Is resto druid healing about same as in cata? Throw out rejuvs, keep wild growth/swiftmend on cd and fill in with ht/regrowth? Can't push out all that much healing atm :[
My druid is currently at 374 which is 20 ilvls less than my monk. Sure it's quite a big difference, but are druids really that far behind monks? (no we have't raided with a single resto druid in our 25 man hc guild in mop).
They are pretty far ahead, but that will change in a couple weeks with 5.1. They will still be slightly ahead, but lack any utility whatsoever.
I wasnt behind my monk who has 4 ilevel more than me, we are kind of even, but it might be that he's still learning. Now when it comes to Holy palas, those thins are beasts right now, talking 45-47% healing done in pvp gear, its really horrid to see you pump out your heals and see you get destroyed by a paladin using only instants and hots because of an OP PvP set bonus. Mind you its okay to afk then :P
Sorry for my english !! for years a go , i read everything about my pjs in this forums , but never try to active on it because the language , but now i have serius problems...
we are in 2/6 10 normal....
479 ilevel..... resto , at 50 % of the boss life my mana is tottaly out ...... i spam wg, lifeblom, renew, ..... i dont know what i doing bad
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Monks are very far ahead, and on some fights, are incredibly far ahead. Druids aren't too far behind, but in terms of raw throughput, are probably only ahead of Priests.
As you start getting more gear so you get more spirit and spell power, you'll notice your numbers shoot up.
I've been shedding spirit lately, actually. I've slowly been getting up to about 9200 spirit just from ilevel upgrades. Got two new pieces this week I started using with no spirit on them at all and have dropped back down to about 7600 spirit and am doing better than ever. I'm at 490 ilevel currently with 4 piece 496 tier. My heals are hitting really hard now with rejuvenation ticks with harmony up going for 23-24k non crit. I have about 9000 mastery raid buffed. Still have a bunch of crit I can't seem to get rid of, though (~1100 rating).
AOE healing is getting to be quite nice indeed, and very sustainable. Between WG at 10 seconds, Shrooms at 10 seconds and Swiftmend at 12 seconds and minimal heals otherwise I can sustain good healing output (not sure exact value, but around 35-40k hps) and be basically mana neutral. On heroic Kings I give away all my innervates to my co-healer, a shaman since I sit at 100% mana the entire first sub-boss and rarely drop below 75% the rest of the fight. I'm starting to consider reforging out of spirit, but I haven't done any real moves towards that yet.
Read the guide?
Just for your info if you are going out of mana you should not be casting wild growth on cooldown. Only when it really is needed. It may be true that it doesn't cost a lot of mana per healing done but it certainly still costs a lot per spell. You do not have to spam your best spells all the time. Heck if you are out of mana and there is not a lot of healing to do you can just stop casting all together and dont do anything besides keeping lifebloom up, swiftmend on cd and using regrowth/healing touch on procs.
The most important thing as a restro druid is to count on your HoTs. Let them do their work. A target with a rejuvenation does not need any additional healing for the most part.
To be frank, he didn't really give you helpful advice. All of our heals (except RG) are fine to use as long as they don't overheal. As you get more experience with the different fights, you can better plan your spell and cooldown usage so you minimize mana spent while keeping the raid up.
Rejuv is good to put out a high amount of healing to a number of targets, or when you need a low execute time heal on someone. Use WG when it won't mostly be overheal. RG to spot heal, HT if you can afford it. etc. etc. et cetera.
You really shouldn't be "spamming" anything. Use whatever is best to use in the given situation.
No helpful advice? Did you see his initial post with almost no information or logs to check what he's doing wrong? Did I say anywhere that a particular spell is bad?
Many druids are still stuck in RJ blanketing mode from pre-MoP, even when 70+% will overheal and this seems to be the most common reason among people who complain they're going oom 50% into a fight.
Last edited by Ashrr; 2012-11-24 at 01:18 AM.
Ashr
very helpful guide thanks a lot.
Maybe add the trinkets from the Dominance Offensive faction to the trinket list? Pretty nice ones.
Great Resto guide! Thanks for the info!
How much haste is too much haste? This guide and many others have confused me "Here, Look at this deep mathematical algorithm chart to figure out your haste cap" Like...what percent?
Right now I am sitting at 9.98% Haste OR 4.242 haste, For 10 man healing.
Don't look at percents, it's misleading.
If you get the 5% haste buff from your raid you either want 3043 or 6652. Nothing in between, less, or more. If you use Soul 5730 is the breakpoint you want to get. The 2nd isn't worth the stat loss yet.
If you don't get 5% haste in your raid, whine to your raid leader because that's a huge buff you're missing. You want 5320, the second one isn't worth the stats.