this is a reply i made to a thread i found on the mmo-champion boards.

here is the link if anyone wants to see it.

kk after reading some of the post here, i decided to post some of my ideas of tol while rading, vanilla to now days.

vanilla
when tol was introduced to game like a month or two before tbc i remember hating it really bad.. i was so used to cast different ranks of healing touch and if i had agro on a mob all i had to do was shapeshift into bear, charge and stun it or just tank it/stun it till a tank was abble to grab it. hybrid spec was my way of healing/pvping.. plus using tol meant you would be limited to only use rejuvenation? regrowth? back then i hardly used regrowth ( it costed too much mana ) so you would only use it as an emergency heal, hots were always good for ppl that werent getting too much damage and of course for swiftmend ( i love swiftmend! <3 ). and the fact that it would slow you down… it used to make you run like 20% slower.. damn i hated that the most.. im a healer with ADHD i NEED to move everywhere! even if it means being close to die in fights cus i ran in front of the boss! ( yes sometimes it happens >.> ). my guildmates would hate me because i wouldnt spec to it, and kept my old school hybrid spec. i was always top 3 healers anyway without tol.

tbc
k when i got to 70 i tried my oldschool hybrid healing spec without tol, and even tho it worked, my mana and healing went down a lot, every n00b druid that apped to my guild was too close or passed me on meters and that made me spec to tol.. i still hated it, i couldnt cast FF or moonfire, HAD TO MOVE SLOW :@… i remember getting out of tol after ever trash pack just to be close to everyone =/.. i used to get really sleepy while raids because all i used to do was reju, reju, reju, oh there it is a regrowth!.. swiftmend.. NS+HT shapeshift back to tol.. reju, reju.. swiftmend.. bah.. too damn boring. i ended up quitting wow after our first illidan kill and started a diet.

wotlk
i did not wanted to play my druid anymore.. went out and started a DK, enjoyed it to 80 and quitted again before any raiding dungeon was up. kept dieting and found a gf lol..
came back after a while, when icc was about to come out, lvled my druid, geared it and my guild added me to their 25m and 10m. it took me a while to get used to healing again, it was all different, hots were ultra good now, regrowth was better than it used to be, i could actually cast HT while in TOL even tho i would only use it with NS to save someone or to spam crits on dalaran to random people.. I COULD RUN AT NORMAL SPEED ONCE AGAIN WHILE HEALING!! yeah that felt good, i still didnt like the fact that i couldnt use FF or moonfire while in tol but still, the new healing style was awesome.

now with 4.0 or whatever patch we have live now
k gotta say i love the new changes, its like mixing the oldschool healing with what they tried to implement on tbc and hots. i kinda hated the fact that blizz made us get used to an uggly form to be abble to heal and then change it to just a cooldown.. ( i thought i would never use it till i found how good it is when u use it ). i loved the idea that i could use Noggenfogger Elixir while healing once again! ( i love costumes and hated the fact that i couldnt use them while all my friends could =(, so i am really happy with it. ), i feel the power of being an hybrid class once again since i can do some kind of dps when there is nothing to heal ( ff, moonfire, insect swarm, wrath and starfire <3 )

what i expect for 85
running out of mana, having to use healing touch a lot again, maybe not that much but at least press the button once in a while on bosses and not just for NS+HT, feeling lots of exitement and stress while healing once again, and enjoy the game!

i really dont care how tol looks now ( i actually like the new tank like big tree form rawr! ) but who cares? its just a cooldown and i will only be abble to see it when i see myself forced to use it.
you dont like the changes? you like to stay in tol the whole time and be limited to only use healing spells??!.. then you havent tried lvling or watched any other healing classes… every other healer class uses a dot or a debuff on a boss/mob just because they CAN! while you on treeform can only spam healing spells and get number one overhealing on all the fights even tho you might not be #one healing. dont get me wrong, i ended up loving TOL in ICC..i did not like the idea of removing it.. but now that i have tried it, i feel like the change was needed! i dont feel useless on fights that your healing is not much needed.. i can actually help to kill the mobs that Deathbringer Saurfang spawns if range dps is slow, i can actually help killing a boss with my debuffs, even if it only means 1% dps compared to everyone! but i feel like im doing something! im helping! i can cast roots on a warrior that is about to attack someone without being affected by the gcd of shapeshift out of tol ( that also counts for cyclone, if you ever had to use cyclone on hard mode Lady Deathwhisper, you have noticed it wouldnt let you cast cyclone fast on your team mates that get mindcontrolled then waste mana shapeshifting back to tol.. ) meh.. this game its all about changes ( and farming rep ), just get used to your new ways of healing and enjoy the game, if you love your class, you will re-learn how to heal and end up loving it.

if you end up not loving it, then you can do what i did, quit and start a diet! …
yes im still on my diet…, oh and i have lost 80 pounds since my first quit. ( yes i was really fat ).


damn i just realized i typed a lot.

plz excuse my bad English and bad writing.