So, I have a lot to talk about and little time. The patch came during Midterms week, and I'm still recovering. Honestly, I am a very, very tired druid that could use some time in the Emerald Dream. Perhaps a week, at the least. Unfortunately, that's not an option and I shall continue to run around like a chicken with her head cut off until Thanksgiving break.
Now, 3.0 hit and I became lost, confused and overwhelmed rather quickly. I was never in beta and my PTR kept erroring upon download, so I couldn't even muck around there. When the patch hit, I had to hit the ground running.
Pre-patch, I had used WoWHead's druid calculator to create ten or more different Resto specs. I had Dreamstate specs, levelling specs, raid healing, crit healing, mana conservation, five-man, ten-man, and all sorts of specs, both ingenious and ridiculous. And the night before the patch I sat there, going through the links, looking them over, picking through them and pretending there wasn't an exam I needed to study for (I think I aced it, though).
Then the patch came and I specced Moonkin.
The original idea was to spec Doomkin and test it out in arena with a warlock partner. However, midterms and my partner's work schedule (as well as my work schedule) cut our available time down. Then Hallow's End hit, and I'm much more concerned with getting a Squashling and Hallowed Helm than I am with playing in Arena (I lost the pet and broom twice in one run! and the helm in another! injustice!).
Spell power is just as confusing as it I thought it would be. I am in possession of over fifty different pieces of spell power gear, and no Outfitter to organize them for me. I haven't had time to download and fiddle with Closet Gnome, and I find myself hunting through my bags and manually clicking on various different pieces of gear depending on what I'm doing and what I hope to accomplish. That and the introduction of spell power has completely nerfed off-spec healing, but I suppose that's just a minor quibble.
At the moment, levelling a ret paladin (Divine Storm is gorgeous), a warlock, and a priest, combined with trying to sort Bellwether out, is just completely overwhelming. Besides that...I really miss being a healer. I imagine I'll be trading in my antlers for branches quite soon.
Though, Typhoon + Tree Mafia? Hella good times.
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I, for one, still wish to arena and put all the theorycrafting into practice.
Outfitter has been updated and is working. It's on WoWInterface, and, I think, Curse.
Hmm, keeps breaking for me. May be a problem with another addon.
If you're not raiding between now and Lich King, and you just want to get a healing fix in I've found healing heroics to be just fine as moonkin. It lacks the Nature's Swiftness emergency button, but enemies die quickly enough that people generally don't take much damage. I had an easier time healing heroic BM than I would ever have thought possible. I wouldn't have even tried as moonkin pre-patch.
To simplify Spellpower, simply multiply the value by 1.8 and treat it as the old +Healing value. Its an easy way to get used to Spellpower.
Other than that, the stats are the same still.
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