I did some reading...read the sticky, followed some links, and generally found myself lost. So I decided to post and be about the 1532nd resto druid to come here looking for advice to get started! Huzzah!
First the stats: 1402 bonus healing in tree form, 13% crit, 505/183 mp5
(My gear is a hodge-podge of crafted blues/epics, BoE blues, and generally speaking is far from ideal, but it was what I was able to slap together Sunday night when I respecced. Consider it a work in progress.)
I'm reviewing resources on where to find the most currently available gear upgrades, but what I'm not sure about are my methods as a healer. I healed reg Nexus for my first experience healing a group. Level 80 resto druid...level 80 tank...reg Nexus. It was a chance to familiarize myself with my current settings, etc., but bare bones in terms of developing any kind of skill.
Next up was heroic Nexus today. We had a pally tank and coming from someone whose main is a pally tank, he put forth a very lackluster performance. Threat issues combined with dps who decided that since the pally apparently couldn't tank, they would made for a lot of damage flying around and a novice healer struggling to keep up. Of course, I got a fair bit of blame for it, but after our second wipe they replaced the paladin with a warrior and the run went fairly smoothly.
I was basically doing my best to keep a rolling stack of Lifebloom on the tank at all times, Rejuv when his health dipped, Regrowth if his health dipped more, and Healing Touch if he needed a serious boost. DPS taking damage got a Rejuv for peripheral damage, Regrowth if they needed more, and a single Lifebloom if I felt the Regrowth wouldn't top them up fast enough but they were currently out of imminent danger. I was using Clique and couldn't remember my click binding for Wild Growth, completely forgot I had Nourish, and frequently forgot about Swiftmend. Ya, novice healer extraordinaire.
I've got a ways to go and more practice ahead of me before I would even consider myself an adequate healer, but any basic tips you guys could offer would be appreciated ^^
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Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomkin!
But in all honesty. You just need practice.
Remember that you have nature's swiftness and swiftmend. Those two can really fix a bad situation.
Also... You might want to remember what that wild growth keybinding is. Usually thats enough to keep your dps alive. Unless they're absolute retards and think pulling aggro is a fun game.
But in all honesty. You just need practice.
Remember that you have nature's swiftness and swiftmend. Those two can really fix a bad situation.
Also... You might want to remember what that wild growth keybinding is. Usually thats enough to keep your dps alive. Unless they're absolute retards and think pulling aggro is a fun game.
ArexLovesPie wrote:
Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomkin!
But in all honesty. You just need practice.
Remember that you have nature's swiftness and swiftmend. Those two can really fix a bad situation.
Also... You might want to remember what that wild growth keybinding is. Usually thats enough to keep your dps alive. Unless they're absolute retards and think pulling aggro is a fun game.
But in all honesty. You just need practice.
Remember that you have nature's swiftness and swiftmend. Those two can really fix a bad situation.
Also... You might want to remember what that wild growth keybinding is. Usually thats enough to keep your dps alive. Unless they're absolute retards and think pulling aggro is a fun game.
Nature's Swiftness is another one I forgot about until I did some reading on EJ and it was mentioned >.< I just changed my healing addon from Clique to Healbot and will try it out next chance I get ^^
You have the right ideas about healing, you're off to a good start already. Lifeblooms, rejuv for a bit extra oomph, Regrowth for a bit more. Nature's Swiftness + Healing touch for those "oh sh*t" moments.
For groups taking a bit of splash damage, Wild Growth is fantastic. It's so nice to have a group heal, finally! Definitely use this one. If the dps is taking a bit more damage, then once again you have the right idea...rejuv and perhaps even a lifebloom to speed things along. If everyone's taking insane damage on a regular basis, then I'd say get a new group, hehe.
For the one dps that's suddenly pulled aggro and needs a quick lifesaver, a rejuv + swiftmend works wonders.
Healing will definitely get easier once your bonus heals go up. I'm not a big fan of crit as a resto druid, I'd say you could afford to lose some in favor of something else.
You haven't mentioned which Glyphs you've chosen; they can have a big impact, depending on your healing style.
As I mentioned, you seem to have things under control, now it's just a matter of practice to get your confidence up...the better gear will come in time.
Oh, and in case you didn't know, you MUST jump around in treeform as you're healing. Fact.
For groups taking a bit of splash damage, Wild Growth is fantastic. It's so nice to have a group heal, finally! Definitely use this one. If the dps is taking a bit more damage, then once again you have the right idea...rejuv and perhaps even a lifebloom to speed things along. If everyone's taking insane damage on a regular basis, then I'd say get a new group, hehe.
