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Comment by Morrik

Comment by matie

It has some positive and negative things
positive:
- your HoT's will get a very big bonus to their ticks
- your Swiftmend will also heal a lot higher because it's greatly dependent from +healing and HoT-full-healing
negative:
- you can't cast regrowth (who cares)
- you can't cast HT (very negative side)
- you can't decurse

tho you can always just shift to tree, put HoT, etc on raid/party shift back, but i don't think it'll be that good with all the mana that shifting takes away.

Comment by rays

As of now (patch 2.0.1), this form is considered an elemental and can be banished by warlocks. =/

Comment by goodnight

I find it hard to justify taking this talent in live (I don't have beta). The buff to healing from spirit is 25%, which is added to by the talent that buffs your spirit by 20%. So if you have 200 spirit, which transelates to 240 spirit via talents, your +healing comes out to 60. Granted the numbers are nice, its definetly hard to keep up with healing a party or raid without healing touch. Looking at the beta forums, the general concensus seems to be that the whole idea of tree form (if it is even worth taking) relies on the lifebloom spell (which we on live won't be seeing for another month). In light of this, I for one don't see the advantage to having more than one tree in a raid, and consequently won't be specing tree form. It definetly seems more beneficial to come up with some kind of hybrid spec (like resto/balance with lots of mana regen and damage capability) over full resto for a talent that doesn't benefit as much as it could.

Comment by 7511

While in Tree of Life form, in addition to all the things mentioned above such a Regrowth, Rejuvenation, Rebirth, etc.. you can also cast Tranquility. Even though it's a channeled spell it does, in fact, heal over time.

Also, it should be noted that the group buff that comes from a Druid in the Tree of Life form does stack. You can have a group of five Tree of Life Druids that will constantly be giving each other a massive buff to their healing just by standing around. The amount of additional healing from one Druid might not be spectacular, but when they keep piling up the numbers can get quite high.

I did a Lower Blackrock Spire run with three Tree of Life Druids, myself (Shaman), and a Hunter. It was... neat.

Comment by 7790

I'm loving this talent. Makes Healing in AV so much more straight forward and so far I haven't been in a single AV where someone has out healed me... (that said, if you see Stanlee, stay close and you'll stay alive!)

Now I just recently had some experience with the buff stacking. A group of 5 would have 125% of each druid's spirit increased to healing. So if you had 300spirit. Looking at 375+ to healing, if I'm not mistaken...

Further thinking... 40man raid group, a group of 5 druids doing the healing all in form. I wouldn't want to be up against the mob that can kill the main tank who has that group of druids healing him.

List of spell/skill usage for Tauren(Pre-Expansion) - Rejuvenation, Regrowth, Tranquility, Innervate, Nature's Swiftness, Swiftmend, Rebirth, Teleport Moonglade, and Warstomp

Comment by Sephalae82

I thought the exact same thing before I saw 2 fellow Druids spec into it.
- Their heals were great and mana isn't really that difficult to manage seeing as you won't have to heal as much with the HoT's ticking like crazy.
- The group +25% spirit buff applies to ALL heals, not just yours or other Druid's.
- It's also a heck of a lot of fun seeing your target's health drop to almost nothing and being able to help you fellow healers get it's health back up.

Comment by 20686

I certainly find it odd that you can't cure poisons and curses in the form, but other than that I love it. The lowered manacost is very, very nice, and with Regrowth costing less mana than Healing Touch, you really don't miss it.

Barkskin should be made castable in Tree of Life.

Comment by radeox

It's hard to determine if this talent will be worth the investment. With the 2.0 WoW client patch hitting the game Tuesday 12/5/2006, it will allow Druids of the 60th level to try this out. Additionally, it would seem that HoT's will stack and there is no limit to this. With the addition of HoT's stacking, it may be a viable talent to invest into (stacking of Rejuvinations along with Regrowths in a raid will be ticking the MT for around 1000 to 2000 every three seconds). That fact will make the healing much more mana efficient since downranking heals is not longer an option (+healing gear has a much lower percent bonus to lower ranking spells).

In the end, I may just flip a coin to see if I go that much into Restoration. Granted, I love healing... that always helps.

Longer spells are more usefull when your MT takes big chunks of damage. For example: Deep Breath. When people were healing people who were tanking something that could deep breath, they were either timing their big heals (G-Heal in later patches or HT) as the boss was casting Deep Breath, if they weren't then they needed a slap or they knew someone else was doing it. Either way, big heals are really useful when you expect a big chunk of damage to come in. Thankfully in TBC they completely removed the obviousness of any big chunks of damage, so priests tend to cancel a hell of a lot of their g-heals at 90% casted and end up casting a flash on someone else because the MT maybe dodged an attack that could've been crushing. But anyways, this means that in smaller groups, the MT is taking less spike damage and therefore less big heals are needed, also priests can fill in any gaps when they are needed, leaving druids to be spamming HoTs to keep the tank constantly topped up saving priests the job of spamming their only HoT (Renew) at a costly amount of mana compared to a druid or spamming a G-Heal to have 50% overheal. Needless to say, a druid is a great addition to any raid, but I wouldn't necessarily like a tree form druid as my only healer in a 5man (they're to stay druid form when in that situation, please). But this hardly matters since the fights in 5mans don't last anywhere near as long and are a lot less mana intensive, meaning the loss of 20% reduced mana usage is less of a deal.

Finally about the mana cost for those who don't know: This is 28% of your *base* mana, meaning 28% of your mana whilst naked. As 70% of your mana comes from items, it really means that this spell is *not* 28% of your mana whilst you're fighting, it's significantly less (10% maybe? depends on the druid.) and hence it is castable in combat.

Comment by Nebalee

"... all party members within 45 yards ..."

Actually the range of the aura is quite a bit lower than 45 yards. You can stay on maximum healing distance to your target (up to 40yd) and it wont get the auras buff.

Comment by Skiers

So actually, in WC3 campaigns or melees, the Tree of Life building was a druid after all!
That's why I'm not seeing any Tree of Life ancients all these time..They're me! Hah!

Comment by FroRev

Barkskin can be cast in Tree of Life form, now. Also note that the War Stomp and Shadowmeld racials can be used (although I only witnessed the latter while playing Alliance on the test realm).

