Shoot, I got off topic. The fact is, you are like me, in that you use quite a few add-ons. I know both of us will probably say we don’t, but in reality, we do. But we also have a very clean and succinct UI compared to most. And with that, comes major issues on patch days. My two biggest forms of advice are this; if an add-on is giving your crap, scrap it. You healed just fine without any of your add-ons in beta. If any of them are truly not helping you due to them being broken, then don’t use them. I know this seems like blasphemy, but in all honesty, it’s better to go in with mediocre settings than to go in with something brokn.

The other piece of advice, and I don’t know how you feel about this, is when testing out new add-ons or settings or even testing out not using one, hop into a BG. This will give you some practice with healing large numbers of people without it being completely faceroll (LFR) and having things come at you unexpectedly in an ever shifting environment.

Anyways, that’s just my two copper on the matter. Everyone is their own worst critic. And at the end of the night, you guys still cleared your raid. Whether you kill everything without a single death or there is only one person standing, a win is a win. And since you’ve already noticed your errors from the first week, you aren’t going to repeat them this week! Good luck tonight and please do a post for us so we know how everything went!

-Lala

I then had a chance to heal on my druid, in a 10 man DS run. I had only leveled her a couple of months ago when I realised we could glyph into being a treant again. (I love the treant).
I had only healed a couple of DS runs so I didn’t know how much she had changed, so I wasn’t stressed going into the run. But man did I have fun. I could run around & heal (love the hots) with my treant arms flapping away happily

I used the mushrooms, I found in places in Zonozz, after the ball was heading back the other way, when we were healed, I could put down the mushrooms & as soon as the ball hit my group again, bloom those shrooms. It didn’t heal the 5 of us up completely, but worked quite well with a swiftmend or lifebloom. I also used them when we were moving to the next eye tentacle, I would use lifebloom & as I was running to the next standpoint, I could put my shrooms down for an isntant heal when we all got there.
I found esp on madness I would lay them down before the blistering tentacles & the heamorrhage came out, when there was a lull, so I could use them along with the usual heals. But, as I said, I haven’t played this toon much at all, and don’t know how useful the mushrooms would be.

I’m glad you had a better run for you next run.

Thanks so much for your posts. I’ve referenced you blog for a guide for the resto druids in my guild. Your videos on how you healed the encounters have helped Now, I’m happy to be using them for my druid

In regards to what you were able to make work in Weak Auras last night.. Would you be willing to share the export strings if and when you get a chance? I spent some time this morning poking at it to no avail. Your shared strings might help some of us also get back on track.

Feel better, you. <3

I guess my biggest problem is that I’m a little weary of “having to make do” with a toolkit that has large gaps in it

I did do a second raid, where I opted to ignore the shroom, and felt both more comfortable as well as performed better.