ToL questions, thoughts, frustration..Follow

Tree of Life form is great! I always receive comments on how my healing is awesome in BG's and when I instance and what not but, I hate the fact that I can not protect myself in BG's. I feel that I get way less honor. For example my friend *a prot pally* and me do the same av's together and he will have at least 2000 more honor than me. Can get a little frustrating. Also I am my guild's only 70 healer and I'm still learning because I was balance before and not really into the whole tree way of healing. I almost have it perfected, but my questions I have for this is in my spec since now I can cast HT in tree form is it a necessity to have it? or should i pour any points that can not be used in ToL into balance. I'm trying the whole ToL and feral but I don't think there is enough points to put in feral to get enough out of it....buy maybe because I have my points in HT talents that I could put those to use in the feral tree. But also I think maybe its kinda given to put the rest in balance because you will have spell damage already so along with putting points to speed up cast times with wrath and starfire, you can at least DPS some and not be just a healer and nothing else.

Now the real frustration, like I said above I'm still learning how to heal. But even if you knew everything there is to know about healing like in instances, there will still be someone always upset. Like last night my guild did Slabs and on the last boss we wiped like 6 times. Minor mistakes was our fall and we finally got it, but I feel to heal the tank is more important. also if they can bandage, why not? It saves me mana. Also towards the end I was going OOM *have like 8000 mana buffed* and that was after using innervate and a mana pot. So I get the complaints from the dps'ers like "you need to keep me healed at least put a bloom on me " but its like whos more important here? Clothies die so fast, and i do have battle rez but who gets it? My frustration is the whole who is more important factor. I can deal with them getting mad at me because in the end, i can always respec and **** them off and they are stuck w/o a healer. But i want to be a better healer plus its easy to find groups when you are :D...*and they are all my RL friends :P*

So yeah I'm done venting, any input or criticism is appreciated. I am still learning. Also sorry in advance if I repeated myself or if I do not make any sense.

yeah i would guess so. i mean the only kills i get are if im around anyone that dies. I usually go on O in AV but idk, I'm working on the glad set and its very hard to farm honor especially if we lose :(. last night i lost 4 games in a row.

Nice, my rate up made you turn blue =].

I would say a paladin gets more honor than you because they are friggin impossible to kill, thus get honor for a very long time in a battle before they go down, while you (and I mean me, really :P) get 2 shotted and when you get back to the battle, it's over and the honor has been awarded.

That's my experience anyway. Gotta get more of that pvp stuff to make me harder to kill.

Ha ha, I tried the whole being on defense but not by choice. I have crappy luck with AV and past 4 days i am 3 wins and 8 losses :(. But I have not seen a noticeable difference. But I agree on the making a difference on D.

Also I respec'ed and put some points in balance to help with the dmg part and not being so helpless. I really miss my Moonkin form.

Also what is the suggested + healing for Heroics? I have had people telling me at least 1.2k. right now im sitting on 999 un-buffed :P

haha right now i have 1017 plus healing right now. i think what really need to work on is my intellect. because when buffed i can pull off 8-9k and its really nice i never fear about going OOM. but when i have any less, its kinda a pain :P

Healing heroics is rough. I have ~1750 healing and I've been in PUGs where I can't keep the tank alive longer than 5 seconds because a) his gear sucks b) he can't build threat for bananas (yeah - was trying to be polite here ok :P ) and I pull aggro, die and then he dies.

Moral of my story? Always check the people you are PUGing with. Check their gear and watch chat. If they are talking/acting like idiots I've learnt to leave. Generally if I don't we wipe on the first pull.

p.s. I have done probably at least 50 heroics as a healer and have learnt that it's usually not the healers fault if the tank is dropping faster than a cannonball off the Empire State building. (yeah - trying to be polite again)

p.p.s Insomnia is starting to really, really suck. I can't spell anymore O.o

Edit: Point I think I'm trying to make is that ~1.3k ealing is fine for heroics as a druid. With less you will struggle I think. Also, in an heroic if the dps pull aggro they will die. Pretty simple to be dps - you have one rule: Don't pull aggro off the tank and if you do expect to die (I know that if I pull aggro on my lock that I deserve to die... or the tank is pathetic)

Edited, Feb 14th 2008 6:54am by AnotherSquirrel

Yeah, when i posted this i had about 1k healing now i have been through Kara once....I have a handful of epics with my new addiction of Lights Justice :D. I have to get the enchant before i use though because at the moment i have the S1 mace w/enchant 81 to healing. But now I am at 1357 healing unbuffed with a good amount of spirit and 8k mana unbuffed. I have had as much as 1441 healing with priest buff and food. But I have learned that yes, its good for the tank to build aggro first before any damage goes out so that no one else wipes....but on the other hand i usually build aggro quick when i heal :P



I also agree and see that happen alot. DPS are all about who does the most damage and will usually want to bomb everything and yeah once tank loses aggro sometimes its hard to get back. now the smart thing would just to stop dps but that usually never happens :P

oh and to note when we attempted illhoof in kara i had most healing vs a pally and priest with 1.4k and 1.6k healing :D but that was once usualy im just right behind them but not first :P

haha thats happened to me before :P