Still working on the gear, I received 2 X T7.5 this week. and being the only druid in the raid I have also got 5 or 6 other peices of 25 man gear last 2 weeks.

I like all the ideas posted here, I feel some times that a player makes each class thier own based on what they read and how they like to play. That being said I haven’t been able to HT much, I spec’d into it for 1 week and I was bottom of the healing with it.

HOTS are the druids life line, I use “Idol of Awaking”106 mana savings on rej.

Wild growth was insane if you understoon it before the nerf. it woudl heal yor target and 4 closest to him that are hurt for 1500 hps. cast it on someone standing on the other side of the room and it would heal that guy and 4 friends. in a raid with 25 people they spread out, I just hit the tank every time I updated his HOTS. and I would hit the caster taking any damage and rej him, I also would put hots on locks so they could tap. I might run out of mana??? yeah right.

Tank healing:
Hot the tank, hot the 3 dps I know are going to take damage from the aoe, hot the off tank, use my swiftmend and maybe a nouish to save the odd member of the raid and when the boss goes crazy on my MT I drop all hots on him, rej, reg, WG, LB, and nourish / swiftmend untill he’s safe again. MT healing isn’t much different then raid healing for me except I spend a little more time watching him. unless he’s getting really owned. 37K tanks are easy to keep up with 6000 hps a tick healing. switftmend proc’s crits for 11K and nourish crits for 7500 to 8000 and puts living seed doing another 30% of that. (2500 ish)

rej is 2K a tick and lasts 17 sec’s, it’s hard to think I would use HT a 1 sec cast for 5000 hps @ 1000 mana vs isnta cast rej at ? 12000 hps @ ??? 500 mana.
Never looked at the numbers really in detail, I know I’m not going to be a HT’er

I like HT but I find the time spent casting sucks, and some fights when you get 300% spell casting slow; If someone doesn’t tell me we have the Debuff I wouldn’t know. rej, lb, wg, and if needed I wil Reg to add. Natures Switfness macro with /cast regrowth under it rocks. insta or slow cast regrowth button.

Swiftmend is Free healing with a glyph that costs nill casting / mana

My best experince so far: (last night)
last night my guild and another guild have joined forces for the first time to run 25 man nax, it will (tonight) be my 2′nd full clear.
Last night we had 1 pally healer , 1 cleric , 1 druid (me). 1 tank for spider wing; 2 tanks and 2 dk’s pretending to be tanks in the 2′nd wing (? 4 horse). We are 10 man nax geared raid, and some guys were fill-in’s (greens and blues) and we still cleared 2 wings with 3 healers in about 2.5 hours.

I’m not sure if I”m good at healing but we managed what http://www.tankspot.com says we should have 7 healers to complete. The 4 horse men was a real challange, we had another priest show up to help (thank god) because we had to have 4 tanks (2 pallys healing themself) and 4 healers spread out. On our 3′rd attempt I went to the back; because I can HOT both tanks to help, and both our tanks were pallys back there they healed themselfs the whole 1’st part of the fight. we downed him with 4 healers 3 tanks, and one DK. our DPS was higher for the night which helped greatly, first boss went down before raid had 3 debuffs.

With 5 healers I do 30% of the healing, last nigth I did 30% of the healing. I don’t understand why in a 25 man raid when you go from 5 healers to 3 my HPS didn’t go up. I heal anywhere from 1600 HPS when the raid isn’t getting hurt. to 3200 hps when we’re in trouble. each rej ticking on about 12 memebers when we’re taking major aoe damage is 24K a tick, and wild growth on top of that = good chance to make it. throw in oh crap Swiftmend and nourish and isnta regrowths I should do more then 3K hps?

Sorry for the really long thread, if you read it I would love to hear more about this.
Nice thread here and I hope it continues.
/cheers and happy Life For U

@Imalinata: in my old guild I used to innervate the mages. Somehow, they’re not calling for it these days, maybe because they’re not specced arcane. In all seriousness, since Mallet went discipline no one has asked for my innervate. That might change when the content gets harder, or different. As hard as Sarth 3D is, it’s not all that hard on mana, probably because of all the running time. If I could still WG spam I’d probably be going OOM, but as that’s not an option? Sarth 3 seems fine without an innervate either on me or the priests.

SuicidalPriests last blog post..Owned

Now with the changes the only boss fight where Wild Growth was less than 20% of my total healing was Patchwerk. I don’t cast Wild Growth on Patchwerk.

I also keep my HoTs stacked on the main tank all fight every fight. I raid heal while doing this because I can. This is what I enjoy, but on Sapphiron I force myself to play different because raid healing is so important on that fight. I also double everyone elses healing on Sapphiron. My trick is to cast Rejuv on the raid. I cycle through my in range raid members and put up a Rejuv on each of them in order, and I continue until Rejuv falls off the first person in group 1. I only cast Wild Growth when I am chiling behind the ice block. Last attempt I did 28% of the healing with 6 healers present doing this.

The moral of the story is that Druids are very versatile, and all of their healing spells are viable and efficient.

As for the innervate glyph….

/gasp

You actually get to use your innervates on yourself? I love the innervate glyph because I finally get some benefit from innervate. It’s a rare occasion that I need it myself but the glyph is a nice bonus when someone else needs it and I would only get a little of the benefit if I self-cast.