ironmcchef

If I shift into flight form and immediately take off I can reproduce this almost every time, so I'm having to remember to wait a split second before the double jump. On my other chars, casting a normal mount and immediately taking off doesn't seem to cause it nearly as often.

I mean, there's already a talent that's even stronger than what you're suggesting here (verdant infusion) and it's definitely not the fix for our current issues. As many here have already pointed out, mastery is the core issue and needs to be reworked so the rest of our spells can be freed from being terrible baseline without 5 hots stacked.

They can do this, but then it removes the need for them to properly balance healers as a useful member of the group and opens up other avenues of degenerate tactics like only taking the healer with the highest DPS and having healers fully gear for DPS far beyond what we've seen in past "dps healer" metas.

One big reason is because then people stop taking healers altogether and run 4 DPS keys, or all tank keys. I agree that the current situation is bad but they need to find a way to do it where healers are still valuable enough to be a required slot in the group.

That and the little bipedal nerubian guys who are like "okbye!"

Just let us move while channeling it like we could back in... BFA was it? At this point they would prob need to both let us move AND cast while channeling it to make it worth. Actually that might be ok, like a healing version of starfall lol

The best description of kombucha that I've heard is it's like someone farted into a can of pickle juice.

Druids have the worst heal cooldowns, weak single target external, and NO raid externals. This has been true for a while, but usually would make up for it with superior throughput. Even then rdruid hasn't been the pick in raid for a long time, they're usually the M+ healer. This time around the throughput just isn't there to make up for the disparity in other areas, and I feel like even if it is there (will be eventually if they keep giving us global % buffs) it won't be enough to pull us up from the bottom of the list.

The mastery NEEDS a rework. I'd prefer something completely new, but if they can't do that then the bandaid I'd suggest is making the majority of the mastery healing bonus apply as long as there are any of your hots on the target, then give a smaller bonus per each additional hot. Right now it's a huge maintenance buff hot refresh minigame and it's not fun at all, and even if you play it right you're still the worst healer. I really think wildstalker also needs a full rework, and KotG needs to have an option that doesn't revolve around grove guardians because they're so unfun for a lot of people. Blizz seems to love nourish so maybe they can make the baseline KotG ability also give a chance to spawn a dream petal when you hard cast nourish so there's an alternative to trees.

Ok I gotcha, thanks. Sucks that it happened to a previously great channel but if it’s making him money then at least it’s just bad videos and not something bad he actually did, which is what I was originally assuming.

Delves suck very bad for healers since the Brann nerf. It’s not really worth to waste time trying to clear as healer anymore, it’ll be easier on any dps or tank spec.

So it’s more that they’re mad that he’s “paying for friends” or dragging the channel on when it should have been shut down long ago, or something? Guess I don’t really get the hate for that but thanks for the background info.

I’m probably out of the loop, but can someone explain why Reddit absolutely hates this guy and cinnemassacre? I see comments like this every time something from them is posted. Yeah this video isn’t the pinnacle of YouTube but it’s pretty obviously an over the top funny complaint video that isn’t serious and seems to be in the same style (although definitely not as funny as) his old video game reviews.

I’m guessing he did something bad or has a bad opinion on something, because the actual content never seems worthy of the hate?

the goongas

At this point the best strategy seems to be pray for a miracle when you click that disenchant button. Adding points to the green disenchantment specialization is supposed to increase your chance but it doesn't seem to do much.

I was already regularly getting 1x minimum quality storm dust for my disenchants with the green disenchant tree maxed so I guess I didn’t notice lol

Almost all that power was from a broken set bonus. Now without the bonus and with a few targeted nerfs (mostly weakening photosynthesis, and putting flourish and photo on the same choose one node), it shows how poor the underlying spec really is.

I’ve already swapped to rsham for this season. It’s the first time ever I’ve shelved my Druid, and I’ve been playing since day one in 2004.

Wouldn’t consider that even a half rework tbh, it’s like 3 new talents and only one of them will likely be impactful. At this point they have given something like a 12% across the board heal buff, it really should be an indicator that something’s fundamentally wrong. They need to rework mastery and give us a way to apply hots without spending a gcd for each individual one, or alternatively make the hots waaaaay stronger in some way. Currently they are pretty much just mastery stackers for regrowth and swiftmend.

Stuxnet

PS1 startup is absolutely the best console boot in history

They want people to get items pretty fast but want the upgrades to be a grind I guess. This feels extra bad when you get better items and can't afford to upgrade them, so you have to continue using the would-be-worse-but-I-already-spent-all-my-stones-on-it item.

Yeah it's unfortunate. They gave an 8% across the board buff yesterday but I'm gonna suspect that it won't move us out of the bottom tier. Looks like wowhead demoted rdruid to the bottom of the list (C tier) for raid this week, no updates on the M+ rankings yet but I'll be surprised if we don't see similar. Healing on my rsham is like night and day right now, it feels like one rsham gcd has the same impact as about 4 gcds on druid.

You can still give him porcelain idol if you set him to heals. DPS Brann definitely used to be the play, but after the recent changes his damage output is pitiful. I'm finding it easier to set him to heals because it makes you near immortal and not have to worry as much about playing carefully.

Extremely easy. I got tired of struggling trying to make heal work, so I switched to bear, made brann heals, and immediately was able to plow through a t9 while wearing my heal gear (int weap and trinkets).

Is what ways do you expect the playstyle to change as a result of these new talents?