The Art of Healing on Heroic Mode?

WHAT, druid healing on heroic instances? Hell no…

Yeah druids healing at heroic are much gimped at the moment. But I’m sure the next patch we will get the chance to prove that we can as much do the same as other classes. Even with talent and such, our overall heals / efficient are still not as good as any other classes claim by people around. 1st of all, Healing Touch casting time is in 3sec with talent without talent is at a massive 3.5 sec cast time. So getting heals in fast are a big issue for us. Even with the fastest heals that we’re able to use are Regrowth which is at 2sec cast time, is not an efficient healing spell to used for over all duration.

The average heal on it is not as effiecient as Healing Touch, although the healing over time that comes together with it. Still not the best spell to be use over time in an instance. Unless you‘re talent are spec into Tree of Life, it might just cut it out. But still Healing Touch is the way to go, is slow but is good. There are ways to maximize the spell, one of them is to reduce the casting time on it. My current talent spec allows me to reduce the casting time by 0.5sec of the next spell after a critical cast. So that give me 2.5 sec cast time on Healing Touch. And on top of that with Scarab of the Infinite Cycle proc you should be able to reduce the cast time on Healing Touch to of 1.93 sec.

Is not hard to heal in heroic instances, is just that you’re group need to have good DPS. If not is going to be hard for you to actually last thru out the duration in combat. I always make sure that I start of my heals on the target with Regrowth then just spam away the Healing Touch. Recast Regrowth on target once it expired, rinse and repeat until you’re out from combat. You can combo together with Rejuvenation as well as Lifebloom, the healing over time is the bread and butter for druids healing. It really helps on buffering the Healing Touch cast time.

Macro Nature Swiftness with Healing Touch is another life saver in every situation. If you have Swiftmend you will have 2 instant cast ability with you.

Gruul this week was awesome, eated him on 1st attempt. High King Mulgar wasn’t that awesome, could have one shot him. As usual things get cranky when new people are in the raid, not to say that they suck or anything. I think they need to be on the toes at times on the things they need to be doing. Did not get the chance to upgrade any of my gears last week. Hoping for a wind of change this week, with patch day coming things can only get better I hope.