Patch 4.2 Resto Druid Quick Reference

New gear by source

And here’s the gear to chase. This table sorts the gear by source – scroll down for gear by slot.

New gear by slot

Here’s all of the new gear, listed by gear slot.

Patch notes

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2993743

• All healing critical strikes now heal for 2 times a normal heal (+100%), up from 1.5 times a normal heal (+50%).
• All class abilities which place a buff on friendly targets no longer generate any threat. This goes for raid-wide buffs like Mark of the Wild and Power Word: Fortitude, as well as triggered effects such as Blessed Resilience or Fingers of Frost, and single-target buffs like Dark Intent and Hysteria. The exception is buffs which directly cause healing or damage, such as Thorns or Renew. Abilities such as these still generate normal threat.
• Many crowd control abilities no longer cause creatures to attack players when they are cast. The creature will not attack the player when the crowd control wears off, and nearby creatures will not become hostile to the player either. However, if a visible player gets too close to the target creature, the creature will remember and attack the player when the crowd control effect wears off. The intent is to make it easier for dungeon groups to manage crowd control assignments and pulling packs of hostile NPCs. The abilities affected by this change are: Hibernate, Entangling Roots, Wyvern Sting (will still cause hostility when it begins to deal damage), Freezing Trap, Polymorph, Repentance, Shackle Undead, Blind, Hex, Bind Elemental, Banish, Seduction.
• Entangling Roots and the equivalent spell triggered by Nature’s Grasp no longer deal damage.
• Innervate now grants an ally target 5% of his or her maximum mana over 10 seconds, but still grants 20% of the druid’s maximum mana over 10 seconds when self-cast. Glyph of Innervate now causes the druid to gain 10% of his or her maximum mana over 10 seconds when Innervate is used on a friendly target, in addition to Innervate’s base effect.
• Omen of Clarity clearcasting buff from now lasts 15 seconds, up from 8 seconds.
• Symbiosis (Mastery) has been removed and replaced with Harmony. Harmony increases direct healing by an additional 10%, and casting direct healing spells grants an additional 10% bonus to periodic healing for 10 seconds. Each point of mastery increases each bonus by an additional 1.25%. Healing Touch, Nourish, Swiftmend, and the initial heal from Regrowth are considered direct healing spells for the purposes of this Mastery. All other healing from druid spells is considered periodic.
• The 2-piece Restoration druid tier 11 PvE set bonus has been redesigned to work with the new Restoration druid mastery. Druids with this bonus now receive the bonus to Spirit while the Harmony mastery bonus to periodic healing is active.

As mentioned above, the main changes that will affect you:

• Omen of Clarity – more time to use the procs will mean fewer missed opportunities, and therefore more mana savings. If you were already good at using your procs, this won’t affect you very much. If you weren’t very good at using your procs, this will make things a bit easier for you.
• Mastery – basically, you need to cast one direct heal every 10 seconds in order to buff yourself with Harmony and maximise the size of your HoT ticks. If you are refreshing Lifebloom with a direct heal (rather than with Lifebloom) and using Swiftmend on cooldown, this shouldn’t be hard to do. See Restokin’s article for more info. You may wish to set up a Power Aura or similar to alert you to when you have let your Harmony buff drop.
• Innervate – The change to Innervate makes it almost pointless to Innervate another player; someone with 100k mana is going to receive 5k mana – which is almost nothing. You would only really do this if the other person was really hurting and/or if you had heaps of mana (in which case you should probably start evaluating your gear and talents – reforging off spirit and considering dropping mana talents).
  There is a little confusion over the wording of the glyph; some people think that “friendly target” can include yourself, and so you would receive 30% mana when Innervating yourself (if glyphed). The reason why people have come to this conclusion is because the original glyph wording was “When Innervate is cast on a friendly target other than the caster, the caster will gain 50% of Innervate’s effect.” – note the “other than the caster” part, which was omitted from the new version of the glyph, causing people to think that it included you as a friendly target.
  Here’s how the old and new versions of the spell and glyph compare:

  Pre 4.2
  Glyphed:
  – 20% of YOUR mana if cast on self
  – 20% of YOUR mana given to someone else PLUS 10% of YOUR mana to yourself
  – 15% of YOUR mana PLUS 15% of another druid’s mana if swapping with them (30% total)

  Unglyphed:
  – 20% of YOUR mana if cast on self
  – 20% of YOUR mana given to someone else; zero mana to yourself

  Post 4.2
  Glyphed:
  – 20% of YOUR mana if cast on self
  – 5% of THEIR mana given to someone else PLUS 10% of YOUR mana to yourself
  – 10% of YOUR mana plus 5% of YOUR mana if swapping with another druid (15% total)

  Unglyphed:
  – 20% of YOUR mana if cast on self
  – 5% of THEIR mana given to someone else, zero mana to yourself

  What this means for you:
  – giving an Innervate to another person gives them a TINY amount of mana and robs the raid of total mana returned
  – swapping with another druid gives less mana than if you Innervated yourselves, and therefore robs the raid of total mana returned
  – unless you’re swimming in extra mana, you should Innervate yourself and not someone else.

  This is a small buff to feral Innervates since it will now be based of the recipient’s mana, not the feral’s mana – but don’t expect your kitty or bear to pop out of forms to give you 5k mana.