Restoration Druid 7.3

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On 1/6/2018 at 2:27 PM, Rudy199 said:

Flourish is useless in M+, Stonebark is the best talent there

Why do you think so? I see Flourish as much better than Stonebark for M+ and don't really see how SB could be better.

[Rudy199 8]

3 hours ago, Blainie said:

Why do you think so? I see Flourish as much better than Stonebark for M+ and don't really see how SB could be better.

Extremely useless talent for m+, you cannot go oom and can spam hots with Germination on whole party. 

Edited January 9, 2018 by Rudy199

[Guest hmmm...]

On 8/6/2016 at 4:45 AM, Guest Xirmac said:

No, not only one talent choice, I just grabbed an example as I said at the start. ( I just guessed you all can read and understant what you read, but as I can see I was wrong ) There are a ton of idiotism at every classes, that's clearly visible that those guides are not based on any try or any sense...

Returning to the omen of clarity: Yes, lifebloom has a 4% chance, with 4setbonus it's 8% and that's why I tested it to be able to show you an exact number of procs in one minute. As I said, I can cast 9-12 free regrowth in average which is much better than + x sec HoTs on 2-3 ppl in every 1 min. Long cd for low effectiveness.

Anyway I really don't care how you guys make your characters useless by relying on such sites... At least I know why are all the LFRs, battlegrounds, random dungeons, mythic dungeons unplayable bcause of players who just don't know what does their spells do at all :)

 

 

Really? Who would listen to a guy complain about a guide when he doesn't even reference the spells properly. At least here he managed to find omen of clarity, rather than a moment of clarity.....not too many of those for him I suppose.

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On 1/9/2018 at 1:32 PM, Rudy199 said:

Extremely useless talent for m+, you cannot go oom and can spam hots with Germination on whole party. 

Flourish has insane HPS output since it synergises perfectly with your Mastery as well. It runs perfectly with Cenarion Ward (another talent you'll take in M+) and can double the ticks on it. 

Stonebark is useless outside of bosses like Ymiron at +20 MoS or above, since Ironbark does exactly the same thing of reducing tank damage taken and doesn't require you to sacrifice Flourish. There is no need for that level of tank damage reduction with the level of personals they have and if you need Ironbark up that often, either your healing is too low or your tank is taking too much damage and not playing properly. It is essentially just turning Ironbark into a worse version of Flourish that will be waiting off cooldown unless you waste it on trash pulls where you don't really need it.

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On 1/10/2018 at 9:41 AM, Guest hmmm... said:

Really? Who would listen to a guy complain about a guide when he doesn't even reference the spells properly. At least here he managed to find omen of clarity, rather than a moment of clarity.....not too many of those for him I suppose.

It's worth noting that this comment you're replying to is from 2016, so the information in it might have changed a bit since then! :)

[Guest DruidResto]

I didn't see any information in the guide about Drape of Shame. Is this a BiS on higher iLevels for resto?

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4 hours ago, Guest DruidResto said:

I didn't see any information in the guide about Drape of Shame. Is this a BiS on higher iLevels for resto?

Drape of Shame is worth about 20-35 item levels on the cloak slot, depending on what it is being compared with and your current stats. If you can get one that is high enough item level, it'll likely be BiS with T21 + Shoulders legendary. 

This does depend on the fight too. Some fights need helm + shoulders, which means you can't run Drape anymore. 

[Guest DruidResto]

Cheers! Just picked up a 975 one ;-)

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On 1/19/2018 at 1:20 PM, Guest DruidResto said:

Cheers! Just picked up a 975 one ;-)

That's probably going to be a BiS for you, yeah.

[Guest RestoDruid]

So a few days ago I got my last Resto Legendary (Velen's). I'm struggling a bit with the question which 2 to use. Tried a few combinations, like trinket and shoulders, head and shoulders, trinket and neck (but we are just doing heroic Antorus and it's on farm so guess Neck is mostly useful for progress?).

In the section about legendary's there is not really any useful info besides the obvious. Maybe someone has advice for me here?

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13 minutes ago, Guest RestoDruid said:

So a few days ago I got my last Resto Legendary (Velen's). I'm struggling a bit with the question which 2 to use. Tried a few combinations, like trinket and shoulders, head and shoulders, trinket and neck (but we are just doing heroic Antorus and it's on farm so guess Neck is mostly useful for progress?).

In the section about legendary's there is not really any useful info besides the obvious. Maybe someone has advice for me here?

Realistically, it depends. There's so many excellent choices for Resto that it becomes heavily dependant on what you are replacing. 

Shoulders + Trinket is arguably the safest choice in regards to doing well. It's a solid setup that performs well on every boss. The Head, Neck, Belt, Soul Ring can all perform well, but it's harder to make them do so and, for things like the Belt, it's RNG-based depending on the Lifebloom ticks and how often it procs. 

If you want a safe, solid setup, take Shoulders + Velen's.

[Guest RestoDruid]

Thanks for the answer. Yeah I'm running shoulders and trinket now for our raids but still learning to use the trinket effectively.

It's nice to have so many good options as a resto druid...not every class / spec is that lucky.

Want to try Neck / Ring for high keys, never thought of the ring but with regular heavy aoe it's pretty good I would say

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22 hours ago, Guest RestoDruid said:

Thanks for the answer. Yeah I'm running shoulders and trinket now for our raids but still learning to use the trinket effectively.

It's nice to have so many good options as a resto druid...not every class / spec is that lucky.

Want to try Neck / Ring for high keys, never thought of the ring but with regular heavy aoe it's pretty good I would say

For super high keys (20+), I've heard that Jdotb (highest ranking RDru) runs the cat ring alongside Neck or Sephuz, with Feral Affinity. With how much downtime Resto has, this is an awesome option too.

[Guest Nokori]

The guide says to use Potion of the Old War if you're using Feral Affinity, but a Potion of Prolonged Power is better since it gives you 5,000 main stat in total, 2,500 intellect, and 2,500 agility.  Intellect gets converted to agility when you switch into cat form.

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On 2/24/2018 at 6:14 AM, Guest Nokori said:

The guide says to use Potion of the Old War if you're using Feral Affinity, but a Potion of Prolonged Power is better since it gives you 5,000 main stat in total, 2,500 intellect, and 2,500 agility.  Intellect gets converted to agility when you switch into cat form.

I believe Old War is used due to the base damage of it, rather than buffing your own damage by a certain multiplier, which Prolonged does. Your attack speed in Feral form will result in enough procs that it will do more damage than Prolonged.

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Why is this page without content, saying it's 8.0? It's not 8.0 yet, is it? Where is my content? Getting ahead of yourselves here guys.

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2 minutes ago, Guest Where is my content? said:

Why is this page without content, saying it's 8.0? It's not 8.0 yet, is it? Where is my content? Getting ahead of yourselves here guys.

We have to manually add the links to the posts to direct to the guide. The guide is updated and has been listed as the Restoration Druid guide for a few hours now:

https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/restoration-druid-pve-healing-guide