Comment by 67166

As of 2.3, tree of life can cast cure poison, and abolish poison.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2035714805&sid=1

Comment by 64980

Is it just me? Or does the Tree of Life form make you walk slower. I can't keep up with my party, they all run faster. I can't seem to find it anywhere.

Comment by 88528

In patch 2.4 you'll be able to cast any restoration spells with this form!

http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php

Comment by brenthebli

If bear/dire bear is like a warrior, cat is like a rougue, and moonkin is like a shaman (sort of, considering its a caster with highish armor), then this form is a preist.

Comment by MasterOfDisguise

It is worth noting you can eat or drink food and water while shapeshifted in Tree of Life.

Comment by Katsuya

I really think you should take to notice, that this Tree of Life has the ability to use ALL restoration abilities while in its shapeshift form. That means not only HoT spells, but also Healing Touch, no longer will you have to shapeshift into your natural form to cast it. It only says that the HoT spells will get the mana redux though.

Comment by goblinego

Why they can't attack? Throw apples or something?

Comment by 181058

interesting fact the second buff that says "increases healing by 25% of the tree of life's total spirit" is right clickable so you can rid of it idk why you would though lol

Comment by 181148

WotLK's beta talent tree for druids shows that ToL will be able to cast any Restoration spell: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/classes/druid/talents2.html

It says you can only cast "Restoration and Barkskin spells"
This means yes to HT and Remove Curse, but I'm afraid it won't include Innervate unless they change it.

Also, OoC will have a chance to proc on healing spells. Neat!

Comment by 181058

get stuck on some stairs such as in ST lmao

Comment by 166647

I've gotta say, I'm not too fond of the appearence of tree of life form. It shouldn't look exactly like a treant. It should've been Keeper of the Grove form imo

Comment by 195872

the best thing about this new WOTLK tree form is that you don't lose movement speed anymore. correct me if i'm wrong but no one has mentioned this and the tooltip doesn't either. this mean tree form becomes viable for pvp.

Comment by Harpy87

I'd like to point out that the latest updates in the Wotlk talent calculator shows a decrease in the ToL auras power. It is reduced from 25% of you spirit to, a 3% static bonus, unaffected by spirit. Also, Imp. ToL will unfortunatly not increase this amount, but reduce the mana cost further by 15% and boost your armor by 100%.

Imho, it only benefits people who dont have top end healing/spirit gear as it doesnt scale with gear, although it has become a raidwide application, which is pretty neat =)

Comment by 95016

and also, now we can cast Healing touch in ToL form...

Comment by 115505

Question:
Don't you take more damage while in the Tree of Life form?

Comment by 152717

Has anybody else noticed that the tree of life aura is messed up? I was in H UP and noticed that my aura wasn't on anybody (including myself). And even though it kept saying that the buff was there and then fading, it was never included with my buffs.

Comment by 169285

Through out its life time, tree of life has undergone some major changes
things like on how you cast spells...all hots and direct heals are now castable, cure poison, banish cruse, thorns and mark of the wild are now castable in this form as well.
the movement speed debuff was removed...
And this form now has an armor buff.

Update- As of patch 4.0.1 the tree of life form is no longer an indefinite buff, but rather a temporary 30 25 second buff.
It causes wild growth to hit extra targets, regrowth to be instant casts, time to cast wrath is reduced by 50%, entangling roots are now instant cast and lifebloom can be casted on an unlimited amount of targets.

just some quick recap information on how it has changed, if you are new to druids, or coming back after a long stint from wow.

enjoy your time, and (or) welcome back!

Comment by 337305

"Tree of Life: Now receives 240% increased armor. You can now use Nature's Grasp and Thorns while within this form. Mana cost reduced to match the cost of Travel Form."

So, now druids in tree form are getting a 240% armor bonus, plus 100% from the improved ToL?
Seems pretty neat for me :O

Edit: typo.
Edit2: Apparently this change was meant for IMPROVED Tree of Life, changing the already existent 100% to 240%. (At 3/3 points)

Comment by 338095

As of the next patch thorns will not cancel tree of life form, nor will nature's grasp. The thorn change is mostly a "quality of life" improvement. You rarely (if ever) recast thorns unless you're resting and drinking anyhow, and thus it was more an annoyance than anything that it shapeshifted you back to your humanoid form on cast.

On the other hand, the increased armor of this form (240%) and the ability to cast nature's grasp while shifted will be rather useful both in instances and PVP.

Remember not to long ago when *nobody* did PVP as a tree? I think that with the changes that have been made it is very viable.

Comment by 207674

New to patch notes: In addition, the discount on heal-over-time spells from this talent is now active at all times, whether or not the druid is in Tree of Life form. Even though there's benefits to shapeshifting into tree form and no cons except for the low mana-cost shapeshift, this change will still be useful in situations such as World PvP (like wintergrasp) where you might be constantly mounting and dismounting or if you just don't want to get banished by a warlock. Also great if you want to kite someone in a duel when combined with insect swarm and moonfire in travel form.

Comment by 227308

Tree Durid is 4 Heel!

Comment by sietelle

Does anyone know the significance of a brighter/shinier version of this icon in raid buffs?

Comment by Sindalar

When was this form added? Was it in vanilla?

Comment by 330050

Trees That dance the Twist! :D

Comment by 501858

My tank keeps dying *sniffle* does anyone know a good rotation or what I may be doing wrong?

Comment by TrandomKaggus

I really want the tree, travel and moonkin forms to have distinct skins like the bear and cat forms do. :/

Comment by Penguinist

Resto druids with Tree of Life = Surfers of WoW ?

Comment by Delix

Tree of life is getting some possible changes for cataclysm:

Tree of Life is changing from a passive talent to a cooldown-based talent, similar to Metamorphosis. Mechanically, it feels unfair for a druid to have to give up so much offense and utility in order to be just as good at healing as the other classes who are not asked to make that trade. We are exploring the exact benefit the druid gets from Tree of Life. It could strictly be better healing, or it could be that each heal behaves slightly different. You also will not be able to be banished in Tree of Life form (this will probably be true of Metamorphosis as well). Additionally, we would like to update the Tree of Life model so that it feels more exciting when you do decide to go into that form. Our feeling is that druids rarely actually get to show off their armor, so it would be nice to have at least one spec that looked like a night elf or tauren (and soon troll or worgen) for most of the time.

