So, here's the thing. There's a bug in the dual-spec system that causes the spells in your inactive spec's toolbars to stop making automatic rank upgrades when you train new spells at the class trainer.
Normally, when you train new spells, the binds in your actionbars will automatically be replaced with their new, improved versions. This is very helpful, but it is also something we have all come to take for granted.
Unfortunately, it turns out that the spells bound in your inactive spec were not using this functionality - they would stay at lower ranks.
If you bought dual-spec at 80, and after training all of your spells, you'll never know the difference (at least not until Cataclysm, assuming they don't fix the bug by then), but for those of us who bought it early, this is a very big deal. On my druid, I dual-specced well-before 80, hoping to do some healing in dungeons while leveling.
I didn't know about the bug, though, and it turns out I've been running around with several downranked healing spells on my resto bars, most notably, my rejuvenation was 3 ranks off maximum and lifebloom was one rank lower than it could have been - and I wasn't even seeing a mana savings because the spells actually have somewhat similar mana costs, all the negatives of downranking and none of the benefits.
That's a lot of HPS I've been leaving on the table. In the case of rejuvenation, the effect of the version I'd been using is almost half of the healing done with what I could have been using had the spells upgraded as I thought they were.
And I was still rocking the heroic heals, oh yeah.
You know what this means?
I'm the best healer ever.
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Hehe, maybe now you'll have to cast rejuv, though.
ReplyDeleteNaa, I cast rejuvenation all the time (perhaps too much, given that I refresh early a lot), it's regeneration I just don't bother with.
ReplyDeleteI've been keeping tanks alive with downranked rejuv+lifebloom for weeks.
Which is why I am the best healer ever.