Comments on: Patch 3.3 & I’m Not Ready

By: Lathere

Lathere — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:54:20 +0000

@Rob I thought originally I would wait for new gear and not change any of my gems from spell power. After 1 night in ICC 25 I changed my mind and switch yellow gems to pure haste and then the other sockets to spell power/haste gems I lost about 200 spell power. I know that Bell from 4 Haelz recommends against it but I just found it too frustrating and was spamming my mouse button trying to get rejuvenation to hurry up while trying to blanket the raid in 25 man. I’m also in a bit of 258 gear so I don’t expect to easily have upgrades available to me until all of Icecrown is out, another reason I felt regemming was the right thing in my case.

For 10 mans and dungeons I have a 2ndary healing spec which also has the Glyph of Rapid Rejuv and having the extra haste (I’m at 733) is great because I use a lot of Nourish and Regrowth still in those smaller groups.

The other 2 trees in my 25 man raid how gone different paths again and we are all in tier 9 with 4 piece bonus. One changed gems and some gear and hit 856 haste cap so didn’t go for a CF build, I went CF build and changed gems and the last resto druid decided to switch 2 pieces for haste but hasn’t regemmed at all and has about 550 haste. All 3 of us still sit pretty closely in the healing meters so I think this really emphasizes that you can do without the haste if you don’t want to fork out the gold and regem. Even if you wont be raiding ICC, perhaps see if you can do the weekly raid quest or daily 5 mans for the emblems of frost. 2 of the tier 10 pieces have haste on them which you can purchase with straight badges so this might be a way to push up your haste number.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:05:08 +0000

I asked this to Lissanna, thought i would post here.

A question that you may get asked alot. I just got my four piece T9 set. It’s probably going to last me until cataclysm unless some miracle happens. With that in mind, how should I go about regemming? I have all spellpower gems at the moment. I heard one tree go with all intellect gems, but now that the glyph of rejuv is out, I can see all haste being good (I only have 450ish haste right now). Thanks.

Also any source of theorycraffting?
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Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:50:44 +0000

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By: Cassandri

Cassandri — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:22:44 +0000

@Yane I’m with you. Don’t know anything about the bosses in ICC and don’t want to. I’ll meet one tonight anyway.

I’ve got a Haste Shadow Priest set (that I’ve been using for Anub) that doesn’t sacrifice Haste for Spellpower, but has Haste instead of Critical Strike. So I’ll just give things a go in both my normal and Hasted set and see which I prefer.

As for the Enchanting/Gems… hahahahahahahah (evil laugh) you’re not getting any of mine, Lath!

By: lissanna

lissanna — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:38:19 +0000

Also, with talents, rejuv starts at 18 seconds with 6 ticks. .-= lissanna's last blog ... Blog 3.3 healing guide now updated! =-.

By: Yane

Yane — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:16:33 +0000

I’m glad I’m not the only one who hasn’t bothered to prepare for the patch. It’s part of my recent “play the game like a game and not a job” mantra.
.-= Yane’s last blog … Patch 3.3 : BoA cross faction =-.

By: Infinitum

Infinitum — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:28:54 +0000

I am re-gemming my gear for haste in an attempt to bypass Celestial Focus (Once you reach/get close to the 856 haste soft cap, Nature’s Grace looses its luster and Brambles is meh). With the GCD at 1 sec I already feel like I am in slow motion… the thought of increasing that by a tenth of a second or so just won’t fly, plus a consistent 1 second Nourish is awesome.
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By: lissanna

lissanna — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:06:31 +0000

With the amount of haste on gear, basically think of the glyph as making rejuv tick every two seconds instead of every one second. More healing done in a shorter amount of time! The drawback is that the spell’s total duration is shorter – which makes this unappealing for the WG/Rejuv raid spamming in 25-mans.
.-= lissanna’s last blog … Patch 3.3 changes – Druid Roundup =-.

By: Natarumah

Natarumah — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:23:07 +0000

Well, the patch notes seem to indicate that Rejuvenation will remain at 15 seconds instead of going to 12, which I heard a lot of trees rustle about. This is a good thing ™.

As for the glyph, it is similar to what Warlocks get (Glyph of Rapid Decay I believe) and Shadowpriests get in their Shadowform: it allows Haste to affect this spell.

For Rejuvenation, at 15 seconds and 0 haste, it ticks every 3 seconds, so you get 5 ticks of Rejuvenation. If you had 100% haste, you would cut the time of Rejuvenation in half; over 7.5 seconds it would heal as much as a normal Rejuvenation in 15 seconds.

What it also does is make sure that it still ticks 5 times, by reducing the time in between the ticks by the same amount (this is just easy bookkeeping).

So, in summary:

0% haste: 15 seconds rejuvenation, 1 tick per 3 seconds, heals X
100% haste: 7.5 seconds rejuvenation, 1 tick per 1.5 seconds, still heals X

Extra benefit: certain Tier bonuses that cause Crits or spread your Rejuvenation around just got better, as did the idol that gives spellpower on Rejuvenate ticks. Hell, anything that could trigger from a Rejuv tick will happen more often (Internal Cooldown Restrictions notwithstanding).

Also, about the Haste…

The good news is that GotEM will also affect your Regrowth, Nourish, Healing Touch, Tranquility, Rebirth, Entangling Roots and Cyclone. So while you might feel a bit slower on the HoTs, everything else just sped up!

Whew. Wall of Text over, retreating into box now. ^_^
.-= Natarumah’s last blog … Preparations for 3.3 =-.