BIG RANT INCOMING, IGNORE IF YOU'RE JUST GOING TO QUOTE AND SAY "BUBU, YOU GET OOM SO GO ROLL AOE PRIEST LAWL"
I don't think I've ever had as much terrible experience with WoW as today. First day in Cata beta with my resto druid... I can't believe how much they've ruined them. I don't even know where to start anymore.
Nourish, same cast time as Healing Touch, which is INSANELY slow (2.33 cast @ 800 haste rating). Healing Touch costs like 1400 mana.
Wild Growth, now 10 sec CD, costs like 2 fucking 000 mana (from previously 800~).
Regrowth costs 1600 now (from previous 850).
Tree of Life, 5 minute cooldown, 45 seconds active, much worse overall healing than 3.3 and you run 50% slower.
I went inside an instance and I had so much trouble healing it's not even funny. This was harder than ICC25 Heroic. I tried all kinds of rotation set ups but nothing works. When people start dropping health all over the place, I can never catch up with them because Nourish is extremely slow now. Rejuvenation combined with Regrowth and Wild Growth costs A LOT if you want to HoT everyone up.
There's no chance we can do anything if a boss decideds to AoE the whole group for 90% of their health. Nothing. Our HoTs are not up, healing touch will get us OoM, Nourish isn't even worth it because of the slow ass cast time, tree of life is probably on cooldown already, wild growth doesn't heal for shit in Cata (everyone has like 60k health), and Lifebloom talents are all broken and costs a ridiculous amount at the moment. Before we know it, if the boss hasn't killed us all yet, I'm most likely Oom by the time I've healed up everyone.
I've seen beta phases of many, many classes in my days. One of them being the infamous titan's grip-deal, but resto druid in 4.0 takes the cake. This is an absolute outrage and if Blizzard doesn't do anything about it, I guess I'll just pick my 2H axe and go back to arms warrior. Two years of development time with druids for this? No thanks.
RANT IS OVER
Other than that, the graphics are excellent. The best looking MMORPG out there. Orgrimmar looks FANTASTIC and the sunbeams, along with Vash and the second instance is incredible in all possible ways.