For the one dps that's suddenly pulled aggro and needs a quick lifesaver, a rejuv + swiftmend works wonders.
Healing will definitely get easier once your bonus heals go up. I'm not a big fan of crit as a resto druid, I'd say you could afford to lose some in favor of something else.
You haven't mentioned which Glyphs you've chosen; they can have a big impact, depending on your healing style.
As I mentioned, you seem to have things under control, now it's just a matter of practice to get your confidence up...the better gear will come in time.
Oh, and in case you didn't know, you MUST jump around in treeform as you're healing. Fact.
fuzzynavel wrote:
Healing will definitely get easier once your bonus heals go up. I'm not a big fan of crit as a resto druid, I'd say you could afford to lose some in favor of something else.
Ya, the crit is primarily a byproduct of my intellect...I think. I know I didn't specifically seek out crit gear, but I'm sure some made it onto my toon in the hodge-podge of "good enough" that came after I made my epic leather legs and feet (also had my DK make me a Titansteel Guardian and my rogue make me the epic offhand from Inscription lol).
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You haven't mentioned which Glyphs you've chosen; they can have a big impact, depending on your healing style.
Right now I have Swiftmend, Rejuvenation and ummm...Frenzied Regeneration >.< (leftover from my feral days and soon to be swapped out).
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Oh, and in case you didn't know, you MUST jump around in treeform as you're healing. Fact.
Heh...I haven't quite graduated to jumping around yet. Moving around in random directions at a frenetic pace I've almost got down pat. I put jump-healing at about #2 on my list of priorities...#1 is making sure I know what spells I have available to me and which mouse clicks to use to cast them ;D
I tend to keep 3 stack lifebloom on the tank along with a rejuv which keeps most decent tanks up for most things. Swiftmend and Regrowth for spikey damage and if it get really hairy natures swifness followed by healing touch.
Wild growth is an awesome fire and forget heal for the rest of the group to keep them topped off or if you are being thrown about by bosses such as the 2nd boss in nexus. Finally if the party in general takes a big spanking for any reason tranquility can really top everyone off to full very fast.
An yep I never stand still while healing either a throwback to when I used to pally heal and really had to work out when to move I think the novelty with druid healing has never worn off.
Zetter
Edited, Feb 25th 2009 7:33am by ZetterUK
Wild growth is an awesome fire and forget heal for the rest of the group to keep them topped off or if you are being thrown about by bosses such as the 2nd boss in nexus. Finally if the party in general takes a big spanking for any reason tranquility can really top everyone off to full very fast.
An yep I never stand still while healing either a throwback to when I used to pally heal and really had to work out when to move I think the novelty with druid healing has never worn off.
Zetter
Edited, Feb 25th 2009 7:33am by ZetterUK
I use X-perl + Clique + Dominos.
I use clique for these keybinds.
Shift + left mouse button = Lifebloom
Shift + right mouse button = Rejuv
Ctrl + left mouse button = Regrowth
Ctrl + right mouse button = Swiftmend
Alt + left mouse button = Nourish
Alt + right mouse button = Healing Touch
The since I can maneuver Dominos bars wherever I want, I make a bar, place it right next to either my raid bars or my party bars and put: Natures's Swiftness+ Healing Touch Macro, Wild Growth, Tranquility, Remove Curse, Abolish Poison and Innervate onto it.
That way if I need one it's click target, and then the button is right there to click.
I usually have the MT targeted the entire run since using clique and clicking the target person doesn't actually change the target and I use Wild growth off the tank most times as well because it just makes healing him that much easier.
Umm.... I'm sure there is something else I'm missing with that but that's what I remember right now.
As far as tank healing, I usually pop a rejuv just before he pulls, let him pull, LB, LB, Refresh Rejuv, LB, Regrowth if needed and then sit back and pop Wild Growth when needed, maybe a Nourish if the tank is really getting beat on, and refresh my hots.
I did my first heroic Nexus with roughly 1400 SP myself so as you well know, it's a matter of you just not having a fail group.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and I usually run in a giant circle around the group as they fight, unless there isn't room, then it's a little circle and I don't even know how to NOT jump when I'm doing it... The only time I don't do this is when I'm emoting /sleep in the background because my HoTs are keeping the whole group up and I'm still at 95% mana.
Edited, Feb 25th 2009 7:57am by Galenmoon
I use clique for these keybinds.
Shift + left mouse button = Lifebloom
Shift + right mouse button = Rejuv
Ctrl + left mouse button = Regrowth
Ctrl + right mouse button = Swiftmend
Alt + left mouse button = Nourish
Alt + right mouse button = Healing Touch
The since I can maneuver Dominos bars wherever I want, I make a bar, place it right next to either my raid bars or my party bars and put: Natures's Swiftness+ Healing Touch Macro, Wild Growth, Tranquility, Remove Curse, Abolish Poison and Innervate onto it.
