Comments on: Healing of What Flavour?! – Questions and Answers!

By: Circle of Healers Take Two! « Falling Leaves and Wings

Circle of Healers Take Two! « Falling Leaves and Wings — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:42:25 +0000

[...] been about a year and a half since I participated in answering Miss Medicina’s Circle of Healing questionnaire. In fact, it’s been so [...]

By: My turn in the Circle of DPS! « Tusks!

My turn in the Circle of DPS! « Tusks! — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:12:19 +0000

[...] The Dark Side calls. My turn in the Circle of DPS! November 14, 2009 Yes, yes, the healers were first, mon. Then came the meatshields. Apparently, I am even late to the DPS party by a few [...]

By: Kae

Kae — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:05:00 +0000

I think it’s just a part of druids’ pre-emptive healing style: we fret when someone starts to drop, and feel like we have to go prevent it from happening.

Pug healers let my rogue die I stood in a corner and bandaged myself once, without ever getting a heal. I wanted to smack them. The healers all claimed they were just tank healers, and therefor they didn’t need to heal anyone but the MT/OT. From that point on, I’ve never trusted a pug healer I don’t know, heh.

By: Lath

Lath — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:40:48 +0000

Cheers for the shout out Beru I don’t know about you but I am loving reading all the different resto druid responses to this questionnaire! It’s amazing that considering we all start out with the same arsenal the answers are so varied and unique.

By: Zigi

Zigi — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:29:33 +0000

Hey Beru-

In response to your question on my blog; prior to 3.2 I cast LHW all the time, and never cast Healing Wave. However, after they changed Water Shield so I don’t have mana problems ever, and they changed Tidal Waves so it doesn’t reduce the cast time for LHW now.

Keep in mind that I cast CH and Riptide enough that I am never casting HW without the Tidal Waves buff. With my levels of haste, the cast time differs by about .15 seconds, which is almost a non-issue to me. Remember that also, with the Tidal Waves buff, Healing Wave is going to get over 200% of your spellpower added as the coefficient; by comparison Lesser Healing Wave gets less than 100%, even with the Tidal Waves buff.

LHW – with its increased crit and lower mana cost, this is great for fights with mana concerns.
HW – with it’s high healing, this is great for throughput.

So there are definitely situations where it is appropriate to use LHW instead of HW; but the tradeoff is just mana efficiency, which just hasn’t been a problem for me since 3.2. I’d rather be a little inefficient, and get my large nuke heals off; even if they overheal, they cause a nice little splash heal with Ancestral Awakening, which is pretty nice as well.

To answer your other question, I’ve stopped using the glyph of LHW ever since 3.2 for the reasons I mentioned above. I glyphed for CH- even though this is probably a waste in 10 mans, it makes me feel not useless when I do 25 mans.

I don’t think that my way is necessarily correct, but it works for me; I like that resto has become very customizable recently– every resto shaman seems to have their own style that works for them.

I also love that Jessabelle’s little non-meme has started this great dialogue between all these healing bloggers!

By: sushicookie

sushicookie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:08:17 +0000

“I am often guilty of trying to do too much, and not trusting others on my healing team to do their part. It is quite honestly my biggest flaw as a healer. ”
I know whatcha mean there. And I’m constantly nervous on non-healing toons expecting someone’s gonna let me die. lol

Hi back.