Ghostcrawler acknowledged that Druids may need some love in PvP due to the inefficient Lifebloom in that particular setting. However, the developers consider Lifebloom to be alright in PvE. The player complaining about this spell reported the Druid class is the one with a lesser mana pool in comparison with other healers, and that druids go /oom (out of mana) earlier than anyone.
To this Ghostcrawler offered a hint. Lifebloom is not to be spammed and wasted on healing everyone and their cat (err ... pet). Lifebloom was designed to be focused on the tank or up to three tanks depending the boss encounter situation. In short, use Lifebloom wisely to help maintain the tanks alive. Let other healers take care of the raid.
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| Elamalaka: Do you think your previous ‘nerfs’ to lifebloom are OK in WOTLK? I know it was ‘overpowered’ in TBC, and it did need to be toned down, but do you still think 489 mana for 1 lifebloom was a good choice for WOTLK? Do you consider it mana efficient? We already go OOM before any other healer in PVP and you plan on nerfing mana regeneration in general + innervate? Please keep in mind that we don’t have the same mana pool as the other 3 healers and that you want us to continue using lifebloom to heal. Please shed some more light on this. Ghostcrawler: First let me say that all these discussions on mana have illustrated that players have vastly different experiences managing mana as well as opinions on how it should work. Our opinion is that Lifebloom might be a little inefficent in PvP even ignoring the DK dispels. However rolling Lifeblooms on 2-3 tanks is one of the most efficient heals in a PvE setting, almost brokenly so. So it isn’t as simple as just lowering the mana cost.—source |
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