Resto trinkets?

[:1]I recently started playing my druid again because my guild needed heals. I still have the crap alchemist stone, but I have the vp for a 397 trinket from the vendor. My issue is the spirit one is crap.

Should I just use the vp for the boots and hold out for foul gift/spine trinket, or go ahead and grab a vendor trinket?

Also; is it worth it to drop Engineering for Herbalism?
Both the VP caster trinkets are crap for healing. Alch Stone isn't too shabby, it has a nice amount of Intellect and a fair amount of static Haste to get you closer to the 2005 plateau. It's a nice placeholder until you can get Foul Gift.

From a purely raiding standpoint, there is no reason to drop a profession with an Intellect cooldown for one with a Haste cooldown. It wouldn't have a tremendous impact on your healing to do so, of course, but it would definitely be a downgrade. Even if you don't micro-manage the Intellect cooldown, and just macro it or have an addon auto-fire it (VuhDo has this functionality, it can auto-fire your glove tinker while casting in combat), it's still very nice.

edit: forgot a crucial word
Dont get herbalism its terrible.
I was able to snag foul gift AND the boots using vp from another character and a ring on from the vp on this char. Thank you for the help guys<3

I recently started playing my druid again because my guild needed heals. I still have the crap alchemist stone, but I have the vp for a 397 trinket from the vendor. My issue is the spirit one is crap.

Alchemy trinket isn't -bad- especially if you're still having problems with the haste cap. Same with the VP trinket if you need more regen. that 2290 extra int would be up for;

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