The resto tree died after improved tree of life.

Just compare shamans, paladins and priests top healing talents and tell me how the lack luster druid ones compare to them.

How is this useful? well, its not, because your tank will probably be your target at that point anyways, so WG will his the melee group, but in the case of a rogue screen click where you end up clicking the boss (because, you know, that guy does take up a pretty large portion of the screen) you won’t have to panic to find a target in the mass up there and you should be OK.

As for the actual topic at hand – I agree with Mayfax. This change will have people casting wild growth on groups that are at full life, just because they get a kick ass buff that regens a lot more mana for a group than it does to cast in the first place. You shouldn’t be blowing your 6sec cooldown on someone unless they need the life.

I think this entire talent needs to be reworked by blizzard. They need to first figure out what they want this talent to do. Do they want it to help regen the stuff all the classes use for their abilities? Maybe they could make it an aura put off by our tree with a certain radius, and its proc chance increases with more talents, or the range increases with talents, or both. Or do they want this to just be a low # of targets kind of thing? Then they could add it to lifebloom, and let the proc chance increase with the number on the stack.

Whatever the case, I think they need to start from ground zero with this talent and figure out what it is exactly that they want it to do.

If you put wild growth on someone who is showing up as “in range” (meaning, within 40 yards), but is more than 15 yards away, will WG still hit 4 people who ARE in the 15 yard range of you? Or does it not go off at all?

Thanks =)

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Mai – oh man, I can just see some total nub standing in a void zone being like, WG WILL NOW HIT ME I WILL GET TEH MANA I R SMART.
1. If someone is that stupid to think that’s a good idea, they’re (hopefully) probably not smart enough to know what WG does and how Revitalize works with WG…. hopefully. =P
2. If someone *does* do that, I’m exclusively healing them with LBs and regrowth, and making sure I’m more than 15 yards away ^.^

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When WG was announced, I hoped it would be a party heal. At first I thought the smart aspect was a good idea – it would pick the people who needed my heals – but sometimes I really, really wish I could choose who it applies to, so I could be more in control. I don’t like smart heals very much; hitting a button and letting it choose the targets doesn’t take very much skill, and I resent that.

It isn’t even guaranteed to land on the person you are targetting – if they are topped off, it will go to 5 people around them instead. So there’s no way of actually choosing who gets it, unless particular groups are set apart (eg if melee are all bunched up, casters are all bunched up, etc – but even then it’s not guaranteed).

That’s why I’m not very enthusiastic about this change – I can’t pick who it lands on, I can’t guarantee it will land on all 5 people, I can’t guarantee it won’t land on those same 5 people AGAIN next time, and I don’t even know if it will go to people who need it.

As usual we’ll have to wait and see, but with the prospect of so many classes having a Replenishment option, and the pseudo-random nature of WG, I don’t think it is a very exciting change. At least not for 25 mans – 5 and 10s will be pretty good, I suppose.