Sucks that druids will be gaining a new model for trees, but with the cost of using it as a cooldown.

Comment by JPato01

noob question
"Increases healing received by 6% for all party and raid members within 100 yards." does this aura affect healing from other healers?

Comment by 575542

Why on earth would they remove the tree of life form, into a CD thingy which some, like me, wil rarely use because i wil save it for emergencies, and than i wil end up with almost not use it at all. Why just do this on tree of life form? Why not on dire bear form so when the freaking tank almost kills the boss the form disappear and he get 1 hitted?

But serious, why not moonkin too?

Edit: added moonkin question

Comment by dmmoelle

I agree with Moonslayer. I never get around to using my trinkets that often. If its a situation where I need more healing is because some one is about to die. And if i have to hit another button its to late the guy is dead. I'm not going to put another spell in an emergency rotation just to save mana. But if they do balance out the healing tree to not need the tree form it will be nice in pvp. In pvp the tree form may as well be a big flag saying kill me first.

Comment by 581483

Druids finish losing 6% of Bonus healing simply "will be cool see a tauren or a night elf in your true forms" why moonkin form too?

Comment by 391141

is it worth reworking my tree to be able to get Tree of Life at level 50, instead of filling in my talents above as i planned and waiting to lvl 56 to get it? If I do get it at 50, will I still be as effective a healer as I would have been with my upper talents filled?

Comment by 614636

Druid Cataclysm Talent Preview

Tier 9

>> Tree of Life (1 point) - Requires 5 points in Empowered Rejuvenation - Shapeshift into the tree of Life, increasing healing done by 15% and increasing your armor by 240%, but reducing your movement speed by 50%. In addition, some of your spells are temporarly enhanced while shapeshifted. Lasts 45 seconds. 5-minute cooldown. Enhanced spells: Lifebloom, Wild Growth, Regrowth, Entangling Roots, Thorns, Wrath

>> Improved Tree of Life (3 points) - Requires 1 point in Tree of Life - Reduces the cooldown of your Tree of Life by 30/60/90 seconds, and increases your damage done while in Tree of Life by 5/10/15%.

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MY comment, I love being in tree form. The only reason i have a druid is to heal, and i think its sweet to be in Tree Form.
Personally, i will most likely re-roll a different class now. The whole reason there doing it is to nurff the Resto Druids for a currently OP class. Taking away something that make the class unique and more like the other class's takes away the fun of them.

The whole "Giving up healing to do damage works okay. Giving up everything to heal is lame." is a JOKE.

If that were the case no one would want HEAL as a Druid. Even so, would it just not make sense to give Resto Druids a attack that they could use in Tree of Life Form. Cause casting Wraith "Balance attack" will not be fun!
You cannot heal in bear, moonkin, or cat. You can not melee with the right spells in Bear, or moonkin. You cannot taunt or use any tanking abilities in cat or moonkin. And you cannot cats spells in cat or bear.

Saying giving up dpsing for healing is lame. You don’t have to stay in tree in pvp. Buff druid spells and nurf tree armor if your worried about that. If your worried about being out of Tree in raids to dps you have a problem.

In my opinion DON'T take away the from, Nerf it/Change it, DON'T turn it into a Useless Cooldown
How do you Nerf a class without making them overly angry? You say “we want to help you, make the game more fun, though with that your heals may take a bit of a hit”.

aka, when i heal, i'm not looking at my bars for when i can hit my trinkets or cooldowns. I'm looking at the raid for who needs a heal. If i need to look at my bars people die! more or less a passive ability is greater then a press me.

When you roll a druid, you roll it knowing you will be in a Shifted form. That is the lore of a druid. That’s what we are supposed to do. You don't roll a druid thinking, I’m going to stay in human form.

As for the "Resto Druids didn't originally have Tree of Life Form, So whatever was appealing about Druids back when Tree of Life didn't exist" >>> well Sorry I didn't play wow Back then, and if i did, well i guess THEY wouldnt have been Appealing to me!

USELESS: having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully
JOKE: a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2007/stylewatch/blog/070423/save_trees_400x300.jpg

Comment by eluneaurora

Quoted: "In my opinion DON'T take away the from, Nerf it/Change it, DON'T turn it into a useless cooldown!
How do you Nerf a class without making them overly angry? When I heal, I'm not looking at my bars for when I can hit my cooldowns. I'm looking at the raid for who needs a heal. When you roll a Druid, you roll it knowing you will be in a shifted form. That’s what we are supposed to do. You don't roll a Druid thinking, I’m going to stay in form. "Resto" Druids didn't originally have Tree of Life Form.....
(slightly cut for length)

Personally, I think someone at blizzard got their tier 8/9 (heroic) stuff and was upset about not being able to show it off. (Taking into consideration the time frame when this punishably stupid idea came to be). That or someone bet a dev twenty bucks he wouldn't take it away. I picked up broccoli sprounting in BC, and I am retiring with Wrath. I was not around to enjoy "vanilla" WoW, so I never knew anything but all roles have a form. It honestly makes no sense, if I wanted to see my shiny gear, I'd roll a Priest, or play my Shaman/Mage/DK...

Tree form is the one thing about healing I've never been annoyed about. I get a good /lol out of my branches swaying in the invisible wind while I'm feeling like crap on hour 3 of the same boss. Tree form pride launched me into Warcraft RP (forum and in game), and I'll always be called "Tree" by more than one old friend. I'm exceptionally upset by the change, and for a while, it made me want to simply stop playing. I have plenty of other 80's and my Druid will forever stand in my character sheet, proudly sporting her tier 9/10 (or whatever full set I get to by the end of Wrath) at 80.

/weep

Comment by whisperingsage

Enhanced spells:
Lifebloom: Applies an additional application

Wild Growth: Affects an additional 2 targets

Regrowth: Instant cast

Entangling Roots: Instant cast, damage increased by 200%

Thorns: (not revealed yet)

Wrath: Cast time reduced by 50%, damage increased by 30%

Comment by 476166

As for the "Resto Druids didn't originally have Tree of Life Form, So whatever was appealing about Druids back when Tree of Life didn't exist" >>> well Sorry I didn't play wow Back then, and if i did, well i guess THEY wouldnt have been Appealing to me!

