What should resto druids reforge to 4.2

Tank Healing:. Resto druids got a great boost to our tank healing tools in 4. We have an excellent toolset and we should be equally competitive and useful as tank healers and as raid healers. The changes to Lifebloom make it an excellent spell for tank healing. You'll want to keep 3 stacks up on your tank at all times. You can decide whether to let the LB bloom or to keep refreshing it. Nourish and Healing Touch will generally be your primary heals on the tank and, with Empowered Touch , these spells will refresh your LB stack.

You'll also likely want to use a Rejuvenation up on your tank as well keeping aware of mana costs. The Rejuvenation and our direct heals will benefit from our Mastery due to the presence of the Lifebloom stack. Regrowth will be useful for very quick heals on the tank plus a small additional HoT, though again, don't spam yourself OoM. Your Swiftmend will also be useful on the tank in emergencies. Using Swiftmend on the tank does take your Efflorescence proc though - this can be useful to get another HoT ticking on your tank, or if the melee is stacked with the tank to hit all of them.

If the tank is on his own though, keep in mind that proc may be more useful on the raid. Healing advice:. Now that you know about all the different spells and some of the different styles and strategies, the best thing you can do now is go out and practice!

Find out what works for you, try out different strategies in different situations, and test things out. By learning when and where to expect incoming damage and learning what type of damage it will be large, small, over time, etc , you will be better prepared to know which heals would be most effective, when and where your focus needs to shift, when cooldowns are best used, and when things like mana conservation or full-tilt healing or even a bit of DPS are needed.

Barkskin is incredibly useful for its damage reduction and might even save your life in a fight. Along with learning encounters to know when to expect damage to heal, timing your Barkskin to protect you against large bursts of damage in a fight is incredibly helpful.

It is also useful to keep Cat Form and Dash on your bars. There may be a moment in an encounter when you need to run, and being able to quickly shift into cat to dash away may save your life in a fight.

Mana Management. For a full post on Mana management as a Resto druid and advice, tips, and tricks, see my post here: Mana Management as a Resto Druid. See my post on the 4. Gear, Gems, and Enchants. The following stats are desirable on any gear you pick up:. Intellect increases Spellpower, the size of our mana pool, spell critical strike chance, and increases the mana we gain through regen and replenishment. Spirit increases our mana regen.

Haste is valuable as our HoTs are effected by haste, reducing the time between HoT ticks. Haste is also helpful for tank healing throughput as well as it reduces the cast time of our cast spells, though the most significant haste ratings are centred around our haste breakpoints.

The most significant breakpoints are in bold. Rejuvenation 4 5 Tranquility 4 5 Lifebloom 10 12 Regrowth 3 4 Lifebloom 10 13 Lifebloom 10 14 Tranquility 4 6 Rejuvenation 4 6 Lifebloom 10 15 Crit is also valuable as our HoTs can crit along with our other spells.

Stat Priority. Many druids are finding the following stat priority useful:. That initial Haste to gets you your additional Rejuvenation tick which is extremely important and helpful. Spirit is roughly equal at earlier gear levels when you may need more Spirit to help your initial regen.

Spirit is certainly desirable on gear you pick up, however, you should aim to stop gemming or enchanting straight Spirit as you begin to pick up pieces of gear, as Intellect is a much stronger stat for us and will help our mana regen greatly through our Replenishment, mana pool size, and Innervates Innervate is based directly off the size of our mana pool.

After getting your Haste to , you may find larger gains from prioritizing Mastery, particularly if you are often tank healing or simply are successful in getting multiple HoTs and heals on your targets in order to benefit from the Mastery. Our next significant Haste breakpoint is which gets a 9th Wild Growth tick which is difficult to attain at early gear levels, and I would not recommend stacking Haste gems to attempt to reach this point.

Haste does contribute to reducing cast times as well and you may find gains from Haste affecting your cast times and GCD apart from the HoT breakpoints. Crit is still a good stat for us as our HoT ticks can crit as well as our heals, so this is certainly a good stat for druids as well. For the moment, though, the other stats do fair a bit better.

Intellect is certainly the top priority stat as it contributes to our Spellpower, mana pool size and regen, Replenishment, our Innervates, and spell crit. If the Int gain of a straight Int gem is larger than what you would get from a socket bonus, you may wish to not take the socket bonus and simply gem for Int. There is a nice post over on Elitist Jerks listing pre-raid Resto gear itemisation, obtained from heroics, rep and crafting here: Resto Cataclysm Pre-Raid Itemisation.

Intellect is the most optimal gemming choices as Int increases so much for druids - our spellpower, mana pool, Innervates, Replenishment, regen, and spell crit. The increase to Spellpower and our mana pool is excellent with the Ember meta. If you are having mana issues, you may like to try the Revitalizing to see if it helps, though it seems the Ember meta will be better as the Int and Mana pool bonus do so much for our spellpower, mana pool size and regen, as opposed to the Spirit on the Revitalizing meta which will only affect regen.

Requires: Guardians of Hyjal - Revered. Requires: Therazane - Exalted. Requires: Therazane - Honoured. Ebonsteel Belt Buckle additional gem socket. Power Torrent Sometimes increase Intellect by for 12 sec when healing or dealing damage with spells. Heartsong Sometimes increase Spirit by for 12 sec when casting spells. The Intellect increase is massive and can also give you a substantial increase in mana return if you time your Innervate use with its proc.

All of the professions give a stat bonus for raiding. Mixology : bonus to flasks effect. Two extra gem sockets gloves, bracers. Synapse Springs : Glove enchant, increases Intellect by for 12 seconds, 1 minute cooldown. Lightweave Embroidery : Cloak enchant, Chance to increase spellpower by for 15 sec when casting a spell. Darkglow Embroidery : Cloak enchant, Chance to increase spirit by when casting a spell. Maximizing the effectiveness of this bonus will come down to using it effectively.

If used well, it may come out a bit ahead of some of the other professions. One key time to use it is to definitely time it with your Innervate use - it will boost the mana you can regen through your innervate. If you can, timing your Innervate with both your Synapse Springs and your Power Torrent weapon enchant proc will boost your Innervate even more.

If you decide to do that, I highly recommend picking up an addon to notify you of your Power Torrent procs something like Power Auras should be able to accomplish this. Does it make sense to go with full Mastery and if not, How much haste should one target for? Really just go for spirit. Don't go mastery and if you reach a haste percent of , that would be good, since it gives you an extra HoT-tick. Thanks for the response. I should mention also that, while arena play is up for grabs, I am more concerned with Resto healing for RBGs.

I see Resto druids as one of the strongest RBG-healers at all. I'm healing our guilds offensive group and is always 1 healing. I had assumed it was directed towards Aris. Post by curlymon Oh I definitely saw the link, lol. Post by Arakantos impossible? Just throwing that out there. I have to agree, that sounded a bit too Post by Calda Do note that if you have reliable DI, IS a better breakpoint, as you do gain more mastery out of it, for the same benefit :P.

Well you can just farm the two Avengers of Hyjal revered trinkets and reforge to haste from them too. Post by Arakantos Well you can just farm the two Avengers of Hyjal revered trinkets and reforge to haste from them too. Yeah I know, I was planning on starting the quests tonight with my girlfriend ;. Post by oberondreaming Well you can just farm the two Avengers of Hyjal revered trinkets and reforge to haste from them too. If you want a bunch of relatively useless crit, and int procs instead of static int, then yeah I suppose you could do that.