the only situation it seems remotely okay is building for pure st boomkin
ferals and bears would prefer to skip sunfire, for resto the whole point is to cleave
the change on ptr is shorting rdruids another point
also im pretty sure sunfire (not improved, just sunfire) still costs way more mana than moonfire?
so yeah. bake improved into sunfire
Agreed. There really isn’t anything that I’m willing to give up in order to get Improved Sunfire. The only semi-possibility would be to stop using Typhoon (something I already have to switch over to Hibernate during incorporeal weeks). But Typhoon saves my butt too many times, when tanks over-pull trash or DPS accidentally pulls trash and I end up pulling via healing aggro. Being able to Typhoon a wave of mobs away and then Mass-entangle them is a real life-saver.
It’s sad, because I already contribute relatively low DPS compared to some other healers, mostly because I don’t feel it’s my responsibility, and because I do better in general when I just focus on healing. But keeping AoE Sunfire up on trash packs has been one of the few DPS contributions that I’ve been able to have success with, doing it pretty consistently at this point. Trying instead to individually target each mob to lay down DoTs takes too much time and attention compared to the DPS it contributes most of the time.
You can have both if you dropped verdant heart. I would argue the utility gained from typhoon outweighs 20%+ personal healing under Barkskin.
A personal stonebark is nice, but unless you’re finding yourself continuously being the focus of consistent damage, that talent isn’t required.
Doesn’t solve your sunfire issue, but should help with incorporeal week.
There’s no reason for Sunfire to exist. 
Making it all one spell again and scrapping improved sunfire or making its spot highnoon would make the tree feel so much better for resto and the rare owl weaving kitty but whats really bothered me since the change is how the mana cost isnt attatched to the aoe upgrade.
Sunfire without the aoe is just a worse moonfire in every single way: overall damage, duration, kit interaction, but cost more then twice as much mana as moonfire, when it was baseline uncapped aoe at least the cost made sense but when theyre seperate its just a bad mana sink.
Ya the tree is junk. Im missing 2-3 defensive talents so i can get my stupid dispell…