Someone help me feel better about my first heal attempt. Used LFG and marked DPS/Heals. I port into UK, they had wiped, and blamed the healer. I died also. We start up and it is not pretty. I am at 72, I have 500 SP unbuffed. I was highest be 2-4 levels. Can I heal, should I go tree, I can dps and level, can dual spec I guess. Unless feral gets alot stronger specc'ed or at 80. I don't feel it is for me.
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Yes, a boomkin can heal. Not very well, but they can. Tree would help, but the way I did it was to spec a few points into healing, like the Genesis talent. While I leveled, I never used treeform. Now that I'm 78, I do have dualspec in case I get a horrible tank who thinks that righteous fury/ defensive stance/frost presence makes for an easy run. However, most of the time I'm in my healing spec pushing about 500DPS because I'll be bored to my wits end if I only heal.
Get dual spec if you plan on healing anyways. You'll need it sooner or later.
Get dual spec if you plan on healing anyways. You'll need it sooner or later.
You could always create a Dreamstate spec. While such a spec cuts you off from critical talents in both Balance and Resto trees, it allows you to be effective in both dps and healing. Just don't expect to excel in either of those roles. If you're interested, a good example of this spec: http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#0VGMhbIkhdZZf0IubuxVzA
Boomkin healing is usually more of an emergency thing. For example when you lose your healer, a boomkin can help keep people alive for a short period of time so you can down the boss.
Some variety of dreamstate/resto build is a viable spec for leveling (is there anything that isn't?) that allows you to heal instances and solo fairly effectively. I leveled as a DS/resto until 73, when I started to find it more difficult to heal Northrend instances without Wild Growth. Doing things like healing or tanking in a DPS tree works fine at lower levels, but really starts to get hard in Northrend. Not that you have to have a full resto spec, but it makes it possible to do the instances with just about any group, rather than just the decent ones.
Anyway, if you intend to heal at end-game, now would probably be a good time to go full resto anyway, and get your practice in. Hitting 80 in a full set of blues from NR normal instances makes it easier to jump into heriocs.
Some variety of dreamstate/resto build is a viable spec for leveling (is there anything that isn't?) that allows you to heal instances and solo fairly effectively. I leveled as a DS/resto until 73, when I started to find it more difficult to heal Northrend instances without Wild Growth. Doing things like healing or tanking in a DPS tree works fine at lower levels, but really starts to get hard in Northrend. Not that you have to have a full resto spec, but it makes it possible to do the instances with just about any group, rather than just the decent ones.
Anyway, if you intend to heal at end-game, now would probably be a good time to go full resto anyway, and get your practice in. Hitting 80 in a full set of blues from NR normal instances makes it easier to jump into heriocs.
That monster in the mirror, he just might be you. -Grover
So it might be easier to respect to Tree and go caster to solo level. I will need strong heals as the others in my LFG range are still okay to very poor. 1 or 2 okay players works but I need to be better than Okay to keep the poor alive. Gear won't be a problem as I make good money and have two 80s to chip in.
UK seems to be quite hard with a levelling group from my random experiences (not had Nexus yet, so can't compare), the only pug run I've completed without a level 80 stepping in had higher level and fairly well geared druid healer and that wasn't what I'd call a smooth run.
Up until Wrath I was quite happy healing with off-spec healers, but for Wrath dungeons I've found it quite difficult, not sure if this is because of the design of the instances, poor players (my dps has been double that of the other dps quite often and my character is not well geared by any stretch of the imagination) or people thinking they can zerg through normals like they would heroics with their main characters and so don't bother with cc or mana breaks.
If you want to heal then I would suggest getting dual-spec and having a dedicated healing spec for instances and a proper dps spec for levelling, I'm not sure a hybrid spec would cut it with some of the groups I've been in. You could go for just resto for soloing too, but I found it noticeably slower at killing compared to balance, so if you've got the gold I'd say dual-spec is the best option.
Up until Wrath I was quite happy healing with off-spec healers, but for Wrath dungeons I've found it quite difficult, not sure if this is because of the design of the instances, poor players (my dps has been double that of the other dps quite often and my character is not well geared by any stretch of the imagination) or people thinking they can zerg through normals like they would heroics with their main characters and so don't bother with cc or mana breaks.
If you want to heal then I would suggest getting dual-spec and having a dedicated healing spec for instances and a proper dps spec for levelling, I'm not sure a hybrid spec would cut it with some of the groups I've been in. You could go for just resto for soloing too, but I found it noticeably slower at killing compared to balance, so if you've got the gold I'd say dual-spec is the best option.
You said that money isn't an issue so pony up the cash, dual spec and go moonkin/resto so you don't have this problem again ever. I've que'd for 25 randoms over the last 2 days as healer/dps and not once have I dps'd. The sad fact is that if you que as either tank or healer, you have a very slim chance of dpsing because both tanks and healers are always needed more.
It will be easier for you to dual spec because if you do a DS or restokin build, you're basically gimping both aspects and staying full moonkin or resto will gimp one side or the other.
Just my opinion.
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Give feral a try.
If your brain doesn't hemorrhage then you might like it :P
It will be easier for you to dual spec because if you do a DS or restokin build, you're basically gimping both aspects and staying full moonkin or resto will gimp one side or the other.
Just my opinion.
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Give feral a try.
If your brain doesn't hemorrhage then you might like it :P
I went ahead and got Dual Spec, and tried to copy a tree I found in a resto thread. One thing seemed odd, it did not use Wild growth. I am mainly looking at 5-man content if that matters. Let me know if this is correct.
Mpre questions in different thread.
Mpre questions in different thread.
You're probably going to want Wild Growth.
There are some builds that don't use it, but they tend to be more PvP orientated. This may work better for you.
There are some builds that don't use it, but they tend to be more PvP orientated. This may work better for you.
That monster in the mirror, he just might be you. -Grover
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