Last night, I was busy questing and fighting to get 79, and along the way I get invited to do a CoS normal run.
I check loot, see it has some nice stuff for me so I agree to go.
The tank was a level 78 feral druid with an amazing 16.1k health in caster form (where I get 15.5k in "PvP gear") so I got a little scared.
I asked if that was his tank gear and it was, but he had bear form! and 19k health in bearform.
Then I got really scared... buffed up and all he had less than 21k health, his dodge and armor probably weren't impressive either.
HOW COULD I EVER KEEP HIM ALIVE!?
Keeping him alive proved to be really easy, normal mode instances are really silly.
But it did get me thinking, how do I know I'm doing it right?
How do I know if I am doing a good job as a healer?
When I asked our best resto druid (no other healers online at 4 in the morning
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Only I have no clue what I'm doing.. at all, I just kinda throw heals left and right going with instinct in picking the right heal, or I just randomly smash buttons... either way, I'm don't think I'm doing it right.
Due to the easiness of the instance, I got to play around with spells a bit (and dps trying to catch up to the failhunter, I got to 60% of his damage done) but I still don't know when to use what spell.
Especially Prayer of Mending... I guess you should use this when the party is taking damage that isn't very predictable, but I think that I've been wasting most of mine.
I'm a little too afraid to use penance... should I just heal it to heal any damage as it's so cheap on mana?
And when/where do I use shields and flash heal and has prayer of Healing a place in healing and what about greater heal and binding heal?
And when do I shield people... do I just shield the tank or anyone likely to take damage?
It's so strange and confusing to not have a set way to measure your performance and see what you can do to improve..
It's breaking my mind :(