just don’t use it 
Forums must be bugged, Msyltek is showing up as a tauren on my screen when he’s clearly a troll.
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A good example would be mythic Shad, as feral i use restro affinity for passive healing and when i get the miasma - bear form take the hit, use dash and grab morsel jump while using swiftmend then land back into cat form to feed shad. the rejuv needed should i not have predatory swiftness active, would make the new swiftmend pointless.
I don’t understand why they can’t let Moonkin cast the affinity spells in form.
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PvP balance
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I hear you, but it’s not like Moonkin is tearing up PvP. Not arena, not BGs, not even duels or open world.
If the concern is that they’d become a high-armored PvP healer, then sure, they could do that, for like 10 seconds after which they’d run out of mana.
If the concern is that they’d become harder to kill then, uh, good? Moonkin is one of the most trainable targets in the game and more or less always has been. And their burst isn’t good enough to use their current utility to set anything huge up.
Other DoT-focused classes with low burst have self healing and sustain but Balance doesn’t have those. It has mage-like control without any synergy between their damage and that control. Balance in SL will be able to run away and survive to an extent but they won’t do any damage in the process, they’ll live but it won’t mean anything.
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It doesn’t have to be balance, guardian can be the initial reason and therefore it applies to all druid forms, I mean I don’t like it and would prefer if Swiftmend was usable inside form without a rejuv with it’s current bfa cooldown, but if you let druids Swiftmend without rejuv every 15 seconds (SL) in form and with the same potency it would just be straight up overpowered.
If you try to fix it for some specs but not for others it would feel inconsistent and cheap, moving between different specs would feel awkward.
Then there is the issue with resto affinity already being overloaded with the most useful spells(in SL), it makes sense there is some limitations.
In fairness, several affinity abilities already work differently.
Resto Starsurge has a cast time and can only be used in Moonkin form for example.
I think in SL starsurge is now instant for all specs with the affinity
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This is uh, a lie? If you don’t have a hot on yourself nothing happens when you hit that button.
What you are supporting is making a frequently-used heal now useless in the next expansion, while replacing it with nothing.
It has no potency whatever if you don’t have a hot on you to consume. Is it that you think it’s way to strong for resto affinity to give a guardian or feral access to heals? Or is everything way OP and needs to be nerfed every expansion?
That’s not true at all. You’re probably thinking of heart of the wild.
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Oh sorry my bad I guess that makes affliction a dead spec, if they press malefic rupture without dots nothing happens wops why didn’t I think of that!
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There’s are 3 possible solutions I can think of:
- Replace swiftment with omens of clarity and allow regrow in form on proc
- Replace swiftmend in resto affinity with nature’s swiftness so we can macro it with regrowth
- Allow swiftmend use without a hot for resto affinity
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I’m not saying this is good or bad, but I figured the intention was to cast regrowth then immediately swiftmend it, so two bursty heals hit at once.
Then if the group or your target needs some additioNl healing you can toss a wild growth and rejuvenate then swap back to boomkin.
Again not saying this is ideal but that’s how I imagine it being intended. With the regrowth landing followed by an immediate swiftmend you can get quite a big burst. This can be clutch on save the tank or healer scenarios, or for yourself.
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I’ve always disliked the old style form of swiftmend, that being it needing to remove a existing hot. Seems really restricting compared to any other spell in the game.
My main issue with swiftmend is that it is still the ability granted through resto affinity. Resto druids got Nature’s Swiftness back as their oh sh*t big heal ability so the change to swiftmend was expected. They need to either swap swiftmend for nature’s swiftness for resto affinity or give omen’s of clarity instead so we can cast regrow in form. I would actually prefer the latter as it eliminates risk of swapping forms while tanking and gives us the optional party heal vs self heal that paladin tanks have.
To put it into perspective how big a nerf this is, we would have to waste our only legendary slot in order to make swiftness not consume a hot and all this would do is get it back into the pre-SL state for resto affinity users.
When I play resto I will probably macro swiftmend with a /cast rejuv after it so if I accidentally use it without a hot I can just recast it after waiting on the GCD for rejuv to be applied.
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It doesn’t feel good as resto either 
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For a guardian it is useless. Give me a bigger mana pool if you want me to have healing spells that require multiple casts to use as resto affinity.
I keep mashing my button to use it but I keep forgetting to start a proc and then my stuff gets consumed or whatever. Don’t like the change but I’ll figure it out.
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Don’t cast Rejuv, and then immediately Swiftmend it off. That’s a waste of GCDs, mana and healing potential. If you need burst healing, Regrowth -> Swiftmend is a much better solution.