It’s time for 3.1

I think quite a few of us were caught by surprise by patch 3.1 arriving this week. I certainly don’t feel like I’ve done enough reading into my final talent spec for my dual spec, and I haven’t made any glyphs yet in order to make a killing on the AH as people frantically stock up. Somehow I don’t think I’ll ever become a WoW millionaire! And I haven’t read as much as I could have about the changes to druid healing, and in particular the big changes to Lifebloom.

Whilst I read blogs and listen to podcasts that talk about upcoming changes, I don’t go out of my way to test things. I have not set foot on the PTR, and I like it that way. Oftentimes a change will be reported as a nerf, and then not have as big an impact on the game as expected when it goes live. Things change so much on the PTR that I’d rather focus on playing the real game, and cope with the changes when they happen.

There’s a nice write-up on the Rolling HoTs blog with some testing that Sylly has done by changing her rotation before the patch hit. This gives me hope that my healing style will not need to change too dramatically, and will remain a primarily pro-active style. I’m at work today, so I hope that the servers will be back up and operational by the time I get home. I won’t be raiding tonight. I’ll be sorting out my main and dual specs, and making sure all my UI mods work.

For any other druids out there, like me, who don’t feel prepared for the 3.1 patch, I’d like to recommend the excellent Restokin list of resources for all druids in 3.1 – I’m going to be finding that very useful I think