How to heal with a resto druid w/o going oom.

[dbartdog]

I know alot of people have came into cataclysm hoping to have a fun experience!.. Well that's not necessarily what happened. In this guide I will be showing you how "i think" is the best way to heal heroics without going oom through boss fights or just through trash pulls.

When healing a heroic i usually tend to keep up 3 stacks of lifebloom on the tank wich tends to keep him up most of the time and keep you at a good amount of mana, when he starts going too low i would reccomend putting up rejuvination followed by a Swiftmend.. Or alternatively if you have enough time you could wait for your lifebloom to expire and get its ending heal off.
* if the tank is under great damage to be afraid to toss up a regrowth, or healing touch as well.

For healing the rest of the party i try to waste as less mana as i can as possible.. By that i mean trying to use only Wild growth & Nourish.. but if you need to, using rejuvination+swiftmend will work good as well.
---If there smart they shouldnt be taking too much damage most of the time depending on what the mobs are.


CLEARCASTING
-- if you have the clearcasting proc, i would reccomend using regrowth on the tank or someone else that is low..


CD's
The main cooldowns for resto druids are, Tree of Life, Innervate, and Natures swiftness and these all have a 3Minute cooldown. I would reccomend using these as often as "needed" but also save them for the boss fights. So make sure to manage them wisely
*During most boss encounters i try to use my innervate at around 70% mana so the CD has time to refresh and can use it again near the end if needed.


I know this isnt the best guide, but this helps me get through my heroics w/o spending so much downtime drinking & wiping on boss fights because i oom before the fight is over..


USER SUBMITTED STRATS

from bordot...

I ctrl+f'd expecting to see something about nourish tank healing, but I was wrong. One of the most efficient ways to heal a tank is to keep 3x lifebloom on the tank, while spamming nourish on him. If you know a high damage phase is coming, throw a rejuv on the tank as well. If you get a clearcast proc, either Swiftmend if other people in your party are taking damage to proc an eflorresence OR healing touch the tank to top him off. When party takes damage, wild growth and, if absolutely needed, blanketting the group with rejuvs while the wildgrowth is up will have no problem keeping people alive. Hope this helps someone

Oh and one more little Tree of Life trick that isn't very well known is: On fights with 2 or more tanks, if you pop Tree of Life early on in the fight and throw 3x lifebloom on both tanks, you will be able to roll the lifebloom on both tanks the entire fight by refreshing the duration with Nourish or Healing Touch (with the Empowered Touch talent)

From Toothpaste...

If your group is taking too much damage, pop WG on them, then if they're still taking more dmg then WG can heal, you will pop Tranqulility. When Tranq is on CD and the raid is taking too much damage that WG can't keep up with, you should either.. find a new group, or.. if think you won't need it later on pop Tree of Life and Roll 3 stack lifeblooms on everyone. This will make clearcasting proc like crazy and you shouldn't have a problem with keeping the group up for atleast 3 minutes

Clearcasting procs that proc without ToL should preferably be used on the tank, if the tank needs healing or if he's below 80% and a dps is almost dead, leave them be, they were either standing in something they shouldn't have.. or Were infront of the boss doing something stupid.

Effloresence/ Swiftmend should be your dps heals, if they don't stand in the healy green stuff, don't individually heal them..

From NeoDiablo2k....

On mine I chose not to spec into nature's swiftness simply because its a once every 3 minute instant heal basically, and coupled with healing touch won't save the tank as it used to back in the wrath days. Basically what I do is 3 stacks of lifebloom on the tank and keep the lifeblooms rolling. If he goes down to say 75%,I tend to let lifebloom expire by casting a regrowth and timing a nourish to land right after because nourish and healing touch refresh lifebloom stacks. Another good thing to do and it may just be the pvp talking but when under add fire, pop barkskin and nature's grasp. This allows you to take reduced damage and root 3 adds, or 1 very dumb add and avoid a quick death. Regarding tree of Life, I only use it under heavy situation where instant cast regrowths with a swiftmend to follow can be the make it or break it for the fight.Most important thing though is timing your innervate if you know you have mana issues, but only healing when neccesary,using group heals, and keeping the lifeblooms roll will save your mana. Just my 2 cents.

[Wetop]

You didn't even include how to use clearcasting procs.

[lufkin]

You didn't even include how to use clearcasting procs.

how about you include it then

[dbartdog]

You didn't even include how to use clearcasting procs.

wow... ty i completely forgot :P
For clearcasting procs i would reccomend using Regrowth on the tank, or a dps that is low

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if theres anything else you guys see that needs to be added/changed, lmk

[wickermanz]

Also using cyclone and entangling roots on adds on your dps can save a ton of mana.

