World of Wacraft Patch 4.0

[Viridis]

Originally Posted by 01d55

On the alt front, my resto druid can roll lifebloom on the tank and go to sleep. Utgarde Keep used to keep me on my toes with fire runes and the last boss, but now those runes tickle and the last boss drops like a rock - doesn't get more than one shout off in either phase.

That's interesting to hear, having a druid healer as my main. Tauren or Night elf? I've seen some art of the new tree form and am just wondering if the different races have their own or what.

[01d55]

Originally Posted by Viridis

That's interesting to hear, having a druid healer as my main. Tauren or Night elf? I've seen some art of the new tree form and am just wondering if the different races have their own or what.

Tauren. I never clicked tree because it's a cooldown (like demo metamorphosis) and I never needed a cooldown to keep everyone healthy.

[McTahr]

Originally Posted by 01d55

On the alt front, my resto druid can roll lifebloom on the tank and go to sleep. Utgarde Keep used to keep me on my toes with fire runes and the last boss, but now those runes tickle and the last boss drops like a rock - doesn't get more than one shout off in either phase.

The only time I ever found it difficult to run tree heals was when we'd do a PuG 10-man and have just an absolutely shitty second healer, leaving me stuck to support an entire ten dudes who lack any coordination.

The five mans I'd run with, I'd spend 70% of my time in cow form doing DPS just because otherwise I'd be doing nothing. If they've made tree heals even easier, then I can't even see needing to spec for it outside of raids with the way spellpower is now, I'd just "heal" in balance.

[01d55]

Originally Posted by McTahr

The only time I ever found it difficult to run tree heals was when we'd do a PuG 10-man and have just an absolutely shitty second healer, leaving me stuck to support an entire ten dudes who lack any coordination.

The five mans I'd run with, I'd spend 70% of my time in cow form doing DPS just because otherwise I'd be doing nothing. If they've made tree heals even easier, then I can't even see needing to spec for it outside of raids with the way spellpower is now, I'd just "heal" in balance.

To be honest I think it's more changes to Utgarde Keep than to healing; the fire rune ability used to deal enough damage to kill a dps from full hp in 4 seconds, the double boss' dot was pretty scary, and the final boss had some very hard-hitting abilities and enough hit points to get 2-3 stacks of his +damage debuff up, more if a dps dropped.

[McTahr]

Originally Posted by 01d55

To be honest I think it's more changes to Utgarde Keep than to healing; the fire rune ability used to deal enough damage to kill a dps from full hp in 4 seconds, the double boss' dot was pretty scary, and the final boss had some very hard-hitting abilities and enough hit points to get 2-3 stacks of his +damage debuff up, more if a dps dropped.

Yeah, I mostly remember running UK heroics and almost never having to care, as opposed to running say, VH heroics and never having to care. (Like seriously, VH is a joke and even before any kind of survivability buffs I'm pretty sure we could have ran it with four DPS.)

But then again I had a steady tank who knew what he was doing, and generally had at least one DPS slot covered by a mediocre player at worst, and another DPS slot covered by a guy who regularly wins tournaments and tops charts, meaning the DPS was generally smart enough to not need a healer in the first place.

[Flarecobra]

Well, playing on my Pali, and checking out both Prot and Ret... I think I'll stick with Ret on my Pali. I'm liking it, especally for a newie to the game like me.

[Grimpond]

Just remember to watch your Dangle.

[Revising Ocelot]

Cataclysm cinematic. I stopped playing a while ago due to burnout, but I wouldn't mind being a snack for Deathchin.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire