Group was asking for ward ... ??Follow

Wards are used by the shaman line, which that spell your group member was casting on him, I believe was either a short duration dot, or short duration buff, for stats, and/or resists.

LOL I hear that... only thing worse than ignorant people is bossy ignorant people ^_^

My cleric is always getting ripped on for nuking too much. Nevermind that Vitae and MoP keeps everyone healed up full and I have all this mana to spare (and that includes debuffs and saving 2 bubs for emergencies).

The only time people should be bossing the cleric is if people are getting eaten up. Otherwise, whatever he/she is doing is working, so keep your trap shut and pull!

/rant off

I might be misunderstanding what you are saying. If so, apologies in advance. But, in playing my Defiler and my Fury I do see a difference. If I cast a ward (Defiler) before combat [that is before any mob is engaged], I do not get aggro when the tank gets hit. On the other hand, if I cast a regen (Fury) before combat, when the tank gets hit the aggro goes immediately to me. On the other hand, if I cast either immediately after the tank has engaged but before the tank builds up aggro, in both instances the aggro goes to me the healer. This is true for my Inquisitor as well with reactive heals.

Thanks ya'll. I think it's possible he didn't understand what spells I was capable of giving him. I should have taught him instead of doubted myself. The problem is that I created this character on the "wrong" server so I rarely play her. I'm not too sure of her myself. I love playing her but when someone says something like that before each battle "Throw your ward please!" I tend to think he may know more about my character than I do. I don't think that's true. I make sure I study these boards, study my spells and play her at least once a week so I don't lose "the feel" of her.

On the whole, my druid is a blast. Thank ya'll very much for giving me a little more confidence to let someone know next time instead of keeping my mouth shut and stumbling for a spell.

Lilli

I appreciate this thread alot. It helped me straighten out the whole ward vs regen thing in my head. Pshhh, I didn't know if druids had wards or not, who had em, what they were, etc etc. before reading this. Thanks to all who contributed!

I play a 25 Inquistitor and have found that for the cleric classes it is a huge waste of power to cast reactives on your tank before a pull in a general experience grinding group. The reason for not doing this is the reactive heals for a set amount each hit, not for whatever the mob hit you for. An example would be, a mob hits your tank for 80 dmg, your reactive activates and the current level of it heals for say 135hp each time, you have just wasted power because you dont get the full benifit from the heal. I am finding that there are many cleric healers that throw the reactive on right away and end up using extreme amounts of power per pull.
now for wards yeah throw them on in the beginning, because of the very nature of the spell, and i dont know how the druid really work. Just felt like pointing this out sense the topic seemed to open to many things about healing.

Well I play a Defiler now. And so far it's hard for me to find a group. Do you other Defilers have a hard time as well? The only thing I can account it to is our name. Defiler. It sounds like a DPS class vs a healer class. And I'm not sure how many people know that a defiler is a healer of the shaman subclass. I play on AB. Wouldn't think that would have anything to do with not finding a group but not sure.

I love my defiler though. My friend pick at me sometimes since "I'm not a real healer" but it's only in jest. But me and a druid in my guild when we are grouped pretty much we don't have to worry about anyone dieing. We kill the mob way too fast. Here's our typical group makeup. Me, Fury, Brigand(evil rougue if that's not the correct one), Gaurdian, and depending on who's on either another Gaurdian or Bruiser or Shadow Knight. Yeah we kick some serious mob butt. When the Gaurdian pulls, or Brigand(?) first thing I do is slow the mob. To me it doesn't make sense to cast a ward and have the ward eaten up by an unslowed mob before I can get a slow on it. Then I'll ward the tank, unless I got agro from the slow then I'll ward me. Of course that gives me more agro but it's eating my ward up and leaving everyone else alone. The gaurdian can get it off me no problem though so I'm not worried about it. Being only 26 I don't have a lot of offensive spells but enough to get me by. I normally can't get past a ward and maybe two dots befor any given mob is down. Sometimes if we are doing good I won't even ward or slow just offensive spells.

Be a rat. At least when you're not some amorphous inky cloud of smoke but instead, a cute and high-pitched squeaker of a rat, you might look more like a priest class.

Or advertise as Priest level 26 or Shaman level 26.

BTW, if the mobs are that easy, maybe it's time you start tackling harder ones [or groups of harder mobs]. Wait a minute, didn't you say you had a hard time getting a group? ^ ^

PS 26? About time you did the Zek access quest anyway.