Comments on: Quick Quip: 3.3.3 druid changes

By: Qieth

Qieth — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:20:03 +0000

Errrr…

I don’t know about you, but im critting upwards of over 20.000 with starfire. You should too!

Also, the change is to star*fall* not star*fire*.

By: damndruid

damndruid — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:14:59 +0000

omg this is better than nothing. i have t10.5 and can already get crits with starfire anywhere from 13-15.5k so cant wait to see how much dmg i will do now. rofl and im sure as soon as this patch comes out, people are going to qq about resto druids being op. ah good times, cant wait

By: Deriere

Deriere — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:26:17 +0000

What would be good is if we got a 10% damage increase from Natures Grace along with the cast time reduction. Failing that an increase from our insect swarm and moonfire

By: Yagamoth

Yagamoth — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:07:03 +0000

Now I’m adding something anyway… Well, I just though about the consequences the Nature’s Grasp change may have. I won’t post this in the official forums, since my account is not located in a good area, that the devs would notice

As you all know, we can only root one target at a time. Now, imagine an arena match, where you want to root the meelee on you. Nature’s Grasp activated, nice, no problem, you are save. But now you’ve got still one or two charges. Now, the pet (DK – ghoul) or the arena partner can simply hit you once and the rooted person is free.
Further, it might actually not be desired to root the same target multiple times (DR). So, imagine a Rogue stunning you. he is rooted now, and keeps hitting… The Buff activates 3 times, and he will be free and on DR as soon as your stun ends.

In the whole picture it’s a good buff anyway, since you can simply make a macro to cancel the remaining buff if desired.

By: Qieth

Qieth — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:05:19 +0000

I must correct myself: People much smarter than me (http://graymatterwow.blogspot.com/) has found some information that I didn’t even consider: Spell coefficient. It seems that starfalls spellcoef. is increased from 0.21 to 0.37, which makes it look quite lucrative. It seems like a big increase all of a sudden

By: Yagamoth

Yagamoth — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:00:15 +0000

Hm… PVP: The Nature’s Grasp might be a bit too good for Resto and Feral druids, when kiting meelees. It sure is useful for a Moonkin, but so it is for the other trees.

Typhoon… It’s true, it’s insanely expensive, even with the change. In PvE it’s a non-issue, since I regenerate enough. But in pvp it is and still will be destroying the mana pool, and since the other spells are not really cheap either, I will still be sitting down drinking in a BG after every next enemy.

Starfall… Well, if it’s a flat increase, it’s not really what we need I’d say. But it might aswell be better in scaling now with spellpower.

.. I don’t want to edit my text, but have a look at Gray Matters blog, it seems there is more to starfall

By: Qieth

Qieth — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:01:51 +0000

Lets be fair, another instant is not really what we need. We need something that haste can affect.

By: Xned

Xned — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:52:10 +0000

Yeah, buff of Starfall is nice but small!!!
I really hoped for some spell like Arcane Barrage – doing decent damage, with some coolldown, and instant (!). But it will not happen imo (