11.0.5 Restoration Druid Feedback

[Whelptress-sargeras]

Continuing the discussion from 20th Anniversary Update PTR Development Notes:

@Linxy

• New Talent: Twinleaf – Nature’s Swiftness now has 2 charges.
• New Talent: Wildwood Roots – Abundance now also reduces the cast time of Regrowth by 5% per stack. Cenarion Ward’s cooldown is reduced by 10 seconds and its duration is increased by 2 seconds.
• New Talent: Renewing Surge – The cooldown of Swiftmend is reduced by up to 40%, based on the current health of the target. Cooldown is reduced more when cast on a lower health target.
• New Talent: Forest’s Flow – Consuming Clearcasting now causes your Regrowth to also cast Nourish onto a nearby injured ally at 60% effectiveness, preferring those with your heal over time effects.
• Dream of Cenarius has been redesigned – Wrath and Shred transfer 50% of their damage and Starfire and Swipe transfer 33% of their damage into healing onto a nearby ally. This effect is increased by 200% while Heart of the Wild is active.
• Omen of Clarity is now a passive ability learned at level 12 (was a talent).
• Harmonious Blooming is now a 1-point talent.
• Flourish’s visual effect has been improved.

The changes to Harmonious blooming now being 1 cost talent is great change to allow us to use the new renewing surge talent to shore up our burst healing without breaking any of our current builds as resto’s talent points are currently very solidly locked in for keys after the first section.

It would be nice if this could be expanded upon into the bottom third of the tree with thriving or budding also being reduced to 1 point balance out pathing to reforestation or germination on all sides and allow forest’s flow to see play without disrupting to much of the current build.

The changes all seem nice but I’m worried i’ll never get to play them because of how tight the talents already are point wise.

[Lawrys-area-52]

Nature’s swiftness is just bad in modern wow. It’s a relic of a game that existed 15 years ago and needs to just die.

I hate pressing it, and it’s a lazy bandaid over incomplete spec design.