The article assumes that the bloom portion of Lifebloom from being offensively dispelled is the same as the bloom that occurs naturally from one that naturally expires.
–Xinhuan in a comment on the original article.

This is a valid concern expressed about the original tests. So further testing had to be conducted to strengthen the argument and provide more empirical evidence suggesting the end heal generates absolutely no threat, regardless of how the “bloom” is triggered. So an addendum must be made. Such is the way of the scientific and dialectical methods.

To make certain the purged bloom is the same, I had to test the bloom as it occurs naturally. To do this, we ran the following test:

1. The mage body pulled a mob. This put the mage on the mob’s threat list with 0.
2. I cast lifebloom on the mage. I generate 0.25 points of threat per amount healed with the HoT.
3. I let myself die, clearing my threat on the mob.
4. I resurrect and do merely one point of damage to the mob.

If the mob turns to me, the mage has less than one point of threat on the mob, meaning both the HoT and the end heal generated no threat for the mage.

As the video shows, I pull with merely one point of damage. This means the mage had 0 threat on the mob. This proves the “natural” end heal generates no threat for the recipient. However, it does not prove whether or not the natural bloom generates threat for the druid. For this reason, I turn to Xinhuan’s own testing:

Druid body pulls and takes some damage.
Druid casts Lifebloom on himself.
Druid clicks off Lifebloom after 1 tick. It healed for 67, no overheal.
Mage melees for 2-3 damage at a time.
Mage pulls aggro at 19 damage.

Conclusion: The Lifebloom HoT generates threat at 0.25 threat per 1 damage healed. We tested this with Rejuvenation as well, Rejuvenation generated threat at 0.5 threat per 1 damage healed. (67*0.25*1.1 = 18.425)

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Druid body pulls and takes some damage.
Druid casts Lifebloom on himself.
It healed for 67 for 7 times, followed by a 600ish final bloom, no overheal.
Mage melees for 3 damage at a time.
Mage pulls aggro at 130 damage.

Conclusion: The Lifebloom HoT generates threat at 0.25 threat per 1 damage healed to the druid. The bloom caused 0 threat to the druid. (67*7*0.25*1.1 = 128.975)

This reinforces my own tests of the threat generated by the HoT. Furthermore, it shows that the natural end heal generates no threat for the druid.

Special thanks to Xinhuan for inspiring more discussion and tests, as well as Althorn for helping me make the video.

Also, I have added this addendum to the original entry so people do not have to link to two entries. People need only to link the original article.

Back to Your Regularly Scheduled Blogging

Now that I’ve had my nitpick about this long-standing debate, I can go back to writing regularly. If there’s one thing I have to say: making videos is arduous and time consuming. Between two jobs, raid leading, blogging, and seeing The Dark Knight more than once, I simply don’t have time to be making videos for all of my entries. But it had to be done for this particularly sensitive topic.

Quite simply, I was sick and tired of people making their arguments haphazardly and erroneously, so I had to include something empirical that could not be disputed. Then again, even after posting hard evidence showing previous tests to either be flawed or erroneous, I still have people telling me I’m wrong.

That almost deserves an ASCII /palmface.

Almost.