You're over-reacting on every level in this post. You aren't concerned about the class, you're afraid of change.

You don't know what it's like to play as a Druid yet. You won't have a clear picture until Cataclysm is released. But with statements like "Cause casting Wraith "Balance attack" will not be fun!", you appear to be nit-picking faults as opposed to offering real critiques. There's no suggestions, no genuine concerns, just whining. The "Wraith Balance attack" is an optional bonus, something they're giving to all healers so they can solo quest content easier without needing to Dual-spec (which is especially tough for Resto Druids). Their "heals" taking a "bit of a hit" is nothing but baseless rumor. They're rebalancing every healing class based on new game mechanics. Imagine your tree right now has the same abilities, is able to do more for your party or raid, but doesn't look like a tree. There you are -- that's how they're envisioning the Restoration Druid, with the new Tree of Life form being an additional, VERY USEFUL cooldown.

If you love Druids, you should love them for how they play, not how they look.

Comment by 516366

I dont think blizzard should change this form into a cooldown, its not broken so why fix it? By taking away the ability to stay in tree form blizzard is sort of taking away the feel of being a druid, the druids special ability is to be able to shapeshift to make themselves better for what that form is used for.

Comment by 504019

To be honest, I can't see what you people are running about crying for, I'm excited! Finally I get to be able to play a resto druid again. I threw away my resto gear in the Vanilla/TBC transition, when they had the horrifying "Tree of Life" idea. I loved being able to be my little Night Elf and jump around throwing rejuvenation as it pleased me best. I never cared for the Tree, it looked ugly, still does, and was basically add' to add up for everyone else having a form, well to be honest I liked not being in a form. Hmm.. but maybe now, with it as an awesome cooldown I might be more psyched to actually see the bloody Tree Form.

But of course, knowing blizzard, if enough people weep and emo about something being changed it won't. I can just hope, that they'll go through with this whole "New Tree Form Cooldown" thing they've got going.

On another slightly less related topic; Does anyone else remember back when WoW was made by blizzard as they saw fit and not to please every little idiot crying about hogger being too hard to group for?

-Vul.

Comment by 651593

Personally, I am not in favor of having ToL on cooldown. One, because I personally like being a Tree. I like the fact that I don't have to be just another Nelf flinging spells around. Two, and the reason that makes me a little angry, is that they're singling out just one of the druid specs for a shapeshifting cooldown. If all specs were given the same treatment, I doubt I'd be as aggravated over the proposed change.

Although I must admit I think the "show off armor" reason Blizzard gave is absolute BS, especially since, as others have stated, most druid armor looks absolutely awful.

Comment by Healsforhugs

It has been said before to druids not in favor of the change that they are just "afraid of change and care more about looks then the class" I don't believe this is true.
I do battlegrounds and I'm well aware that shifting into treeform puts a rather large target on my head and it does suck that I can't attack stuff. I would rather have all this then take away our tree form.
I've never come across a situation in a raid (save cycloning CC'd people on lady deathwhisper) where I'm thinking, hey I really wish I could be casting some damaging spells right now. Stop changing everything to accommodate PVPers.
Our healing form made us unique and interesting. It set us apart from all the healers and I prefer it that way. Not everything needs to be the same I think.
The tree of life buff was a reason to keep us around and if you start making everything the same then why not take a holy priest or any other raid healer? Moonkins will keep their buff and they can be the druid buff and battle res, where is the need for a restoration druid going to be?
I think blizzard has been reckless with Trees, not really putting in enough thought before making changes. But I guess this might be just my opinion.
I'm going to punch every complainer in face with my mighty tree fists while I still can. Maybe they'll learn to adapt to what they're given before trying to ruin it for everyone else.
/rant

Comment by 192690

The "Wraith Balance attack" is an optional bonus, something they're giving to all healers so they can solo quest content easier without needing to Dual-spec (which is especially tough for Resto Druids).

I think there is another reason Blizzard is giving DPS talents to healers now. It will give healers something to do when doing easy content or situations where you don't need to heal much (for example, if you are fighting a raid boss where you need 4 healers during the phases where damage is high, but during the phases where damage is low, you can easily get by with 3 healers).

I know there are healers out there who feel dirty if they help DPS, but I enjoy doing it when everyone is safe. I think Blizz is trying to make it so Healers help DPS when their healing isn't needed, and DPS can heal themselves when raid damage gets too crazy (i.e. Rogue's new Recuperate ability).

Comment by kaplin

Good night, sweet trees!

Comment by 308398

If you don't like the new tree forms in patch 4.0.1, you can soon use a minor glyph which lets you use the old skin again.

Comment by majinvegito123

Unfortunately in Patch 4.0.1, the Tree of Life spell was massacred and instead made into a "metamorphosis." I like the concept, but I do miss the original Tree of Life. Rest in peace, trees =)

Comment by 680568

So, does anyone know what "enhancements" Lifebloom, Wild Growth, Regrowth, Entangling Roots, Wrath will get while in Tree form? Just a flat 15% too?

Makes Resto dps look even more fun :P

Comment by 505931

Obviously it's better than it used to be in terms of it's usefulness. Blizzard will balance the class accordingly outside of ToL, plus druids now have a very nice button to hit for extra healing (Quite a bit more than 15% actually, if you care to look at the 'Enhanced Spells' section). The only nerf is the look, and that obviously matters because we're playing a video game.

Comment by cpbjr

it appears like regrowth is now an instant case. the HOT remains, but the initial part is instant. not sure what the other "enhancements" are.

EDIT.

Here are the enhancements. (Had to do a little searching, and found it here.)

Tree of Life is now a buff, not a passive form. It is a 30 second buff with a 3 minute cooldown, which boosts your healing by 15%, armor by 120%, makes you immune to Polymorph and enhances some of your spells:

Lifebloom: allows an unlimited number of Lifebloom targets.
Wild Growth: allows an extra two targets to receive WG.
Regrowth: instant-cast.
Entangling Roots: instant-cast, damage increased by 200%.
Wrath: cast-time reduced by 50%, damage increased by 30%

Comment by 518059

Popping Tree of Life and using instant cast regrowth works wonders when things get out of hand in a dungeon/raid. It's basically my new "oh @#$!" button. Nice in battlegrounds too, as I can heal all my buddies to full health in a matter of seconds.

