Apr 1
Nurturing Instinct and Improved Leader of the Pack
Posted on April 1, 2008 under Game Mechanics | No CommentsWorld of Warcraft is an ever-changing game. While reading this post, keep the date it was written in mind—changes may have occurred since then!
Today I’m going to take a look at two druid talents: Nurturing Instinct and Improved Leader of the Pack (you couldn’t have guessed, huh?). For those of you with no tooltip skills (lol lrn2tooltip newb), at 2/2 points, Nurturing Instinct (NI henceforth) improves your healing by 100% of your agility and increases healing done to you while in Cat form by 20%, and Improved Leader of the Pack (ILotP) applies a buff to you and your party members that causes healing equal to 4% of the character’s total health everytime they get a melee or ranged critical strike.
I am a huge fan of ILotP. My druid is level 45 as of now, and I have approximately 2000 self-buffed HP. With a critical strike percentage of about 23%, ILotP fires off all the time (the healing can only happen once every six seconds, which is probably fair, because I often see several strings of crits within a couple seconds; that would add up to quite a bit of healing!).
Nurturing Instinct used to suck. Really badly. It used to improve your healing by 25%/50% (per point) of your strength. Druids are pretty crit dependent*, and tend to stack agility over everything else. Now, however, NI improves your healing by agility, which is nice for soloing and off-healing a group when in your tanking or DPS gear. My question was whether or not (1) NI made your HoTs tick more if you cast it and then switch to Cat form, and (2) whether the healing from ILotP was affected by the 20% aura from NI. Time to pull out the old calculator!
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