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Merowlin
I've been a resto Druid since the dawn of time. Take it from me, Don't use Lifebloom.
Let's put it this way: Use it when the situation calls for it (like you do with a Nature's Swiftness macro).
Like said above, Healing does not have a rotation, there's no such a thing. But that's not to say that healing is hard or complicated, it can be very easy. The good part about being a Druid is, there's a lot of choice on how to heal, after a while you will feel what is most effecient in regards to your mana pool.
Read the situation, adapt. If the tank is taking heavy damage, Regrowth, Lifebloom, Rejuvenation, Wild Growth, and just spam Regrowth and renew the other hots. If there's no damage spikes (big health drops from the tank) try to sqeeze Healing Touch on him from time to time, otherwise use Regrowth and Rejuvenation and have them tick him up. If the party is taking aoe damage, Wild Growth and Rejuvenation should cover it.
Once you reach 80 and start off with Heroics, you'll have Nourish, so the whole healing thingy turns into a Rejuv+Nourish combo on everything (this is after 3.1, before you could play around with a different setup, now it's pretty... dull) well that, and an occasional Regrowth / Wild Growth.
In raiding, I don't know what it's like right now in Naxx, but a HoT build is probably the best option. In Ulduar, so far, I haven't decided what is best, there's just to much heavy damage all over the place so HoT:ing just doesn't cover it anymore T_T (with 4 pieces tier 8 things might go half way back to normal).
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Celdhyrean
The thing to learn when druid healing is to be able to anticipate on incoming damage, wether on tanks or other group/raid members, since it's quite easy for us to put some premptive heals on someone which might save the day 5-10s down the road.
For tank healing, just keep the mixture of hots that you feel confortable with in order to keep the tank topped off, and if not enough use some direct heals additionally.
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shadow7778
Take it from me, Don't use Lifebloom.
This. I respecced healing at 80, not having healed before in my life. I started to stack Lifebloom three times on the tank and saw that I went OOM really fast. Since then, I've cut it out of the spells I use and haven't had a problem since. Just keep Rejuvenation and Regrowth up when needed, add in the Nourish if its needed, and Wild Growth for AoE damage. Druid heals are so easy, a DK could do them.
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ignis86
lifebloom is still viable... you simply have to let them bloom when they hit a 3 stack... i have the same healing rotation i did before... just let it bloom every 3x.
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Blunderbuss
i have had to use innervate very few times in my healing career and i have yet to run completely dry on mana
if you let it bloom, it sets you back very little mana
guys, it costs 978 mana, you gain 489 mana back
in tree form it costs 733 mana with 2 piece t7
thats 244 mana set back after it blooms
thats less than the rejuvenation with the idol
if im not topped off on mana at the end of the fight, im almost always damn close within 10 seconds after the fight ends when my lifeblooms go off
gernally i prefer hots until they arnt enough and then i throw in swiftmends or nourishes on the tank
on party i prefer hots to top off casually, nourish to top off quickly, wild growth to help with aoe damage
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Merowlin
lifebloom is still viable... you simply have to let them bloom when they hit a 3 stack... i have the same healing rotation i did before... just let it bloom every 3x.There is no way you can anticipate when the tank will take damage, so having 3 stacks bloom over and over again will only waste your time, considering ~70% of your healing is overhealing (overhealing is only ever good for druids if it's a critical heal).
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Anile
IMO, the best way to learn how to heal is to que up a lot of BG's. They are always happy for anyone to heal and will teach you how to learn to heal on the fly in an uncontrolled environment.
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ignis86
There is no way you can anticipate when the tank will take damage, so having 3 stacks bloom over and over again will only waste your time, considering ~70% of your healing is overhealing (overhealing is only ever good for druids if it's a critical heal).
ok i don't know how you have issues but i don't find it hard to wait to restack my lb stack after its bloomed... its doing the same healing as just keeping it rolling + giving mana back + the possibility of the heal having been needed... in fact i find it EASIER to let it bloom and then restack it than to keep a count and keep it rolling like i used to... its +easymode.
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