giving adviceFollow

My tree is my main character, but lately I've been gearing up my hunter too. While doing these runs, I've sometimes grouped with other resto druids. I can't help but watch them and see how they're doing.

Usually I'm dying to start giving advice.

I don't want to tell people how to play, but it's hard when I see someone struggling to heal a fight I know I could handle with relative ease. When this happens, first I check their gear. If they're in a lot of blues and some greens, I shrug it off and figure they're working on it. I also look at recount. My two main spells are Lifebloom and Rejuv. LB alone counts for 45-55% of my healing in almost all cases. I ran UK with a decently geared tree last week who was struggling to keep up. Her top spell was Regrowth.

I've never tried a healing style other than my own. Rejuv, LB stack, Regrowth (if needed) on the tank as he's running in, then sit back and watch out for part/raid damage while keeping the tank's hots up. I'm starting to work in Nourish as a quick tank pick-me-up. This works very very well for me. Is this an optimal approach or is relying on the bigger direct heals just as valid?

Is it ever appropriate to take someone aside and say "I know what you could be doing to make life easier on yourself," or something to that effect?

I'm not a healer, and regardless of spec, style, and so forth. I love advice, personally I don't open my mouth unless I know what I'm saying and know the mechanics of the class like the back of my hand. So long as your friendly, and not elitist sounding I can't imagine what the problem could be. ^^

I will generally start by asking them questions. I want to see why they are doing weird stuff. Sometimes they are just testing something out. Other times they were given bad information or are just shooting blindly trying to hit fish in bucket. Helps to know their logic first as they may be basing some decisions off things that have changed since chocolate.

A good example is several feral DPS that I have seen gemming and chanting for agility still not knowing that they changed the stat conversions. Simply giving them the heads up will often be all you need to do.

There will always be that someone who doesn't take advice well, as long as you are willing to accept that then I say go for it.

I suggest the sandwich method of constructive critique. (many have already posted just that or something similar)

Bread: Start out with a compliment and something to identify yourself with them.

The meat (or tofu): Give your suggestion/crit. It might help to have a "why" to it.

Bread: Wrap it up on a positive with a compliment.

Personally I would of loved it (and still would) if another tree druid gave me advice and pointers. Everything I've learned has been through personal experience and reading forums. I've never grouped or raided with another tree. (I group with friends mostly and I'm the only tree in our guild)

Feel free to post more pointers :) I will devour them like the cheese danish I just ate.

I've seen quite a lot of druids trying to heal with healing touch/nourish/regrowth and occaisionally using rejuv. It is soo much easier to keep all 3 HoTs up and use the occaisional HT/nourish/regrowth. As a tank it is scary to see only one HoT on me while being healed by a tree.

same, i mean, agi does give you crit and some ap, along with armor. i dont see why i wouldnt gem that? unless i desperately needed some AP, then id stack str.

I am never one to really keep my mouth shut, so if it were me I'd probably tell him, "hey, I'm a resto druid main and you're doing ok but it'd probably help if you did this: ~"

When I switched to resto and started heroics, the glyphed Healing touch spell was probably my most cast spell. Partially because I hadn't figured out Nourish and I thought faster cast->bigger heals->better.

I was wrong, had another druid not said anything to me about it I would have continued that road.

People still get on my case about the rotation I use sometimes. I don't even have the 4 piece T7 bonus (5% bonus to nourish for each HoT) and Nourish is my go-to spell, and I probably honestly cast Wild Growth (even with 6 second cooldown) more than anything. But I get compliments all the time and rarely run out of mana, so I tend to stick with what works best for me and my party/raid.

I'm stubborn too if you can't tell.

IMO, it's only just begun. The way people are insisting on AoE'ing down everything all the time. And how Blizz keeps giving every class in the game an AoE attack.

I finally got my drood to 80 Saturday, after being caught by the DK bug, and yesterday I tanked heroic Nexus, UK and VH. Had a couple guildies and a Pugged priest healer. I had to ask the mage to give me 5 seconds before he AoE'd the ***** out of every pull. Maul's awesome(MMMMmmm Glyphed), but Swipe doesn't do enough damage to hold aggro on 5 mobs while the mage with 2k SP Blizzard's everything.

Anyway, back on the OP, I love getting advice! :P Even if I don't use it, at least it showed the person gave two ******* I usually PST the healer(Especially when I first reach a level cap/new content) to find out if they're having problems having to heal others because they're pulling aggro, or if I seem a little squishy on certain pulls.

That way I can use my bash effectively and make the DPS CC more/change the kill order

Either way, I think the general consensus is that you have to be careful and no matter what, some people are gonna be retarded about it and see it as you criticizing them.