Resto Druid QQ ThreadFollow

This, Mazra, is the kicker for me. If I choose to use my "big heals" like HT and Rejuv, my HoTs fall off; if i choose to HoT, my big heals don't come in. Either way it's death. And some of these heroic mobs hit like trucks, regardless of what color circle your tank is or is not standing in. I am just peeved - I know that for me personally a lot of the issue is gear, but still, I watch resto guildies that are rolling all purples face the same issues I do. It's just frustrating, seeing as Resto Druids seem to be consistently overlooked by Blizz.

Edited, Mar 24th 2011 12:31pm by Jemac89

Usually, resto druids are pretty op in the end of every expansion. Was like that in vanilla, bc and kinda in wotlk. Even more if you take arena/overall pvp in account.

So far, we are on par with most healers. It's just that the way to heal in this expansion is not attractive overall.
Though I like Chimaeron pretty much.

In general you'll want to try and stick to orange and purple gems when you deviate from red. They math out better in the end.



Also Wowhead gear thingy with Intellect and ilvl 325 as filters, it's a nice place to find upgrades. Feel free to play around with it a little.

For enchants I'd look at the armory links of various posters here. For example, myself, Brisin and Marza all have links; and that should give you some good ideas.

Also here's the EJ thread on resto druids. They can be a bit more high-level raiding focused then is relevant for you at this time. That's said you will never go wrong with what's written there, however from time to time you may not have the gear to pull it off. The treecalcs spreadsheet there is nice for putting things into the perspective of your gear level.

Apologies if you already knew any of that, was just covering all my bases.

Edit: re-did link

Edited, Mar 24th 2011 4:32pm by someproteinguy

Edited, Mar 24th 2011 4:32pm by someproteinguy

I hate healing on my druid now, mainly because like Mazra mentioned if you let lifebloom fall off you're heading down **** creek without a paddle. It just takes too much time to recover from that and it's time you don't have. I have struggled through healing a number of heroics for guildies (which for certain bosses I ended up making the ret paly switch to healing) and I do not have bad gear, 351 iLvl gemmed and enchanted, occasionally the melee get a little overzealous and pull agro but mostly when there are deaths it's my fault and I end up stressed at the end of the run because I know I'm not doing as well as I should be. We failed to down Chimearon last reset because we only had two healers signed so I had to go offspec healing and I sucked at it. My numbers looked fine on the meters but considering the other two healers manage fine when one of our main spec healers is there it was definitely my fault. I tried popping cds for the stack phase (managed to get a whopping 2 clearcasting procs while spamming LB on the raid with ToL up) but we ended up with people dead and me oom every try. Maybe with some more practice we could have got him down, but I don't feel happy making 9 people wipe because I need to L2P.

I also have a shaman (now 347 iLvl) and whilst I haven't done much healing on her the heroics I've done have gone much smoother even with less coordinated groups/lower dps groups. It's still not a cakewalk and I don't feel confident enough to try pug healing yet but I don't feel like I'm dragging the group down by being there and healing on my shaman is only moderately stressful whereas healing on my druid is up to OMFG why on earth did I think this was a good idea.

I also managed to get myself killed on Argaloth on my druid because I was so busy trying to keep people topped up and not lose my LB stack that I forgot to move out of the fire. I'm not saying druid is broken or that it can't be a good healer in the right hands, but for me it just seems to be too unforgiving to be worthwhile.

And there's my QQ done.

Thank you so much for this link, I just came back to the game, and after hitting 80 have no idea where to even begin gearing my druid. Ive read all the mumbo jumbo in regards to stat priority and such but this is awesome, if I could give you a green arrow I would.

Since you have your feral gear on, I dont know what to say, other than it need gems and enchants too =p

But I'm glad you are loving druids again.


You are more than welcome. =]

They do have Incineratus in their database. You have to check and uncheck things below. Pre-raid gear will list different things than Heroic Raid gear.

About the BiS list, you have some itens that are BiS by themselves, but when you take in account others slots and bonuses, they arent bis anymore.

Moonkin have several cases like that.

Edited, Mar 28th 2011 8:27pm by Brisin