Healing Anub 25 HM as a Resto Druid

hamstorg · #1 11-01-2009, 05:38 PM

Hello,

My guild is currently working on anub hm 25,and everything goes fine untill P3 starts.

I have some questions regarding Resto Druid healing :

1.Do you use lower ranks of spells(like Rejuv,Wild Growth)to make lesser boss healing?

2.How exactly does the PC healing work with the Healing Touch spec?

3.How do you keep your assigned group,raid under ~1-2k Health given that rejuv ticks for 2.5-3k?

I'm aware that these questions might sound stupid/noobish but I'd greatly appreciate them since I'm fairly new to Wotlk Resto healing.

Every bit of advice on how you do it personally will help.

Thanks in advance,

Brurah

Nicki · #2 11-01-2009, 07:34 PM

Your guild needs to sort PC healing for themselves it largely depends on how they sort it...

Nourish is plenty for keeping a single target up just remember leeching swarm heals for a % of max HP...

Our guild sort of bruteforced it, 7 healers 3 paladins 1 priest 2 druids 1 shaman is the usual setup; the paladins sort beacons and one heals a PC target this leaves 1 healer to 1 PC target...which makes things pretty easy...There are other ways to sort healing though.

On healing touch spec theres little point honestly GCD is 1 second min, casting below 1 second is pretty worthless in most situations....

**Llego** · #3 11-01-2009, 09:32 PM

You shouldn't be doing any aoe/hot healing in p3 at all. What we've done for our Insanity runs is have myself and our other druid go HT spec/Glyph and each cover one PC target, 2 priests in separate groups spamming Holy Nova and each covering one PC target, with a resto shaman in a different group with healing stream down, also assigned to a PC target. This covers ranged, now what you decide to do with melee can be pretty reliant on group comp. We rely on Imp LotP and JoL to keep them up, and have had 3 insanity runs in a row, so this method works great for us. The minimum amount of health that Anub will leech is 250, so ideally everyone will hover around 1.5k for the duration of p3. This requires penetrating cold healers to be literally spot on.. As for the healing touch spec/glyph, gcd isn't what is important at all and honestly worrying about it is a little silly, nourish with my haste (488) still isn't the most ideal spell at around a 1.3 second cast. I can get HT down to ~.75 seconds with full haste gear on. You have 3 seconds from the time penetrating cold goes out to be healing your target, so you have hardly any room for error (latency/misclicks.)

**Aliena** · #4 11-02-2009, 10:33 AM

We take two druids that start at opposite ends of the raid (one p1, one p5) and rejuv every single raid member. Then two disc priests shield people that get the debuff, and a paladin/shaman do the tank healing.

Doc309 · #5 11-02-2009, 03:05 PM

as i understand it ... and i maybe wrong....

downranking spells doesn't work anymore. the mana use is the same, for less H/M and H/S....

Doc

**Aliena** · #6 11-02-2009, 03:11 PM

Correct, but the point of Hard mode Anub is to heal just enough to keep people alive but not enough to heal Anub so much that you drag out the phase and wipe. So downranking rejuv is a way to keep the healing done level.

Anaire · #7 11-02-2009, 03:49 PM

As far as I've heard/read HT spec is the way to go; granted, I have not yet tried it myself. Our group is having issues getting to p3 at this point. I guess down ranking rejuv would work, but once again, have not tried it.

Doc309 · #8 11-02-2009, 05:36 PM

Source: Aliena
Correct, but the point of Hard mode Anub is to heal just enough to keep people alive but not enough to heal Anub so much that you drag out the phase and wipe. So downranking rejuv is a way to keep the healing done level.

Over healing FTL?

man i can't wait to get my disc priest in there....

**Llego** · #9 11-02-2009, 05:46 PM

Honestly there are a lot of ways that you could heal the fight. I don't really think the rejuv everyone option would be the best idea; but different raid comps most certainly call for different strategies. Like I said earlier, our strat hasn't failed us yet, but most guilds won't have or won't be able to run the exact healer comp that we do, either. You really have a lot of room to play with just healing through leeching swarm, it is Penetrating Cold that becomes the problem, and thats where the HT spec shines. I'd say look at my second spec but its balance right now. Check tomorrow and you'll see exactly what I use.

KnThrak · #10 11-03-2009, 07:17 AM

There a few good setups, the one we commonly use with two healers is that I (Resto Shaman) spam the tank while the other healer (Resto Druid) carpet-bombs the raid with Rejuvenation.

My AA procs will catch the outliers from the Cold debuff. ^_^

hamstorg · #11 11-04-2009, 03:10 AM

Thanks for all of the helpful replies,certainly answered a few of my doubts regarding healing in p3 anub hm,since it seems that its a pretty interesting debate maybe you could sticky it or make it look more tidy OR even making a compendium on how to heal p3 anub?

Best Regards,

Brurah