Beta Balance Tree - Genesis?Follow

I was looking at the Beta Druid Talent Tree and one of the first possible talents in the Balance tree "Genesis" has me a little confused. At first I thought this would be a viable telent until I payed closer attention to the wording.

Genesis
5/5
Increases the Damage and Healing done by your Periodic Damage and Healing effects by 5%.

Correct me if I am wrong but Periodic by definition means "recurring at intervals of time" so this talent would only effect the ticks of spells such as "Insect Swarm" and "Moonfire." This Talent may not be wasted too badly on Instance/Raid Moonkins looking to "Swarm, FF, Moonfire" every mob in sight or for Healkins looking to "lifebloom x3 and Rejuvenate" but other than that I think the talent is only partially useful. Especially so for PVE day to day grinding.....

I could see myself going through a respec at 80 to include it as I am a Restokin that likes to "Swarm, FF, and occasionally Moonfire every MOB in sight, and throw up ticking healz when/If needed and then Starfire when I can. Not before 80 though! ]=)

Any thoughts in regards to why I should or should not leave this talent in the dust would be appreciated.

Cheers,

(Edit to add this link) http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?druid=00000000000000000000000000000230023312000000000000000005032003125331335213000011251


Edited, Oct 3rd 2008 10:11am by Duedain

From a balance perspective I don't think it's worth all that much. Most of your damage output isn't coming from DoT styles of damage, it's largely from your Starfire/Wrath spell progression. I personally don't use IS that much at all if I'm raiding boomkin apart from giving a tank 2% more mitigation.

Of course, if you're going to be an IS/SF/SF/SF/IS spamming druid than yes, possibly having Genesis would be beneficial.

From the resto perspective. 5/5 Genesis is imperative. With the nerfs to lifebloom, HoT style of healing may be falling to the wayside so anything to improve on it is too useful too pass up.