Mixed Group Random Troubles

[jinkobi]

It's funny you mention the axe in UK- which is one of my favorites btw. Took me a while to figure out wtf was killing my team after he died rofl. Had my graphics too low on my main at the time making it very hard to see.

Tank facing your team so you can see what's going on with them. You'll see the axe flying around- gotta bind those strafe left/right keys for your slaves- then just move them when you see it coming. It's easy once you see what's going on.

Also when Ingvar turns undead your non tanks need to be out of melee range or they can get 1 shotted by his smash. Also in UK you can avoid like 4 packs of mobs by just hugging the wall making the run quicker.

All down hill from here bro only gets easier as your gear gets better.

[Multibocks]

Guess everybody has their own way of doing it. I tried the above mention methods of just hooking in lifebloom/nourish into my wild growth rotations. The end result was my healer would waste so much mana I was actually starting to get low mana issues. With just wild growth+healbot/vuhdo my druids mana barely budges.

Really it's just overkill... You'll get to a point where just wild growth will cover most of the healing when your gear gets better. When I do heroics I tend to pull entire rooms so my healbot is essential because of my playstyle.

Everyone has their own style and there's nothing wrong with that. You have to do what works out best for yourself and your playstyle.

You need to space your heals out more and then have a seperate key for ohshitlotsoftankdmg. I spam WG every cooldown and have one rejuv and LB rolling on tank at all times. Not much can kill me anymore, except the healer dying... And that only happens in HHoR. Facking ice trap slows my computer to a crawl.

[jimbobobb]

Currently while healing I have bound Wild Growth on my tanking button so it's always up. This has made a huge difference on how little I have to heal anything else. Then I have HealBot set up in a repeater region for left click rejuvenation and right click nourish. Those are the only spells I've been using.

Perhaps I need to explore more use of other spells and the general macro you two are talking about, but I'm leary of using them while I'm still learning how to survive in these dungeons. I've only completed two so far, and need to practice the others.

This statement confuses me - "I'm still learning so I want to limit myself by not using all my druids abilities"


Anyway, copy pasted from another thread - put this on your tank macro and also WG on every cooldown:

/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)


Play with the macro, throw in Nourishes, etc. if you need more healing. You're simply wasting too much of your concentration by doing your heals with clicks as a druid. When you no longer pay any attention at all to your healing, and aren't having to move your mouse to throw heals and stuff, and your focus is only on your positiong/tanking, silly things like dieing to avoidable aoes (like that axe) stop happening.

Right now you are playing on hard mode. Put it on easy bro. Nobody will think less of you.

[Malgor]

Thanks again everyone. I will try this on Sat when I am off work next.

I probably need to read up on more strats as well as change my healing style.

[Malgor]

This statement confuses me - "I'm still learning so I want to limit myself by not using all my druids abilities"

I meant that I was still trying to practice other stuff. Healing for me hasn't really been the problem, but the rest of what you said makes sense. If I don't really have to think about healing at all (with mouse clicks) then I can concentrate more on movement and positioning of the other toons.

[Malgor]

With the amount of gold you have you can easily gather the raw materials to make chest and bracers for your druid and priest the 245 item level ones, and even the 226 boots and belt from ulduar!the mats to make these epics are easy to farm/cheaper to buy on the ah and get crafterd together than it would be to buy the epics out right. Ie you could farm frostweave cloth since you're attemptin heroics anyway you can simply farm the cloths u need there, then also if you have an enchanter in group save all your infinite dust from greens you shard to go towards making the cloth into imbued frostweave bolts(tailors can do this for you). From there its just a matter of spending cash on orbs and a few eternal fires which could easily be farmed if you want to save money

You can get the orbs you need via the ah or you can spam trade to get your price lower or buy cheap frozen orbs (if the cost of 4 or 6 is lower than the price of the higher orbs). I do this and using shodokans guide to using heroics for gold gains I geared my entire pally team with 245 gear crafted and belt / boots 226 gear and a bunch of other boe stuff!
After makin those things you can concentrate on farming badges for the cheapest easy upgrade off the badge vendors.
Ie the cheapest biggest upgrade will probably be your neck piece at 19 badges, followed by 2 pc T9 at 30 badges per and then your 245 ring at 35. If you follow that gearing path you should be simply able to reach 4500 gs in a matter of a couple days worth then all you need to do is learn the fights and how you can improve your playstyle to match!

Hope some of my tips help good luck!

Thanks - I'll spend some of my gold and get a few upgrades in the process. My mage is an enchanter/tailor so that helps some!