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On Mar 30, 5:15 am, Orion Ryder <orion...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 29, 1:03 pm, Ashen Shugar <death...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
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> > On Mar 30, 12:34 am, neithskye
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> > <jill_bookerGR...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mar 28, 9:11 am, Orion Ryder <orion...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > Well now it is time to welcome my wife to the healing in Cataclysm. It
> > > > appears that druids can have mana issues in Cataclysm but I am sure my
> > > > wife will do just fine as she progresses through as she uses her
> > > > Innervates as needed.
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> > > I had three level 80s, all healers, in Wrath. I just got the last of
> > > them, my Druid, to 85 on Saturday. Thanks to rep runs and saving JPs,
> > > etc., he now has an average ilvl of 335. I am perfectly happy staying
> > > in regulars, doing rep runs and accumulating JPs, but my guild drags
> > > me to Heroics.
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> > > I OOM at an alarming rate. Tree form, rather than being an "oh, crap"
> > > button, seems to be just a way to OOM myself ever faster.
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> > > I am just now getting items with sockets. I'm so used to aiming for
> > > Spirit, but I think for, say, red sockets I'll go for straight Int.
> > > Priests have a talent that increases their in-combat mana regen from
> > > Spirit by 30%, while a Druid's Innervate seems to be based on maximum
> > > mana - ergo, more mana, more mana returned.
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> > Resto druids would also have replenishment up essentially constantly
> > which is mana "regen" that is based on the size of your mana pool,
> > which is int, not spirit.  Someone would have to crunch numbers to see
> > if there's points where int gives better mana regen (assuming
> > replenishment is up) than spirit.
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> This is a need to know for my wife. I told her to hold off on
> investing in spirit gems and reforges until we can find out something
> like this.
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> However whereas a reforge cannot go to int and can only go to spirit
> if the item does not already have spirit I guess one can invest in int
> gems and reforges to spirit.
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> Well at least that is a start. Now we just have to find out if the
> investment in mana pool for replenishment is linear/non-linear and/or
> capped/non-capped investment.
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> Maybe a upgraded astrolab will solve the riddle.
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> Orion

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/806487-Resto-Druid-Guide-Cata-edition

The post at the top there is saying to go Int all the way.  And that
haste and mastery is good.  It's not all that complementary about
spirit, apart from saying not to go overboard in reforging away from
it to something like haste or mastery, as spirit plays a larger part
in the mana you get from the shaman's manatide totems.

Haven't read it all though. : )

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Ashen Shugar