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Changes to Resto Druid Wild Mushrooms in 5.4

Resto Druids are getting some more nice buffs in 5.4 and they are currently looking like the OP healer for 5.4.  One of the major changes is to their Wild Mushroom healing spell.

First, the healing and spell power scaling to wild mushrooms has been tripled (yes, tripled).  It goes from 4,446 healing plus 41.4% spell power to 13400 plus 124.2% spell power.

Mushrooms can now be moved without losing the accumulated healing on them, which will be great for fights like Heroic Magaera, where the stack point could be messed up with cinders and/or ice, and the raid leader calls for the raid to stack on a different mark right before rampage.  Now a druid can simply move the mushrooms rather than losing the healing or having to wait to bloom the mushrooms.

However, the mushrooms can no longer crit heal.  And it accumulates overhealing done by Rejuv by 100%, down from 150%.

The mushroom is now a single mushroom, rather than the group of mushrooms currently used.

Here is the full description:

Wild Mushroom (New)
Grow a magical mushroom with 5 health at the target ally’s location. After 6 sec, the mushroom will become invisible.  The mushroom grows larger as it accumulates healing power from 100% of overhealing done by your Rejuvenation, up to a maximum of 200% of your health in bonus healing. Recasting Wild Mushroom will move the Mushroom without losing this accumulated healing.  Wild Mushroom: Bloom can consume your Mushroom to heal nearby allies.  Only 1 mushroom can be placed at a time. Can be cast in Tree of Life Form, Moonkin Form. Druid – Restoration Spec. 40 yd range. Instant.

Mushrooms have been popular for druids that actually remember to use them, and they can be a huge amount of healing when positioned correctly. But now that these can be repositioned, they will become a very important spell in the resto druid toolkit.

As always, things can change on the PTR between now and 5.4 launching.

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Resto Shaman T16 Tier Bonuses Announced

The Resto Shaman T16 tier bonuses have been announced, and Shamans are getting their first healing absorb.

The two piece bonus will likely start Earth Shield Wars again (why can’t Blizzard allow double Earth Shield on a single tank, as it allows a resto Shaman to Earth Shield a Shaman who already has a personal Lightning or Water Shield.)   The absorb though will be pretty small (8-10k-ish depending on gear level) but it is a resto Shammy absorb.

The 4pc bonus does seem to have some buggy issues on the PTR or there are exceptions to the spells it will mimic, since it doesn’t seem to mimic Healing Rain.

Forum Discussion on Resto Shaman T16 Tier

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Holy & Disc Priest T16 bonuses announced

The Holy Priest and Disc Priest T16 bonuses have been announced.

  • Item – Priest T16 2P Bonus (New) Serendipity also increases the healing of your next Greater Heal or Prayer of Healing by 50% per stack. While Archangel is active, your critical chance is increased by 10%.
  • Item – Priest T16 4P Bonus (New) Circle of Healing and Prayer of Mending casts increase the effect of your next Holy Word spell by 50%, stacking up to 10 times. While Spirit Shell is active, you gain 10% haste and 3,500 mastery.

For Disc, having a 10% crit while using Archangel (aka wings) is really strong and the 4pc bonus to spirit shell is pretty significant.  Having spirit shell up with archangel is a 10-15% healing buff.  For non-absorb healers, this  buffs discs absorbs, at a time when most healers are wishing the absorbs would get nerfed.

The downside to Disc, is that many priests are simply running spirit shell and then Power Word Shield because of all the haste and mastery with as much Atonement as possible, while abandoning all other healing spells.

For holy, the T16 bonuses as it stands will make holy a super OP healer for T16 and it seems likely that the bonuses will be nerfed, so don’t get too excited.

Note: Priest T16 isn’t working as the tooltip states on the PTR currently.

Discussion for Holy Priest & T16 here
Discussion for Disc Priest & T16 here

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Holy Pally T16 tier bonuses announced

Holy Pally T16 tier bonuses are here.

The Holy Pally 2pc is pretty weak at this time, so it won’t be surprising to see holy pallies keeping their old T15 around until they get 4pc, much like they kept the T14 when T15 came out – until it got nerfed that is.

Aside from the 4pc bonus increasing mastery by 1500, neither of the bonuses will increase the current holy pally absorb healing.

Of course, as with the PTR, this could very well change before 5.4 hits, and with such a poor 2pc, I wouldn’t be surprised to see it change.

Forum Discussion on Holy Pally T16 here

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Mistweaver Monk T16 tier bonuses

Mistweaver Monk T16 2pc and 4pc bonuses have been announced, and introduces an absorb for mistweavers.

Blizzard is bringing another absorb to a class without one currently, perhaps to test how well monk mastery interacts as an absorb.  Unfortunately, it is tied to Gift of the Serpent which is bound to make some Mistweavers pretty unhappy.  With the exception of high end raiders pushing progression content, healing spheres aren’t very often deliberately run over by players to heal, it is more likely a player moves for something else and just happens to have a sphere in his or her path that heals.

For those confused about the wording on the 4pc, it essentially means that it is a single targeted extra Chi Wave healing bolt, not once that is bounced from another person.  In theory, this should mean it would be a slightly “smarter” heal compared to a bounce.

With the 2pc bonus, it could end up being that mastery becomes a better stat for mistweavers than it has been this entire expansion.  Or they are perhaps putting it upon mistweavers to nag their raiders to run over the healing spheres since they have an added absorb because spheres have been very underused.  And it could be baby steps to making mastery into a real absorb for mistweavers not tied to a tier bonus.

Remember this is the PTR, so things could vastly change and get updated before 5.4 hits.

Forum Discussion on Monk T16 here

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Resto Druid T16 2pc and 4pc bonuses announced

First look at the Resto Druid T16 tier bonuses on the PTR.

The T16 resto druid has a great 4pc bonus but the 2 pc bonus is a little meh.  Ironbark has definitely been underused by resto druids except for those in the upper end raiding guilds.  While the CD is relatively short, sometimes tanks prefer to call for Ironbark, as opposed to leaving it up to the healer’s discretion, so some druids will have problems lining this up with other cooldowns.

The 4pc is going to be particularly strong, especially for those who like to blanket the raid with rejuvs, and healing for 80% of the amount healed can be pretty significant for Lifebloom and Wild Growth.

Because of the 4pc bonus, and because of the crit increase by the 2pc proc, it seems from this intial look as though resto druids will have a greater emphasis on crit rating for T16, so it is probably worthwhile for druids to begin looking at what gear they can pick up from T15 with crit on it.  Of course, with Blizzard being Blizzard, the T16 bonuses could change any time while on the PTR.

Forum Discussion on Druid T16 Here