The Great Wild Growth Nerf of PTR 4.3

A lot of bloggers have already discussed this in much better terms then I can.  (Beru, Jasyla, Tzufit and I know that the other Resto bloggers will hit this up as well).  I wouldn't even discuss it but I am feeling a bit betrayed by the developers right now.

We, the resto druids, don't have a damage mitigation cooldown.  In order to 'make up for this', you gave us Tranquility as a 3 minute cooldown.  You buffed our Wild Growth in 4.0.6.  And you gave us absolute crap for glyphs.

Now, I've never been a fan of Wild Growth spamming.  It's not my preferred method of healing.  However, in certain situations it is helpful.  I glyphed my Wild Growth because I do raid and hitting that extra person is very helpful.  (However, half the time I swear it hits people's pets!)

Did this make my output 'better' then other healers?  Yes, a bit.  Last night, after this nerf was announced, I did a bit of number crunching (which I'm really not good at).  I looked at my Wild Growth numbers from a couple weeks ago (since I ran boom last week), and figured out that with a 20% nerf to WG, my numbers would drop by just abut 5%.

And that doesn't include numbers for the new cooldown if I keep my Wild Growth glyphed.  (Which, at this point, I probably won't keep.)

Now, let's talk about Resto glyphs.  From what I see, we have 4, maybe 5 major glyphs for us.  There's Healing Touch (which I didn't have until they nerfed Innervate), Innervate (which is nerfed), Wild Growth, Thorns and Rebirth.  Now, I don't believe in glyphing things I never use.  So why would I glyph Thorns or Innervate?  That leaves behind Wild Growth, Rebirth and Healing Touch.  If you want to make us choose between glyphs, GIVE US GLYPHS TO CHOOSE BETWEEN!

And I swear to the Earthmother, if my husband says to me again that mitigation cooldowns are for tanks, I'm going to punt him into a wall.