It feels like healer classes are constantly receiving buffs, while Druids remain overlooked. In every raid, priests dominate the charts, yet they still get improvements. While skill plays a big role, Warcraft has increasingly become a numbers-driven game—where players judge performance based on healing and damage meters.
Every raid, I’m spamming Rejuvenation and Regrowth, watching my mana drain rapidly. Then I check the meters, only to see priests, monks, shamans, and paladins sitting comfortably at the top with full mana. Anyone else finding this frustrating? I’m about ready to change classes after playing druid since beta.
Druid is very unforgiving in terms of mana when not played nearly perfectly.
The current implementation of Regrowth has amazing potential, but has to be used correctly. You should only be casting Regrowth if you have a Clearcast proc, are using Nature’s Swiftness, or have AT LEAST 8-10 Abundance stacks (the more the better). At 12 Abundance stacks, Regrowth is basically free, nearly guaranteed crit, and can be cast twice as fast as the GCD.
At low abundance stacks, without a Clearcast proc or Nature’s Swiftness, Regrowth is a mediocre and very expensive spell. If you’re Spamming Regrowth without being completely in-tune with your abundance stacks, then of course you’re going to run out of mana.
And while “Spread Rejuvenation → Build Abundance Stacks → Spam Regrowth” will be the most potent tool in your healing arsenal, don’t forget to use the rest of your toolkit also.
Aside from the advice above, resto gets sniped alot and we’re pretty late season where most groups have a bunch of over geared healers which leads to even more sniping so we just naturally look worse if raid groups arent adapting to that by bringing fewer healers.
If you are really struggling with mana maybe try incarn over convoke with MS, progging as keeper with that youll never go oom with its cheaper rejuv spread, near free instant regrowths and instant wraths to top you off every ~2 minutes.
While i wouldnt mind a little buff in the form of our mana costs (or bug fixes, cause we still have bugs they said they fixed but didnt lying around from last season) i think we’re in a no news is good news kinda place.
While I wouldn’t mind a Resto buff… it feels like Resto is in a good spot. Mana feels very forgiving as a Druid this expansion, I basically never run out unless I mess up my ramps.
If you want an easy way to conserve mana… spam rejuv during the pull timer getting 12 out, and then start drinking. You’ll start the fight full mana and able to rapid fire shoot out regrowth, easily topping the meters without blowing cooldowns.
Even maxed out mastery, getting every hot out and stacking heals and treant, there is literally no way to Resto druid out heal the dmage produced by tunneling yourself or another player against Arms, DH, Frost DK, Ret Paladin… Even with defensives, the stuns, the cyclones, all of it is 8-11 button smashes to heal taking almost 17 seconds vs the melee dps 2 button spamming and poof, killing players in arena in less than 5 seconds…
hardstuck at 300. Druid healing sucks