Casting 
Wild Growth, the Restoration druid’s ultimate talent, without stopping running: according to Wowhead, which spotted the change in the game data (a datamine), that has no longer been possible since the November 11 hotfix. The same finding reports a doubled spell power coefficient.
These two lines do not appear in the Blizzard hotfix list read on November 13. What is official is older: a 3-second cast time and, since November 10, an instant cast with Nature’s Swiftness.
Three-second cast time since November 2
Published by Kaivax (Blizzard Community Manager) on the US forum, the November 2 beta notes set the base rule: “Wild Growth: Now has a base casting time of 3 seconds.” Casting time is how long the character must stay focused before the spell goes off.
Naturalist shortens it: “Now also reduces the cast time of Wild Growth by 0.1/0.2/0.3/0.4/0.5 seconds.” At maximum rank, the spell therefore takes 2.5 seconds. These notes say nothing about movement. Our article on the November 2 patch details the rest of the druid changes.
Wild Growth: the movement restriction and the coefficient found in the data
That datamining article came out on November 11 at 10:14 p.m. Central Time (UTC−6), 5:14 a.m. Paris time on November 12. It attributes two changes to a hotfix that day: “Can no longer be cast while moving.” and “Spell power coefficient increased by 100% to 0.066 (was 0.033).”
According to that write-up, the spell could be cast while moving since the launch of WoW Forever despite its 3-second cast time, and its author says the reason is unknown. The ban on moving would therefore be a change separate from the cast time, not an automatic consequence of it. We have not verified this point in game.
| Change | Date | Source | In Blizzard’s notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-second cast time | November 2 | Beta notes | Yes |
| Naturalist: −0.1 to −0.5 second | November 2 | Beta notes | Yes |
| Instant with Nature’s Swiftness | November 10 | Hotfix list | Yes |
| No more casting while moving | November 11 | Datamine | No |
| Coefficient from 0.033 to 0.066 | November 11 | Datamine | No |
A doubled coefficient does not mean doubled healing
A healing spell adds to its base heal a share of healing power, the bonus provided by gear and certain effects. The coefficient is that share. Going from 0.033 to 0.066 doubles the share of healing power the spell receives. The base heal does not change, so the total does not double either.
The gap depends on the druid’s healing power. Without gear that provides any, it stays slim. No source puts a number on the healing gained per target. According to the datamine’s author, this doubling offsets the loss of mobility; that is a reading of the change, and Blizzard has specified nothing.
Stop to heal, or keep it instant
If the finding is accurate, a druid casting Wild Growth stays in place for 2.5 to 3 seconds. In dungeons as in raids, the cast has to fit into a moment when nobody needs to run out of a ground effect: group positioning matters more.
There is an official way out. The official hotfix list notes, under the date of November 10: “Nature’s Swiftness now also makes Wild Growth instant.” An instant spell can be cast while walking. Nature’s Swiftness is the talent that makes your next nature spell instant. The talents to take around this spell are detailed in our Restoration Druid build, and the other hotfixes of the period in our November 11 article.
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