[bordot]

I ctrl+f'd expecting to see something about nourish tank healing, but I was wrong. One of the most efficient ways to heal a tank is to keep 3x lifebloom on the tank, while spamming nourish on him. If you know a high damage phase is coming, throw a rejuv on the tank as well. If you get a clearcast proc, either Swiftmend if other people in your party are taking damage to proc an eflorresence OR healing touch the tank to top him off. When party takes damage, wild growth and, if absolutely needed, blanketting the group with rejuvs while the wildgrowth is up will have no problem keeping people alive. Hope this helps someone

Oh and one more little Tree of Life trick that isn't very well known is: On fights with 2 or more tanks, if you pop Tree of Life early on in the fight and throw 3x lifebloom on both tanks, you will be able to roll the lifebloom on both tanks the entire fight by refreshing the duration with Nourish or Healing Touch (with the Empowered Touch talent)

[Mirham]

If you get a clearcast proc, either Swiftmend if other people in your party are taking damage to proc an eflorresence

Just though id point out that using your clearcast on a swiftmend is rather useless, as it doesn't cost alot of mana. You would rather just do a quick regrowth on that player, and then swiftmend that one.

[dbartdog]

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[Blueice22]

Just though id point out that using your clearcast on a swiftmend is rather useless, as it doesn't cost alot of mana. You would rather just do a quick regrowth on that player, and then swiftmend that one.

I just thought that I would point out that clearcast only works on spells with a cast time so it wouldn't work on Swiftmend..... I think the non-druids need to stop commenting lol.

[Toothpaste]

If your group is taking too much damage, pop WG on them, then if they're still taking more dmg then WG can heal, you will pop Tranqulility. When Tranq is on CD and the raid is taking too much damage that WG can't keep up with, you should either.. find a new group, or.. if think you won't need it later on pop Tree of Life and Roll 3 stack lifeblooms on everyone. This will make clearcasting proc like crazy and you shouldn't have a problem with keeping the group up for atleast 3 minutes

Clearcasting procs that proc without ToL should preferably be used on the tank, if the tank needs healing or if he's below 80% and a dps is almost dead, leave them be, they were either standing in something they shouldn't have.. or Were infront of the boss doing something stupid.

Effloresence/ Swiftmend should be your dps heals, if they don't stand in the healy green stuff, don't individually heal them..

[xxsamxx86]

Im a resto druid and have found a few things to make it alot easier.I use my Tree everytime it is off cd.I spam as many people with lifebloom as possible for the duration of Tree of Life and use Nourish a few times whilst in Treeform as it is more effective.Using Lifebloom on as many people as possible saves so much mana and heals them enough when it blooms to heal them to full(if they arent silly and go oooo shiney fire :P)Swiftmend i use on myself and the dps know to come and stand in the pretty green.The healers in my guild rarely have mana problems as i give each one a group to focus on before we heal any others to stop mana wasting.Obviously if someone is struggling they will generally yell on vent/mumble/ts etc.Def using ToL everytime when off cd helps so much controlling your own mana.If you have another Resto Druid in group its good to partner up with them say you use tree first them 2nd etc same for innervates on each other and tranquility cooldowns.

[R3CoR]

I just thought that I would point out that clearcast only works on spells with a cast time so it wouldn't work on Swiftmend..... I think the non-druids need to stop commenting lol.

Swiftmend does benefit from clearcast even though it dosnt have a cast time.

My main prio is lifebloom x3 on tank and nourish spam him when needed, otherwise i occasional nourish with 1/4 of the lifebloom tick left to make it reapply in time.

If the dps starts taking damage, pop WG and nourish heal them and use lifebloom to refresh the tank instead of wasting cast time. If dps reaches >50% or lower pop rej and SM on them and reapply WG asap and they can handle it themselves. Clearcast procs should be used on whoever needs it, tank has prio over the dps and if he isnt in a sweat apply to the lowest HP dps there is. Although if the tank is taking massive damage Healing touch is a must on procs

I occasionally use ToL together with Tranq in order to top to group as fast as possible due to the beneficials we get from ToL, and then its just lifebloom spam applying 1 lifebloom to each person in order and rinse and repeat. Having 5 x3 lifeblooms ticking on everyone with occasional rej for extra heal and swiftmend if the time allows me

[dbartdog]

bump for tha healerz

[kallebanan]

Great one, just started healing on my druid!

[neodiablo2k]

On mine I chose not to spec into nature's swiftness simply because its a once every 3 minute instant heal basically, and coupled with healing touch won't save the tank as it used to back in the wrath days. Basically what I do is 3 stacks of lifebloom on the tank and keep the lifeblooms rolling. If he goes down to say 75%,I tend to let lifebloom expire by casting a regrowth and timing a nourish to land right after because nourish and healing touch refresh lifebloom stacks. Another good thing to do and it may just be the pvp talking but when under add fire, pop barkskin and nature's grasp. This allows you to take reduced damage and root 3 adds, or 1 very dumb add and avoid a quick death. Regarding tree of Life, I only use it under heavy situation where instant cast regrowths with a swiftmend to follow can be the make it or break it for the fight.Most important thing though is timing your innervate if you know you have mana issues, but only healing when neccesary,using group heals, and keeping the lifeblooms roll will save your mana. Just my 2 cents.