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Druid Guide, Part 4: Healing
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terrasol
It would be great to get armor suggestions for pre-Kara and heroic, similar to the suggestions for beark tanking.
Great job!
Terrasol
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pelf
When I'm tanking, I just adapt my placement to the abilities of the group. I find that generally healers won't move regardless of what I'm doing (amusingly), so I get to put the mobs wherever I want.
As a healer ... I'll usually stand on top of a mage or a hunter, if they're in the group. Failing that ... I just kind of do what I do as a tank, but in reverse. Depending on the group composition and their apparent ability to multi-task and be situationally aware I'll shift where I stand and how much attention I give things that aren't health bars.
I'm not sure there are any rules for this -- more just guidelines. I think you covered the things that are worth considering. Knowing what options are available to the other members of your group is as important to planning positioning as anything is.
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skarrde
Sweet read. Might want to mention the trinkets and pots that you can take to reduce aggro. Planning on farming those as soon as I hit 70 with my healer.
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Celdhyrean
Positionning : depends on the group composition really IMO. If there's a mage for nova for example i'd really recommend staying with him (actually i'd recommand the mage to stay with the healer, but that's another problem).
HT ranks : i personally used to use the rank 4 as my lowest healing touch rank. It resulted in ~1k heal (which seemed a good enough minimum value) and takes .5s less to cast than the higher ranks, which made it a good spell for topping dps efficiently (if i have the time to worry about that) or healing a tank that's not taking much damage.
Nowadays I'm either balance or tree so i don't get to use it that much, though it's still in my bars.
Still, levelling druids or HT druids might want to consider using it.
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hezec
Looks like a very good guide to me, thanks for taking the time to write something so in-depth. I have one small correction to make, tho: You actually need two clicks/presses to cast NS+HT no matter what kind of macro you make. That's just how Blizz limits macros but you might want to correct it anyway. Also, the /cancelform isn't really necessary as you unshift automatically nowadays (unless you for some reason have the option turned off).
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Celdhyrean
You actually need two clicks/presses to cast NS+HT no matter what kind of macro you make.No, I can certify that I have a macro that gets me out of tree form and casts an instant HT on my target in just one click.
(but i don't remember how it's written :/)
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hezec
/cast Nature's Swiftness
/cast Healing Touch
Will go off in one click, though it does require you to be standing still when you do it.I have a macro like that and it certainly requires two clicks... Altho it could be caused by moving if that affects it, because I usually use it on the run in pvp or when the tank didn't notice I was afk for a while and pulled waaay ahead.
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Celdhyrean
About the "hot's ticking only once or twice per refresh" : that's true for raids, but I think the philosophy behinds them in raids is also quite different from normal healing.
The HoT's are there to provide an additionnal fast ticking health buffer for the tank, which is mainly usefull on hard hitting fights with big spike damage. Or on fights where the hots are enough to keep the tank up, but that's rarely the case againt raid bosses.
Big heals are spiky by the nature of the cast (pre-casting and all that mitigates it somewhat, but it'll still be like that), and we provide the cushion that helps mitigate that spikiness (with added instant healing through swiftmend when it gets really rough).
I'm T4 geared (regarding healing gear) at 1700 +heal, and i can provide a tank with ~1200 HPS per second (average) of which 800 do really tick each seconds. On Karathress (healing the chaman tank), all of my hots where ticking quite often.
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pelf
~1200 HPS per second (average)
Is that like please PST? Sorry, sorry...
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Celdhyrean
PST ? If it's anything like "hoho, i'm good, look at my gear", then I actually consider myself as an averagely geared raiding druid (regarding healing) :)
My purpose was more to show what power our hots can pack, even if they don't produce big number or even without having the gear for the level of the fight i was at.
Sorry if it came out as bragging.
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pelf
Sorry, I was being an ass, before.
"1200 HPS per second" = "1200 heals per second per second"
"please PST" = "please please send tell"
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