I, like many other fellow Druid players out there, am irritated and upset with how Arena Net has handled the change to Druid, and think that it would probably be for the best that the changes just be scrapped in favor of spirits causing alacrity. As it stands now, the heal alacrity build for druid just isn't necessarily worth it anymore, because you have to use your CA (Celestial Avatar) form to generate the alacrity instead of saving your CA for a moment when your group needs a huge emergency heal or to recover after a huge burst of damage from a boss. The CA is crucial to be able to be saved, not to have to jump in and out of to spend those skills like crazy just to keep alacrity uptime going. If Arena Net wants to keep this change instead of reverting it, I wouldn't be happy until it was at least 1.5s, instead of the 1s that they just buffed it up to in their recent follow-ups, because you really, and I can't stress this enough, really need CA for those tense moments, and changing it to be a higher time value would at least have us going in and out of CA less often and having more chances to go in quickly for that burst healing. However I am more in favor of a complete reversion back to the old way Druid Alacrity worked by having the spirits generate alacrity again. I'm open to hearing other thoughts on the matter and encouraging people, if you're like me, to speak out and say that you would like the skills to be reverted. Thank you for reading my thoughts.
