Heroic Arc kicked my buttFollow

What I am about to say just an assumption. The tank is in fact overgeared, imo, which leaves the conclusion that you are undergeared. Can't say much else, though, as you logged out in your fire festival gear....

Ok after looking at it, he was being crit hit. He doesn't have enough def or res to make him crit immune. So I would say that is why you couldn't keep him up.

I think the biggest problem is that feral/resto is one of the worst tank/healer combos you can have for that instance. Trash mobs are pretty easy, but alot of the damage from bosses is non-physical. That means your tank has no mitigation at all and needs more healing to keep alive. Since resto druids have the lowest maximum sustained HPS, you can run into issues pretty easily. The only combo that is worse is a feral/holy pally combo, where a no mitigation tank with a single target healer also overwhelms the group through aoe damage.

Sorry about logging in my festival gear. My armory page shows my healing set now. The only thing is that I heal with the Lower City Prayer Book rather than my Charm of Swift Flight.

So, with that on, and without the mage buff, my heals are at 1585, with a regen rate of 199. Like I said, it's not great, but everything I have is pre-raid so for that level it's not too bad. I think my major weakness is that I have barely over 6k health, which means I'm one or two shotted every time I pull aggro. I just added the stam enchant to my boots since I'm so low on hp and the best alternative is Vitality.

But this leads to another question. Short of obtaining raid gear, how can I increase my survivability without sacrificing too much effectiveness as a healer?. I know a dead healer doesn't help anyone, but I'm wary of giving up too much +heal and mp5. I've only ever played a hunter before to raid level, and I'm spoiled to FD. I have no idea where the balance is between effectiveness at my role and personal survivability.

Edited, Jul 13th 2008 3:34am by Laecy

/sigh

I was afraid it would come to that. With three 70's and more than two servers worth of alts, I think I've earned a grand total of two thousand honor. Pvp has never thrilled me.

But I guess I'll run in and throw out as many hots as I can between deaths till I limp my way into a couple of epics :). Always assuming they get the battlegrounds back up. . .

Thanks for the advice though :). As much as I'm complaining, I still appreciate the responses.

He's uncrittable and overgeared, your gear is pretty decent also. As has been mentioned, I think it's just a case of heavy magical damage with no base mitigation like warriors, making your job a lot harder. As heroics go, Arca's a pretty hard one, just for the massive amounts of damage people will be taking. I've often had healers that find it hard to keep me up through Burning Abyssals - it's not just you =).