After so many years playing as a resto druid, I’m thinking of changing class. I’m simply ashamed that I can’t even heal my allies’ life bars without having to spend 50 per cent of my mana. Ashamed to see all the DPS who can heal, helping me heal because apparently I can’t do it myself. Our skills don’t heal, they simply stack mastery. Shame about the current state of the spec. Blizzard needs to change this urgently, URGENTLY!
I’m not the best druid in the world, but I’m far from the worst. I know what to do with my class. And seeing all those useless talents and feeling like you have no way out is terrible. I feel like I’m going to war with a toy gun.
I don’t want to be stronger than anyone, but I want to be on an equal footing with the other healers.
Please fix our class. I’ll tell you in advance that the changes in 11.0.5 ARE NOT ENOUGH. More changes are needed.
Think resto Druid talents and hero talents are lackluster so now they’re having to buff them up in other areas. Just give it a few patches with done gear and they’ll be ok
The 8% helped for sure but honestly I don’t think it’s enough, speaking in M+, I honestly think Wild Growth needs a buff, it’s insanely hard and difficult currently especially AoE mechanics and how fast they come.
Constantly we need to maintain Lifebloom and Efflorescence (more so due to movement), then trying to HoT everyone, make sure we spamming Regrowth on who needs it, all the while trying to weave in dps for mana, dodge and do mechanics.
I’ve only PuG’d up to +6, but jeeze I swear our HoTs don’t heal, and we don’t have the CDs like every other class to compete.
I jump on my Paladin it feels like day and night, AoE coming out? Virtue + Dev Aura 8% DR then I Divine Toll, couple WoG and Holy Shocks everyone is topped up and I still can keep going.
Virtue 15 sec and Divine Toll is a 45 sec cd…
We have Wild Growth on 10 sec even when used with Swiftmend is horrible, Convoke is 1 min, now it’s a great cd when RNG favours you, but it’s so unreliable with how it is.
Convoke with no form should simply just Heal!.
Seriously it’s rough out there as Resto, we are trying to compete with modernised Healers with better performance and spec trees.
Even the revamp isn’t that good, wow 2 charges of Nature’s Swiftness .
Yea the 8% didnt do much. I notice a small difference but im still at the bottom. Ill start climbing at one point but then i have to stop healing and wrath for mana… and drop back down to the bottom
I’m not even trying to do mythics anymore. It’s not worth it. We have no burst healing. Our kit is so outdated. Swiftmend is the most boring healing spell in the game. They could at least let it be reduced by haste since a lot of our kit revolves around it.
Even then My hots are barely healing for anything. People have like 8 million health as a tank… 50k heals are not doing it.
Then you have a couple talent choices that literally put a 5k heal on the person. Oh yay! Another mastery stack…
I unpacked my Resto Shaman. I’m so embarrassed in raid, I’m pulling less HPS than one of my tanks, while trying harder than I ever have. 8% increase in healing, 6% nerf to all healing = 2% increase for Resto Druids. I was crying at the end of my raid the other night, because I’ve been playing my Druid since TBC. I don’t want to play another class, but I simply can’t keep up with the other healers, and being last in ranks aside from Disc Priests is painful. I want my heals back. ;o;
Rdruid is really not doing great right now. Are you saying otherwise?
I believe that there will always be a best spec and worse spec. It’s normal. The problem is when the top is too far above the bottom. And that is what is happening Right now. Rsham is just better, way better. For far too much…
Man this is depressing to hear. I was thinking about trying out healing in retail, since I love being a resto druid in SoD, and I feel like an absolute god with the class, topping the healing charts by 10-15% every raid.
Not sure if I wanna try retail if I’m going to go from pretty much the best option, to the worst.
What’s weird to me is that in delves, sometimes my trinket will outheal every spell, and then in outdoor world boss raids, Tranquility will be the top spell by 50%. Something seems completely out of whack here.
the problem is half of us will either change class or leave the game entirely which i will probably do the later. No one is asking to be top meta healer but Resto feels pretty underpowered
Well I can safely say that, unlike you, I don’t have difficulties in reading and understanding data.
And even if you don’t want to take data in account, for some reason people like you sometimes don’t like it, all the respected healers, either MDI competitor or community known, are putting Rdruid at C tier and Rshan as S tier or A tier.
I have seen both RDruid and RSham ranked either B or A tier. Neither are S-Tier because Disc and Prevoker are miles ahead. Only one trolling here is you. Keep QQing though
But I’ll bite, please show me where RDruid is considered C-Tier?
Check out Drustvars distributions:
Equal amount of RDruids and RShams above 1800 is SS.
Even more RDruids than RShams above 1800 in 3v3.
So again I ask, what content are you struggling in? You are clearly wrong. If others can make it work and you cannot, it seems like a YOU issue.
8 of the top 10 mythic + healers right now are resto shaman …Resto druid that is played almost double of Resto shaman doesnt enter the list till 37…thats 17 shaman before Resto Druid hits the list.
Icy viens has Resto Shaman ranked S
Wowhead Resto Shaman S
Murloc IO S tier
only icy viens has Resto Druid in the middle the rest have them at 2 second to last
almost every popular healer have Druid at or near bottom with Resto shaman and Evoker tops.
and even their opinion which i take with a grain of salt doesnt mean much --my Own shaman does way more HPS and offers better utility in mythics.
HPS isnt everything but you cant have the one healer who basically trickle heals with hots as the lowest HPS. I played Resto Druid all of season 1 dragonflight. got my all mythic 20s and took a break. Resto druid now are a gutted version that got Swarm and effective flourish taken away and nothing substantial added
the plus side of Resto Druid is better leveling experience, Delves are better and PVP
You’re talking to a guy who is talking about pvp. It’s also weird he assumes the topic is about a game mode only the minority of players engage in as well.
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