Catriona R
1/17/2012 5:40:00 PM
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:23:08 -0500, IYM <"S u nrisr"@optonline.net>
wrote:
>On 1/17/2012 9:48 AM, Catriona R wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:31:01 -0500, IYM<"S u nrisr"@optonline.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, this past week (and weekend) I did my basic, and ran all 4 of my
>>> ally toons through the new dungeons 6 times each, then through the first
>>> LFR raid...(gotta read up on the second so I know what I'm doing before
>>> I que up for that, but the first one is relatively easy) I've taken my
>>> Mage, rogue and DK through, but my druid was teh last toon I worked on,
>>> and I finally got both his dps and healing set up to min requirements
>>> for the LFR tool. So my new exciting thing for this week was taking my
>>> resto druid in to heal it. Overall,...some spikes here and there, but
>>> overall not too bad.
>>
>> I've only done it as healer and it's pretty fun, just spam my aoe
>> heals a lot lol.
>
>Resto druids don't have a lot of AoE heals....Have Wild growth (5 of the
>most seriously hurt get it), but have a lot of HoT's...So I ended up
>starting by getting 3 stacks of LB on the main tank, rejuv and regrowth
>running, swiftmend when it's up, and just kept them going...Then wild
>growth to the raid whenever it was up, and spot healed the rest as
>needed. On spikes, I healed through best I could, then tranquility to
>bring everyone up....Lather, rinse, repeat...
Thought you had whatever it is that puts that nice green circle on the
ground too (sorry, don't know the name :-)). I use Holy Word Sanctuary
whenever I think everyone's going to be hit by stuff (and often watch
my timing, since invariably everyone puts their aoe heals up at the
start of an aoe dmg phase and then there's none up for the rest of the
dmg - when that happens I save mine and put it up 10 sec after
everyone else ;-)), Circle of Healing on cd (much like Wild Growth
except not a hot) and Prayer of Healing on any groups that are
hurting. Add in Divine Hymn whenever people are getting aoed badly
(that thing is fantastic now, it's got a 3 min cd yet it's often my
top healing spell when I time it right!) and yeah, don't tend to have
to cast direct heals much; when everything's on cd I'll stick
renew/PoM/a greater heal on a tank but generally I'm aoe healing.
Which eats mana like heck but it's fun and effective.
>Hardest bit is not running out of mana, I usually do
>> by the ends of fights. Especially when the raid has a healer just
>> afk'ing through all the fights, and idiots keep chainpulling so we're
>> never out of combat long enough to get a votekick through, sigh (guess
>> what happened on my last run lol, having to do extra healing because
>> you're only 5 healers instead of 6 doesn't help the mana much!)
>
>Well, we had a chain-pulling tank as well...In fact, he didn't even let
>us bring up the 2 dps who went down (for standing in crap) on the last
>boss between the trash and boss. I never had mana issues...Was
>throwing out as fast as I could and never dropped below 50% (except
>where the mana void and those little blobs temporarily sucked it out of
>you)...Wonder if I should reforge for more haste? I finished in a
>respectable 4th in overall healing my first time in (1st was 19%, I was
>4th with 14.5%), so not shabby. Was in with 3 priests, me and another
>druid, and one pally heals. Preists were top 3 in heals, but also all 3
>were way tops in overheals, and not one of any heals except the two
>druids did any dispelling....Had 100 dispells between the 2 of us,
>roughly evenly split...Pally was bottom on everything...Not sure why. I
>was "just" in there with an ilevel of 372, so I'm not sure if he was
>akf, dps'ing or just not a decent healer....
I find priests usually are top in healing in my runs too, either me or
another priest. Our aoe healing capability is amazing at present which
helps a lot - the overheal will I bet be mainly from the amount of aoe
heals we do, since PoH and Sanctuary aren't "smart", they just heal
everybody. CoH and Hymn pick the most damaged so don't tend to
overheal much. The hardest bit is managing it so I don't just spam aoe
heals when they're not needed and run oom, I'm getting there, but
often need to give it everything.
Cant say I've ever notices much dispels needed tbh! 2nd boss (I think?
Might be 3rd) does something that hits a few at once so I mass dispel
that, but that's all I usually notice. Perhaps there's other abilities
which aren't magic/disease though, since I can't dispel
curses/poisons.
>> Looking forward to trying as dps for a change but none of my dpsers
>> are anywhere near the required gear lvl yet; I'll have to brave the
>> 5-mans first!
>
>Brave them! The lower ones are so nerfed right now, and as a dps, it
>doesnt matter if you are 3rd...who cares? Just don't stand in crap and
>your fine! :)
Hehe true, meaning the new 5-mans though :-) Theres often a difference
between healing something and dpsing it: dpsers have to know what mob
to hit first and so on, healers just have to react to stuff :-)
>> I've healed that trash a load of times and wasn't even aware that was
>> avoidable, seems to me like random hits on random people, unless I
>> missed something lol; I'll pay more attention next time (I do tend to
>> get tunnel vision on Grid on that trash since it is just whack-a-mole
>> trying to heal everyone fast), but I've been hit by it myself and
>> never seen anything there to avoid! If it is avoidable then I'll pay a
>> LOT more attention in future, I'd just assumed it was just a random
>> dmg to annoy the healers kinda deal :-P
>
>I could be unavoidable...I don't know. I've seen the stuff fly out and
>it looks like if your paying attention you can strafe to the side, but
>my GTFO didn't go off (because it's not somthing you stand in) so I
>really didn't think it was a big deal. Some people getting hit with
>that took them down 3/4. It usually oly hit one person at a time, so
>not *too* big a deal on heals, but if I can help by NOT getting hit, I'm
>sure they'd appreciate it..I know I would. :)
Hehe yeah, I go oom on that trash, and never on any other trash,
because I have to spam flash heal (expensive and inefficient, but
fast), since no aoe heals are any use when everyone's scattered on 5
different tentacles and there's never more than 2 people in the same
group who are damaged :-( I should probably switch to single target
chakra for that trash tbh, will try that next time.
>GTFO is my biggest friend next to DBM....esp as a healer. I get the
>buzzer going the split second before I start getting hit for standing in
>something, which snaps me out of my Healbot tunnel vision. lol
Hehe :-) I find DBM tends to yell at me about anything really bad,
luckily, it's rare I get caught out now, although I'll watch out for
that black stuff you mention!
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