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By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:47:52 +0000

@Yog Barbarian: I guess FD/drink only works in PvP? I was under the impression they added combat pulses to prevent it during boss encounters in PvE. In any case, Druids are in the same boat with a much more restricted ability to get away, drink, and Shadowmeld until found.

By: Yog Barbarian

Yog Barbarian — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:17:30 +0000

Currently I play elf/hunter (my 3th lvl 70 char) – I love the ability to FD+drink/eat even in the middle of combat. I use it A LOT in pvp… now the new racial nerfes this combo almost to zero.

I realy realy dont like the change, I am so angry at the moment that i am thinking of canceling my account and quit this finally.

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Tips for using the new Shadowmeld wisely | Immortal Guardians — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:38:27 +0000

[...] and it will drop (though not wipe) threat, cancelled on moving. This adds, as Phaelia notes, a few new wrinkles to Night Elf gameplay — not only will NE Priests have a new aggro “pause” (since the aggro [...]

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:58:30 +0000

@Lume and Hokuto: I think you make a good argument for Replenish. Maybe I’ll have to give it another look.

I’m also waiting for my number crunching on that glyph, but I admit that I’ve been turned off by the recent, rather sweeping changes (yay, beta, I know). I may wait a bit until things are more finalized, or at least until after the patch where they fix us back to Tree-Gods …

By: Hokuto

Hokuto — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:52:23 +0000

I wasn’t thinking about tossing rejuv on myself, actually. I guess it’d be good for everyone but better for some: warriors and rogues would get the most of out it, since they’re manipulating limited “power” pools, and every extra energy point equals more dps. Mana users wouldn’t be thrilled about it, as they’re already well served with replenish-effects: I’ve run an heroic on PTR with prot pally, ret pally, enhance shaman and a BM hunter and the replenish effect was up pretty much all the time. The mana torrent is almost annoying.

To be honest I probably won’t be picking neither it or Living Seed when I hit 80… But as Nature’s Splendor is out of reach for a lv70, I might as well keep either for raiding until the expansion (if only my guild didn’t give up on raiding, that is… /sigh).

Oh, and I’m waiting on your number crunching for that glyph. I really want to know what’s its point after all. The more I test it, the more I /boogle.

By: Lume

Lume — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:40:58 +0000

Replenish is one of those things where it's a culmination of all your resto druids. On paper, per druid, it's a really small amount of return power to the raid. But if you have three druids doing it, it can end up being a good 200 DPS boost to the raid in 3.0, which *can* make a difference between a 1% wipe and a kill, as it'd be 72K damage in a 6-minute fight. Lumes last blog post..PvE to PvP Server Transfers an Overdue Policy Change

By: Phaelia

Phaelia — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:23:15 +0000

@Spectrum: I’m sort of unhappy about the change to Nature’s Splendor myself. I’m glad Lifebloom will last a little longer, of course, but the smaller increase on the duration of Regrowth and Rejuvenation means we have less time to Swiftmend. Poop. And … you’re going to try to run 5-stack? Crazy man.

@Jezzabell: If I end up on “DK rejuving duty” I am so rerolling. Well, at least if they’re DPSing!

@Azleus: I wondered that myself, but the first part of the spell reads exactly the same. It had better still be an invisibility since it’s cooldown has gone through the roof! I guess we’ll see with an upcoming beta build.

@Zackoria: I LOL’ed. Seriously. That. Is. Win.

@Zamir: I’m still not sure what niche the Glyphed HT is supposed to fulfill. I guess I should probably crunch some numbers again. Busy, busy!

@Hokuto: How often are we going to cast Rejuvenation on ourselves, though? To restore our mana? Blech. That seems like a horribly annoying mechanic to me.

By: Hokuto

Hokuto — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:58:09 +0000

About the Replenish nerf: it works even if it’s overhealing, so I think it’s ok. It was restoring me 95-ish mana, not so bad, specially with ToL now being EXTREMELY mana-efficient; LB is almost for free.

@Zamir: I’m on PTR right now and after using HT glyph (only because Nourish is out of my reach atm) I was compeled to come here and check what Phae said about it.

I’m at 1126 spell power (formely 2127 healing), and my glyphed HT and rejuv are healing for the same amount. Ok, HT on this scenario is 1s faster (if talented), but rejuv has a MUCH higher chance to crit (again, if talented), leaves a 21s-window opened for a swiftmend and, glyphed (50% more healing if applied on a target that already have it), would be even more efficient.

I still don’t see a point for that glyph, and it gets worse: Nourish at 80 will be our fast heal of choice, imo.

By: Zamir

Zamir — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:01:08 +0000

Nice to know the glyph makes Healing Touch somewhat efficient. Outside of using it with Nature’s Swiftness, when healing as a moonkin, Healing Touch always seemed way too slow to me. Probably was too. Other healers were already finishing their own casting and I ended up having wasted lots of time and mana for disputable benefits.
I still have my doubts about using it in ToL compared to Lifebloom or Regrowth, but as a moonkin it is undoubtedly much welcome.

By: Ermengol

Ermengol — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:17:34 +0000

Jezzabell, the thing is downranking will be effectively removed from game. They’re giving the same mana cost to all ranks; learning higher ranks just makes spells more effective.