Warning for Ribeye: General Idiocy

◊ Kaubel · 04/22/08, 8:40 AM

Post: [Druid] Raiding as a Tree
User: Ribeye
Infraction: General Idiocy
Points: 0

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Don't use "lol" please.

Original Post:

Lol Lairpie. Ya know all this time, reading this thread and responding I had sort of begun to think of you as the anti-me as far as healing went. You are of course knowledgeable and a great druid, but your style always seemed counter to mine in that you performed the role of druid as a raid leader might expect it to be played, perhaps even how the designers of our class expect it to be played. But now I see we really aren't that different. In a given fight we might heal completely different but I'm willing to bet we'd produce about the same numbers, just arrive at them a completely different way.

Since I changed guilds recently, I have begun to change my perspective a little bit on druid healing as well. In my old guild, the shamans were not quite as strong as people in threads like this always referred to, and so I was forced to become a certain type of healer to make up for that weakness. On the other hand, our paladins were always extremely strong, and so maybe it was "growing up" with this guild that made me the oddity I am, and yet I think it made me a stronger healer over all.

Now that my new guild has very strong shaman raid healers, I can see why it would be easy to slip into a pick 3 lb target druid and just spam that, but thats not who I am, and the guild already has one druid that is very good at that. In fact, I would argue, that no guild needs 2 druids that heal exactly the same way because if they do, they are simply splitting healing done on the meters by dropping LBs on all the same targets when it really isn't neccessary.

Which brings me to the point of this post, and something we haven't talked about in this thread as of yet. Druid synnergy. We all know that two resto druids tends to be the standard template for a 25 man raid force these days. Now of course there are certain fights where both druids stacking hots on the MT is a good decision, but I would argue that those fights are a rarity, so how best do both druids define their role within a raid, and is it even something that can really be thought out in advance? Lairpie mentioned that most of what his companion druid did was intangible, and I would argue that maybe that intangibility was being strong in spots where he was weak, and vice versa. Is the synnergy of two druids even worth mentioning, or do you just heal around the other druid and hope it happens?

For my part, I think the standard LB rolling druid *is* an important part of a guild and yet I realize that I will never be that druid. That makes it easy for me to be me and do tons of raid healing and proactive healing, and yes, spam regrowth.