Druids/Clerics, How will YOU spec post-1.69?

[Shan]

If buff shearing goes live "as is", will you take the "midgard style" (As ie PAC healers usually go 44PAC 30Mend, or splitspec) and drop regro/rejuv to 30 - 37 and raise Enhanc/Nurture to 39 - 44 to be able to selfbuff STR/CON n DEX/QUI for yourself (And for shears of course) ? (As self buffed CONC spells cannot be sheared, just like timer based spells)

Taking into consideration that with Banelord ML1 you will be spell unhasted and already after that casting spreadheal will take ages from what i've heard. Add DEX/QUI stripped from you and possible DEX/QUI debuff if Midgard group has SM in group (Always at least 20dark, aka green DEX/QUI debuff) and your cast time with any spell (maybe not with 2.2 casttime minor baseline heal) should be quite... huge.

I'm not sure how most Druids/Clerics spec, I'm just assuming that it's high (40+) Reg/Rej as you don't have MUST lines to spec into (Except mebbe Reg/Nat Druids), unlike Healers (Need always at least one Aug/Mend and one PAC/Mend.. possibly Mend/Aug or Third healer as backup mezzer with 40Mend rest PAC)

 

[Escape]

I'm staying with 40Rejuv 36Enhance. The lv40 res is too good to be without, imo.

What I understand of buff shearing is... if you buff yourself, you cannot be 'sheared', only the people you buff are vulnerable. The top level single-target debuff will remove any level of buff from your target i.e. the highest (ST)Str/con debuff comes at 36Enhance spec, and this will remove red str/con buffs.

Druids and Shamen get this str/con debuff at lv37... whereas clerics get it at 36. This might change... or maybe it's Mythic's way of giving clerics some extra utility over druids/healers.


The question is how many Nature druids will respec to Nurture... oO

 

[emma]

I'm staying with 40Rejuv 36Enhance. The lv40 res is too good to be without, imo.

What I understand of buff shearing is... if you buff yourself, you cannot be 'sheared', only the people you buff are vulnerable. The top level single-target debuff will remove any level of buff from your target i.e. the highest (ST)Str/con debuff comes at 36Enhance spec, and this will remove red str/con buffs.

Druids and Shamen get this str/con debuff at lv37... whereas clerics get it at 36. This might change... or maybe it's Mythic's way of giving clerics some extra utility over druids/healers.


The question is how many Nature druids will respec to Nurture... oO

I`ll give you a tip as well ;p Get into toa and get as many +buff% items as poss ;p put them on when buffing people and then put your normal armour on ;p the buffs stay at the increased numbers but you keep your decent resists from SC armour \o/

with 36 Ench (yellow specs afaik) you can cap out your buffs easy with enough items. Ive had shaman's buff me with yellows that have equaled my 47 aug + mota3 + 14% buff% shammy, and then got healed by the same guy for 751 hits