Comments on: End-game Druid Healing

By: althura

althura — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:34:09 +0000

As another commenter mentioned, armor is pretty useless. At the levels a resto druid will have, a few extra points is fairly meaningless. Stamina is definitely handy though, and I would recommend anyone running kara or heroics have a bare minimum of 7k health self-buffed.

As far as MP5, I don’t stack any. Your spirit increases your MP5 while casting anyway with talents, and it scales with buffs like BoK and MotW.

Also, I’d be cautious about starting a fight by stacking lifebloom. If I know my tank will generate good early aggro (check out his rage bar as he pulls), I’ll usually lead with regrowth, in case he takes an early burst (CC not going off quick enough), and watch to swiftmend it if needed.

Otherwise, I lead with rejuv. It can be swiftmended if you’re worried about the tank while you stack lifebloom up.

Good write-up, and enjoy working out the new talents. I have a writeup on them at http://onehotnelf.wordpress.com/ if you want any tips.

By: Duckkie

Duckkie — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:48:33 +0000

I’d like to point out that BoMight does NOT increase threat on a resto druid unless they’re melee’ing.
Also you should Prioritise Spirit over MP5 and BoKings over BoWisdom (spirit increases the other healers healing, not only your own) HoT’s dont cause a In-Combat regen, so you get your Out-of-Combat regen anyway.
BoKings just encreases your spirit and intellect so innervates and your heals are more powerful. BoWisdom should be second priority.
Also, in terms of a stamina meta gem, if you have over 10k hp party buffed, you shouldnt need more stamina, just use lower ranked heals if your struggling to stay under the threat… your likely over aggroing because your gear is superior to the tanks.
Although i like the idea about the Macro. May have to make my own. i usually just type it.

By: pleinelune

pleinelune — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:11:10 +0000

And all this discussion is moot point now already, because I am no longer using the items under discussion.

I think I’ll write a revamped guide to healing… This is a very beginners guide to end-game healing, maybe something more advanced about gear, enchants and all. Plus there have been patches in btwn that can change things.

By: Thinus

Thinus — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:54:13 +0000

I think Sayu’s point wasn’t that a resto drood doesn’t need stam, it was that you shouldn’t be taking damage and bonus healing will benefit the party/raid much more than stam chant/kits/gems on/in your gear. And as for The Shade’s Pyroblast, you can either carry a resist pot, or get in a decent raid that will interrupt his spells so he doesn’t need to drink. As for Naj’entis I would hope that if you’re in a raid to kill him, you would at least have S2/T5 gear, which means that unbuffed your health should be 8k+, raid buffed 10k+, also with Naj’entis, you control when his shield pops, so take a resist pot. Its a heal heavy fight but it doesn’t mean that you should be sacrificing healing gems/chants for stam ones if anything the mere fact that it is such a heal heavy fight suggests that you would want your mana to go further aka more int/bh/Mp5. As a healer your there to heal, not to have the most health or armor, and if I’m getting beat on as a healer, I give the tank a few chances to keep aggro and then i simply leave the group and instance and find a real tank that knows what he/she is doing. You’re going to be able to know before you down the first boss whether or not you have a tank that can keep aggro, and if I’m not mistaken that is when you are saved to a heroic.

By: shavasara

shavasara — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:51:36 +0000

Actually, you will find yourself needing stam in later game content when bosses do damage to the entire raid group (not unlike Shade’s pyroblast after he drinks). I’m thinking Naj’entis in BT–everyone in the raid needs 8k health as a bare minimum.

By: Clay

Clay — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:16:07 +0000

Hey, great guide.
Just something to try though rather than 3 lifeblooms at first is to start off with a rejuvination on the tank as its 1 cast to instantly begin its healing then regrowth / lifebloom depending on how hard the bosses are hitting. I swap throughout Healer and Feral druid.. first half of KZ endgame.. icweiners on korialstrasz ;D

By: William

William — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:05:04 +0000

this is realyl useful i jsut got my rep pvp gear and i hope to start first time on healing this healps a lot

By: pleinelune

pleinelune — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:26:31 +0000

Yeah I know the criticisms – but I also have to use this for heroics, and by RIGHT, I shouldn’t be getting hit. But I do. And I do need to survive long enough for the tank to get to me. As it is, I am very…. squishy.

I’ve done the later bosses, actually, I’ve healed through prince without much of a problem.

And I didn’t know about the 2% threat reduction, I was told the only enchant to the back that would be useful was the armour one. Thanks.

By: Sayu

Sayu — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:09:37 +0000

I hope you dont take this the wrong way, just giving my input to help you improve ^_^

First of all, please move a few points to tranquil spirit, in fact make it 5/5, taking some points from furor. You may not feel the need to yet since you are in the lower half of Karazhan, but later in the game you might have to switch out of tree form and heal in druid form. You cannot totally rely on the other healers for direct healing spells, especially if you have to solo heal a target. Its difficult for HoTs to keep a tank up when the bosses begin hiting alot harder. The reduced mana cost will really help your mana when the fights are more heal intensive.

There is also not much reason to get so much stamina, or armor for that matter. I know how your life may seem abit low compared to the rest of your group, but you shouldnt be getting hit by anything anyway. Armor is useless, since the small amount of damage reduction it gives you wont stop the elite mob from 2-shotting you. You could have saved the money used for the +120 armor to your back and maybe got better gems on your pants. If you really have a problem with aggro or want an enchant on your back I suggest the 2% threat reduction enchant.

With regards to healers, it doesnt matter if you use cloth or leather, an upgrade is an upgrade. You may think that the cloth pants you have are going to be easily upgraded to leather, so you put cheap gems in it, but my suggestion is to not spare expense on purples (especially your Gloves of Malorne, get major healing or at least magisters armor kit on that)

Im also slightly confused on your helm meta gem. Unless you are a PvP healer, which I doubt seeing that you dont have the gear for it yet, +18 stam is not very good. I would suggest the 12 intel and restore mana on spell cast or the typical 26 healing meta.

Good luck on clearing Karazhan.

By: KTX

KTX — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:52:19 +0000

my guild just cleared black temple not long ago… though i only down the 7th boss before