When I was questing with another druid in MoP Beta, I was able to snap some pictures of old swim form and orca form next to each other. For PvP reasons, people wanted to see how big our killer whale form is. It looks as though the new orca form
Intellect Changes Normalizing mana across the board is going to force druids to change the way we play. Being an intellect based regen class, we were able to cut ourselves down to unreal amounts of spirit in favor of other secondary stats. However, we
Now that we have been in beta a couple of weeks, it is time for me to start doing my moonkin beta posts, which I write a couple times each beta. I’m going to try and keep this reasonably short to just highlight some major areas where things are
So, now that I’ve covered how symbiosis works, lets take a look at how I would assign my 5 druids to their Symbiosis targets in my 25-man raids. Assume for now that Symbiosis looked exactly like it does in Beta right now (see list on MMO-champion).
So, now that I’ve hit level 87 in beta, I have been able to try out Symbiosis. Sunfyre, in combination with other druids, hit 87 first and mapped out what the current spell list is for Symbiosis. You can find it on mmo-champion right now.
So, they pushed out a new build last night. The mmo-champion patch notes aren’t particularly helpful for figuring out what the changes actually were for resto druids this build. Barkskin/Ironbark First, I have BOTH Barkskin & Ironbark on
I ran my first beta instance last night, which gave me the opportunity to test the Healing Shroom spell outside of Stormwind or solo leveling. Healing Shrooms overall have gotten really mixed reviews. Some people really like the concept, and some people
This is part 2 in my series of MoP talent feedback. See part 1 on the level 90 talents here. For today’s post, I want to talk about the two crowd control tiers in the new MoP talent calculators. These are our level 45 and 75 talents. This is written
Hey guys, we got updates on the EU forum from Wryxian about moonkin form not being forgotten! Well, we agree. And this is why an improved moonkin model is indeed in the schedule. But alas I have no due date to announce. In the meantime, we hope the various
Now that beta has started, it’s time to get serious about evaluating the new talents and their problems. Today, we’ll start with the level 90 talents. I was going to try and fit multiple tiers of talents in this post, but the level 90 talents
Here are some more pictures from Beta! Here is Astral Swarm (the arcane hurricane spell when you are in Lunar Eclipse) Here is the newly updated force of nature for moonkin! They cast wrath! Force of Nature (casts Healing Touch) and Healing Shrooms
Here are some screenshots of the new druid forms in Beta. Thanks to Henchick for helping with some of the shots. I don’t have a lot, since I’m just quickly trying to get stuff posted before I head to campus this morning. I only had about a
So, when the new talent tree updates were released, we also got some new information about how Symbiosis will work. You can read about the mechanic details here, if you haven’t already. Lets take a look more specifically at the examples of abilities
So, it looks like we got a nice MoP talent calculator update for druids. For this post, I’m just going to go through a handful of the bigger changes. I’ll do more focused critiques for resto & moonkin over the next few weeks. The change
Edit: My timing sucked & this changed in the new calculator update. I edited this post to reflect the new changes. Edits are in itallics and outdated info has a strikethrough so you can see the changes. So, we still have another month before
Hi guys! We’re back! After a week of down-time, we have finally managed to get the blog up and running. So, what happened? Well, on Sunday, we were trying to fix a small problem where my blog didn’t show up at all on Google searches. While
Progression raiding at times can be time-consuming, but a very rewarding activity. Breaking outside the normal, watch this video and kill the boss like this, and developing strategies for yourself gives a great sense of success when a mighty
So, now that we’ve had several weeks of raiding in 4.3 Dragonsoul raids. I wanted to check on how raids of various types are doing, so I’m creating a series of polls to ask about how people feel they are doing in 4.3. While it’s not
Progression raiding at times can be time-consuming, but a very rewarding activity. Breaking outside the normal, watch this video and kill the boss like this, and developing strategies for yourself gives a great sense of success when a mighty
http://americancensorship.org/infographic.html My log content is still up today, however I still wanted to talk about these laws because it effects my ability to bring you blog content. Totalbiscuit (yes, the WOW podcaster) made a youtube video you can
Remember back in Wrath of the Lich King (not that long ago), when we had these hugely cumbersome talent trees? You had to invest 5 points in things that you get for 1 or 2 points now. New players looked at the giant web of 1% increases to abilities, and
So, in my guild’s 25-man raids, I end up being a true Restokin, where I DPS the majority of the time but also have to fill in for when healers are absent or for fights where we need more healing. One day, I may DPS every fight, the next day I may
So, my poll measuring how people feel about druid healing has ended at this point. I wanted to briefly go over some good news and some bad news as it relates to the data I’ve collected through the poll. For the below poll results, I’m going
OK, so I (Garnaph) know this is a Resto/Boomkin blog, but it’s about time I posted something that’s pretty hardcore Feral. Blizzard is soon going to split Feral into two separate trees, and what I’m about to say is the reason why. Also,
So, now that we’ve had several weeks of raiding in 4.3 Dragonsoul raids. I wanted to check on how raids of various types are doing, so I’m creating a series of polls to ask about how people feel they are doing in 4.3. While it’s not
So, the feast of Winter’s Veil is upon us! It’s a time for merriment, of reduced raiding schedules, and relaxation! Sorry I’ve been somewhat absent from the blog lately. I had some unexpected deadlines come up related to my finishing
I (Shakk) have been doing a lot of studying of logs, analyzing data, compiling fight specific information, and testing in-game, what 4.3 means to resto druids. My conclusion, we are in a very good place in both 10 and 25 man raids for healing output.
Today, we have a new “voices from the community” post by Shakk on US-Sargeras, in the guild Seriously Casual. He is a restoration druid, and today he will be talking about the new 5-man dungeons and strategies for resto druids. He may be joining
First up, thanks to Juvenate (@wtsheals) for giving me the idea for this one. Basically, here’s how profession bonuses worked pre-4.3. Your bonus is what you get from your profession, that you wouldn’t have before. The idea is that they are
So, some of you have been wondering where I (Garnaph) vanished off to. Well, I found out recently that my wife is pregnant, which has radically changed my life. When my daughter is due in April, I plan to vanish from raiding for a few months (I foresee