| Phiage | #274873 Saturday December 15, 2007 at 13:13 | |
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Hey Guys, I have a request to throw out to the LO druid community. I'm in the process of learning the ins and outs of druid healing in many diverse situations. I've read alot about raid healing and tried it out. I've done lots of normal 5-mans and that pretty easy. At this point I'm looking to start trying heroics. I'm wondering about certain baselines for success in heroics. What +healing should I have. mp5? How much hps should I be able to put out to heal a heroic 5-man? Also, up to this point I've been using hots with the occasional NS/NT. It seems to me, however, that heroics would require much more spike healing. What types of heals should I use in heroics? Thats to all you more experienced trees for letting me pick your brain for a bit :D --
Phiya - 70 Priest Healer Phiage - 70 MOONKIN!! Sophara - 70 Mage |
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| Fenrys | #274894 Saturday December 15, 2007 at 18:16 | |
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I've healed only a couple of heroics and I generally respeced to resto for them. I do have semi decent gear (1350+ healing and a decent level of regen, around 160 or so in combat, probably higher now with the regen change last patch (my video card is down so I cannot play games just surf the net). Unless I had to decurse or abolish poison I found I was staying in tree form most of the time. The only times I wasn't was when I needed to move as part of the boss fight. Murmur and the warlock boss of SH are two that come to mind. I probably could have done them in tree form but didn't want to risk it. I was mainly regrowthing the tank just before the pull and then rejuv/3 stack of life bloom, topping off with regrowth when needed. NS + HT didn't need to be used too often thankfully. Usually pulled aggro from an offtanked mob if that happened. I'd start out healing the easier heroics first before trying anything like SH or SL with the amount of adds they have, unless you're running with a huge amount of CC and/or a pally tank for the add control. |
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| Darckence | #275096 Monday December 17, 2007 at 16:16 | |
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I actually did a PuG heroic Slave Pens on my warrior with a resto druid healer with (I kid you not) +450 healing. My warrior is pretty well geared for heroics, and I think I died like 4 times (and used a lot of shield wall / last stand / healthstones / potions :p), but we got 'er done, even if it was messy as hell. When I healed heroics on my druid I generally stayed out of tree form while I was gearing up (although admittedly I did most of my heroic-ing before Lifebloom was fixed to stack properly). While I wasn't super well geared I found a lot of bosses (and even some trash mobs) hit too hard for HoTs, but lifebloom stack + HT spam works pretty well when you don't have a lot of +heal. My basic strategy when undergeared was wait a second for the warrior to do a thunderclap / demo shout for initial aggro, cast Rejuv, start casting HT, let HT land (or Swiftmend / NS if things look bad), and start stacking Lifebloom if possible, if too much incoming damage, keep spamming HT, keeping up Rejuv where you can (for swiftmend). If you're overgeared or there isn't a lot of single target damage, tree form, stack lifebloom and refresh rejuv. --
Livueta ~ Hunter Ameranthe ~ Warrior Darckence ~ Druid |
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| sigsegv | #275112 Monday December 17, 2007 at 17:17 | |
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As a feral druid, I find 800-900 +healing ok for heroics and I generally run into hps issues with multiple targets rather than mana issues so I don't worry about mp5. In a heavy fight I will pop innervate proactively tho. That is with khan or sen tanking shattered halls tho, ymmv.
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| Dalamaris | #279147 Tuesday January 22, 2008 at 13:30 | |
Feral Dr00d! |
I have +984 healing and around 120 mp5. Is this good enough to heal heroics and main heal kara? Or should I stick to off healing for now in kara until I get better gear? Btw I switched to resto for my 2v2 team and now we have been winning more so I guess its good lol. I do plan on going back to feral though so I will get the S3 gear and the T4/5 tokens will all be feral. The heroic badges and kara will be priority healing gear though sense I got most of the feral gear from that stuff (unless we are doing illhoof. then ill save my points for the hentai staff >.>). EDIT: Resto druid healing is OP in 2v2 arena even with the healing gear I have lol. --
Dalamaris:70 Feral Druid Tannar:32 BM Hunter (work in progress) Avinda:26 Affliction Lock (work in progress) Rasac:22 Enhancement Shaman (work in progress) ---- Watch those dps charts rogues! They hurt! http://darklegacycomics.com/39.html |
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| Kreallana | #279168 Tuesday January 22, 2008 at 14:03 | |
Quantum Kittie Heavenly Healz |
quote: Originally posted by Dalamaris: I have +984 healing and around 120 mp5. Is this good enough to heal heroics and main heal kara? Or should I stick to off healing for now in kara until I get better gear? Btw I switched to resto for my 2v2 team and now we have been winning more so I guess its good lol. I do plan on going back to feral though so I will get the S3 gear and the T4/5 tokens will all be feral. The heroic badges and kara will be priority healing gear though sense I got most of the feral gear from that stuff (unless we are doing illhoof. then ill save my points for the hentai staff >.>). EDIT: Resto druid healing is OP in 2v2 arena even with the healing gear I have lol. As a spec'd healer, it may work ok for you... If all your people are in low level gear, it might be tight in the later fights like Prince...but my concern there isn't so much the +heal as the mana regen. In my opinion, and it's just that, 120 is a bit low for main healing; but, then again...it's been a long, long time since I strolled into KZ with new gear and fresh peeps. Anyway - others will have much better input, but I think if you are going with a reasonably well geared tank, and people familiar with the fights, it would be totally doable. A little more difficult, but potentially doable with people fresh to the instance...and a couple of solid off healers. --
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| Kreallana edited this message on Tuesday January 22, 2008 at 14:51 | ||
| Dalamaris | #279244 Wednesday January 23, 2008 at 01:20 | |
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Feral Dr00d! |
Well I'm running with my guildies and we basically we have KZ on farm. Still a little bumps but most of the ppl are familiar with the instance. Well I'm not familiar with it as a healer but I learn quickly. And they are pretty well gear so I think I'll be ok.
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| Claggy | #287974 Friday March 14, 2008 at 10:04 | |
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Hello! I also don't think MP5 is too much of a problem in heroics, the +healing definitely makes a difference. With a decent geared group who knows what they are doing, around 1300 +healing would be a nice number for a smooth run. One thing to know is about the mobs that are in packs of 2, usually guarding some sort of doorway, who hit extremely hard. It's good to know what mobs those are, and to be ready for them. An example would be the Ravengaurds in Sethekk. For those it is good to throw a rank 10 regrowth on the tank right before he pulls, as long as he has full hp and is a tank that can keep aggro over early HoTs (which they should be able to) for when he pulls and starts to take damage. |
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