Dear druid team,
I'm at 845 ilvl, with good amounts of haste and other stats, but prioritising haste.
I am using Germination, but see that most do not consider it the best talent of its tier, preferring to use Inner Peace or Spring Blossoms.
What I already understand:
- Germination gives the player more freedom in where to apply an extra HoT (as opposed to Spring blossoms), because you can simply target and heal someone in need. THe downside is more mana spent and an extra GCD per each germination.
- Spring blossoms (together with the fact that Efflorescence heals 3 people) will work well when it's healing 3 people. So applying an extra HoT without spending extra mana is great. However, people move so much in a raid environment that this talent will not be easy to manage, when compared to germination, but it is better in the long run for mana conservation.
- Inner Peace really just makes a powerful cooldown even more powerful.
Now, I raided only once since Emerald Nightmare came out, was #1 on the healing meter (just to say, I didn't suck) and Germination was #3 on my total healing done by spells.
This was a 14 men raid by the way. I felt like I could manage germinations well, and that I wasn't going out of mana so easily that I was in dire need of a talent change.
So now the question: Is this talent tier a pure player choice, depending on each one's playstyle, or am I missing on a big healing boost by not switching to another talent? And if the latter, which talent do you recommend?
Cheers