First Raid Night Back (Holy Tranquility)
I was fortunate enough to have a raid spot open back up in my fantastic guild. Going into last night I was a little bit nervous. I hadn’t healed a non PuG raid since 4.0.1 and I stopped raiding before learning a lot of the hard modes so I was really afraid of doing something dumb and wiping the raid. The good news is I didn’t do something dumb and wipe everyone. However looking over my parse breakdown, I’m pretty unhappy with my overall performance.
Above is my WoL parse from last night. I have several observations.
- Absolutely shocked that Tranquility was in my top 3 healing output wise for the night. I’m really liking the new Tranquility
- Not casting Regrowth nearly enough
- Doing a hideous job keeping Lifebloom up
- Not remembering to Swiftmend on every cool down
- Obviously not using Nourish to refresh Lifebloom. One Nourish cast the entire night. Seriously!?
I guess the main thing that I can take away from last night is that I’m doing a very poor job adjusting to the “new” style of Druid healing. Also, I think I only remembered to use ToL one time the entire night.
I definitely have some things to work on.
I wouldn’t feel too badly about not using Nourish. I find it much more efficient to refresh Lifebloom with another LB, Nourish just takes too long. Regrowth, on the other hand, is awesome and could definitely be used more.
I’m finding it hard to remember to use Tranquility on every fight. I’ve ignored it for so long.
I wouldn’t worry much about Nourish. It doesn’t really fit into our healing right now, and we aren’t mana constrained.
As for remembering Lifebloom, I made a poweraura to tell me when didn’t have one running. I also made one for swiftnend as well – but I think you are swiftnended more than you think you are, if I recall your efflorescence healing was fairly regularly higher!
As for regrowth, I’ve taken to using it where I might have used nourish before…and during tree of regrowth. However, I probably don’t use tranquility enough!
I wouldn’t be overly concerned about “new” healing styles right now, the content and health pools just don’t give a lot of leeway for too much!
Druid healing: I use nourish all the time because it doesn’t require much mana to use. I have reforged all spirit into haste on every part of my gear and have filled all gem sockets with intellience. I am looking forward to get some higher gear, but I am satisfied with the progress, everything has become easier, though it is still difficult.
/salute