Battleground healing for saplingsFollow

My druid will be hitting 70 today, which I was excited about until I realized I can't train epic flight until 71. I've been healing battlegrounds since I hit AV level, trying to learn what's what with druid healing. But learning is hard. I'd prefer you all just tell me what's what and I can pretend like I knew it all along, 'k? So I have a few questions, specifically about battleground healing; I know things are different in 5 mans.

1. I'm pretty much just spamming Rejuv and keeping Wild Growth on cooldown, with Regrowth/Swiftmend thrown in for people who need immediate healing, because HT takes too long and I don't have Nourish yet. Anything I'm missing there? I feel kind of guilty topping the healing meters by hitting two buttons the whole time.


2. It's been a long time since I played a druid, but I couldn't help but feel that Lifebloom these days, well... kind of sucks. If I try to use it, I just go OOM. So I went to the trusty sticky:



Yay, the sticky says I'm kind of right! I mostly just cast it on whoever's tanking Van and ignore it the rest of the time. Any other situations where I should be using it more?


3. Where is the endless mana I always heard druids have? I run out a lot. Even keeping Innervate on cooldown I still have to drink. My Resto set does suck though.


4. Hm. I'm a tree. No hiding behind the casters and hoping they think I'm a mage. I'm focused 100% of the time. I seem to recall never being able to kill a tree, but they're not having that kind of trouble with me (possibly because I'm not at the level cap and resilience hasn't come into play yet). So survival: Barkskin, Nature's Grasp, travel form, run away, heal. Any other tips? My Nature's Swiftness-Healing Touch macro does not work so I need to put those buttons closer together.


5. Not a question, just an observation: Wild Growth is freaking cheating. Druid healers are OP.


Edited, May 27th 2010 9:47am by teacake

I think you pretty much have it figured out.

1) RJ and WG tend to be my big heals when I do AV. You'll find Nourish will likely fill that little spot heal niche once you get it at 80.

2)LB does kinda suck. Not terribly, but it's tough to use effectively, mostly because a large amount of the heal is at the end. It can be a challenge to get it to bloom at a good moment in a scripted raid encounter, and we wont even talk about the less-predictable PvP matches. Good thing is that it ticks every second though that's nice for stabilizing people.

Other than on tanks, or in a raid when I know a damage spike is coming soon, I'll also use it if I feel I want a second HoT on a target and I'm needing to stay mobile. Just make sure you let it drop of at 3 stacks, if not it becomes quite the mana hog...

3)Endless mana comes from the lvl 80 stuffs mostly. You probably wont see it until then. But once you hit 80 if you grab this and this, you'll be hard pressed to OOM. That being said I OOM more in long PvP fights like AV turtles then in raids. I guess since I'm gearing more for survival than mana... *shrugs*

4)One thing I liked for AV, and other battlegrounds where I could hide a little in the fray, was the Improved Barkskin talents (raises your armor to almost tree-like levels), and then just heal in humanoid form, at least until I've been spotted. Cause ya, all the branches and stuff are kind of a give-away that you're a healer. Also kitty form and dash can be nice.

5)Btw, I should say thank you, since it's your advice that got me PvP healing for practice in the first place. Good luck out there!

It totally rocks. Though I've admittedly been playing my warlock more than my druid in BGs lately.

But I <3 you disco priests. Bubbles are just awesome on many levels. Once your primary spells start being like 70%+ overheals, you find yourself wishing for a bubble that only works when the target takes damage...

Male taurens are awesome. Female taurens are cows with ***** riding lizards. It's hard to get behind that, even if they do the electric slide. Plus I don't like the way gear looks on them. The cow factor was the whole reason I left the druid class behind when I switched to Horde. And I probably wouldn't have started leveling one again if they hadn't announced the troll thing.

Buy hey, I respect and fully support you finding your tauren sexy.









Warstomp is awesome.

Wait, is that a female Tauren?

Do they even exist?

YOU WOULDN'T DARE!