You should use the Intellect version (with Spirit proc) for the Darkmoon Card too but all this information should be in the trinket thread.

Am I missing a point or is the end result of casting and letting it bloom slightly more efficient for mana purposes (assuming bloom) than it is now?

Having not raided as a resto druid until 3.0 might have helped my experiences because I don't really see Lifebloom as that great of a spell. The other side to this is that I'm usually healing raid and very rarely healing tanks unless it's Sarth, so I don't really bloom as much as some of the people here. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm thinking that slow stacking isn't/won't be necessary. Even if you roll bloom on two tanks now it doesn't really tax mana. So I'm just going to state outright that rolling Bloom (currently on live) on two tanks isn't a problem and therefore come 3.1, even keeping it up on 1 tank will be fine. As it stands now, it fits a niche well now (only used as a buffer, great for keeping up tanks who take spiky damage).

So the two relevant questions that come into mind would be am I struggling for mana and is Lifebloom required to be kept on multiple tanks at once? In current content right now, will that change much? I can only think of two fights where there is enough spiky damage to validate multiple bloom roll, Patchwerk and Sarth3d. In both cases, there is another healer there to help and I usually end up throwing a RJ&RG and that's enough to help with the second tank I help heal. For Patchwerk, I am always on the add tank and act more as a buffer using blooms for hatefuls. With two tanks, I roll bloom on the first tank more as a courtesy (and to pad charts), than what is really needed to be honest. Even in an optimized fight where it pretty much will tick every second on two ticks, it came out second for my breakdown behind me spamming regrowth like a madman. This number should've been less as one of our MT healers DC'd before pull. More on Sarth below.

As for the first question, with this change would changing healing styles really be necessary (for mana purposes)? As a raid healer (most of the time), the most mana taxing fights for myself are:
1) Maly
2) First half of Sarth 3d
3) Saphiron
The things these three have in common is that I'm mostly Pre-RJing every GCD and that there is a lot of raid damage that occur constantly. Lifebloom will not affect how I heal in either case 1 and 3, but for 2 it's a little tricky. The only reason Sarth3D is tough for myself is that I spend time bouncing between both the add and drake tanks and focus more on what needs more help (too many adds or both drakes down) as well as try to RJ the raid when I can. For the 30 or so seconds when both drakes are up and the OT has a lot of adds on him is usually the hardest part for me to heal, but I don't think it so unbearably mana intensive that I will need to slow stack/ let blooms fall off for the 30 seconds required to down them.

So what will the Lifebloom change mean for me? Nothing. It will neither affect my playstyle (heavily RJ oriented), my healing priorities (needing to keep a stack on a tank constantly, 2 if I foresee big damage incoming). As far as the death of multiple tank blooming goes, unless there is a fight that is long and heavy consistent raid and multiple tank damage, I wouldn't worry about it yet.

The only thing I'm confused about is didn't they say previously that they wanted us to continue to roll blooms and that they didn't want giant chunks of mana to come back at once (a la pre-replenish days)? Wouldn't the simpler solution just to have been if bloom gave us a smaller percentage (say 5%) every tick (max at 10 ticks, thus 50% return) rather than a giant 1000ish return after 30 seconds (assuming slow stacked)? It would actually require some sort of attention in contrast to the fire and forget method... a role that RJ quite handily occupies for me right now. Assuming the change goes through, wasting 3 GCDs every 13 seconds seems like a very poor design choice.

It was stated that 10 man raids are balanced around 3 healers. In fact I believe that resto druids are targetted specifically to push for the 3 healer setup since we excel at healer-low environments due to the high HPS and HPM of hots. We'll see how effective that is, especially with external mana sources - namely feral druid innervating a tree, or stacking DPS shamans for mana spring (that stacks, right?). I wouldn't be surprised to see innervate becoming self cast sometime in the near future.

I can echo what was said above. I wish I would have ran logs, but forgot. However, last night I had very little mana issues after I adjusted to the changes. The first attempt I went with how I am used to healing(constantly rolling on MT as well as aggressive raid healing) and I ran OOM quite quickly. However, after that attempt I was a LOT more cautious about "wasting" casts(IE I canceled heals on people that got healed up before my nourish/regrowth/etc finished) and refreshing lifebloom(I was actually doing what GC said... Watching to see if I should let it bloom or not). I also found that slow-casting lifebloom was the "best" way to do it.. at least for deconstructor(raid damage was heavy).


I still topped all meters(no priests in the raid); not that topping meters is the most important thing.


Honestly, the increased mana to lifebloom may be a pain in the short run, but it did make me a more alert and tactical healer.


My only major complaint is innervate. It regens VERY little mana now and I was a bit surprised that I went from getting mroe than a full bar of mana on live to about half on ptr. I do not have the innervate glyph, but for mana intensive battles I may pick it up(and definitely drop regrowth glyph).

Nourish has become my go-to heal for raid healing/tank healing. Lifeblooms dont tick fast enough and with the added changes to nourish its a perfect flash heal. However, with the mana back from lifebloom I was finding myself often times throwing 1 lifebloom on people that were 90-95% health and just letting it pop.

All in all, after thinking the sky was falling its not near as bad on ptr. If you havnt given it a shot yet, I would. It took me one encounter to adjust to the changes. We even hit the enrage timer(on purpose) and at that point I was still at half mana with my innervate up.