Surprisingly I’m not actually against fluff at all.  I like fluff.  Everyone likes Fluff.  Also to be fair enough it always annoys me slightly when you get people saying things along the lines of

“Yeah don’t fix shamans pvp, just add additional totem models for each race.”

As anyone who has ever worked in any kind of job ever before knows, there are different departments that do different things.  Even if you’re some jobs worth retard working in a McJob™ you at least understand that it’s not the-guy-on-the-till’s fault if someone in the kitchen has burnt someone’s fillet-o-fish.  Thereby the designers utter failure to do anything constructive with pvp balance (other than pissing pvers the fuck off with their blatant pvp-orientated pve-hurting nerfs) has nothing to do with the art department producing a new shiny dwarf totem, and it is shiny.

But as many of you might have already seen resto druids got a pretty big nerfbat.

Rejuvenation now heals 1352 over 12 sec. (Down from 1690 over 15 sec).

Yeah, where did that come from? It’s just typical Blizzard goalpost moving – yeah I was looking forward to 3k rejuv ticks coming soon (fully raid buffed I’m at around 2790 ticks right now).  But this doesn’t affect those of us at the top end that much anyway – sure rejuv will heal for less in total now but a few upgrades later and you’ve made up for it just with more spellpower stacking.  The duration nerf is a pretty harsh one, in fact as many might not know this was apparently a bug.  A bug? Really? A bug that has been in the game for over a year? Yeah, that’s the flimsiest excuse to try and make a blatant nerf look like a bug fix I’ve seen.

Yeah okay, I am biased in this particular discussion, after all no one likes to see their class nerfed right?  But this really caught me off guard – most other resto nerfs have been predictable.  A lot of us saw the lifebloom nerf incoming, even though it was again a pve-nerf and pvp-buff situation which the current design team seem to favour, but a rejuv nerf really wasn’t on the cards.  All we can do right now is hope that it doesn’t make it to live – so get on those forums and complain like mad since that appears to be the most effective way of getting something nerfed, buffed, or a nerf overturned.

Of course this is also a nerf to Swiftmend, as you’ll only be able to SM once per rejuv, nice.