Infraction for Eblisar: General Idiocy

Kaubel · 11/27/07, 8:08 AM

Post: Druid - Tree Concerns and Issues
User: Eblisar
Infraction: General Idiocy
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

You've just replied to a 6-month old post. Grats.

And what's with....your obsession....with the ellipsis....

Original Post:

Hi there I main Heal for my raid guild on a regular basis, although I am a Balance druid, I ahve specced for best mana conservation and regen as well s some threat reduction and healing (19 resto I believe).

Originally Posted by Reachie

1: HOTs - I love HOTs, that's why I love healing on as a tree druid because my HOTs (mainly lifeblood and rejuvenation) cost basically nothing to cast, and heal for an amazing amount. My issue here is, on a fight like Morogrim (where I'm assigned solely to heal our MT) where it basically consists of me keeping regrowth/rejuv/3 stacks of lifebloom up on him at all times (where I swiftmend when he gets crushed, or hit/frost breath and NS/regrowth for emergency situations) and I'm noticing (healing meters anyways) that I'm dead last or close to it on a fight like that. I was looking over my combat log, and realized that around 75% of my HOT ticks weren't ticking at ALL meaning our tank would get hit hard and then be healed to full BEFORE any of my HOTs ticked (maybe 1 tick of life bloom, but thats it)

Now a fight like Fathomlord (where I solo heal our warrior tanking the frost bitch) my healing is so far past everyones it's amazing. Considering every single HOT is ticking for the full amount, the numbers (850 rejuvenation, 400 regrowths, and 620 life blooms) make me realize just how powerful a tree druid can be. I'm wondering, what do you guys do on fights like Morogrim where I'm having trouble getting a lot of healing (I know healing meters aren't perfect, but I enjoy using them as a tool for effort.

Okay let me start by trying to answer some of your questions about HoTs... They are fantastic, if you keep the MT topped up at all times then sure they will be wasted as they can only heal if he has health to heal. When you check the healing meter be sure to check over heal as well as effective heal this'll help get an idea about who is wasting most mana etc. The great thig about HoTs is they can help provide a little comfort zone for spike dmg. Spikes occur in general as a counter from a boss when the tank is blocked or parried. These hit hard and can take off a huge chunk of the tanks HP... For me the HoTS there serve as a buffer while I and the other healers cast our larger heals as fast as poss, for you its swiftmend time!. Sure Druids are fantastic Raid healers as they can spread the HoT love about the entire raid without burning too much mana.

Originally Posted by Reachie

3: Mana issue: Maybe since I'm not group with a shadow priest, this might be irrelevant if I am, but compared to our other tree druid, I always use my innervate on myself, where he always uses his on a priest.

In closing, maybe it's just the way our raid heals, but does anyone else see any improvements / concerns with the way I heal (or our raid heals) that might be able to improve the efficiency of not just myself, but the rest of the healers as well?

Personally my mana regen is now so good that I can throw my innerate on someone else. But in general I am put in a group with a resto shaman and his Mana tide Totem, awesome, again a shadow priest vampiric embrace works wonders too. I generally don;t stack 3 lifeblooms at a time. as the amount healed at the end doesn't change wether there are 1,2 or 3 lifebloom active.. the heal /tick however does. To save mana I apply one only at the start top up the lifeblooms as i see its needed. sometimes I will ahve to apply 3 lifeblooms, but most of the time I only need 1-2max

Originally Posted by Reachie

Has anyone thought about putting the 9 healing / 4 spirit gems instead of 9 healing / 2mp5 (just for tree benefit?) What are thoughts on that as well?

Hmmm.... Purified Shadow Pearl Vs Royal Nightseye... As a tree Druid Spirit is an important stat iirc you get +healing and mp5 from spirit.... What you need to work out is will that benefit more than straigh mp5...

Now if you use your innervate on yourself the starigh answer is the regen you will gain then will benefit far more from Spirit than straight mp5... however while in combat you may gain more regen from the mp5... so best to have a think over which overall will msot benefit... either getting more +healing and spi or more regen while casting... there is generally a balance between the two.

Hope this helps a little