druid heals?

[dubiox]

ok I need to get this team from 72 to 80: bear, tree, owl, owl, hunter. With my priest it is so easy to heal, I just have a button for each person on the team like /cast [@dodo] flash heal. Does anyone have a simple mana efficient click or castsequence macro for tree healing individual party members? (no nourish, need 80 for that right?) I am not used to this idea of HOTs...

Also, I only saw one AOE heal. Are there any others I missed?

Thanks
-K

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Mine is:

/castsequence [@<charactername>] reset=5 regrowth, rejuvenation, lifebloom, lifebloom, lifebloom

That keeps your most efficient/glyphable heals up front so you only get into the heavy healing if you keep pressing it.

If you're doing PVP or heavy movement fights, you might want to put regrowth on another button so you can spam hots while moving.

There are only two AoE heals for druids: Wild Growth and Tranquility.

[Ualaa]

Generally speaking, teams are usually melee heavy, with the healer at range... or caster heavy, with only the tank apart from the group.

Wild Growth, on the group is generally more then you need to top off against splash/aoe damage.

You can also do a round-robin type macro, which just rolls Rejunvenation on each toon.
There was a very recent thread for Power Word: Shield, and the macro would be the same.

[dubiox]

I forgot about tranquility. I don't think I'll be using it much. The wild growth looks nice though for my aoe button.

What do you think about throwing a glyphed swiftmend in there on the heal tank button, like before the lifeblooms or something. Just seems like against an elite I won't be able to wait around for hots. I'll play with both of these suggestions first.

Thanks!

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I never had to use my full OMG heals on my bear tank, even in heroics. I usually did regrowth, rejuv, LB, LB, wild growth, drop a hot on another toon to top off from random aggro, rinse, repeat. The tank was usually the least of my worries.

Everyone's experience is different, though. You can surely mix and match things depending on where your spec points/glyphs are.

[Ualaa]

I've always glyphed Swiftmend on my Resto Druids.
But honestly, its more about which HOTs you want to keep ticking.
Along with how often you'll Wild Growth.

[jimbobobb]

Copy pasted from another thread, these are the buttons I use...

I use a focus based system, where certain buttons will change who my healer is focusing. I then have oh shit buttons, simple buttons for casting each heal individually, and hots as well, but honestly don't really even use those.


Stuff I'm trying for the first time or boxing raids, basically non stop healing (not useful until you're 80):

/castsequence [ target=focus,nochanneling] reset=combat Rejuvenation,,,,,Swiftmend,,,,Lifebloom,,,, Regrowth,,,,,Lifebloom,,,,,Lifebloom,,,,Nourish,,, ,,,Nourish,,,,,,,Nourish


easy stuff:

/castsequence [target=focus,nochanneling] reset=combat Rejuvenation,,,Swiftmend,,,,Lifebloom,,,,Rejuvenat ion,,,Lifebloom,,,,,,Lifebloom,,,,

The above just keeps rejuvenation on constantly, makes sure the blooms bloom, and uses swiftmend as the stopgap to make sure it happens. This macro is very mana efficent, however if this is not spammed, it can get stuck w/out a rejuvenation for the mend, especially if you use the glyph of rapid rejuv (which I honestly recommend against unless you really understand how it works/what it does, and when it is good)

and this is just bound to the same button as my dps/tanking button, so I pay zero attention to what is going on in regards to healing.

Just play around with your timing and what your tank needs in the way of healing - all you have to do is keep rejuvenation, maybe some lifeblooms on your tank in a lot of situations. If gear is still a problem maybe you need to keep regrowth and throw a few nourishes in there. In heroics now I actually just hot the tank before bosses, and otherwise chain cast starfire and wildgrowth on cooldown. (I have wg bound to my scroll down button, and my healing/dps/tank stuff to scroll up - so I just scroll my mouse up and down while I do stuff and this ensures wg is cast on cooldown)

Druids are just great 'set it and forget it' healers. And when you're playing 5 characters, one less thing you have to pay attention to is nice.

[Seldum]

I have the same setup regarding the tank healing. I have a castsequence along the same lines as the above posted. It is bound to the same key as the dps spam key. It helps ALOT with the healing since you need to reapply dots etc.

For all other healing I use Vuhdo and repeater regions in IS boxer.

[Bloodcloud]

Hi,

if you want to prebuff your team you can do it with a macro mentioned in

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showpost.php?p=272156&postcount=17

cheers

[dubiox]

I tried out the basic castsequence and it works well.

