Bringing HoTs Back!

So there are many different ways to heal as a druid. Pretty much it depends on what your assignment is.

Raid healing: For the most part a druid will always be on the raid. Only in extreme circumstances will a druid ever be on a Main tank.

This consists of throwing out Wild Growth on every cooldown and casting Rejuvenation as much as you can within the WG 6 second cooldown. Every now and again if someone does not get a bigger heal from a priest of shaman you can throw a Nourish up.

GLYPHS
Glyph of Wild Growth
Glyph of Nourish
Glyph of Swiftmend

With these, your WG hits an addition person, if you need to quickly heal someone, Swiftmend can be used without taking off a HoT and Nourish also heals for extra when there are multiple HoTs on a player.

If you are MT healing, which should be rarely, throw up all your HoTs and then Nourish spam until you need to refresh your HoTs. Lifebloom you do not really have to use, just Regrowth, Rejuventation and Wild Growth.

I did not do the math to prove this, but I find this healing method to be effective.

New Raiding

Ok so my guild, Is Being Repressed has started raiding again! YAY! And even though I did not go to the first night (as I was not 80 yet), I did go to the second night.

There we attempted the Construct Quarter of 25 man Naxxramas. So I am not going to go through all of the bosses that we did, and if you are curious you can follow the link and look at the different strats for each of the bosses. I found that depending on my healing assignment I could heal a few different ways.

Now I am going to give a little background on my spec and my glyphs. My spec is on the Armory so you can go look under Cusper on Muradin but here it is anyway: Cusper's Spec. The other things that are attributed to my new way of healing are the glyphs that I am currently using. I am currently using:

Glyph of Regrowth
Glyph of Innervate
Glyph of Swiftmend

So while I was healing I noticed a huge difference in the style of my healing as a glyphed Regrowth and with the new spell Nourish.

So my rotation ended up being throw a Lifebloom and Rejuvenation on the tank for some first heals, then cast Regrowth and spam Nourish with some more LBs still in there to get to the 3 stacks. I use grid with colors that change depending on how much time is left on a HoT so I can time my casts so that Regrowth is never off the tank.

And now with the Glyph of Swiftmend I can have some burst healing without having to recast on of my other HoTs. Something to also mention is that Swiftmend can use any Druid's spells not necessarily your own. The other resto druid in my guild, Kelar and I figured that out one day when we both realized that we had probably been Swiftmending each other's spells. So now that they do not consume a HoT, then we both do not have to reapply our spells.

So in a nutshell, I use my instant casts, Rejuv and LB first, then cast Regrowth, LB, Nourish, LB, and continue with each spell when they run out until burst healing is needed then and then I can use Swiftmend, or Nature's Swiftmend, Healing Touch.

So now that I have done my main tank healing spell rotation, the only thing you really need to remember for raid healing is Wild Growth. You can rejuv and swiftmend for quick heals, but mainly Wild Growth.

So continue questing, and raiding, and have a Delicious Day!