Dreamstate Build Part II

It was a very successful weekend of raiding and with that came the very successful and thorough testing of the Dreamstate build. This past weekend I healed 25 man Naxx, Maly, and OS +2 drakes. We downed all the raids except OS +2 drakes because the tank had to leave early. We ended up having to settle with just doing OS +1 drake. All in all, it was a good test to see how the Dreamstate build holds up in raiding content.

I am happy to report that I found the Dreamstate Build to be raid viable. I was actually impressed and a little surprised by the results. It was like healing in a simpler time where druids didn't have an AoE heal. But, it was interesting nonetheless. I actually did more overhealing than usual because I was using regrowth more often as my primary heal. I was still rolling lots of HoTs off of members in the raid. I didn't really notice an increase in my healing but at the same time I didn't notice any decreases in my healing, except on Thaddius,a fight that I actually dps'd through half of.

In EoE the two healers that I was comparing my healing to were not there this week. But, I felt like I did maybe a little better than I usually do. Not sure if I actually did do any better but I didn't see any decrease like I thought I might before I tried the Dreamstate build.

Again I didn't have any mana issues but that's what the Dreamstate build is for. The increase to my Spell power was nice but not really necessary. I also did a little PvP with it, and granted I'm just a casual PvPer, I thought the build worked nicely. I probably would of tweaked the build a little and dropped the Tree of Life to get Natural Perfection or Living Seed because I rarely went in tree form as I favored casting Moonfire, Entangling Roots, and Cyclone. And my mana was never lacking which can sometimes happen in PvP because of my misuse of mana when I am spamming mana heavy offensive spells like Moonfire.

To conclude the Dreamstate build is viable and can be competitively used in raiding. It's even a nice change to my druid healing in a small way. I do like that I have options when it comes to healing and that a viable resto build can be different from the cookie cutter 11/0/60 build that so many druids have. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with the 11/0/60 build, I use one very similar to it normally but its a 14/0/57 build. It's just nice to have options. Heh, funny, I am talking about options on a hybrid. But really I tested this build to see that healing isn't just one spec or one tree and that it can be played around with. So I give the Dreamstate build my seal of approval and good luck to druids who want to try it.