Budding Leaves, Adaptive Swarm, Germination. It’s been 5 or 6 nerfs to our hots since launch now, and with these nerfs you keep pushing for a spot healing button bloated spec. Invigorate is a horrible spell people are literally taking a net loss healing talent to avoid it, and the spec is just pigeon holed into Regrowth spam and Nourish.
Dps specs with dots get dispel protection every new patch yet we have none, while purges get better and more available all the time. Have you tried to Swiftmend somebody for 8 seconds straight but your Rejuv keeps getting purged instantly before your GCD is over and you just have to keep reapplying it and praying while doing 0 healing and your teammate goes through every defensive to stay alive cuz you just can’t pick them up? Or try playing into a lobby with a Mage and an Evoker.
Resto Shaman purge costs less mana than every heal we can press, and now they do copious amounts of healing so they can actually afford to purge 30 times every Shuffle round.
We also get nerfs to our damage contribution (POTP for instance) when we’re already the most passive healer in the game. Caster dots cost inhuman mana, Catweaving is completely tragic since we’re at the mercy of Feral tuning when they have multiple talents buffing each spell in their talent tree, so we just get 40% weaker versions of them while having 0 supportive talents to allow us to get in melee range to begin with.
Mistweaver spends the entire game in melee doing 15k dps and the most HPS in the game by far, unpunishable, unkillable. Disc priest shtick of Atonement healing has been getting played up too with their tuning and fixes, not shunned in favor of talents buffing Flash Heal. So why is it that resto druid shtick of heal over time gets shat on multiple times and our #1 spell is Regrowth now?
It’s a very hilarious contrast to raid where the spec is the most braindead with Rejuv auto spreading forever, people are literally getting logs where Rejuv is >50% of their GCDs and Lux Soil still creates more Rejuvs than they cast. It’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen. The entire spec is broken cuz the base spells are garbage while you hyper-specialize your talents to buff one aspect of the class. And don’t get me started on this horrible class tree.