Comment by TheDancingTree

R.I.P unlimited Tree of Life time.... Your awesome dance will be sorely missed :( Please blizz, cant you just make a glyph to keep it permanent? D:

EDIT: Actually, the form now has a /dance animation, consisting of shakin' its wooden butt like the good old days. Still not the same, tho :(

EDIT 2: Horay! We've got the glyph for unlimited tree form again! ^.^

Comment by Callick

I have stopped healing on my druid now and will spec balance/feral because of ToL changes. It didn't need to be fixed as it wasn't broke. Shapeshifting at will is the whole point of being a druid, and ToL is the reason I rolled druid. Why not keep the Treant-ish ToL form as permanent and make that silly purple version be the powerful cooldown when big heals are needed..? Sounds reasonable to me..

Comment by Shoddythetroll

Latest patch made the resto talent Natural Shapeshifter increases the ToL duration by 5/10 secs.
Cooldown of ToL also reduced to 3 min from 5 min.

Less haters hopefully.

Comment by 541959

as a restoration druid, i'm loving the changes except for the new form. it looks like a character that would have popped out a miyazaki movie. that humongous head, wiggling bottocks while casting a spell...

when i first saw it, we were fighting ick and i almost caused a wipe. i just stared at the screen blankly for 3-4 seconds, while all the team was exploding with ick's mines. anyway, noone dead, no harm done.

but as i said i really liked the updates. i like the fact that i can appear with my gear during a normal run and shift into the tree form when it is REALLY needed. and instant cast on regrowth is mind blowingly useful. instant cast 10k heal. add rejuvenation for around 3k heals per sec, with life bloom and others, you literally have hard time seeing the actual fight through the green heal indicators. i think with this update tree form finally became the "tree of life". druid is restricted but in return tree of life form became imba over imba.

or it just better suits my playing habits, thats all. i dont know :)

Comment by weirdunclebob

The new model looks ridiculous. No, I mean, really ridiculous. Totally, stupidly ridiculous. I saw it for the first time in a 5 man Wrath dungeon today and wondered for a second wtf it was. I love the treant model but I couldn't sacrifice a useful minor glyph spot to hide this ugly thing. Might try balance...

Comment by 575542

It looks like cata is making resto druids more like all others(...They ruined our Nourish and our Regrowth (first of all, why could they not make nourish the fast one. It was already fast. And regrowth the mana saving one, and kept the HoT as strong and long (hehe strong and long =P) as it used to be)
Only that we got the most mana costing and weakest spells. Dont believe me? check this out:

Priest
Quick - Flash Heal
Cheap - Heal
Big - Greater Heal

Shaman
Quick - Healing Surge
Cheap - Healing Wave
Big - Greater Healing Wave

Druid
Quick - Regrowth . . . . 7-8% more expensive than all other and 2x as bad, maby a bit less than 2x if u count all the HoTs, but its not far from. (Nature's Bounty makes it crit almost all the times, but 1 crit = as much as 1 normal heal with all others)
Cheap - Nourish . . . . 1% more expensive than all others and its BARELY better than Healing Surge IF u got a HoT on the target.
Big - Healing Touch . . . . Actualy this does not cost more than other, but still, not cheaper than any...aaaand its the weakest out of all the big heals.

Paladin
Quick - Flash of Light
Cheap - Holy Light
Big - Divine Light

Sure this is without talents. With talents (if anybody bother to make) we can see the real differences. But all fair and [] with no talents, the druids are worst healers.

(This was not originaly my comment. All thanks to Pythagoreant) (though i added the comments =P)

(Just had to add in case. I am preaty sure some one was going to say anything about this so...)
Yes we do have HoTs, and Nourish and Healing Touch does refreshes Lifebloom with Empowered Touch but all other healing classes got other heals too so...ye..just forget about the other spells for a sec)

(while i am making this ridiculous long comment, Resto druids did NOT gain any new 80-85 spells)

Comment by 650450

I freakin' hate how it ain't a shapeshift anymore (by that I mean it only lasts 30 SECONDS!)

Comment by guatafu

I got an idea for the skins. One for each season.
Night elf should be spring with the skin currently assigned to tauren, after all those are the colors from WC3 buildings. They are the race that are most entwined with nature even living in trees.

Troll should be summer with the leaves in dark green after all the summer rains. Darkspear trolls live in jungles where it rains a lot. Maybe change the wood color as well to resemble a wet tree.

Tauren should be summer their skin colors and the weather in mulgore represent very well the season. The skin currently assigned to trolls should be for tauren.

Worgen should be winter, most wolves live in cold regions. I like the wood skin but the leaves should be on pale colors.

Also I agree with a post above that they should implement a permanent tree of life form and make this form just a cd not a shapeshift. After all how do you explain that during the last 4 years (of game, thousands of lore) tauren and night elves were able to hold their tree of life form indeterminately and all of a sudden they forgot how to do it and just keep it for a couple of seconds.

Comment by 321140

How do you call a tree of life who melees? A combat log.
All credit goes to mmo-champion.

Comment by 418191

Just great!Druids in tree form can be polymorphed too.....cooldown vanish inc.
What are druids supposed to do than ?

Comment by Buuuz

Tree form now have 30 sec timer! Blizz nerfed resto finaly!

Comment by 770424

I find it a little odd that nobody really mentioned the big downfall to this form for Resto druids. Mind you, I still love Druid healing, and I'm not re-rolling or any of that garbage, because I've found my normal ol' caster form perfectly viable to keep groups up. It's rather obvious they finally balanced us well enough to run with other healing classes without the need of a shapeshift form.

There is really just two things about the Tree of Life form that I personally dislike. The first is that, I really never think to use it. A 3 minute cooldown its not very long at all, especially for a 40 second talented duration, but I just never think to use the thing. Not because people would die if I did, because I have perhaps used it a handful of times and it did help, but the more comfortable I get with the changes to restoration, it's just an unnecessary whistle to me that I never use.

