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Published on October 21, 2008 by Phaelia
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Restoration Spreadsheet for Wrath Talents and Equipment

Paininabox of Runetotem (US) has released an updated, beta version of Hydraar’s original Restoration spreadsheet that includes our new talent trees and items from Wrath of the Lich King. This is something several readers have asked me about, but keep in mind that the sheet is still considered beta. Eventual features Pain would like to add include buffs, consumables, and Glyphs. If you’d like to contact Paininabox to provide suggestions, comments, or corrections, your can e-mail him at .

Download Paininabox’s
Restoration Spreadsheet

Posts I Loved

• How to get 50 Mounts before WotLK from Tree Bark Jacket
  Keeva shows you how to get your own Albino Drake by collecting 50 or more mounts, no easy feat for a Tauren! Crit Immunity – Redux from Of Teeth and Claws
  Karthis discusses the changes Feral Druids need to make since the release of 3.0.2 made much of their defense rating redundant.
• Advanced Druid Healing from Part Time Druid
  Pummra discusses the things that makes a Druid different from other healers and shares tips on increasing your effective healing throughput, including the liberal use of Swiftmend and Nature’s Swiftness.
• L2PvP: Fakecasting from Yet Another Warlock Nerf
  Horns teaches you how to cast a less desirable spell in the hopes of causing an opponent to waste a crucial interrupt ability. Once their interrupt is on cooldown, you’re free to cast what you will. This will be a valuable skill with PvP-implications of the Lifebloom nerf.
• Feral Druid Profession Choices from ThinkTank
  Kalon takes a look at the benefits to a Feral Druid from each of the available tradeskills.
• Arena Spec Prep for 3.0 (Part I) from Out of Mana
  Megan (whose name is just one letter away from “mean”) examines several possible Arena specs for Druids post-3.0. Part II is available here.

“Mark of the Ancients” Wallpaper from Andrige

Beloved Druid artist Andrige has released a new Druid wallpaper, this one featuring the “Mark of the Ancients” depicted on the Tree of Life’s adorable wooden chest:

Modifying Your Rebirth Macro

With the introduction of Revive, Druids no longer need to downrank Rebirth out of combat to save money. Reader Alathi today submitted this modification to our old downranking macro:

/cast [nocombat] Revive; Rebirth

Thanks, Alathi! However you forgot the “/say This resurrection brought to you by Resto4Life.com” that comes standard with ALL of my resurrections!

Bloggy Bloggers and the Bloggers who Blog Them

It’s harvest time here in the U.S., and accordingly I have a crop of new blogs to share with you:

• Feral at Heart
  The author of FaH plays two Druids, one Feral and the other Restoration. Contains lots of commentary on talent specs.
• Flash of Moonfire
  Dedicated to her two main characters, the first a Balance-specced Druid (a Moonfire caster) and the other a Holy-specced Paladin (a Flash of Light caster), Flash of Moonfire celebrates the versatility of two of the most “hybrid” of classes.
• Ride the Pain Train
  Groloth plays a predominantly PvP-oriented Druid with experience in Balance and Restoration. Definitely seems to take a page from Megan’s l33t coloring book of post images.
• Tree Bark Jacket
  Keeva of Caelestrasz (US) brings us a fantastic new blog about her play as a Restoration Druid. Amazing pictures, humorous writing, and a diverse set of topics make this blog a must-see/must-subscribe!
• Trigger Wicked
  Mooyagi of Mug’thol (US) blogs about WoW “rumors, news, and adventures with friends” from the perspective of a Feral Druid.

Talent Chic: 31 Flavors … of the Month

Resting Resto Tauren Druid by Melissa O’Brien

Curious what everyone else is doing so you can be rebellious and spec for Dire Aquatic Form? Check out Talent Chic, a site that aggregates the most popular talent specs by class by mining Armory data. Uses a great system whereby the most popular builds are given a numerical identifier and variations on that build are expressed as a +/- change to that build! Some interesting facts about Druids:

• The 11 most popular builds for Druids are primarily Restoration, all of which include 53 or more points in the tree and Wild Growth. Apparently, the AoE healers have made quite an impression on us!
• The 10 most popular builds for Druids include 3/3 Living Spirit. This may have something to do with the increased mana cost for many of our spells, including Lifebloom.
• The top 2 builds comprise by and large comprise the most popular choices for Druids and include a 5/0/56 build and an 8/0/53 build. The primary difference? The latter swaps Replenish for Moonglow.

Summarized builds by individual spec are also available: Balance | Feral | Restoration

Thanks to reader David Peterson for the heads up on this fun tool!

15 Comments

• Plaidman

  OMG DISASTAR! Spreadsheet link is bork!!

  This works:
  http://www.uploading.com/files/SHOJAIY9/Resto_SpreadsheetL.xls.html

  1:47 pm on 10/21/08
• Hana

  Hi Phaelia,

  Thanks so much for listing me! My blog is Flash of Moonfire. But I’m a “she” not a “he.”

  Hana

  1:49 pm on 10/21/08
• Josh

  Go Paininabox!
  -formerly Baelor of Runetotem (US)

  Joshs last blog post..New Hotness

  1:57 pm on 10/21/08
• Sorayn

  Any word if the sheet is compatible with OpenOffice? A good number of .xls are not =(

  2:58 pm on 10/21/08
• Brolden

  hehe thanks Phae,I was wondering about the whole thing. Thank you for answering my question and providing all us caster droos with much needed info.

