Rdruid feels like complete garbage healing all the robots in SS that don’t know how to play their class defensively… FW and Disc is so mindless and free, no one understands how to stop or kill a FW monk… disc presses 2 buttons and out heals druids… druids rely on SOTF + regrowth and tree form spam regrowth to stay alive… once those are gone its GG, with everything being a purge comp it needs to be tuned differently. fire breath swiping every hot off your entire team, shamans/hunters/priest just purge spam you until no tomorrow… guess there’s a reason you barely see r1 streamers queing it… Lontar, Cdew, Sterge… Flop…
Not to mention with the useless hots that are constantly gone… it takes 300000 globals to do anything and you get gripped/feared 200000x straight with 3000 micro cc… and can’t never catch udisc press 1 button and the teams topped, FW presses stomp/essence and gets to run at everyone killing them without pressing a single button.
Hpals are doing 120-150k HPS without even casting with the luxury of immunities…
Healing Aff warlocks or Assassination rogues is super fun to heal also , i suggest a Blizzard dev try and rdruid and let us know how much fun they’re having.
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It’s in a bad spot, maybe doable in 3s with team coordination but it is a dumpster fire in SS
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Yup, its absolutely terrible design. Be nice to see them give us better purge protection… but nerf SOTF and make our actual hots do more, kind of sad we rely on NS regrowth crits to heal our team and feel like complete potato in between. Some damage would be nice as well and respectively tune down the other healers damage… we spend so much effort and globals to do anything in cat form compared to healers that just get to fluidly dps/kick without being global locked or falling behind we don’t get that luxury. We can’t even make use out of our kick because by time we swap forms with the GCD’s the casts are done lol, its such junk. If our hots actually healed we could play in cat more and be more offensive with stuns/kicks to help our team but instead we’re forced to stand there like we’re in a m+ spamming regrowth.
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It would be nice if rejuvenation got buffed and sotf/NS applications weren’t purgeable and if they nerfed lifebloom more to balance it out. Rejuv heals like a wet noodle in comparison to everything else. I would like to see a yseras gift buff too, there’s no reason why warlocks soul leech is doing double that of our yseras gift passively?
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Yea I think they need to revisit the dispel protection on lifebloom because it isn’t enough in this meta
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for sure, I think all hots should have some sort of dispel protection mechanic, getting purge spammed is the most tilting thing in the game especially when the cost of hots are more than the cost of their purge. Dispel my hot they should be feared to the abyss and dropped under the map into a DC loop… warlocks/priests have something, why don’t we ! 
– Okay I rethought this, maybe thats a little harsh, but perhaps make them oom… ramping up the cost of mana for each consecutive purge within a certain time frame of the previous. Would definitely make it more selective and instead of running us down completely they have to decide if it’s worth going oom.
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Could not agree more. It feels so bad in RSS, especially since I am playing a disc priest almost every match. It is really hard to sustain against constant burst when you have to keep rolling hots. My priest feels so much better in RSS than rdruid.
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At this point they should just let druids heal by doing cat damage.
Single target heal: shred(small), ferocious bite(big)
HOT: rake(small), rip(big)
AOE heal: swipe(small), thrash(big)
Seems where the game is going.
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True, doesn’t help that disc also gets to do more dps than some dps classes at the same time… instead of 2 dps, it turns into a 3 vs 1 bullyfest on your poor teammate.
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tbh, that would be pretty sweet ngl… catweaving says it all! Bring back the days when cat did dmg and wasn’t energy starved 24/7.
This is how I’ve managed to push more effectively on my disc. I have an execute as disc too, which comes in handy when my teammates burst. I just fear the enemy healer and execute while my two other teammates continue to zug zug.
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Resto druid feels pretty good in battlegrounds so I’m guessing it just gets hit hard by dampening. Hots don’t respond to heavy burst well
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Priest is insane, im more scared of the disc priests/mw monks than any actual dps on the team… lol.
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Yeah, rdruid in rbgs feels much better than arenas, but I still push more healing on my dragon, disc, and MW. Their utility with cc trumps those three, but the healing just isn’t as efficient.
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Rdruids definitely do not need a hps buff. They need QOL changes to their offense that makes it way easier to spec into damage/cc without losing all their defense
When would I have time to do substantive damage? Damage doesn’t buff my healing like disc or hpal procs. I am already trying to keep everyone up with hots and cc when I can. The problem is my healing can’t heal through burst as effectively as disc or even hpal, especially with dampening. I can’t take someone from 20% health to 100% with the click of a button, and dps in rss don’t realize that and won’t pop defensives.
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mw monk getting massive buffs in 10.0.7 along with all the other overtuned classes, it’s funny.
Current rdruid is use 5 globals to get to ok healing then having to rotate 30 sec mini CDs like ward and swarm in hopes you don’t get purged or CCd and your 6 hots fall
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What massive buffs? Only thing I’ve seen so far thats amazing is the rework on the healing sphere visual.
Rdruid feels pretty underwhelming at the moment. I stacked a lot of mastery and that helped some, but druid still feels weak.
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