No, I’m saying what I said in my post. Some classes have more mitigation and less self-healing. Some classes have less mitigation and more self-healing. Two different ways to achieve the same end result. It’s pointless to compare Tank self-healing to healer healing (like the person I responded to was doing), because it’s no more relevant than when a tank mitigates damage.
It doesn’t say it in the tooltip but it’s been tested at this point and that’s how it works.
Yeah that’s how set bonuses work. They get replaced. But most of the spells that were buffed via the 2pc bonus are getting a buff in 10.2. You won’t be able to “double-dip” on those bonuses after you get rid of the old set, but the new set looks to be extremely powerful.
When it chooses which target to Nourish, it will choose a target that is less than full health. It doesn’t actually dig any deeper than that so someone at 99% health is treated the same as someone who is at 1% health, but they are both prioritized over someone who is at 100% health. Among those who are below 100% health, those who already have HoTs on them will be prioritized.
I’m not sure what you mean when you claim that “it’s not a smart heal”. Perhaps you should define “smart heal” for us. Right now, it will automatically choose the target, based on specific criteria. That qualifies as a smart heal IMO.
If you’re assuming that if you Regrowth someone, that the Nourish will always end up on the Regroth target due to the Regrowth HoT, that assumes that you don’t already have HoTs cast on other friendly targets.
Everyone has their preferences. Personally I like to limit my dependence on long-cooldown spells as much as possible. Verdant infusion (via Swiftmend) is a short cooldown, and so is Grove Guardians, which is why I like both. The synergy between the two is quite amazing actually. And none of the upcoming massive nerfs to Flourish will hurt Verdant Infusion at all, not even the 4-piece set bonus nerf. It will be interesting to see where flourish is at once Blizzard has finished taking a huge dump on it 