Enough chit-chat, heh. I’d like to point you towards this blog here

http://www.gameriot.com/blogs/World-of-Ming/The-New-and-Improved-Druid/

wherin a 2300 rated healing druid explains his strategy concerning healchick. I found it very interesting and think I’d just have to share

Enjoy

Restokin … I love it. I think that might just work with WotLK when you can nab Swiftmend AND Moonkin in the same talent build. =D

You could be a Restokin4life
i love that specc, right now im at +1500 healing with 34/0/27, Dreamstate build rules in Heroics and Raids. used to be a tree, but i couldnt farm in that specc, now i´m gettin free +500 spell dmg for my farming with the new patch.

Great Page by the way, i check it all the time, keep the good work.

@Pesce: Thanks for the encouragement. I don’t think I’ll be picking up any traditional Balance items, though, as the idea is to continue wearing my Healing gear and still pew pewing with some efficiency when necessary. /waddle /waddle =)

@Drikke: I will still have Nature’s Swiftness in this build. I did, however, want to bolster my healing abilities as much as I could and still keep Boomkin as a defensive mechanism and so haven’t invested as deeply in Balance as I might otherwise (still have to heal for my guild raids in addition to PvP healing).

@Ermongol: I wasn’t really sure about Furor, either. I would be able to Bash instantly, but that doesn’t really seem to be a huge deal, especially without Feral Impact. It came down to having a bad taste in my mouth looking at the worthless 5-point investment that is IMotW. I think I’d rather throw my points away than mislead any Blizzard developer surveying which first-tier talents are chosen.

And you’re right. My crit will not be that high, especially in pure healing gear. But I will hope for some crits with Moonfire at the very least since that’s a damage spell I can easily throw around. I’m afraid that it isn’t possible to pick up Swiftmend and Boomkin, and Boomkin is the sole purpose of t he build change. However, come WotLK … oooo! The 5/5 in Gift of Nature is to augment my heals more than my damage spells. I basically wanted to try to help make up for the “gimping” I was having to do to my healing ability to pick up Moonkin by offsetting it with every Healing-synergistic talent from the Balance tree.

@Drikke (again): Thank you so much for pointing out that chart. I will have to find a range indicator to help me make good use of Nature’s Reach.

First I’m not sure if nature’s reach is that important in arena. I have never tried 3vs3, but certainly in 2vs2 I’ve had no “out of range” problems so far (hard to have them when you’re the one healing though ^^).

What I don’t see is why furor. I love this talent, but without feral gear or talents (specially feral charge) it’s not that useful (sure some balance druids start in kitty form and pounce to have a combo point to maim with, but isn’t it better to buff up all your party?)

I’m not convinced about vengeance either if you’re planning on using a lot of +healing(+dmg/3) gear because you’ll have like 7-8% crit, +5% in moonkin (in full balance gear you should be able to at least double that); 13% of your spells doing 200% damage instead of 150%? I don’t know.. Maybe with some +crit pieces..

And I’d really consider getting swiftmend, improved regrowth, or both. Swiftmend has saved my life so many times.. And regrowth, well, it’s the closest thing to a flash of light we have.. You already got a healadin, but it’s a nice talent to climb up to swiftmend anyway Buuut if you sacrifice swiftmend (which I’d understand since it requires quite a lot of resto talents), are you sure you wanna spend 5 talents in gift of nature? You may want (for example) to have the chance to spam wrath with celestial focus instead!

With a paladin healing I wouldn’t think of moonkin as a defensive form; I’d rather begin with it, teaching them not to mess with dr00ds, and shift out when the pally is in danger. I don’t use bear form as a defense that often anyway (chaaarge!!), as rogues are the class I fear the least. Lifebloom, abolish poison, barkskin, travel form.. we have plenty of tools already Warriors are a bit more annoying though :/

For hybrid builds I’d either drop moonkin form and go a bit higher on resto (heal & spank) or go for 1/31/29 or something like that. Already having a healer, if I were doing the moonkin experiment myself, I’d keep just a few of my best healing purples and then go crazy with +crit/+dmg and balance talents. /dance!

And Delos, whats wrong with you? Feral and Rogues owning a Boomkin? Get real. A properly armored and spec’d moonkin has no trouble dispatching those classes. It’s the damn healers that give us fits. Freakin Pally’s and their wussy bubbles. I hate’em (unless they’re healing me in instances).

So, I say again, come over to the balance, and live life as a gigantic – feathery – waddle butted – bird.

Nature’s grasp in particular is handy in the sense that, from my understanding, it’s an instant cast cc (when it procs), can’t be spell-locked because of the instant nature, and there’s no mana cost associated with it.

I tried a dreamstate heal-build sometime ago and had to say that I wasn’t impressed with it but that was for pve purposes. It seems like this type of respec *might* be feasible in pvp for 2.3