  4:46 pm on 10/21/08
• Paininabox

  Thanks Baelor, long time no see =).

  As to OpenOffice compatibility, after a quick perusal of the spreadsheet everything seems to be in order in OpenOffice.

  5:32 pm on 10/21/08
• Nilianil

  I haven’t looked at the spreadsheet yet, but this TalentChic site is great, hehe

  Thanks for sharing

  5:48 pm on 10/21/08
• Keeva

  *facepalm* I can’t believe I didn’t think to combine Revive and Rebirth! What a dummy! While trying to get used to my new keybinds, a few times I’ve hit my Revive instead of Rebirth, and vice versa, and I still didn’t think to use a nocombat modifier. Sigh. Thank you Alathi and Phae!

  And thank you so much for mentioning my blog! I blushed

  Keevas last blog post..Swift Flight Form trainable at level 71

  6:39 pm on 10/21/08
• Keeva

  Also: I promise to give a little linklove soon – I just keep forgetting to put together a proper list of my favourites rather than just being lazy and letting them build a list of blog links for me. Bit naughty, especially considering things are slow at the moment waiting for WotLK. Tsk. Let’s just say that achievements are.. addictive. Curse you, Blizzard – like I needed another thing in the game to feed my obsessive compulsive tendencies.

  Anyway, I need to set some time aside to check out as many blogs as possible and then put a proper list together (Resto4Life will be right up the top, of course). And jump on Blog Azeroth sometime, too…

  This weekend, I swear! I’m writing it on my hand right now!

  Keevas last blog post..Swift Flight Form trainable at level 71

  8:20 pm on 10/21/08
• Sorayn

  Thanks Panina!

  .. I just logged in and cried. My ‘Amani Punisher’ is now a better healing weapon than my Gavel of Pure Light. Better stamina/int/spellpower at the cost of a mere 3mp/5 out of 5SR and 7mp/5 in it.

  Funny thing is.. I was the only one who could use it in that ZA run months back and picked it up for ‘boomkin’ gear. And now it’s better than the mace I spent a month farming Sha’tar rep for.

  4:12 am on 10/22/08
• Eggo

  Well lightnings blade as been suffering form super lag and instance server being down or bugged (no mobs) for 3days now. Nothing like getting a group for Normal Bot and finding out you have nothing to kill. When I do manage to find something to heal I feel like sexual confused drag queen on prom night. Do I hot, do I regrowth spam or do I healing touch. When I played my priest it was greater heal or flash depending and the tanks hp with pom when I could and renew. I might just need a rotation or maybe I should just play the druid like my priest but I didn’t reroll for that. I’m hoping my confusion comes from the crappy gear I have but until they fix the server issues I can’t change that.

  This whole game play is balanced at 80 not 79 or 60 is starting to piss me off. WoW has always been a linear progression game. Level 1 to 2 to 3 to 5… should all be balanced even up to 80. If at 80 your all wtf pwn when at 79 your sucked lama ball something is broken. Other wise I really don’t care to play those levels in the middle blizzard just speed me to the end where the sun is shine and rainbows are.

  I’m not asking for I win buttons I’m not looking for flavor of the month classes all I’m asking for is balanced enjoyable game play at every level and yes paper beats rock but mushrooms beat all. Should WoW be balance in all aspects?

  And for all the time and effort the went into instance like SM and Ubrs Should they be used more?
  With the new phasing in Wotlk I’d like to see stuff happen in those places they seem long forgotten and that makes me sad.

  Other things making me sad are, LFG system, WoW being a mmo that your better off playing solo and the blurring lines of every classes role (more tools in your box, I just want a hammer not 10 different hammers)

  10:21 am on 10/22/08
• Nim

  Thanks! Always looking for a few more blogs to read, and durids R 4 halping!

  Nims last blog post..Achievements updated

  10:41 am on 10/22/08
• PTD

  Thanks for the link love, Phae! Though with the changes I now have to rework what “Advanced Druid Healing” means!

  PTDs last blog post..What’s the Deal with Achievements?

  1:17 pm on 10/22/08
• Phaelia

  @Plaidman: Oh, thank you! Fixed the link. =)

  @Hana: Whoops – corrected gender-specific pronoun!

  @Josh: Hey now Dwarves can’t be Druids!

  @Sorayn: It sounds like it should be compatible, according to Pain.

  @Brolden: You’re very welcome.

  @Paininabox: Thanks again for giving me permission to share this with everyone!

  @Nilianil: It’s very interesting, although I feel a little funny that I can’t seem to find my current spec on the list. (I didn’t take Replenishment or GotEM.)

  @Keeva: Don’t feel bad; it hadn’t occurred to me either! One fewer key is always a good thing, though. And thanks for being willing to link back here; keep up the great work on your blog!

  @Sorayn: I actually ended up replacing several S2 Restoration items with S3 Balance items for the same reason (although I kept my whole set of S2 because I love the way it looks).

  @Eggo: I think that the issue with balance has less to do with the 70->80 thing and more to do with the recent nerfs to all the content, making everything steam rollable by guilds who just want to experience the content before going to Wrath. In an unlimited mana situation, Druids are going to be hurt the most because we have traditionally benefitted from our high efficiency. I would love to see places like SM and UBRS recycled into Heroic versions of themselves. Who’s to say Mograine hasn’t leveled by now, after all?

  @Nim: Glad to help!

  @PTD: Definitely.

  10:04 am on 10/23/08

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