I have played with that buff macro before on another team and haven't had much luck with it. I tried using it again last night to round robin hots across the team and could not get it to work. It gets stuck after one pass through the team and then it seems you have to wait for the reset timer. I tried some different variations of
/cs [@p4] reset=5 ,,,,,,,,,,,,rejuv
/cs [@p3] reset=5 ,,,,,,,,,rejuv
/cs [@p2] reset=5 ,,,,,,rejuv
/cs [@p] reset=5 ,,,rejuv
/cs [@p1] reset=5 rejuv

I am fine though with having a separate key to heal each team member. I can't get into clicking heals, so I have F1-F4 for party1-4, and then 5 for heal tank. Those are easy to reach from 2 which is my attack key.

Thanks again.

[Style1one]

Though at 80 it is not as good as nourish, but has anyone looked into a glyphed healing touch ?

Pre 3.1 the glyphed healing touch spell out waighed nourish. Depending on proc it could get down to .6s cast. Start of wrath it was all about wg spamming before the cd was placed on it, big heal was then regrowth. From there wg and regrowth then got changed an in raiding a ht glyphed spec was then what pulled the top heals. When 3.1 hit nourish became the top healing spec to go for.


Glyph of Healing Touch
Major Glyph
Classes: Druid
Requires Level 15
Item Level 10Use: Decreases the cast time of Healing Touch by 1.5 sec, the mana cost by 25%, and the amount healed by 50%. (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=54869)
Sell Price: 1http://www.wowarmory.com/talent-calc.xml?cid=11&tal=0532003100000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000230503312530502031050013051

Is the general healing touch spec. You have 4 talents to put where you want. For the most part if it was singleboxing you would use nature's swiftness and swiftmend. But being that is not the case here you can change that up.

[jimbobobb]

Though at 80 it is not as good as nourish, but has anyone looked into a glyphed healing touch ?

Pre 3.1 the glyphed healing touch spell out waighed nourish. Depending on proc it could get down to .6s cast. Start of wrath it was all about wg spamming before the cd was placed on it, big heal was then regrowth. From there wg and regrowth then got changed an in raiding a ht glyphed spec was then what pulled the top heals. When 3.1 hit nourish became the top healing spec to go for.

http://www.wowarmory.com/talent-calc.xml?cid=11&tal=0532003100000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000230503312530502031050013051

Is the general healing touch spec. You have 4 talents to put where you want. For the most part if it was singleboxing you would use nature's swiftness and swiftmend. But being that is not the case here you can change that up.


I guess you're talking about leveling as a glyphed ht spec? Because at 80, the ht spec is garbage, as you pointed out yourself in your post. It's simply not as good as nourish/normal spec. Honestly while it may be alright glyphing ht and leveling that way, I don't really see any benefit. You just have to respec once you hit 80, and it's not like you need more healing power from the druid pre 80 - they're perfectly fine even w/out nourish. Regrowth is still good, and ns plus ht is a great OS button, that you rob yourself of by going with the ht spec. I just don't see any good coming from this spec at any level.

[Nolife]

I tried out the basic castsequence and it works well.

I have played with that buff macro before on another team and haven't had much luck with it. I tried using it again last night to round robin hots across the team and could not get it to work. It gets stuck after one pass through the team and then it seems you have to wait for the reset timer. I tried some different variations of
/cs [@p4] reset=5 ,,,,,,,,,,,,rejuv
/cs [@p3] reset=5 ,,,,,,,,,rejuv
/cs [@p2] reset=5 ,,,,,,rejuv
/cs [@p] reset=5 ,,,rejuv
/cs [@p1] reset=5 rejuv

I am fine though with having a separate key to heal each team member. I can't get into clicking heals, so I have F1-F4 for party1-4, and then 5 for heal tank. Those are easy to reach from 2 which is my attack key.

Thanks again.
This will not work if you spam your rejuv key too fast. What it does it goes through commas in your castsequences and eventually all of them get stuck on Rejuv step. And how this currently works is it will make ALL cstsequences with same spell advance to next step.

However, you can use these macros to cast Rejuv/Lb:

/castsequence [@Toon1] reset=4 Rejuvenation, NULL
/castsequence [@Toon2] reset=4 Rejuvenation, Rejuvenation, NULL
/castsequence [@Toon3] reset=4 Rejuvenation, Rejuvenation, Rejuvenation, NULL
/castsequence [@Toon4] reset=4 Rejuvenation, Rejuvenation, Rejuvenation, Rejuvenation, NULL
/castsequence [@Toon5] reset=4 Rejuvenation, Rejuvenation, Rejuvenation, Rejuvenation, Rejuvenation, NULL

/castsequence [@Toon1] reset=4 Lifebloom, NULL
/castsequence [@Toon2] reset=4 Lifebloom, Lifebloom, NULL
/castsequence [@Toon3] reset=4 Lifebloom, Lifebloom, Lifebloom, NULL
/castsequence [@Toon4] reset=4 Lifebloom, Lifebloom, Lifebloom, Lifebloom, NULL
/castsequence [@Toon5] reset=4 Lifebloom, Lifebloom, Lifebloom, Lifebloom, Lifebloom, NULL
You might need an addon for longer macros... Macaroon ftw!

