You can renew the stack over and over. I personally have come to like running heroics without dropping my bloom stack off the tank during the whole instance. Keep the healing rolling and keep the majestic dragon figurine at 10stack.

[Valonforth's Remembrance] seems to have a bugged tooltip - and works on Spellcast instead of Spell Hit. Wowhead is saying 15% proc rate, no idea of internal cooldown. I like it, although I'd really like the trinket from Sartharion for stacking spirit.

Confirmed, until they fix this seems the best trinket for Restoration Druids.

Are druids actually having mana issues?

I've yet to find any encounter where mana is a concern. We haven't killed 3 drake Saratharion, but have finished all the other 25 man content and I rarely even need to use my innervate.

10-man stuff is harder on my mana than 25-man stuff. And I start to have some serious mana issues if I don't have a paladin or shaman along for wisdom/spring, and god forbid not having a replenish.

If things go smoothly, I don't have mana issues at all and can almost always spare my innervate for a Priest. I think that the troubles some are having come from the fact that with a longer Lifebloom timer and the addition of WG, we can pretty much spend mana as fast as we like. I do have to stop myself from putting HoTs & heals out there on everyone I see and trust in the other healers to take care of things.

We've cleared all 25 man content but not done Sartharion with any extra drakes yet so I can't comment on that fight.

I notice many resto druids in top guilds using 2 of these trinkets right now:
[Je'Tze's Bell]
[Mercurial Alchemist Stone]
[The Egg of Mortal Essence]

I have no hard numbers on the egg, but the egg seems to proc a lot in heroics for me. In the limited testing I've done, it seems it can proc off of any hot ticks or direct heals, but ONLY if the target is not at full health. Can anyone confirm this?

Also, just my opinion, but it seems to me that [Illustration of the Dragon Soul] would probably be better for the raid overall if it were in the hands of a magic DPS class than a healer. If I'm reading the comments right, you can have 260 extra spellpower up for the majority of a boss fight, essentially, and kind of build up that extra threat gradually at the start of the fight. It just seems very caster-dps oriented to me rather than to a healer.

Taking less healers might be a push from Blizzard's side, as all existing raid content can be easily healed by 6 healers, and very most likely with 5 - I did Sapphiron with 5 and it's probably the most healing intensive fight. This might be due to spammability of WG and CoH, but overall it is healty for the game if the required number of healers in a raid is 5-6 and not 7-8.

Why do you say that it is healthy for the game to have to bring 5-6 healers to a raid rather than 7-8? If you are looking at it from a "5x5 groups" make up kind of philosophy, no one needs to bring 5 tanks to a raid either.

Remember that healers are definitely not covered by the "bring the player not the class" paradigm that governs tanks & dps but are instead more pigeonholed into their niche roles.

While it is entirely possible for few healers to address all the raid damage at this stage of progression, you can't seriously expect that Blizzard will keep it that way unless they are prepared to release a major content patch every 2 months or so. Raid guilds have already cleared all 25 man content and will thus be farming until Ulduar is released. Unless it is a significant step up in terms of difficulty, you will simply see ennui set in amongst the upper tiers of raiders.

Finally, if 5-6 healers are what Blizzard intend then we are definitely going to see the development of a very antagonistic and competitive attitude between healing classes. For example, if a Holy Paladin is needed to address MT damage then you have 4-5 slots left for three classes which strongly promotes a direct comparison between healing classes & specs to determine the 'best'. While it wouldn't return to the days of Shaman Plateau, at least one class will generally be relegated to 1 raid slot with corresponding backlash in the community.

The irony of this statement is that it actually dropped off a random mob in Storm Peaks for me while on my Rogue alt. I was so dissapointed seeing as it were BOE, I would have mailed it to my Druid immediately.

Why would you substract Intensity regen ? It retains 30% of your spirit OO5SR mana regeneration, not adding 30% to your base spirit regen.