The second (and larger issue in my opinion) is the improved Regrowth. Mind you, I rarely use Regrowth as it is, but Tree of Life form makes it 'appear' to be an attractive spell to use. The issue I find with that though, is that it is god-awful expensive. And not even by a little bit, it is currently like 50% more mana intensive than Healing Touch, and heals for less I believe. While talented it crits like crazy and plants a seed, and that likely makes up a good deal of the difference in making it a viable spell, Tree of Life form essentially gives the feel that you need to spam heal your group with it. Lots of healing quickly? Yes. I've saved a group with it once or twice. I've also ran myself out of mana quickly using it as a 'oh crap' button.

Strategically, we always use CD's as emergency buttons, ironically the best strategy in using tree of life form is in the Lifebloom expansion. The least likely time we are going to use lifeblooms is when we need to heal multiple group members of massive damage. It's kind of a contradiction.

Comment by Nightseer

Enhanced spells:

Lifebloom: Can be cast on unlimited targets.
Wild Growth: Affects an additional 2 targets.
Regrowth: Becomes instant cast.
Entangling Roots: Becomes instant cast.
Wrath: Cast time reduced by 50%.

Comment by 27776

GODS DAMNED BROCCOLI MONSTA!

Comment by thehumanjukebox

As of Cataclysm - 4.06, the tree of life form does the following:
+15% healing done
+120% armor
Polymorph Protection
can be cast on unlimited targets
affects two more targets
is instant cast
is instant cast
has its cast time reduced, (on me - from 2.28 sec to 1.16 sec)

Tree of Life form lasts 25 sec - with talent, lasts 31 sec.

Comment by 593641

the best wep for killing tree of life druids is a herring.

Comment by Ty52

i will have to be in favor of some posts here, YES, it is OP being in ToL now and the skin looks awesome....but not being a marihuana tree jumping/dancing all the time seems like....boring...besides i would like they made female versions (obviously thats just a dream)

Comment by seahen

Has more bark than bite.

Comment by 804645

Question for you guys, i've been playing a druid for awhile. Since they've changed tree form... i tend to not use it much because it seems to just drain my mana. I will however use it when it's needed *I.E.* tons of raid damage need to catch up. Is this wrong? my guild seems to think that i should use tree form whenever it is up....

Comment by 802618

Diffrent races should get diffrent looking trees..

Like Worgen should have a spooky looking tree and Taruen should have one of those trees from the Lion King, ya know?

Trolls should have a palm tree.

Comment by 816435

I myself havent played WoW since last july, but im planning on getting it back within 1-3 months, or as soon as i can.

In my opinion, the new tree form looks epic and more durable, but whats this i heard about not being able to attack or something?

Comment by 819029

They killed it.

Comment by 815388

i gotta say blizzard screwed up when they put this change in
there was nothing wrong with original tree of life as druids didn't need to show off their armor what would be the point of shapeshifting then
simple resolution: keep ToL as a shapeshift, enhance wrath or add a new offensive spell exclusive to ToL, make roots instant cast.
really easy if you think about it
you could have the full ToL shapeshift and be able to defend yourself when the need arises

Comment by 610373

I have to say, I like the new design of Tree of Life. You look like a mini-ancient that's always roaming the Night Elf areas. I will forever miss the days of unlimited treeing, but the buffs set up on this current design seem to be worth the "short" duration.

Comment by Roayal

And all that i can see(3x)
is just wooden
Resto drood

Comment by Lagun

The new wording on the MoP glyph of the Treant may hint on a permanent cosmetic treant form.

Comment by Allakhazam

This form looks funny, everytime when i see it i laugh myself to dead. But well... it's an awesome form and you can last long in a pvp battle because you're hard to kill. By the way, you need to spect restoration to get this.

Comment by Allakhazam

The only issue i have with this form is you cannot use healing touch in it. This can become a tad annoying when trying to heal in instances as your only options are rejuveanation + swiftmend, regrowth, and later on lifebloom. You are also subject to being banished by a warlock in this form, so be careful for that in pvp.

Comment by Allakhazam

I respecced resto from feral for a few days got some crap healing gear off ah and tried some bg's....... turned out I outheal everyone by 100k healing in every bg I played so yea this form is duh pwnage.

Comment by Thottbot

I've main healed for Maraudon several times as a Tree. The first time, I ousted a Priest as main healer. Not even Shadow spec, she was Discipline/Holy. Handled everything fine.

With +healing gear, I have +169 to healing spells, plus the aura, which without a Spirit buff grants +38 healing spells to everyone, including myself.

My HoTs were enough to counter the stacking poisons the creatures in Maraudon put on everyone. We did the whole thing, and nobody died. Not even close. When things got tense, I'd Regrowth + Rejuvenation + Tranquility, and everyone's health would just shoot up, regardless of how much damage everyone was taking at the time. Lots of time I didn't even need to use Swiftmend, as the HoTs were enough to keep everyone's health above 50% most of the time.

And the 20% speed reduction isn't all that bad. Since it doesn't cost a ton of mana to shift into it, and I don't even have any points in Natural Shapeshifter, it's not a big deal to shift out for moving then shift back in when it's time to heal.

And it's not a big deal that I can't do damage as a Tree. As a main healer, I should be using my mana to heal, not to damage. And speaking of mana, I never called /oom the entire time we were in Maraudon. And we were in there for a good 2-3 hours, because we did it all. The 20% mana reduction reduces the already fairly low cost of the HoT spells, and makes Regrowth a more mana-efficient heal spell.

ToL is basically amazing.

Comment by Thottbot

Just regrowth and rejvuntion if need for instant heal cast swiftmend and then reg simple and works very fine plus would need a dance sugestion the robot :P

Comment by Thottbot

I took on tree of life to help my guildies in dungeon situations. We kept wiping cause I don't know how to use swiftmend and I feel like I'm not utilizing it well enough. Regrowth and rejuv only goes so far. I don't see the benefit of extra healing power. Can anyone help?

Comment by Thottbot

can some 1 post screen shot plz i want to c what it looks like

Comment by Thottbot

I think this form will be fine if you can use racials like moonkins can, you can use racial abilities in here right? That would help out tauren ToL's a lot with keeping the aggro off long enough for someone else to get them.

Comment by Thottbot

I would just like to mention, for those who might want to know, that Warstomp (Tauren Racial Ability) DOES work while in Tree of Life form.

