In general whoever is working on druids in SOD is as clueless as my cat!
You are either incredibly OP or u are brutally inferior and there is no middle ground at all.
Forget about balance druid im not talking about that now … the nerf was deserved just the compensation is on the wrong spell and it feels giga clunky and super bad, i will never invite balance in raid over warlock / priest or fire mage…ever, but we talking now for resto.
Living seed -nobody use and is straight bad
Lifebloom -even thou efficient is also very laughable
Nourish - 307 mana + 195 more for rejuv before nourish so nourish gets 20 % buff = 740 heal for 500 mana… healing touch last rank is 400 mana and heals for 1200
Restoration druids are the same as balance was … 1 trick pony wild growth and everything else is absolutely bad.
Except this 1 trick pony is not even that good like SS was , plenty grps going double even triple priest or double priest , resto shaman or even priest , resto shaman , mage healers.
Just open wclogs and see the rankings but for healing … how is this even normal.
They see where the problem is , they tried to fix it by giving us our " flash heal" - Nourish wich is bad and if u dont believe me check logs and ull see literally NOBODY on the planet considering casting this and resto play with eclipse cause nourish sux so much for the mana it cost to setup so ppl play straight dps runes cause u wont ever cast that nourish anyway, exactly how it went with livebloom and living seed… another dead since introduction healing rune for us.
Even if ur HPS seems decent… its useless stats since it is very easy to do with aoe heal that most of the time over heals due to not all players needs it.
Typical restoration druid playstyle is like this when encouter starts:
- spam dmg
- spam dmg more
- cast wild growth
- spam dmg some more
- tanks taking 2 much throw 1-2 healing touch
- wild growth
- spam damage
- wild growth
- spam damage…
ABSOLUTE JOKE!
Basically spam damage all the time and if u see 2-3 ppl in the grp starts to take damage press wild growth and continue to dps… if u see that single healing need any help which is 2-3 times per boss fight jsut cast 1-2 healing touch and continue to dps since ur single healing spells are very slow and weak so u just preserve mana for aoe heals mostly and because u dont have anything else to do u just spam wrath to fish for instants healing touches that most of the time nobody needs . Crazy good blizzard, second season where u cant figure a SINGLE restoration rune that help us or make us wanted and now in P2 90 % of the raids dont even use restoration druid cause its straight bad period.