Every week, WoW Insider brings you Shifting Perspectives for cat, bear, restoration and balance druids. This Tuesday, the upcoming Wild Growth nerf gets us thinking.

As with our previous Shifting Perspectives on tanking and healing the Zandalari 5-mans introduced in patch 4.2, I’d like to run an edition on tanking and healing the new Hour of Twilight, Well of Eternity, and End Time heroics. While I prep that, we’ve been left with an unpleasant but perhaps not totally unexpected nerf to Wild Growth as of last week’s PTR patch notes.

Let us be frank, my brethren. Is Wild Growth overpowered? Yep.

Is it doing too much healing for too little effort? Probably. When even I can keep your ungemmed, unenchanted premade group’s collective ass alive on my first trip into a new heroic despite getting lost and arriving at the group a minute late, a spell is way too good.

But is that completely irrelevant to why Wild Growth is really a problem? Yep.Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: When healers run out of optionsFiled under: Druid, Analysis / Opinion, (Druid) Shifting PerspectivesShifting Perspectives: When healers run out of options originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Shifting Perspectives for cat, bear, restoration and balance druids. This Tuesday, the upcoming Wild Growth nerf gets us thinking.

As with our previous Shifting Perspectives on tanking and healing the Zandalari 5-mans introduced in patch 4.2, I’d like to run an edition on tanking and healing the new Hour of Twilight, Well of Eternity, and End Time heroics. While I prep that, we’ve been left with an unpleasant but perhaps not totally unexpected nerf to Wild Growth as of last week’s PTR patch notes.

Let us be frank, my brethren. Is Wild Growth overpowered? Yep.

Is it doing too much healing for too little effort? Probably. When even I can keep your ungemmed, unenchanted premade group’s collective ass alive on my first trip into a new heroic despite getting lost and arriving at the group a minute late, a spell is way too good.

But is that completely irrelevant to why Wild Growth is really a problem? Yep.Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: When healers run out of optionsFiled under: Druid, Analysis / Opinion, (Druid) Shifting PerspectivesShifting Perspectives: When healers run out of options originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments