Question to Xaar

[Dnome]

I have been trying to find the answer to some questions, but very few druids seem to know how to answer them. With that being said.

Could you explain your reasoning behind your choice of the Nourish vs. Rapid Rejuv. because I have been under the assumption that having my rejuv tick faster is better...?

Also I have been reading all over and so many different posts give us different numbers for our haste cap. I was reading in one of your other responses to that you get 856 haste without CF. Is that the amount of haste i want to aim for?

Lastly based of your response: "Eventually I'll probably wield 277 Trauma and Sindragosa OH, since it's pointless to even think about including heroic Arthas loot in gearing choices (game over)." Do you just not like the heroic loot? I know you posted your comment before the changes, now looking at the Archus, Greatstaff of Antonidas and the change of Critical Strike Rating being replaced with Haste Rating, what are your thoughts on that?

Thank you for your time!

And congratulations to you and all of paragon on an impressive 20/20 remaining attempt clear of ICC 25 man.


Dnome, Dark Iron

[arx]

Thanks! I'll try to go into it a bit more.

Could you explain your reasoning behind your choice of the Nourish vs. Rapid Rejuv.

What needs to be realized about RR is that it doesn't provide any kind of increase in the overall throughput of rejuvenation. It just concentrates the heals more to specific targets. This is not necessary in a lot of 25-man encounters, and it's in fact undesirable in some, compared to greater spread and additional swiftmend possibilities.

It's a very powerful glyph in those situations where it is useful though, you just have to know where to use it and where to take it off. It's superb on 10-man Blood Queen, for example.

Note that I always carry a stack of glyphs with me to change them for encounters that call for it. I feel this is absolutely necessary at least for RR if you wish to utilize the glyph.

I was reading in one of your other responses to that you get 856 haste without CF. Is that the amount of haste i want to aim for?

I gear for 856 haste, because it's easily attainable for me. The extra points freed by CF provide enough value to run with the max haste set even if I have to use a few haste gems and a 245 OH. If you struggle to bring your haste to those levels, you can always stay at 735 rating and run with a 3/3 CF spec for now. Ultimately though, you should aim for no CF and 856 haste.

Lastly based of your response: -- Do you just not like the heroic loot? I know you posted your comment before the changes, now looking at the Archus, Greatstaff of Antonidas and the change of Critical Strike Rating being replaced with Haste Rating, what are your thoughts on that?

What I meant by that quote is that the last obstacle for us is going to be LK on 25-man hard. After he dies for the first time, our gear is obviously good enough to do all the content in the game. After that it's just farm, where healers' gear in particular doesn't keep me up at night :P In other words, Arthas's (284) loot isn't available when it's relevant (progress) - it's only available after it has already become irrelevant (farm).

That being said, you're right in that I didn't like the pre-change weapons. The inclusion of haste considerably raised the attractiveness of those items. However, Trauma also received a rather nice buff, and probably isn't as contended by other people. I feel it's too early to say if 277 Trauma will be worth sticking to, but if I had to guess, it probably will.

[Dnome]

Thank you for your quick reply!

Regarding the glyph that makes sense, i guess i'll start to bring a stack of glyphs as well :)

As for the haste i am pretty sure i can obtain 856 without CF as well just need the badge chest now and i should be pretty close. I had done my research and had decided on getting the chest since it had haste on it. Seeing as blizzard shafted us with 2/3 haste vs. 3/5 crit for T10.

Regarding the weapons I think they also posted that the reg 25 man ones might also get the change... I still haven't seen enough testing on the trauma, I know they fixed the party problem so now it can heal anyone, but is there anything about how many targets it can heal?

Anyway thanks for your input! glad to finally be able to communicate with a druid that knows what they are doing :)

[arx]

Trauma should still heal the same number of targets. Being able to heal anyone is a considerable buff though, and initial reports are coming in at a shocking 8-10% effective healing done, which is pretty insane. If it consistently delivers that much healing, it's definitely going to be best in slot before it's inevitably nerfed.

[Dnome]

wow i haven't heard of the new numbers "8-10" that would be pretty sick... Def. calling for a nerf lol. We will see what blizzard has in store for it I guess.

Well thanks for your input on everything! I'll be watching mmo for paragon's world first heroics modes as soon as servers go live!

Good luck to you and all of paragon.

Dnome, Dark Iron

[Lestuniem]

Trauma HC

Normal LK25 4,8% EH (OH 82,5%)
Festergut HC25 2,8% EH (OH 60,2%)
Blood Council HC25 1,1% EH (OH 82%)
BQL HC25 2,7% EH (OH 52,5%)

Just postmark examples but basically showing the same pattern on every fight. It's mediocre on high AoE-damage fights (Sindragosa, BQL start of the fight, LK at some occasions) if it happens to proc - I'd just rather not base my healing based on RNG weapons.

More of posted out of interest after weeks of testing of Trauma. I'd still, personally, rather take LKHC25 staff (or well Dying Light HC at this point hence that one being available)