The 14 points you focus on are pretty amazing all around! I love seeing new options, especially since these talents also give Balance Druids a strong boost to their healing. They’re even enough to make a Feral jealous ( /daydream …I would *love* longer HoT stacks and extra crit/damage/threat on spell pulls! It would go well with all that spell crit we’ll have from our Rogue gear! )

I almost wonder if Nature’s Splendor is the end result of what they’d originally conceived of as individual Druid glyphs. Extending the duration of HoTs and DoTs feels very glyphy to me, especially given the change it could have on play style.

Supercool!

@Thalosar: I’m personally planning to pick up both Living Spirit and Moonglow. I suspect with the changes to chain-potting, any advantage we can get in terms of mana regeneration will be welcome. I’ve also had my share of OOMing from Regrowth spam in the first instance, but that may be alleviated at 80 with Nourish

@Emee: If you find a seller, let me know.

@Yggdrasil: I used Tranquility last night in Nexus but only once. Flourish is so good at preventing you from getting into a situation where you would need to use Tranquility that I think it makes those points even more obsolete than before. Not to mention the extended tick duration of Lifebloom makes it a lot easier to maintain HoTs on your tank while simultaenously throwing Lifebloom around your group. I was under the impression that Nature’s Grace had been changed to lower the global cooldown to 1.0 to avoid it being useless for Wrath spam…?

I’m considering actually dropping Natural and Master Shapeshifter talents. Natural Perfection may also go out the window. Tranquil Spirit and Naturalist are both very iffy. If I don’t take Naturalist at all, Empowered Touch is also a waste.

Also, something to consider, last I checked (its been quite a while) Nature’s Grace had no effect on GCD, so a spell reduced to 1 second from 1.5 (i.e. Nourish) will still leave the player unable to cast again for another .5 seconds, assuming they have no Haste.

Let’s say that you only cast regrowth.. (Regrowth 675 mana and 2 sec to cast).
A. Living spirit + intensity (300 mp5 in combat and you start with 10k mana).
I think then you get oom after 34 secs (17 casts) (still got 625 man left).

B. intensity + moonglow (lets say then: 250 mp5 // 10k mana // 608 mana regrowth) I think then you get oom after 38 secs (19 casts) (still got 198 left ).

You can see that for Regrowth you can drop Living Spirit to get Moonglow. (with 3.0 patch) But this is not valid for all spells (LB), and I don’t know how important MP5 will be at level 80 raiding. I know we can get both Living Spirit and Moonglow. I see the comment about getting more points. I just want to point out that maybe 3 points is less important.
(I think i will keep Living Spirit also. MP5 stays always important).

@Riverrun: Nature’s Splendor is AMAZING. At three points, I get Lifeblooms that tick NINE time before expiring. It pretty much removes any doubt about Lifebloom being used as a raid heal, however, as you can’t afford to wait 9 seconds for a bloom effect. Still, with that and GotEM, it’s a lot lot LOT more fun to roll LB on your tank (though it’s really thrown off my rhythm and is going to take some adjustment).

@Mike D: I agree – it’s going to be difficult to nab everything we want. Maybe it’s a good thing we can have an alternate spec.

@Lovemace: Graylo wrote an article about the Balance changes, too. You can read it here. Here’s a snippet from his summary: “The new talents have made the Bloat issue a whole lot worse [...] To make matters worse, blizzard eliminated several of the useless talents in the Balance tree and replaced them with decent talents. I could easily spec in to 86 talents, but I will have only 71 points. That means I will have to skip 15 good talents.”

@Tildir: It is COMPLETELY insane. But let’s be careful how loudly we announce it. Healing in the Nexus, I only rarely had mana issues — and only when I forgot which of my buttons did what and spammed the wrong spells. Druids are going to have tremendous longevity in the expansion which is going to be a big plus in our desirability column.

@Nilianil: Your build looks very similar to what I will end up with, though I’m considering moving the 2/2 Improved Tranquility and 2/3 Replenish into Tranquil Spirit for its mana reduction on Nourish. Again though, it depends on how much I like Nourish. It could be a great melee heal because of its synergy with Flourish.

@Shika: I never thought I’d hope a spell would be worthless, but I’m really rooting to be able to discard Healing Touch altogether.

@Horns: These ARE some awesome changes … for Resto. ^^ The stuff for Balance is really nice, too, though and I’ve enjoyed my brief stints as a Boomkin, (aside from the horror that is the form) so I may decide to use a Balance spec as my “off spec” for when my raid has too many healers.

@Kuhbi: It actually adds new ticks to a HoT, rounding to the nearest second. So for instance, with 1 point in NS, I got 8 ticks on LB; at 2 points, I still got 8 ticks (though I’d probably get an additional tick from one of the other HoTs); at three points, I got 9 ticks. See Fiord’s response. He helped me test it on beta!

@Zackoria: I’m in agreement with you on the Tranquility talents. They’re nice, but not as nice as some of the other options, especially for a raider.

Re: Replenish – Honestly, I’ll be really sad if I’m viewed as an Energy battery for the Rogues. That sounds completely anti-fun to me.

@Karmakin: I agree that Druids won’t be running more than 2 or 3 stacks of Lifebloom in the expansion (at least I hope not). It would drain our mana too quickly for a role that could be just as easily fulfilled by a well-placed Flourish and a few Nourish casts. Gone are the days of staring at my Grid addon and rocking back and forth so I don’t screw up my Lifebloom rotation. Thank, Elune!!

@fl3x: In my opinion, Nature’s Grace is just too much fun for the single point required. And if raids are anything like instances are now, we’ll actually be making fair use of direct heals — Nourish/RG — so it can actually be pretty useful!

@Raaff: I like your build, though I think I’d rather have points in Tranquil Spirit than Replenish. It will depend on how useful the Rage regeneration is vs. how often I cast Nourish, though.

@Thalosar: Living Spirit is still phenomenal, despite the change to ToL’s aura. Most of our regeneration comes from Intellect/Spirit + Intensity. That’s definitely not a talent I’m willing to consider dropping.

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20% tree of life : hots
15% improved tree of life : hots
9% moonglow (rejuv + regrowth+ HT)

Pretty mana efficient hots casting
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I have to agree with the comments against Nature’s Grace. I dont see myself using HT often, and even though Nourish and Regrowth would benefit, it would not be enough for a ponit there. Instead I’d rather max out Replenish and Imp. Tranq. I’ve always been a fan of a 0-threat Tranquility, and now that it reduces the CD to 4 minutes, I cant see myself passing that talent up!

13/0/58 for this tree.