Comments on Nerf this Druid: More on Wild Growth

No Eric, you CAN cast WG on a boss, and it does af...

2009-11-06T03:46:50.713-08:00

No Eric, you CAN cast WG on a boss, and it does affect the 15 yards around HIM, not around you.
The auto-selfcast is an optional feature, which i have disabled. i can click WG then click on the boss (or click on boss then WG), and it will heal the tanks and dps, even though they are well over 15 yards away from me. I do this often because you will heal the people who are being attacked by whichever mob you target, reducing the risk of accidentally healing a bunch of casters just because one of them was a shaman and i thought he was melee ;P
However it does always work, such as if the mob is unattackable (boss is giving a speech/transforming and cannot be attacked) or has targeting issues (Whilst Onyxia is in flight, it says invalid target, even though ranged attacks work). Also, if there are no raid members within 15 yards of the mod it will also say invalid target (i think), whereas on a player it would simply heal the one person.
It is also worth noting that the target does not need to be a boss for this example to work, it does not even need to be a mob. I have made arthas the target of my WG in culling of strat, it does not heal him (because he is not a raid member), but it will heal any party members near him. This is identical functionality to targeting a player who is not in your raid, the WG will not heal them but will still heal nearby players who are in your raid.

Also, i thought of another example you could have used in the main post:
There is an uninjured player around 40 yards away.
There is an injured player on the other side of the uninjured player, he is around 50 yards away from me (out of healing range), but within 15 yards of the uninjured player.
I cast WG on the uninjured player, and it heals the injured player as well, VERY useful :)

It is also super nice in instances of LOS. WG does...

2009-07-20T16:12:25.258-07:00

It is also super nice in instances of LOS. WG doesnt suffer in the same manner.
I mean look at the first trash on Ignis, the tank has his backside hanging out the side and im hiding around the corner out of sight of the mob however all the melee are not in sight.. WG the tank and voila theyre smiling ;)

I use it with Flame Jets on Ignis too, im flying in the air, WG myself ... DPS hover around me, i know its not for love!

@ Tal - I acknowledge your challenge, good sir, an...

2009-02-11T12:53:00.000-08:00

@ Tal - I acknowledge your challenge, good sir, and I accept it!!

And yes, to any who didn't know, my blog was mentioned on Resto4Life today.

I has a sizable happy ^^

/hug Averna

Because you got featured today,...

2009-02-11T12:40:00.000-08:00

/hug Averna

Because you got featured today, you know I'm now going to give you extra crap tonight if I outheal you, right?

:D

~Tal

if you wg the boss, you're casting it on yourself ...

2009-02-11T08:45:00.000-08:00

if you wg the boss, you're casting it on yourself and 4 party/raid members around you.
it's the same concept as if i'm a draenei dps. i'm dpsing the boss and i cast gotn? it's going to be self cast. that is a blizzard ui feature however to set self buff when you don't have a target/targetting boss.

i actually prefer it as a smart heal esp in sunwell prenerf. (i mean nerf to wg, not sunwell) there was just so much raid dmg flying around it was nice casting it 5 times on the same person then seeing HUGE ticks on 25 people. it was just too much work to try to see who is down lower than 50% and prioritzing wg based on group health trying to keep it within a certain party. that was the idea of wg, give us a spammable group heal that require no thought, ala coh/ch. obviously was too op and had to get the 6 sec nerf. it was just making raid healing trivial.

it was nice for loatheb too. as you pop out of necrotic aura, just spam wg 5 times and boom. topped off raid.

Zomg Averna, yous the smartmost druidz I knoz!
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2009-02-11T07:24:00.000-08:00

Zomg Averna, yous the smartmost druidz I knoz!

Very nice article :-)

Corselle

Well said, anonymous :) I read that as well, I thi...

2009-02-11T06:42:00.000-08:00

Well said, anonymous :) I read that as well, I think that's a pretty neat trick to make sure you hit all the melee.

By the way, with WG you can target everyone and ev...

2009-02-11T03:00:00.000-08:00

By the way, with WG you can target everyone and everything, even bosses! Of course they wont receive the HoT, it's just good for specifying from where the 15 yards radius is calculated. Good alternative method for reaching all the melees around a boss.

I knew it was a smart heal but I always wondered w...

2009-02-10T20:20:00.000-08:00

I knew it was a smart heal but I always wondered why someone could be targeted for it. I didn't really know that it hits the target and players around the target. Thanks for the heads up!