Hey,
I wanna talk about Relics for resto druids. First of all I will list all of the available traits and rank them as I see fit. This is obviously my own opinion based on experience and research.
1. Persistence is the best available trait at the moment (especially with T19 4p). Reju is your most used heal/spell and extending it is free healing while saving mana and GCDs.
2. Grovewalker buffs your most used spells. 1% doesn’t sound much but it will add up on longer fights.
3. Essence of Nordrassil is nice boost to a spell that will gain more value with T20.
4. Natural Mending enhances your spothealing, but with T20 you will mostlikely have to use it to boost your shroom, which reduces the value of this relic.
5. Blessing of the World Tree increases your spothealing in situations where your hots aren’t sufficient enough. Not much gain here.
6. Knowledge of the Ancients increases your BASE-mana-regen, if you do the math you will realize this is trash (50k base manaregen. 2% are 1k mana every 5 secs this will net you an extra reju every ~2min)
7. Infusion of Nature is even less effective.
8. Armor of the Ancients has to little value considering the uptime from IB.
9. We use way to little direct heal to justify Seeds of the World Tree.
Let’s have a look at the available relics in ToS.
Life Relics:
- Infusion of Nature
- Knowledge of the Ancients
- Natural Mending
- Armor of the Ancients
Frost Relics:
- Seeds of the World Tree
- Knowledge of the Ancients
- Blessing of the World Tree
- Armor of the Ancients
Non of the relics make it into the top 3, your “best” option is Natural Mending which will be devalued by the T20 4p. This is the 4th Raid in Legion where you won’t get a Persistence or Grovewalker relic.
So my question is what do you think about this situation, is it “fair” that some classes get all of their Best in slot relics from raidbosses meanwhile we have to farm HOV and Arcway a million times to have that ridiculously small chance to have a very high titanforged version of the relics which have a very low dropchance themselves?
Is blizzard just finding the most fitting relic for all the classes and resto druid happens to have the worst of that? Should Blizzard put some of the better traits on the raid relics or buff the bad traits to be on par with Persistence and Grovewalker?
Discuss! :)
Cheers
RestoSpirit