Naturalist (druid talent)

Naturalist
	Naturalist (5 ranks); Tier 2 Restoration druid talent; Passive; Reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch spell by 0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4/0.5 sec and increases the damage you deal with physical attacks in all forms by 2/4/6/8/10%.;
Properties
Class	Druid
Other information
Affects	[Healing Touch], [Nourish]

For the Mists of Pandaria passive ability, see [Naturalist].

Naturalist is a talent in the first tier of the druid Restoration tree. It reduces the casting time of the [Healing Touch] spell and [Nourish].

Notes

By reducing the casting time without affecting the amount healed, this talent significantly increases the healing done per second when casting Healing Touch.
This talent has no effect on Healing Touch when it is cast together with [Nature's Swiftness].

As [Healing Touch] is seeing more use the closer to 85 Restoration druids get, the more important this talent seems at 85 max level cap. At level 80, it is debatable on whether or not this is viable or not.

Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Removed.
Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now also reduces the cast time of [Nourish]. No longer increases damage dealt with physical attacks. Moved from tier 2 to tier 1 and reduced to 3 ranks (was 5).
Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): Added.