Hey guys can’t let Blood get away with being the only class blogger so this just has to be done. I know you’ll know a lot of this already, but thought I’d write it to help out our up and coming raiders too.
You can get most of your gear now as we all know from the badges. Tier 9 from the leather vendor shop next to ally bank but only worth stacking 4 pieces and get the headpiece from the main vendors in Dalaran.
The same vendor will give you one of youre trinkets for healing, a nice cloak either from frost badges or downgrade badges a level for a good starting cloak. He’ll also supply you with some very nice rings if you’re in the marked for some shinies.
Forge of souls, Pit of Saron and Halls of Reflection will give you youre belt, boots, bracers, weapon off-hand and the crit trinket (last boss pos). OMG that must be us sorted !!
Great thing about being a tree even if you’re gear makes you look a bit strange you can’t tell you’ll always look great and be the grooviest dancer on the block……well at least till they remove our branches in expansion (so best not to go naked).
Stats yeah they’re the things we all love to hate. Well I stack Spellpower and Spirit(in that order) then Haste. Crit seem to be given to you in abundance on your gear….seems to work for me anyway. I dont gem or stack MP5 I just take what i get on my gear.
Major Glyphs: Wild Growth, Nourish and regrowth (or innervate if you’re struggling with mana regen) initially but once you have endgame gear and loads of haste rapid rejuvination is a great glyph to trade in (replace regrowth)
Minor Glyphs: unburdened rebirth and the other 2 are your choice
It’ll amaze you how much of a boost you can get by enchanting, glyphing and gemming well.
Druids are built as tank healers although they have a few tricks up their sleeves to aid the raid too. Spell rotation…hots hots and more hots get em on and keep em on the more the merrier. I normally stick Regrowth and Rejuvination on and Lifebloom helps if you remember. Then just spam Nourish and keep those hots topped up.
Wildgrowth is there to hit up to 6 targets if you buy into the glyph 5 if not. So you can put it on tank if he has a lot of melee in range or put it on yourself if there are more casters. It just helps top the raid up along with Tranquility, but don’t forget your other healers are there too. So if you’re on the tank initially focus on him the rest will come as you feel happy with your healing.
Dont leave you’re innervate until the last-minute if you think its gonna be a long fight get one in a bit earlier so it comes around again for you later. To be honest the beauty I find healing with my druid is that mana doesn’t seem to be the issue….unlike my priest but that’s a whole other blog.
Dont forget your raid mods I just can’t live without healbott especially if there is more than 5 in a group.
Deadly Boss mods a must for all raiders in general if you go to the information tab in Social there’s a lot of other information on useful websites and addons you might need to help the raid group.
For more ndepth info on druid healing try this link http://elitistjerks.com/f73/t88239-resto_pve_compendium_general_discussion/
If you’re really bored this is my pre cataclysm spec http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-talents.xml?r=Draenor&cn=Will%C3%B3w&gn=Lazarus. Hope it helps….found that boomkin as offspec is great for icc 10 as one of the bosses the raid drops down to 2 healers and needs a caster offspec, plus the gear is really easy to sneak a couple of pieces out and get a couple of pieces in to give you 341 in hit.