My Druid's main function is to heal, something I do with more or less success.
I have two pieces of T8.5 (or T8.25 as some call it) and a mix of emblem gear, ilevel 200 trinkets and heroic ToC gear. I find that regular heroics net me nothing of value and I'm actually contemplating using my emblems on Lazerchicken outfits because there's nothing more from the Conquest vendor I can use. It's either that or spending an outrageous amount of emblems on downgrading to T7.5 which is barely better than my H-ToC stuff.
The obvious answer would probably be to go out and raid some. Or a lot, actually. The issue here is that I'm not sure that I, skill-wise, am ready for that. I still struggle big time with minor things like H-Gundrak and H-Pinnacle. I'm pretty sure my gear is up there, so I guess it's a human error thing. I'm using mouseover macros and an easy to use frame UI for healing and I consider my reaction times to be quite good, but I still find that I simply cannot push the buttons fast enough to save that cloth DPS from a two-hit death. Had it been somewhere during The Burning Crusade, I probably would've told the clothie to mind his aggro (and I sometimes do still), but nowadays it seems if the DPS dies, it's either the tank or the healer's fault and blame depends on gear level.
Examples:
H-Gundrak - The first boss with the annoying poison nova. Everything was going fine up until that thing hit. People went from 100% health to 50% in a matter of seconds and having only two AOE heals, one of which is fairly weak compared to the situation, I found myself spamming Nourish and losing a clothie to the AOE damage. I simply couldn't keep everyone up fast enough. In hindsight I perhaps should've foreseen it and applied Rejuvs to everyone, but still, I'd like to think that Shamans and Paladins can heal that encounter as well. Another option would've been to pop Tranquility and say a silent prayer, but I wasn't sure if it would heal for enough compared to my 10k Nourish crits.
H-ToC - Confessor and The Black Knight P3. I find that I often forget to watch my own health when I've got my eyes glued to the party frames. A dead healer often results in a wipe, especially in heroics, so that's a big issue. I'm starting to just roll Rejuvenation on myself at all times and I do have an addon which alerts me if my health reaches critical levels. Unfortunately, being "leathery" and having a health pool of 16k means I go from healthy to critical to dead in a couple of seconds. And during the Confessor fight I'll often get feared and triple-hit by her Holy Shock thing which just tears me apart, especially if I'm focused on keeping the tank alive as well. The third phase of The Black Knight just ruins my days, really. It should be a fairly simple fight for a healer capable of rolling HoTs, but I never seem to get it right. I usually end up focusing too much on the tank, thereby sacrificing someone else. And if he adds that Mark thing on me, I'm just dead in a matter of hits. I can't really keep the tank up if I'm spamming Nourish on myself.
The other thing is that my guild is running Naxx10 for gearing up and having participated in one of those raids, I find that the healing there is sort of 50/50 based on luck and skill. Sometimes the healing is fine and everyone's alive, but sometimes people die in a matter of two hits, often before I can even get off a Nourish. How am I supposed to counter that? I tried rolling Rejuvenation on my entire group (we were two healers) and I ran out of mana in a matter of no time at all, because unlike in 5-mans, when I've applied Rejuvenation to all five members, I have to Nourish someone as well. Do I need more mp5? I'd hate to sacrifice some of my spell power on it, though.
If the Armory isn't working, my stats (there) are:
1972 spell power
465 haste rating
260 mp5
I'm an Alchemist, so I get a small bonus from Flask of the North, which is what I use for heroic farming (since it's endless). I also have endless mana potions which I rarely need in heroics. I often find myself popping Innervate on others, just like in the good old days.
Basically, I'm a bit unsure if I'm ready for anything other than heroics. Some heroics are a walk in the park while others are enough to make me ponder deleting my Druid. Are anyone else having issues with the snake boss in Gundrak and ToC, or am I just extremely lacking in healing skills?
Please tell me it's the former.