I FINALY got a chance to get on the beta servers . . and play. The lag had been so bad this weekend that it was impossible to do anything. So when all the kids went back to school I took the opportunity to log in on Monday to check it out again.
>[LFG] Izak: Looking for a healer for Nexus.
>[LFG] Paravel: I’d love to come give it a try, although I have not been in there yet.
>[LFG] Izak: I take it your resto?
>[LGF] Paravel: Yep
> Izak /invite Paravel
> /accept invite
And that is how it began. My first Northrend instance, and first chance to heal with my new spec. At first I was a little frustrated at loosing some of the spells I used to have in the balance tree. They made it possible for me to be resto and solo or PvP. Now it looked like I was being left out in the cold only to heal. At honestly at this point the jury is still out. . but as for healing. OH WOW! But I should start with some basics.
When I logged in I looked at my character sheet. As you know bonus to healing and bonus to spell damage is no longer a part of our gear. It has all been wrapped up into a new system called spell power. All my gear now has new stats.
WoW Live
WotLK
Stainless Cloak of the Pure Hearted
Stainless Cloak of the Pure Hearted
If you mouse over the two lists you will notice that the bonus stats have changed. When I looked at a few things I scratched my head. One thing that I noticed is it looked like my mana regen while in combat had taken a hit. I was a little worried. But no need.
So now was the time to go into my first instance and heal. It was like Christmas morning. Nervouse, anxios, trying to re-read my tool tips on my new heals. We started into the instance and had a ball.
Let’s take a look at some of the new heals and redone heals a druid now have.
Lifebloom: My bread in butter in live. I am constantly spamming lifebloom on the tank and those who might receive damage. In live will cost you 220 mana and heal for 273 over 7 seconds, then hits them with 600 health at the end. The WotLK version of Lifebloom, which now has 3 ranks, will cost 10% of your base mana and heal 280 over the 7 seconds.
Healing Touch: They have done some work on this heal that honestly I hardly used in live. On live server its sometimes referred to as our “BIG” heal. Only problem is I have to shift out of tree form to cast it and it takes forever and a day to cast. Well in the beta Healing Touch will cost you 33% of your base mana and takes .5 second off the cast time. And, it can be used IN tree form! I used it last night for the first time and enjoyed the flexibility.
But I was more excited about this!
Flourish Wild Growth (EDIT- It was renamed in this mornings patch) We now have an AOE heal over time that has some serous teeth to it. “Heals up to 5 friendly party or raid members within 15 yards of the target for 2212 over 7 sec. The amount healed is applied quickly at first, and slows down as the Flourish reaches its full duration.”
2212 over 7 seconds to 5 members! That is stinking awesome. I pulled that bad boy out a number of times last night in our 5 man and it was great!
Omen of Clarity had a wonderful do over as well. I had skipped it in my live build as it would only proc if you where in mele. Well as a tree I do my best to stay out of mele so it was pointless. Now however it is a passive type spell that gives pretty much any of our damage a chance to put us in a clear casting state. I love clear casting on my mage. Free mana is so wonderful! I was enterint this state more times than I could keep count last night. Lets just say mana was the least of my worries.
Last night we had a total of 2 deaths. One was a ret pally who just bit off more than they could chew and I was unable to get to them in time, but hey, I got to use our new out of combat rez. *smile* And myself when I pulled a dragon on our way to the last boss. Oops. Even with imp tree I still died. But hey, I lasted 3 hits to the old 1 hit from a 73 eleite.
You can watch the run as soon as it is done uploading to Vimeo.
More to come. Still lots of resto goodies to talk about.
I am more excited than ever to get back into healing on Paravel. Trees now have a wonderful arsonal of healing at our disposal. I hope to get into more instance and really Link to heading
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