Zalophus wrote:
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If needed can feral druids get by as healer in lower level instances?
I think most of the more knowledgeable people on this forum would say yes, provided you have a decent set of +heal gear. That will be hard to get at lower levels though.
I've only tried running as main healer once, in the mid-40 range I think (been a while). I had a nearly full set of healing gear, but the instance did not go well. Whether it was due to my lack of healing experience, inadequate gear, or group makeup I can't say.
I don't
think I started seeing stuff with dedicated +heal for quite some time, so while leveling my healing set was mostly about +int for a larger mana pool. I looked for +heal and wasn't afraid to mix in some cloth pieces, but tried to keep it mostly leather which limited my options.
I've main healed a half dozen instances as feral, probably half before Outlands and half in it. Results were all over the board, ranging from not making it past a few pulls to completing the instance.
Based on that experience, my two cents is that you can main heal instances really well if you have a healing set and:
1) You and your tank and at least one DPSer are in the top half of the instance's level range
2) You have a group that knows good tanking, cc, and targeting,
3) You don't have bad luck with pats and whatnot.
Yeah, I know that's a lot of qualifiers. Maybe somebody with experience as a healer could make mainhealing as feral viable in less ideal conditions, but I always had trouble and even in the parties where we did well I didn't have nearly as much fun as I normally would have. Without the talents and oh-crap buttons I just found it too stressful.
I love, however, occasionally main healing 5-man quests to kill some boss that's out in the world, or summoned. Much faster and more fun, and people still go "Wow you healed that really well...and you're FERAL?"