What is the mose efficient way to heal?Follow

The most efficient way to heal is healing touch. however as far as I remember, hots give 130% of your + healing equipment while healing touch does + 110%? (not sure of the numbers there) past that if you're really low on + healing items use Healing touch. if you're high in the + healing department. Use hots. I had roughly +380-430 at level 64 though at level 70 I'm currently sitting on +1080 though I'm not resto spec nor having any enchants or gems in my healing gear.(which should pump me up another 300+) (Head and shoulder rep buffs, + healing weapon, + healing bracers, + healing gloves, gems ect.)

one thing to note though is I'm really happy with the moonglade 2 piece set bonus.
+ 35 dodge rating. too bad if he's a druid tank though. the enemy wiffing on their attack = no rage generation. (had situations where the tank and the boss mob were swiping at each other and missing for 30 seconds before. that was really scary for the dps.)

Ahh....that is until you get Lifebloom. Then Lifebloom wins because each stack of the Lifebloom gets the 42.86% +heal. So if you have a 3 stack you are getting 128.58% of your +heal. This (as well as the whole trinketed LB lasting forever being nerfed soon) is what makes Lifebloom so powerful - combined with how very cheap it's mana cost is.

I have a confused followup based on some in-game testing I just did. The in-game results (and I swear I'm not high or lying) seem much better even than your calculation here. I'm no math guy, so can somebody can please correct my errant logic or math? I do not have a single talent that affects my +heal, not even nurturing instinct in the feral tree.

First I tested Healing Touch. I popped it on myself five times with and without my healing gear, and threw out a few drool-worthy crits. In my tanking gear it healed for an average of 2878, and in my +861 healing gear it healed for an average of 3743. That's a difference of 865...right at the 100% I expected because of its 3.5 second cast time. (Closer than I expected out of a 5-shot test, actually.)

Then I tested Lifebloom and the fun began.

In my tanking gear, with no +heal, Lifebloom did this:
x1: 39 per tick + 600 bloom = 873 total healing
x2: 78 per tick + 600 bloom = 1146 total healing
x3: 117 per tick + 600 bloom = 1419 healing

In my healing gear, with +861 healing, Lifebloom did this:
x1: 102 per tick + 969 bloom = 1683 total healing
x2: 206 per tick + 970 bloom = 2412 total healing
x3: 309 per tick + 970 bloom = 3133 total healing

Since Lifebloom x1 is instant cast, I thought one cast of it would only get 42.86% of my +861 healing bonus, or +369. Right?

But that's 42.86% of my healig bonus is what the bloom alone benefited.

On top of that, the total of the ticks was higher by by 441, 896, and 1344 in stacks of 1, 2, and 3 respectively.

So all told the spell x1 is getting +810, which is virtually ALL (94%) of my +healing bonus. x2 it's getting +1266, or 147%, and x3 it's getting +1714, which is 200% of my healing bonus. Is it just me or is this not even awesomer than what you said.

Our other instant cast, Rejuvenation, ticked for 265 x 4 = 1060 naked, and 454 x 4 = 1816 in my healing gear. That's a difference of 756, or 88% of my bonus.

So in a good but suspicious and potentially happy way, I have to say "WTF?!?"

Edited, Jan 7th 2008 10:54pm by JeeBar

This may not be very good in a real healing situation, but if you really wan't the most efficient healing, you cast lifebloom and let it bloom, then cast another one. That nets you the most healing for you mana, but in case of healing tanks, the tank will surely die, and you won't win any healing meters ;)

The really good article to read on this is here:

http://www.wowwiki.com/Comparison_of_Druid_Healing

Yes it is, I didn't look at the actual figures but went by what Jeebar said. Because the standard use of rolling lifeblooms, I don't normally worry about the bonus +heal on the bloom because I rarely see it :)

A good lifebloom rotation is very close to the same amount of healing a pally can do with FOL spam. But they can't do anything else while doing it. We can move around and drop rejuv's & regrowths where necessary. It is actually possible to keep the rolling blooms going on 3 tanks at the same time for some MASSIVE healing.