numbers again, 33% faster casting, I think that's not correct. According to the WoWWiki page it should be 50% extra casting speed to get from 1.5 to 1.0, resulting in even higher amount of haste rating needed: 785 haste rating needed to get to a 1.0 sec global cooldown.

Considering 0.5 sec per Lifebloom cycle on "lag", you'd need get 6.5 seconds to cast 5 spells, which is 1.3 per Lifebloom. Going from 1.5 to 1.3 requires 15.4% faster casting, resulting in 242 haste rating (113 if you'd have 0 lag), so yeah, guess every bit of haste rating above that allows a bit more room for lag or imperfect button bashing.

Sadly, even the minimal 220 is way out of reach without nerfing the shit out of +healing....

Yes, but it depends on the potential healing you're doing with the extra global cooldown.

1.5 Second GCD, you need ~13.34% to get down to 1.3...

So, ~210 haste to hit 1.3, with no lag, correct?