Since World of Warcraft patch 4.3 launches, there must be many changes occur to the game. Some of those changes will benefit players while others will hurt players. The Druid don't change a lot in patch 4.3, it got a new graphic for Hurricane and Wrath whee!
Other than that, we lazor as we lazored before. There are no major play or gearing changes in 4.3. The Tier 13 set bonuses dont change Druid's game play either. And what we want to talk about is the changes in the new patch and find our what's the best DPS class for a Druid.
The first is that Wild Growth healing is being reduced by 20%. Wild growth has become very powerful over time and accounts for a lot of a druid's healing. In some cases as much as 50% of a druid's heals can come from Wild Growth, and this is just too much from one spell. Especially given the ability for a druid to pre-hot critical targets. A decent change, even if it is a nerf, as a Druid I can deal with this.
Looking over a pile of Firelands raid logs you can find that almost all high end raid groups have at least one Druid healer with Wild Growth doing over 40% of that druid's healing in the fight. Any one spell doing that much, screams that it is unbalanced. In one such fight a druid did 1.4 million healing in a Ragnaros kill over a little less than 5 minutes. This change would drop that down to a bit over a million healing.
This change will probably mean that raids will have to adjust healing roles and priorities a bit. I dont see it being the end of the druid healer though as it is just one part of their healing ability. It does, however, mean that other healers will be expected to AOE heal a bit more. It may be more difficult to 5 man runs where druids have gotten used to spamming it to keep up a group of PUGs where the players are too lazy to get out of AOE damage.
With feral druids there will be a downgrade of Swipe (cat) having its damage reduced to 340% weapon damage from 415% weapon damage. While all the feral druids will complain about this, feral has been consistently high damage. Also Swipe tends to not be used a whole lot in boss fights therefore it probably is not a huge deal to raiders, but more to players leveling up or fighting trash.
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