Resto Druid has been completely ruined with this patch. It was weak in S1 but still sort of fun to play. Now it feels clunky as hell, overly complicated and output is still bad:
This new tree form feels clunky as hell because it’s hard casted, your movement speed is slow and pressing the heals just doesn’t feel good at all. You also have to use up an NS charge on it
Clone now lasts only 5 seconds. I can sort of understand this chance for feral but it made zero sense for resto druids. Your only way of outplaying is now even less effective.
You now have to do even more micro management by using starsurge every 4 seconds when you need those globals for heals and/or cc
Tranq immunity was your only reliable defensive cooldown which has now been removed. I don’t understand why other healers get so many “oh sh*t” buttons but resto druid had its only one removed.
Symbiotic Relationship also feels clunky as it’s another unnecessary cast that you have to do
Resto Druid is now the hardest healer in the game and also one of the least rewarding ones, as discs or hpalas can just put in a fifth of the effort and get rewarded way more since their heals are just higher.
I don’t even want to play this anymore. It seems like Blizzard has completely lost the plot with resto druid this expansion.
Spec just feel unfun and unpleasant to play, specially this new tree of life. Our class brings nothing to the table besides medicore good raw healing which is nothing compared what disc priest bring to table.
Tranquility immunity removal is BIG big one, it simply overshadow all “buffs” they provided for this patch, there is so many situations you simply cannot survive anymore.
In addition new CC change increased cheese situations in this game even more due broken damage modifiers, so burst can literaly come from nowhere, and we have no toolkit or output to mitigate this. With that change game switched from fast paced into hyper paced… and naturaly resto druid is main victim of fast games because our spec simply holds poorly in this enviroment since hots have no HP bar to chew on, damage just bypass health and our mitigation tool is almost not existant. I had situations when Im spaming somene with Blossom burst, and damage reicived is more strong than my globals can come to spam. So we simply dont have STOP button like other specs have.
Purge ape spam on us is still a thing, in some lobbies people simply know mindless spam of that button can lock us out. So they abuse it. Being purged is one thing, but being abused with purges in manner of ape spam to win feels very bad.