That way if I need one it's click target, and then the button is right there to click.
I usually have the MT targeted the entire run since using clique and clicking the target person doesn't actually change the target and I use Wild growth off the tank most times as well because it just makes healing him that much easier.
Umm.... I'm sure there is something else I'm missing with that but that's what I remember right now.
As far as tank healing, I usually pop a rejuv just before he pulls, let him pull, LB, LB, Refresh Rejuv, LB, Regrowth if needed and then sit back and pop Wild Growth when needed, maybe a Nourish if the tank is really getting beat on, and refresh my hots.
I did my first heroic Nexus with roughly 1400 SP myself so as you well know, it's a matter of you just not having a fail group.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and I usually run in a giant circle around the group as they fight, unless there isn't room, then it's a little circle and I don't even know how to NOT jump when I'm doing it... The only time I don't do this is when I'm emoting /sleep in the background because my HoTs are keeping the whole group up and I'm still at 95% mana.
Edited, Feb 25th 2009 7:57am by Galenmoon
Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but I've only healed one raid (H OS) as Resto (at the request of my guild) and then spec'd back to Feral. I think I was useless but thankfully I was also not needed.
Heres the question; Whats with the jumping and moving? Is there a particular reason for this, or is it just some kind of joke? The main reason I ask is that when the dual spec thing goes live I plan to use Resto as my off-spec.
Heres the question; Whats with the jumping and moving? Is there a particular reason for this, or is it just some kind of joke? The main reason I ask is that when the dual spec thing goes live I plan to use Resto as my off-spec.
Heh, it's mostly just something that came from the fact that we really don't need to stand still often to do our job well.
It's amusing to run and jump around while keeping everyone's life topped off at the same time with a combination of hots and swiftmends. The only time it's really every necessary to stop is when you're popping another regrowth or Nourish on the tank.
The rest of the group usually finds it funny that we're running and jumping all over and seeming to have no trouble at all healing everyone.
The one useful aspect of this is that it helps us with being more proficient when it comes to healing mobile fights, because we're just used to moving all over anyway. Most classes have to stop moving to throw off a heal. We just do it on the run. Druids are the win for mobile fights.
Edited, Feb 25th 2009 1:19pm by Galenmoon
It's amusing to run and jump around while keeping everyone's life topped off at the same time with a combination of hots and swiftmends. The only time it's really every necessary to stop is when you're popping another regrowth or Nourish on the tank.
The rest of the group usually finds it funny that we're running and jumping all over and seeming to have no trouble at all healing everyone.
The one useful aspect of this is that it helps us with being more proficient when it comes to healing mobile fights, because we're just used to moving all over anyway. Most classes have to stop moving to throw off a heal. We just do it on the run. Druids are the win for mobile fights.
Edited, Feb 25th 2009 1:19pm by Galenmoon
You guys are doing it all wrong! No no no no...
Tsk tsk!
Bad resto druids!
You need to learn to dps in tree form when you heal.
Back in BC when I was resto for god knows how long I used to run el oh el heroics with my buddies most of us were t5 and t6 geared and we ran heroics for fun. I got into the habit of being in tree form, running into mobs and fighting them with furious bark covered fists.
I seriously just fell in love with dpsing as a tree, it's so much fun to whack something with your limbs.
No pun intended...
Tsk tsk!
Bad resto druids!
You need to learn to dps in tree form when you heal.
Back in BC when I was resto for god knows how long I used to run el oh el heroics with my buddies most of us were t5 and t6 geared and we ran heroics for fun. I got into the habit of being in tree form, running into mobs and fighting them with furious bark covered fists.
I seriously just fell in love with dpsing as a tree, it's so much fun to whack something with your limbs.
No pun intended...
ArexLovesPie wrote:
You need to learn to dps in tree form when you heal.
lol, I do this too. But I see it as a level proficiency. You have to start out small and work your way up.
1.Jumping
2.Running
3.Running + Jumping
4.DPSing
5.Running + Jumping + DPSing
6.Going to the fridge to grab beer/liquor and/or slapping your significant other on the backside on the way through.
One of my favorite things to do to pick on our better tanks is type in the emote -
/e has died.
It comes up as "Galenmoon has died"
It's funnier when they are on vent.
EDIT: I can haz quotez
Edited, Feb 26th 2009 12:21pm by Galenmoon
Just run with an all paly 5 man. You really will feel useless. 1 Protadin, 3 retloladins and you. You honestly could just sit back and go grab that beer.
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