It may be another post, but havent been able to find it. What is the best gear for each slot for a resto druid?

Indeed, I do not know what ulduar will demand of me. But I dare say you don´t know either. I allready know how to keep lifebloom up on someone, that isn´t really hard, thus I don´t learn anything by doing so just cause mana allows me to atm. Its quite possible there will be battles where you haveto keep rolling it, but its also possible that there will be battles where there simply isn´t enoughe mana to carelessly roll LBs but where timing regrowths with letting it fall off will be valuable. It´s never a bad thing to have many ways to go about a task, and its never a bad thing for a raider to be prepared. To ponder ways to overcome new restrictions to a spell is never a wasted effort. Just out of curiosity... what do you intend to do about situations where you roll your LBs on a tank and hot people but your mana just isnt enoughe? Simply avoid any battle that challenges your manabar? Or what are your tricks to get by in a pinch?

Drink a mana pot or use Innervate? We're obviously going to have to use rolling Lifeblooms with more caution, that's the point of the nerf. I think the trick we're going to have to learn is when to roll that Lifebloom stack and when to conserve and use our other spells. We can still maintain our other hots without it being too taxing, and when the damage is pumping we pull out Lifeblooms. I'm sure there will be fights were we will be able to maintain at least one stack on a tank, and others where we might not be able to for the full duration of the fight. We'll just have to see.

To be honest, in fights that challenge me healing-wise, I already skip LB for the most part. Maybe I'm just bad, but LB already only seems to work for me when I can play the "assistant"-healer game. That is, when I can heal the raid and keep LB rolling on the tank(s), cushioning general damage but leaving the damage spikes to other healers. That style simply doesn't seem to work with few healers on challenging content like Sart+3, which is where LB gets phased out from my rotation almost entirely (except when I'm on MT healing).

On Sarth+3, I'm usually on add/drake tanks and the raid. Before Twilight Torment, the tanks get rather sporadic damage, so it's not really worth to roll LB on each of them. In Twilight Torment, I feel that LB doesn't have the required throughput, and I simply can't spare the gcd. With the frantc healing going on in that phase I would probably lose the stacks anyway, due to having to save someone from certain death.
With the new mana cost, there is a good chance that LB will be completely relegated to cases when I can focus mostly on one tank, and then it will mainly be Nourish-fodder. Sad, but not a big change to my current style of healing.

Looking at my Sarth recount/wws reports, I'm more worried about the regrowth nerf. Regrowth is usually around 50% in this specific fight, so it might get hit badly. Then again, most of its healing is the HoT, so it might not be so bad after all.

It would be interesting for me to know if you healed the same way when you were learning the encounter. Our guild killed Sarth with 3 drakes for the first time yesterday (yeah we are slow, I know...). We had 3 healers on the raid/add/drake tanks (another druid, a shaman and me) and 2 on the MT. Here is the wws report if it is of interest.
I usually have regrowth and rejuv on the tanks, which - together with the rejuvs/regrowths from the second druid - seemed to be perfectly fine in topping up the add tank. Maybe the key is really that I'm not the only druid in the raid, resulting in a different healing style? Then again, maybe my brain capacity is just not enough to keep LB reliably going through hard healing

I did, which resulted in a few lavawall / voidzone fails on our first night since there's a lot of things to keep track of (lava walls, void zones, making sure I'm standing in DnD, hot timers and raid health). But after getting "the routine" it works well.
In your WWS I see you healed a lot compared to the other healers. Also we use 6 healers instead of 5. My first guess is that isn't normal and that your other healers don't pull their weight, and therefore you have the feeling that if you don't use a lot of direct healing, people will die?

Those of you who hate rolling Lifeblooms are really going to have a party rolling Rejuv on a dozen people. Have I mentioned that this is a dumb playstyle yet? It combines the brainlessness of CoH mashing with the irritating finger strain of Warrior tanking.

This needs to be toned down somehow or it'll dominate any fight with a significant amount of AoE damage. Maybe it's time for a cooldown on Rejuv.

I don´t really count the battles where a manapot and an innervate is all you need to keep going as those that challenge your manabar. So far the only ones I have faced that do this was naxx while being undergeared on account of starting up later than the rest of my raidgroup or when other healers mess up or die.

About mass rejuvenating and aoe damage fights I can agree it gets somewhat spammy, but I´m not really sure how they should solve the situation for the better. When people take lots of damage we drop our wild growths and rejuvs but what kind of ability would take away the spammy feeling? Rejuvspam feels spammy cause its one of our best spells without a CD. If they were to add one we don´t haveto klick as much it would haveto be something that heals a lot of people that isn´t instant and such a spell would haveto have a cooldown. If it didn´t they would haveto make it castable fast enoughe so not become to slow to react to aoe damage and if it was fast with a CD a lot of situations we would simply be back to rejuving when our chain heal wannabe is on CD so we would basicly just have another wild growth. I guess they could overhaul tranquility into something raidwide but I have a hard time imagening any shape that would make it usefull unless it has a CD and if it has a CD... well, now Im going in circles...

I hate rolling Lifebloom, but I have no problem healing ~8 people by rolling Rejuv. That is how I have been primarily playing since WLK. It's fine. Have you ever done Sapphiron? How else do you heal it other than spamming Rejuv for 5 minutes, and WG on cooldown? I enjoy healing Sapphiron much more than Patchwerk.

I don't understand your thought process. How does a spell being particularly effective at a task mean it should be toned down? What sort of spell balance do you envision where you don't have to spam something to heal 20 people of aoe damage? What is it about Rejuvenation being effective at healing raid aoe damage that makes you think it would be better with a cooldown?

Haven't done the fights on the PTR, but spamming rejuv doesn't seem very productive besides on specific fights (read: sapphiron). It's of course very useful as both a tank heal as well as a light raid heal, but raid damage is often better healed with our other spells.
The main selling point of rejuv is that it's very cheap, both in mana and in cast time. It's the default heal for a minor HP deficit which might explain why it accounts for a lot of healing. But if you have to heal specific damage - say malygos' AOE - you're not gonna rejuv.

It's the consequences of Rejuv's effectiveness that are a problem. Let's start with the premise that gameplay should involve making decisions, rather than just mashing a rotation. In TBC, Lifebloom rolling was so effective that it usually accounted for the majority of a Druid's GCDs. This decision-less gameplay was seen by Blizzard as a bad thing, hence the addition of Nature's Splendor. Now Rejuv rolling threatens to push us into a static, decisionless rotation again. That is a bad thing; effective but brainless doesn't add up to fun, and it's not what Blizzard wants for us.

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