Comments on: Healing Valithria Dreamwalker as a Resto Druid

By: Janek

Janek — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:42:24 +0000

Good thing to remind – when in portal remember to keep your stacking trinkets/librams at top stack, I often forget about to do so, this can boost your heals a bit also.

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:09:45 +0000

From what I’ve been reading, nourish with full HoTs offers more throughput than HT everywhere except during bloodlust.

A couple of weeks ago I broke 26k HPS with my current build, utilizing 4 T9, and fully HoT’d nourishes.

That isn’t to say that the math I’m seeing is wrong, however, you can still be highly effective with a few gear and glyph changes and without the hassle of running a highly specialized spec just for this encounter.

By: Surloyn

Surloyn — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:57:33 +0000

Ive seen slightly higher numbers with Healing Touch spam than Nourish spam.

Drop your raid healing spec pic up all haste talents plus 5/5 Naturalist. With Wrath of Air and Boomkin/Ret this put my HTs around 1.5-1.6 range. Im working on a different trinket/gear scheme to try to drop that closer to 1 second without glyphing.

The results of 1.6ish HTs are to the tune of 85k Healing Touches and 25.5k HPS throughput

http://www.worldoflogs.com/reports/c58xzne9bgrquxog/sum/healingDone/?s=2297&e=2644

By: emcee

emcee — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:58:36 +0000

Do you have any advice for the heroic version? [btw - I love the amount of detail you put into your strategies!]

By: Lilli

Lilli — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:19:51 +0000

With “spam the macro” I mean “press the key five times”

By: Lilli

Lilli — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:18:33 +0000

Hi druid friends!

While we were trying Valithria in 10-man today I had a few problems. I have been assigned to heal the dragon while the other two healers were healing the raid.

I am normally keeping track of my HoTs durations on raid members via Grid, but it’s needless to say that Valithria won’t show up there. So I configured my focus frame to show the HoT timers. Everytime you enter the Emerald Dream your focus is lost and I noticed that it takes some time to set it again. Also I sometimes couldn’t manage to pop out of the dream near the camp. This meant that I had to walk to get back in the range of the other healers.

What helped a lot for this fight was a macro that I set up:
/tar Valithria
/focus
/castsequence [target=focus] Rejuvenation, Lifebloom, Lifebloom, Lifebloom, Swiftmend

So right after popping out of the dream all you need to do is to spam the key that you bound this macro to while walking back to the raid. After reaching your position you can start casting Regrowth and Nourish until the portals are open again.

Also don’t forget to use Nature’s Swiftness in combination with Healing Touch everytime it is available. Create a macro for this, too. (but most druids will already use this)

Hope this helps some lazy people like myself.

By: Shea

Shea — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:00:56 +0000

Thank you Beru! I’ll be sharing with my guild. I’m looking forward to doing this fight, though now I’m worried over the spatial issues. I do have problems on Maly… but the trick mentioned by Sunkist in comments about zooming in instead of out may be the fix I need. I’ll give it a shot, and maybe dig out my old fps games to give it a whirl.

By: Ooke

Ooke — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:26:29 +0000

I tried arguing the same point, a good healer who does not let their buffs drop off is more important than one class who’s supposedly “OP” for this fight. It doesn’t matter the class (well other than disc, preventing healing isn’t so hot on this fight compared to straight out HPS) Otherwise a raid without holy paladins would be irrevocably burdened by this fight. My favorite part is that paladins on this fight get at least 40% overheals as their primary target heal is usually 90% overhealed, nobody not even a tank will need a 90K heal. But I know some paladins that run in the 70-80% overheals department on some fights usually so this comes out low for them.

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By: Sunkist

Sunkist — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:21:20 +0000

Hey Beru, I absolutely loved this fight as well. My guild was fortunate enough to down it on both 10 and 25man and we definitely had a long night when we encountered her on 25man.

Here are a few things I noticed about the fight.
1) Druids really are good portal goers. I found that the druid mobility was extremely helpful for keeping a large amount of healing on the dragon. Once we’re teleported out of the dream world I’ll use that time to refresh RG, spot my next portal, then use my instants as I walk my way over to the next portal spot.

2) Our resto shammy was our highest healer on 25man. It took a little coaching since he’s used to raid healing but once he got the hang of his Riptide->HW spam->Riptide rotation his HPS soared. The only thing I noticed about him though was he had a bit of a problem hogging the dream world clouds which did stop some peeps from getting their last cloud pop right before exiting dream world >.<

3) We kept 2 healers outside at all times. We kept a Holy Pally and a Holy Priest and they were able to keep the raid up with little trouble until the end when the add spawn rate got a bit intense.

4) I actually zoomed my camera way in. As in almost first person shooter style. Especially with the 3D spacial aspect of the dream world I found it much easier to get on the same vertical level as the clouds if my camera was much closer to my toon.

5) I also had a problem with my combatlog parse for the night where it said we did around 30 attempts when we actually only did 10ish

Great writeup, lots of good info in there.