Nice defensive ability for Tree of Life form.

-Powderkeg

Comment by Thottbot

Tree of life is an EXCELLENT addition to a restoration druids arsenal. I have been a druid now for over 1 year and have had vast experience in all 3 talent tree's. When our guild first started doing raids back in the day before ToL. Healing was not mana-efficient for a resto druid. Regrowth was a nice spell to cast if you had the mana, but we basically was just stuck with healing touch, which is slow and mana-heavy. but with tree of life, I have absolutely no problem main-healing a 5 man group, and being one-of the main healers in karazhan. I have +1257 bonus healing and my regrowth crits for 3k.
Many say "omg omg, just use healing touch, HOTS FTL" but lets put into perspective:

a brief overview of my spells:

Regrowth - 50% crit chance, base of 1.6k heal, followed by 2k over time (around 400 per tick), (crit for 3k)

Rejuvenation - 800 a tick

Lifebloom - 200 / sec (with idol, 1 stack) or 310 with 3 stacks / tick then an instant 1.5k heal after the 7 sec

so: thats effectively a 3k heal, followed by 1400 / 3 sec... then theres swiftmend which I can get insta 4k crits with (usually heals for about 3k with it) and if things get really sticky theres always natures swiftness...

As for the -20% speed, its very rarely an issue. I think the only time I found this an issue was healing murmur in SL, when us casters had to be max range, and tank thought he'd be smart and take it far outta range and i had to frantically run to get a heal off...

Defense wise? If we get caught in either PvE or PvP we can outheal practically all DPS thrown at us, if we're given a chance to cast. I have dueled aff/dest locks, fire/frost(pom) mages, and even warriors. in just tree of life only! my 11k mana pool and high +bonus dmg means they can simply not get me down... ofc ToL is NOT a viable combat form, you'd be stupid to think that you could go into combat (pve OR pvp) using it and expect to win, i merely use it as a humiliation factor when PvPing ;) )

So in brief, HoT healing is great, I find that I can outheal most holy priests / resto shammies with ease. So before dissing ToL. L2play.

Nightglade, 70 Tauren Resto druid

~8295hp / 11951 mp
+1257 bonus healing
HT Crit 9000 base.
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Comment by Thottbot

Why if is that a TREE form cant cast barkskin?
it would be usefull to cast tranquility...

Comment by Thottbot

Being another restoration druid, and sharing the same enthusiasm as you (Nightglade), I was very interested in the setup you used to attain all those numbers so I set out to the armory to snoop. I was very disappointed with what I saw though, the stats you posted are obviously inflated with flasks and all sorts of consumables, am I correct?

http://armory.wow-europe.com/?#character-sheet.xml?r=Bladefist&n;=Nightglade

As I agree TOL is the way to go for 10mans and beyond it is just pointless in certain 5 mans. When the tank takes so much damage that your constant refresh of rejuv, lifebloom, swiftmend is not keeping him topped off and you throw a regrowth off just to see him fall even further, (it’s not often all your HoTs can’t counteract the damage, but you will encounter it at some point) what is a tree to do other than nature swift another regrowth on top of the previous? Seems rather inefficient considering if it doesn’t crit it’s about a 1300-1600 heal for like 780 mana (I’m not logged in so I’m guessing sorry). True, they all have HoTs that could hypothetically give you enough time to switch out and save the day with your healing touch… but that’s not a good enough oh-^&*! option for the tree. I always end up right clicking to get out of tree and being stuck because in my moment of panic I have forgotten for the millionth time that I need to left click to remove the damn obstacle. Not to mention I can’t decurse, hibernate, barkskin, remove poison, cyclone, fairy fire (ok well this isn’t needed but it would be cool). Another thing that sucks is we can’t resurrect our fallen brethren? I hear all about stealth ressing or whatever but this really makes me a liability when choosing a 5-man group. Ah it seems we excel more in 25 mans, and I guess I’ll have to get used to it. I personally believe we are the best healers in the game, it’s just setup to where we need a supporting cast (off-healers who use big heals and thus take credit for being main-heal) to fill in our gaps and clean up our oh-$%^& moment. We are the warlocks of healing.

Boose - Tauren Druid
Auchindoun (Eastern US Server)
7614 Health
7940 Mana
1040 +Heal

Comment by Thottbot

looking at tree of life it breaks the grip healing touch had on druids when healing. With quicker cast spells like lifebloom,rejuvenation,regrowth are becoming more used in this form and a good use of tranquility good prevent a wipe if no threat was on the druid.
Hmm.......still saying tree of life should be able to use overall restoration spells like Moonkin get to use all balance spells.Shifting out to decurse/depoison wastes time and healing touch can have some use bringing the tank's health up if they reach 1/3 health.Tree of life shouldn't have a movement impairing effect because when i'm main healer for instance (quite common)(chosen to heal instead of shadow priest for group once)i have to run alot i instead wasted alot of mana fighting with spam moonfire and wrath and didn't have much mana to keep Main DPS alive.Tank never really tries to get aggro off me till i yell "get this F***** thing off me" then the tank comes. Tree of life is very limited compared to moonkin in that you cant use all the resoration spells just HoT spells.I have alot of combat caster gear on cuz i gave up resto and went to usin Moonkin (i can TANK!)and barkskin helps when usin hurricane with alot of aggro on you. ToL looks way better than moonkin but why does Tree of life look like ancient of lore (Warcraft 3)shouldn't it be more like tree of eternity (final upgrade of tree of life)cuz ancient of lore looks like a caster (technicly we look like treant or ancient of lore) and why cant we use our wepaon like Moonkin (increases wep skill and shows wep. Anyway i'm still balance but i'm gonna respec to resto when gettin geared for raiding

Comment by Thottbot

please if you were feral for a long period of time please take some time into training with ToL doin minor group quest or giving people runs because if you just became resto and using ToL and have no knowledge of how to use it then your group will wipe because you failed to heal

Comment by Thottbot

Im not much of a healer, so in my opinion: This is only really good for "Non-Main Characters." I'd prefer the Moonkin form and basically just Balance, it can be argued either way, but I'd say 'A great offence makes a good defence!' Just kill off whose there and you can go back to normal and heal yourself. The whole movement impairing issue can be resolved by just using this out of battle or in when youre not being attacked. Its not like you'd really fight in this, and you would... youre either trying to show off or you just dont get the concept of Restoration... maybe a bit of both.

