In your opinion how do druid healers do as far as instancing goes?



Are their HoT's enough to solo heal a tank during the lowbie stages
(Rejuv and Regrowth ONLY)? Or would I just better off Using a priest or
pally, or possibly a shaman?



Maybe bring the druid up to a respectable level to get deeper into the
resto tree would help, and bring the rest of the group up around that?
Druid healers are AWESOME in instancing, from 10-70. There are some heroics that may need you to spam alot if your gear isn't enough, but the same could be said for any healer.

At low levels, healing touches are the way to go. Hots aren't bad, but with limited intel gear, healing touches makes for more mana efficiency. You could probably still heal with Hots if you wanted though.

It isn't true that druids can only heal with HoTs after lifebloom. Using a druid, I have used him to heal in instances from 40 onwards. I have healed all outlands instances in -treeform- with the occassional NS+Healingtouch before getting lifebloom. Swiftmend is your oh crap button. The thing is to have a good tank and put up hots early on the tank rather when he is low health. Lifebloom helps alot when you finally get it, but as I said, I healed in SP, UB, Ramps and BF without it, in treeform.

AOE healing - Tranquility is a poor option compared to CoH/ PoHealing in terms of spammability. What I suggest is that in fights where you know you are going to take AOE dmg, you HoT up pre-emptively.

Healing with HoTs doesn't simply mean leaving Rejuv/Regrowth/Lifebloom running out. You can spam a lower rank of Regrowth as a replacement for healing touch (its slightly less mana efficient but gets better in treeform - next patch regrowth mana cost reduces another 20% though!) so that it does not override the higher rank HoT component of regrowth. You also need to keep lifebloom rolling at 3 stacks.

With multiple 'boomkins', you just have to leave 1 of them in boomkin form, while the others can throw HoTs, then proceed to pew-pew while the HoTs do their work.

Overall, sure, itll take abit of work, but with proper /castsequence (rejuv, lifebloom, regrowth, lifebloom, regrowth rank 7 lifebloom, regrowth 7 , lifebloom) etc. its still possible to keep the tank maintained at full healh while still casting HoTs.

Just my 2cents