[Style1one]

I guess you're talking about leveling as a glyphed ht spec? Because at 80, the ht spec is garbage, as you pointed out yourself in your post. It's simply not as good as nourish/normal spec. Honestly while it may be alright glyphing ht and leveling that way, I don't really see any benefit. You just have to respec once you hit 80, and it's not like you need more healing power from the druid pre 80 - they're perfectly fine even w/out nourish. Regrowth is still good, and ns plus ht is a great OS button, that you rob yourself of by going with the ht spec. I just don't see any good coming from this spec at any level.


Ok here is some info on wrath and healing as a druid.

Wrath launch, wg had no cd. So raiding you just spammed wg over and over and over and over agin. About a month and a half they then put a cd on wg.

At this point, you had the regrowth spec and the glyphed ht spec. Of the two specs, the glyphed ht spec was supiror due to the simple fact it allowed you to get into 4sR. Because of the time it took to cast, it hit for the same amount as regrowth and at times more.

Then came 3.1 with Ulduar. This is where they made Noruish more buffed then Arnold Scharzinager in the 70's and 80's and it tossed the glyphed ht spec out the window.

So with the op asking about something for leveling (beings not 80 yet and no nourish in his bag of tricks) I feel that this would fall right in what he was asking about.

I have raided the majority of my wow carrer as a healer, and all of wrath as a resto druid to the point that I stoped pushing progression mid ulduar.

[jimbobobb]

Ok here is some info on wrath and healing as a druid.

Wrath launch, wg had no cd. So raiding you just spammed wg over and over and over and over agin. About a month and a half they then put a cd on wg.

At this point, you had the regrowth spec and the glyphed ht spec. Of the two specs, the glyphed ht spec was supiror due to the simple fact it allowed you to get into 4sR. Because of the time it took to cast, it hit for the same amount as regrowth and at times more.

Then came 3.1 with Ulduar. This is where they made Noruish more buffed then Arnold Scharzinager in the 70's and 80's and it tossed the glyphed ht spec out the window.

So with the op asking about something for leveling (beings not 80 yet and no nourish in his bag of tricks) I feel that this would fall right in what he was asking about.

I have raided the majority of my wow carrer as a healer, and all of wrath as a resto druid to the point that I stoped pushing progression mid ulduar.

huh? So you basically just said what I already wrote. Sure HT was AT SOME POINT THAT IS NO LONGER NOW a viable spec, but right now it is not. And leveling as a spec that might at best be marginally better than the normal spec sub 80 ONLY (I don't believe it is myself for reasons I mentioned above), only to have to respec at 80 into a good spec, makes very little sense. I do not understand your post here.


p.s. If English is your second language and you actually just didn't understand my response to your first post, I apologize.

[dubiox]

I think I am seeing something strange with castsequence.

key F1
/castsequence [target=ToonA] reset=5 regrowth, rejuvenation, lifebloom, lifebloom, lifebloom

key F2
/castsequence [target=ToonB] reset=5 regrowth, rejuvenation, lifebloom, lifebloom, lifebloom

key F3
/castsequence [target=Toonc] reset=5 regrowth, rejuvenation, lifebloom, lifebloom, lifebloom

key F4
/castsequence [target=player] reset=5 regrowth, rejuvenation, lifebloom, lifebloom, lifebloom

key 5
/castsequence [target=TankToon] reset=5 regrowth, rejuvenation, lifebloom, lifebloom, lifebloom


It seems like if I send one toon a heal or two and then quickly send another toon some, it continues from where I left off in the other castsequence. It is really weird. I even tried reset=5,target instead of just reset=5

[Ualaa]

Multiple castsequences with the same spell as the next spell, will all advance together.
It's been that way forever.

You can do the reverse comma's to land one spell on the team.

/castsequence [Target=ToonA] reset=5 ,,,,,,,,,,,,Rejuvenation,Null
/castsequence [Target=ToonB] reset=5 ,,,,,,,,,Rejuvenation,Null
/castsequence [Target=ToonC] reset=5 ,,,,,,Rejuvenation,Null
/castsequence [Target=ToonD] reset=5 ,,,Rejuvenation,Null
/castsequence [Target=ToonE] reset=5 Rejuvenation,Null

Could probably do more commas and make them a true sequence per toon.
That, or make one for each HOT effect (spamming until everyone has the HoT up), one button to spam for LB, another for Rejuv and another for Reg.