-Myrlen, Altar of Storms

Comment by Thottbot

I think that people should choose ToL until they get all the gear they want from raiding (easier to find a group + less wipes) and then when they start doing PvP go moonkin.

Comment by Thottbot

ToL FTW

Comment by Thottbot

Tree of Life is a nice little niche filled in raid healing. In raids, there are two roles that need filling: spot healing and tank healing. Spot healing was always a nice job for druids and Paladins, since rejuv and flash of light are both cheap, quick spells to get people topped up. Tank healing is where spells are near-constantly cast on the tank to keep them alive through the constant barrage of damage they take, and normally many healers will be casting on the same tank at once to keep them up.

Tree of Life enhances druid's initial role, before they became so reliant on Healing Touch to land the big heals, which started in MC really. HoTs couldn't keep up with damage, and so their use was almost completely rejected for tank healing.

Tree of Life allows a druid to keep their Lifebloom, Rejuvenation and Regrowth stacked on the tank, and spot heal as necessary. NS and Swiftmend still mean they can "Oh *!@#" heal the tank up, and when macro'd, a nice shift-out-of-ToL-and-NS-HT macro can save a group or raid where HoTs alone are failing.

However, on that note, most Trees are going to struggle to heal Heroics solo. If your Regrowths don't crit, you don't have that huge influx of HP to the tank, and it can be a big issue until gear gets better. However, with a Shadow Priest in the group, or even someone to step up on emergency heals such as a Shaman or Pally, ToL can handle any 5 man group with high efficiency.

But remember, as Damage Taken Per Second (DTPS) gets higher than Healing Per Second (HPS) from HoTs, you're going to start struggling, fast.

Comment by Thottbot

does anyone know when i get tree of life?

Comment by Thottbot

does anyone know if you banish a druid in this form, and if so can they shapeshift out of it?

Comment by Thottbot

You can be banished but chances are ull never see it if they start to banish u just shift problem solved.

Add to that the fact most ppl don't know this form can be banished and you won't see it often to say the least

Comment by Thottbot

can someone tell me what the base mana of a lvl 70 druid is, aka what the casting cost of this pre talent(or after and ill calculate it)

Comment by Thottbot

It depends on the race and armor, since night elves have more mana but less health, plus a feral specced druid wouldn't be wearing too many things with +intellect.

But about this form....
I have been waiting forever to get this form, and only 3 lvls away now (finally!) and have some things to say. First off, I could spend a day talking about how druids can arguably be the best healers in the game. HoTs work much better than regular healing. With those HoTs, I've been able to heal 60s at lvl 40 easily. Druids capabilities, however, are always being diminished by those who say they cannot heal well, either because the people have not practiced their healing or they have never played the class to its full extent. And moonkin is nice, yes, and the aura and +armor is very nice, but this has happened to me a lot;

"The main healers are out of mana!"
"I'll moonfire the bad guys."
"We need you to heal!"
"I can't."
"Why not?"
"I'll lose the aura and +armor."
"...I don't think that really matters right now."

Also, they do not have NS nor 70% ignorance of spell interruptions for healing, so if they shift out and still have aggro, you're not going to get a good heal. Honestly, I can't wait for this form; I have seen what healadins and priests and even shamans can do, and frankly, I would prefer a druid's HoTs over any other kind of heals. ToL is perfect for resto druids.

Lobar, almost 50 tauren druid
Emerald Dream
(Not a lot of) HP
(Not a lot of) MP
(Practically no) +healing

Comment by Thottbot

Ok so assuming you spec'd in Furor a great way to reduce threat if you caused alot from healing is to switch to cat form real quick and apply cower. What i did and it worked wonders.

Comment by Thottbot

As a druid you have to make the hardest decision in the game,... at least thats what it seems like! It's really quite simple and I need your guys help Resto or Feral?

Comment by Thottbot

woah...so in tree if life form u cant cast healing touch? that seems ridiculous...

Comment by Thottbot

I havent seen any1 post it yet so i will say it now... you CAN be banished from a warlocks banish spell in the tree of life form. Just like a hunter can use scare beast on a bear form druid.

Comment by Thottbot

Resto Druids Rock. I used to be balance so I could level fast. I had Moonkin for a while. It is awesome too, (I even tanked last boss for Ulda in Moonkin because I was Starfire Spamming and pulled practicly all aggro off of other group members, and We didn't wipe either). But I was always preparing for ToL form. I wanted to be balance to level so that I could get used to being in the caster area of instances, in the back with no aggro (Most of time, lol). Then as I got close to 50 I started gearing towards Resto, and Needing on +healing gear, and buying things on AH, so when I respecced I had some decent gear. ToL is great. I heal in instances and usually keep group members at 75% or higher with just Rejuv usually. Maybe a Regrowth if the tank is losing a bunch of health. But even then I just use Reg + Rejuv and he's at full health and stays there. And something I got to say, Threatless Tranquility ROCKS! If your whole group is about to die, Use Tranq and practicly everyone's at full health. Definately worth the 2 talent points.

Smokeydabear
Resto Druid
Mok'Nathol Server, Emberstorm Battlegroup

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Tree of Life

Tree of Life

Talent

6% of base mana

Instant	3 min cooldown

Shapeshift into the tree of life, increasing healing done by 15% and increasing your armor by 15%. Also protects the caster from Polymorph effects. In addition, some of your spells are temporarily enhanced while shapeshifted. Lasts 25 sec.

Enhanced spells: Lifebloom, Wild Growth, Regrowth, Entangling Roots, Wrath

Buff

Tree of Life

Healing increased by 15%.
Armor increased by 15%.
Some spells are enhanced.
25 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

25 seconds

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

6% of base mana

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

3 minutes

GCD

1.5 seconds

Aura proc chance

100%

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Shapeshift (Tree of Life Form)
Value: 1
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Immunity - Mechanic (Polymorphed)
Value: 1
PVP Multiplier: 1

Flags

Is Ability
Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Do Not Sheath
Generates no threat
Remove auras on immunity
Unaffected by school immunity
Allow Entering Arena
Not In Spellbook Until Learned

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