but heres another question then.. I tested this out as a ToL 1/0/60 and my LB ticked for 758 unbuffed.. then with my same gear spec'd 3/3LG 2/5ER my LB ticked for 730. so this was all unbuffed. now in a raid atmospheare where u gain another 250+ healing just from being buffed ur saying that it wont make up for 28 extra + healing? and even if it worked out to be the same, would it not be more viable in a raid being that one of ur healers would have insect swarm, specially if u dont have a oomkin? and the fact that ur able more effectively cast regrowth between ur hot cycles. as well as ur regrowth hitting harder. also Is there not more room for you +healing to scale with this spec.. better the gear/stats more u gain from it.

There was a hack somewhere in the addon forums about gcd spark showing on the cursor for quartz, which might save you some space.

Also instead of that green dot i'd suggest getting GridStatusLifebloom. It shows as center text 1/2/3 what your Lifebloom duration left is on that target and colour codes it to show how many stacks that is. That on priority 99 and then on lower priority GridStatusHots which shows as a number how many total hots are on that target already if theres no LB up. It also shows counters for your regrowth or rejuv if its on the target (like 4-17 meaning 4 total hots and 17 seconds left on your regrowth).

It's a bit more info on grid and might be confusing at first, but helps alot on getting an overview on whos actually in need of a hot and whos not. It also made me get rid off my duration bar addon for healing completely.

He's using 250 haste, which makes it possible for 5 casts, so I guess he's casting both Rejuvenations.

About the spec: afaik you can't use Insect Swarm in ToL and since its really short duration you would need to stay out of ToL all the time if you'd want to keep it up (and also basically have to refresh it every other cycle). I don't think doing that is worth the 2% miss chance on a tank, since your own healing will go down by a lot and if you're in the tank group, your aura will be sacrificed as well. Speccing Balance for LG or any other Balance talent which might be useful is all not worth the 20+ talent points you need to give up for it in Resto imo.

Edit: btw, I read somewhere in a previous page here that someone was in need of a "boss mod" add-on for Grid which would show all the important debuffs. You can do this manually if you want (I only have it for Council / Illidan / Brutallus), by adding a new debuff (they're a subset of "auras" in Grid), and add the exact name for it. Then you can just let it show wherever you want (I use the center-icon for it) and it will show whenever someone has that debuff.

There is also GridStatusRaidDebuff, which adds many of the debuffs by default, as well as supports showing stack counts. I've been using it for a while and it works out well. I don't know how well supported Sunwell debuffs are though, if you need that.

Lets discuss Regrowth vs. Rejuvenation for Felmyst.

Regrowths initial healing is almost always wasted here, however, the longer hot is particular nice, as it allows you to apply to more targets, having more options available for swiftmend in the case of Encapsulate. Pros: Encapsulate protection on more targets due to longer duration. Cons: Wasted initial heal in most cases. Weaker hot. Cast time, as opposed to instant cast of rejuv.

Rejuvenation is going to do more healing of the Aura, and is brilliantly suited *just for* that purpose it seems. Two druids keeping LBx3 up, tossing rejuvs is amazing, with maybe a priest Renewing between MDs. The bad part, is that rejuv is a shorter hot, so you really have to pick key target to keep the rejuv up on, such as your priests and mages who are somewhat fragile.

Either way, LBx3 should always be maintained on the MT, imo. What thoughts do you guys have?

Ah, sorry, Gian, I'm cycling rejuv again until the regrow CD's are up, then re-stacking regrows, refreshing rejuvs (I tend to refresh rejuv on the main tank though, when it falls off during a regrow cycle.)

Guys, when I am told to be on "raid heals", is it my responsibility to still make sure the MT gets a triple stack of LB at all times, or can I safely treat the tank as any of the raid member, whom I simply LB when taking damage?

Also, how can I improve my healing at VR? It is annoying for me, because every time at VR, the shamans get top two, the priest get third and fourth, and I am always on fifth for three consecutive times already. When I am on raid heals, what I do is go into caster form and run around throwing LB + Rejuv on everyone who's injured.

If I'm ever raid healing I make sure to keep a three stack lifebloom on the tank as well as any raid members I notice I'm needing to put a lifebloom on frequently. The important thing I've found when raid healing is to use any free time to cast regrowth and rejuv on the main tank if your lbs are refreshed.


As to haste:
Depends how much regen you have to spare But if you do go down the road of reducing your global cooldown, you gain so much more than an opportunity to roll 5 lifeblooms (such scenarios seldom present themselves anyway). If you're healing 4 tanks, then you can stagger a rejuvenation as your 5th cast. Or if you're healing 3 tanks you get to cast lifebloom three times and have enough time for two other spells before going back to lifeblooming. The extra time for a cast also allows you to use swiftmend and/or Nature's Swiftness without having to sacrifice losing some stacked Lifeblooms.

I'm currently in Hyjal/BT, and I'm hoping to create a haste set that I'll test out in Hyjal trash. We run with 5 tanks there for trash (paladin, warrior, three ferals) and it would be nice to see how 5 lifeblooms work out there. I already do 24% of the healing (out of 7 healers - Wow Web Stats ) just by keeping a three stack lb on 4 tanks, so theoretically the 5th stack / free gcd should boost me even higher.

I supposed. My guild is farming Hyjal/BT atm and working into sunwell. I rarely find the case where I need to aCTUALLY heal.. 5 tanks at once? : blink : in fact I sleep through half the trash anyways <_<; Pally tanks win, and whatnot. The haste does sound fun, but then again the retarded regen helps in sunwell so that I can cut down on the chain potting.

My friend went as far as getting the haste trinket from ZG, as well as various other haste items. It just seems you lose so much regen from it.

There really aren't that many cases that you need to keep that many HoT's on people without it falling off, eh? Name a few for me prz. ^^;

Sorry if someone has said this allready, but i went with +7 res all to cloak, and its awesome for sunwell, I resist
burns about 30% of the time seems like (prolly not that high). For hyjal/bt i'd probably go with 15 shadow. I used
to have sublety and found it completely useless. Resisting the fears and mana drain effects there would be awesome.

Awesome thread, nice to hear someone who understands tree as well or better than i do.

Thats a silly question, if you're going for haste fine i havent tried it yet dont have good enough haste gear.
But just because you have yellow sockets you dont have to put yellow gems in them, socket bonuses are for sissies.
Take that stupid yellow socket and pop a 22 heal red gem in it.

I would like to punch whoever designed the druid tier gear, they gave us barely one useful set bonus, and yellow
gems everywehre, what the hell. (2 good set bonuses if you count the blue set)