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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

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Introducing HealerCDs forums

I want to announce the addition of the Healer CDs forums!

When I started HealerCDs.com, it was a way for healers to keep up with all the healer changes going on either as hotfixes or changes happening on the PTR, since it is often data overload with patch and PTR notes on all classes, items and bosses.  As a raid or healing leader, it was often easy to miss a change on priest healing, for example, when you play a druid – or perhaps not even a healer at all.

As the site got a steady increase of traffic (we are up to thousands of visitors daily, woot), I began getting a lot of people contacting me with specific healing questions, whether about healing specific fights or healing classes in general.  Unfortunately, while some of this has gone into raid guides and tips, I unfortunately can’t keep up with everything and I don’t know every single healing class inside out like I know some of them 🙁  So here is hoping that those who can help, will.

We will also be looking to add moderators, particularly to the healing class forums.  If you are interested, start becoming active on the forums then you can apply.

Best of all, if your guild is looking for a healer, there are forums you can post to let healers know you are recruiting.  Likewise, if you are a healer looking for a home, there is a separate forum just for healers looking.  I know what a pain it is to sort through the official WoW recruitment forums with its all in one approach.

And if healing changes are made on live or PTR, I might start threads about them for further discussion, especially when they are big or controversial changes (it would have been great for all the people who contacted me with the disc changes in 5.3).

We also ask that if you are known by a specific healing toon name, you register it sooner rather than later, I don’t want to have to be the person to figure out who is best known by that name 😉

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Mistweaver Monk Revival no longer dispels Matter Swap

If you have killed or are working on heroic Dark Animus, one of the most useful raid cooldowns, Mistweaver’s Revival, is pretty much a death sentence to anyone who has Matter Swap when the monk pops it.  So monks either would have to time it extremely carefully, or would have to assassinate one of their fellow raiders with the dispel portion of Revival for the greater good of keeping the rest of the raid alive after a bad Interrupting Jolt.

Good news for Mistweavers and raid leaders, the June 4th hotfixes finally included a change that sees Revival no longer dispelling Matter Swap.

Monk’s Revival ability will no longer dispel the Matter Swap debuff.

I only wish this happened while we were working on this boss for progression!  Blizzard also made a change where players will no longer get multiple Matter Swap debuffs together.

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Players should no longer get multiple Matter Swap debuffs at once

If you have worked on heroic Dark Animus, you are probably familiar with the bad RNG death sentence of a single player being targeted with multiple Matter Swaps at once.  Fortunately, Blizzard has finally corrected this, and the Massive Anima Golems shouldn’t give multiple debuffs to the same player.

Massive Anima Golems will no longer target the same player with multiple Matter Swap debuffs.

With this change, and the hotfix where Revival no longer dispels Matter Swap, this very intense fight just became a bit easier for guilds tackling this boss soon.

 

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Blizzard believes absorb heals are still too strong

5.3 saw some nerfs for both holy paladins and disc priests.  Even post-5.3, those two classes are still pretty powerful, and the devs have commented that they feel that absorbs are still too strong.

we did nerf both Discipline and Holy paladins in 5.3, but our suspicion overall is that absorbs are still too potent and prominent.

We will probably have to wait for PTR to be able to see what will get nerfed or changed, however, but it is good they are looking at addressing the issue of absorbs and shields, especially for those classes who are trying to heal against disc priests and paladins.

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Druid hots will have more emphasis in 5.4

While Druids got a nice buff in 5.3, according to the Dev interview at Icy-Veins, they will be emphasized even more in 5.4,

HoTs used to be the mechanic that provided some healing cushion” and now it really feels like absorbs have shouldered hots away. We buffed Resto druids a little in 5.3 and we have plans in 5.4 to emphasize their hots even more, especially in AE healing situations, which have become the dominant way to heal raids. We’ll see what the 5.3 changes bring to absorbs and make further changes as necessary. We’re glad that 10-player healers are having fun playing their Holy paladins and Disc priests, but the shaman, druids, monks and other priests want to have fun too. Healer representation is much better at the 25-player raid level.

There has definitely been some improvement with druids in 5.3, this should help bring them up a bit more.