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OMG Lifebloom crits!
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Post by
greenpower
Much like that filler toon you bring to a raid, sure the filler is a bad player, but 500DPS is better than an empty DPS slot...
I'm not so sure that's true at all, especially from the point of view of the healer :)
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Bearclaws
I find LB nothing more than a filler spell.
So, hows your rotation sound like?
I go LB *3, Rejuv, Regrowth. Letting LB bloom when nessesary, or else I keep it up. Yes I think its nice to have that bloom as a "backup" heal. I fill up with Nourish if nessesary. And I use Swiftmend if the tank takes some big hits and its needed. And Nature`s Swiftness with Healing Touch when it really hits bad, and with the bloom on top of that, you are pretty safe I think. Following up with Nourish and renewing the HoT`s.
I say it again. I`m new at healing, but I`m not new to the game, I`ve been tanking in raids for a while now. So I`m looking for advice and others opinions/experience on healing as a druid. I`m not saying that my rotasion is the best, still trying it out. Altough I belive the one I have tried out some now, fits my build pretty good, and I like it, its fun :)
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Katsudon
When people say a spell is good or bad, you really need to put it in context. Saying lifebloom is good is true for easy stuff. Of course it will not be a problem in a heroic, where most of the damage is concentrated on the tank. Your spell priority will change a bit as you step up in encounter difficulty and have to manage more people and do it faster. Basically it went from a bread and butter spell to a situational spell imo. And its not entirely the fault of the changes to lifebloom, but in large part due to the type of raid damage people in ulduar are taking (mainly its much larger/spikier and requires much faster topping off to ensure no one dies, even on trash, whereas in naxx, the only time people might die is when you get lots of adds all spaming aoe at once) Most of the time its now too slow/weak to be useful as a raid heal. I'd rather either: rejuv > nourish, rejuv > swiftmend, or strait nourish someone that takes a big spike.
I still go back to my old lifebloom priority for naxx 25 now though, so its not like its been completely phased out or anything (or perhaps im stubborn, i really like lifebloom ;o)
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Bearclaws
Thnx for the replay guys.
I like LB myself. Going Naxx today and I`ll experience for myself how it works.
Post by
Snaddre
After patch 3.1 Blizzard made it clear for us druids that Lifeblooms golden age was over and that it was time for us too show Nourish some love. When they doubled the mana cost of Lifebloom and gave 50% back in return we had to make Lifebloom bloom everytime instead of rolling it.
Rolling Lifebloom is not very mana efficient and therefore off my rotation. It's important to remmember that as a raid healer, your never alone. And guess what, the other healers dont care if the tank has lost 10K and there is a Lifebloom at 1,5sec left. They press their flash heal button or whatever and makes the bloom useless.
For me, Nourish has taken Lifeblooms place. The Lifebloom glyph prove to be useless and instead I use the nourish glyph. Im replacing some of my epics with 7,5 so that I get the tier bonus as it's worth it even though there is some loss at the stats. Also, talenting tranquill spirit makes nourish even more mana efficient.
We are still the kings of the HoTs, but regrowth, revjunation and wild growth are much more used than Lifebloom. Too me, Lifebloom is a filler spell I only use when im going to compete with the other healers who that can overheal the rogue most, and I need to push my nourish a bit.
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Post by
sunwukung
Just watch the LB timer. During Iron council last night, I was solo healing the warrior off tank who was holding the 2 smaller ones while the pally MT the big guy. The mana back from the bloom is nice and the bloom heals are nice also. I did see one 21K crit and was amazed. I would keep all hots on the tank and then spam nourish as needed. If I noticed the LB timer was almost up and the tank needed HP, let it bloom, if not refresh LB and the other hots, and back to timer watching and nourish spamming. It was quite fun and required a bit of skill compared to naxx healing.
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