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I was moonkin to 70 then went feral for a while, and am now a dreamstate healer. Ever since I started healing I noticed I could no longer farm efficiently due to severe drop in dps. So as a way to earn the gold to fund my epic flying i picked up mining, but unless i play in the morning, which i can't really do, the good mining spots are heavily farmed, and on my server the horde find it extremely fun to gank people doing the dailies for hours on end. I am trying to level a hunter as a farming char, but in the mean time I was wondering if any other healing druids had any advice to help me make some extra gold.

Thanks in advance for any help given :)

You could do what I do and fish in a secluded area. Stacks of food sell for rougly the same price as a primal, and depending on your skill you can catch quite a bit. If you get someone trying to gank you, jump in the water and go aquatic form.

That is true. And it is such an enormous flaw in the design of this game, it's a wonder Blizz didn't realize yet.

DPS classes/specs have always been abundant, and it's no wonder. You can kill, solo, grind/farm as you please. And let's be honest, those are pretty much the things you do the most in this game.

But then people need healers... but who wants to do that willingly, knowing that your soloing abilities will be dramatically reduced? Well, some people do, but not enough to create a good ratio.

Sorry for the huge rant, just wanted to talk about it a bit.

Now, I can't speak from a Resto Druid point of view, but I can speak from a Holy Pally point of view. I did Mining/Engineering so basically I'd sell some ore and do dailies like people already suggested. Some of them don't involve killing much, if at all so while you may not do all your 10 quests each day, you can still get some decent money over time.

Alternatives to Mining are Herbalism on some servers and Skinning in some cases, though it may not be as effective. Ore and herbs are the two resources that will always be in demand. Ore is used by a lot of professions in different ways and people will always need tons of potions.

K cool thanks for the tips.

I am working on my fishing cause I want pinchy, but I will look into prices and try to monopolize on that cooking is at like 350 something. I will also try blades edge.

And the truth is I switched to healer while I was guildless, because no real raiding guild wants a moonkin *tears I really don't like tanking, and I didn't want to take a rogues job when they can do it better. Plus I really enjoy healing, I just miss being able to take down 5 clefthoofs at once.

That sounds like the best daily ever. There needs to be more content for healers, cause while I enjoy healing it just gets boring quickly.

Just a peice of advice on Mr Pinchy - I'm a tradeskill adict from my EQ days so the idea of snagging Mr P as a pet to prove my tradeskill uberness was quite appealing - the ******* is a rare catch (like 1 in 500) and getting the pet is apparently the rarest of the rare prizes from catching Mr Pinchy.

I've caught him once so far and I've got an 18 slot bag full of lobsters and golden fish in my bank (and I've eaten god knows how many of the suckers and given out more golden fish sticks then I can count) and I didn't get the pet.

The reality is that you'll probably never get lucky enough to get the pet - he's the rarest of the rare finds in the game - simple FYI so you don't meet with the same disappoint I did after day four when I clicked him for the third time.

Let's get a little perspective here- you can definitely still solo in a healer spec, just not as fast. Just because you can't grind as quickly as a feral druid or a rogue doesn't mean you can't do it period...

In some ways, it can be beneficial. Take a prot warrior for example, he may not be able to kill in 6 seconds but he can grind endlessly without stopping to eat or bandage. While this does effectively remove him from killing certain types of creatures (elementals are a bad idea since they deal no physical damage), it's still very doable.

Toss on some DPS gear and go to town, I really don't think it's that much an issue. The other ideas are great too though, fishing in the floating pools in terrokar can make good money since it's not only an arduous process to get fishing to that level, but fish sticks are a healer's wet dream.

Another good money maker for almost anyone high enough to blow through lower end instances is Enchanting. Blow through the instance killing everything, disenchant all the greens and blues you get and sell the mats, cloth and other stuff you get and you could be making a tremendous amount of money, even just running Deadmines, Wailing Caverns, RFK, BFD, SFK, Gnomer, Scarlet Monastery....the list goes on.

You could also sell you services as a mercenary for instance run throughs or elite quests that people wouldn't normally do. You don't have to farm to make money, I only do it for mats for crafting, otherwise its cruising through lower lvl instances and disenchanting, and i'm not even an enchanter, I tip people to DE my stuff and still make a very nice profit.

I am very confused by Blizzards change here. The issue has never been the lack of spelldamage - It is the lack of talents to help the holy/resto classes kill things.

Druids of all people should be used to carrying at least 2 sets of gear and I reckon it would be pretty easy to put a damage set together with more +damage than the little bit your healing will give you.

All this seems to have done is make some of the healing gear a bit more attractive to the DPS classes. Now you may be rolling against mages/locks for that healing cloth.

I do think they need to do something to help the resto/holy people, but I don't see that this change is going to do much at all to help. Even my holy priest friends have damage gear that they carry around for grinding - this will do nothing at all for them.

I ditched mining and took up herbalism. You can't beat being able to pick up herbs while staying in your travel form (flight form), which you cannot get "dismounted" out, and if someone tries to kill you, you can simply fly away. Safe, fast and profitable.