How to make Nourish less useless

#0 - Dec. 12, 2008, 12:24 a.m.

I'll keep this short, because people have made the point many times before about how Regrowth spam is better than Nourish. So how could it be fixed:

- Make Improved Regrowth also affect Nourish's crit chance
- Make Nourish benefit from Wild Growth (borrowed this suggestion from another thread, can't remember which though.); and
- Give us a Glyph of Nourish that does something cool with it.

Ghostcrawler

#30 - Dec. 17, 2008, 7:55 p.m.

I think you should take a harder look at Nourish. We received so much feedback on Nourish that I was sort of going along with the conventional wisdom that Nourish didn't fill a large enough role. Since then a few druids have set me straight. It can be a really amazing spell.

Glyphed Regrowth is also a really good spell, but it is still a hot -- it doesn't get the health out to the target as fast as Nourish.

If you're a big (glyphed) Healing Touch fan, then I can see how you might use it instead of Nourish, especially if you run heroics a lot (and so are filling all of the healing roles yourself). But if I was taking any button off of my bar for raiding, it would be HT and not Nourish.

Ghostcrawler

#54 - Dec. 17, 2008, 9:36 p.m.

Q u o t e:
I assume you mean, "it would be HT and not Nourish." No Resto Druid with a brain would take Regrowth off their bar =P

Oops. Yes, that is what I meant. Thanks.

When Nourish came up in beta, some druids asked "Why would I use Nourish when I have Regrowth?" The answer is that Regrowth is an amazing spell (finally), but it's not a flash heal.

Ghostcrawler

#101 - Dec. 18, 2008, 7:06 p.m.

One of the cool things about Resto is there are so many different options to use depending on the situation. The downside is it risks making the niche for some abilities too small.

We think there is some validity to the notion that Nourish is not propped up enough by talents. It will also be getting a glyph at some point.