This was really helpfull for me. Im a new player, started playing last week and this video pretty much covers all my doubts about the talents, skills and everithing about the resto druid. Thanks a lot!
One thing also is your swiftmend also procs your mastery so you can weave that in for a instant mastery proc. Also life bloom gives you a buff that restores 1% mana every 10 seconds. when you use a direct heal on a player with life bloom it refreshes its duration and refreshes the mana regen
Long time returning player, started with a holy priest found it a bit boring so decided to give resto a go. Awesome guide I like how simple you make it seem! Keep up the videos man :)
you want Harmony to be up before you do any hots if you can. Swiftmend procs your harmony. so ahead of raid damage i lay effloresence on the feet of the stack point and then WG and then reju. I also try to swiftmend or direct heal (to proc harmony) before casting life bloom. I tested that as long as the spell was cast when harmony was active if its still rolling when harmony falls off it will still do the base healing increase that harmony gives it until it the hot actually falls off. i actualy made a weakaura for harmony so i could see it in a different place than were all my buffs are lol.
You would always use Wild growth, yes. There's exactly no reason not to. It allows wild growth to effectively be more mana efficient as you're getting the same healing per minute but with less casts, but it indirectly increases your healing per minute because you free up gcds you can use on other stuff.
if you're low level enough to not have Wild Growth yet then Glyph of Thorns can be quite useful for lower level Dungeon Finding. You may be frequently coming across a lot of people playing on a new character as a tank, and they may have not quite mastered aggro yet. So using the Glyph and casting Thorns on the tank just before they enter combat seems to be helpful to them for keeping better threat, especially in AOE situations.
All y’all asking about lifebloom. Remember if you let it fall that’s 3 more global cooldowns to have it back up. Granted I drop it all the time because dungeons and Netflix, but ideally a regrowth or a healing touch will be better than the bloom.
I appreciate the video, but this is all pretty basic. What a lot of us REALLY need is an actual video made of in-game play, along with pauses at certain points detailing what you did, and why, both for the ezpz part of upkeep for self buffs, and also when in difficult OMGWFTBBQ type situations, especially for heroics. That kind of video is what people are actually looking for to refine their techniques from a "complete healing guide".
Feel free to come to my streams to see it in action, and I can answer those questions there if that helps! My content has always been fairly beginner friendly but appreciate the feedback😁
is there a reason that we dont take 3 points in natures bounty? for regrowth it heals better but its still not that much of an upgrade so i kid of understand that but im curious about making nourish go from like 2.2 secs to 1.6-1.7 when we have 3 rejuvs 30% of a nourish cast time seems like a no brainer to me but every guide i look at takes just 1 point in it out of necessity so that we can get out of the resto tree.
Yes. Regrowth is poor unless you have clear casting. Very mana inefficient. Now for the nourish buff; this is strong if you are solely raiding healing but the issue you have to keep 3 rejuvs up which is also not ideal. Rejuv, while pretty mana efficient, it does a lot of over healing and can be a mana waste. You don’t always need to heal people to full, and knowing when damage is coming is key. Basically, WG on CD and using a nourish to top people off is the way to raid heal. A rejuv to heal those who did not get WG is ok but you’re likely not going to spamming it to keep the nourish buff up.
@@fadiyousif5700 I wouldn't thank him too quickly since his logic is completely wrong. You would still want to only spend 1 point in the talent. If you're solely raid healing, most of your mastery uptime is taken care of by clearcasting and swiftmend so you aren't using many nourishes (as an example, on a 6 minute H al'akir I use maybe 10 nourishes for 95%+ mastery and lfiebloom uptime). And you're focusing so much on the raid that you generally aren't doing anything to the tanks more than lifebloom + rejuvs and maybe regrowths on clearcasting procs if a raid member doesn't need it. He's also wrong about overhealing. On raid damage heavy fights, like H Al'Akir, I cast 60 over 6 minutes. That's essentially more than 1 rejuv per 2 gcds. My overhealing? 10-13% and very little of that was on the raid. Cata healing focuses on more sustained aoe dmg patterns where healers want to be efficient in their healing so other healers generally aren't sniping your hots. If you look at any of the top parsing resto druids like myself, you'll notice that we only have enough nourishes to maintain harmony. We never, ever, ever, ever, ever want to be raid healing with nourish. It's inefficient hps and inefficient mana per heal vs a hot even if a hot would overheal significantly. Your raid healing priorities are, in order: Swiftmend on cd if people aren't topped off for efflorescence. Wild growth under the same rule, rejuv if it won't overheal much (I usually pick anyone 50-70% on health and let small heals do people 70-80%+ unless a lot of damage might be coming in). Beyond that, throw a healing touch if they absolutely need it but if you would ever think of wasting 2 seconds on a raid heal nourish for 10k, you should be using better parts of your toolkit and letting healers who are more efficient at spot healing do it because resto druids are much weaker spot healers compared to the other classes. The exception here would be in 10man as your role shifts to being a more blended raid+tank+spot healing in tandem with the other healer. We get relegated to heavy raid healers in 25mans. Like I said earlier though, every single top parsing and progressed resto druid healer's logs confirms everything here.
@@d1vin1ty thanks m8, this was something i had to learn through trial and error :P was at the bottom of the meters all the time and when we had a feral or boomie go os healing they were healing a lot better than me even though i was both better geared and my gear was more for healing while they just healed in their usual dps gear. so i had to check the logs and noticed that most druid spam rejuv a lot more than i did. i now mostly use nourish to refresh my lifebloom on the tank and to refresh harmony and i only ever use regrowth when i have cc or if anybody absolutely needs a quick heal. my healing has improved since i last saw this post but ty for taking your time to help anyway :)
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This was really helpfull for me. Im a new player, started playing last week and this video pretty much covers all my doubts about the talents, skills and everithing about the resto druid.
Thanks a lot!
One thing also is your swiftmend also procs your mastery so you can weave that in for a instant mastery proc. Also life bloom gives you a buff that restores 1% mana every 10 seconds. when you use a direct heal on a player with life bloom it refreshes its duration and refreshes the mana regen
Exactly what I needed and a wonderful informative video! Thank you so much! ♥
I'm so glad to hear this! Resto is always one of my favourites, hopefully for you it will be too! 😁
Thanks for this guide! As someone who's used to priest healing, druid was a bit weird for me but this was really helpful!
Long time returning player, started with a holy priest found it a bit boring so decided to give resto a go. Awesome guide I like how simple you make it seem! Keep up the videos man :)
Great Guide for Resto Druid !🔥💪
Glad you think so!
you want Harmony to be up before you do any hots if you can. Swiftmend procs your harmony. so ahead of raid damage i lay effloresence on the feet of the stack point and then WG and then reju. I also try to swiftmend or direct heal (to proc harmony) before casting life bloom. I tested that as long as the spell was cast when harmony was active if its still rolling when harmony falls off it will still do the base healing increase that harmony gives it until it the hot actually falls off. i actualy made a weakaura for harmony so i could see it in a different place than were all my buffs are lol.
as a healer shouldn't you always use Glyph of wild growth or Innervate? Thorns seems like wasted slot
You would always use Wild growth, yes. There's exactly no reason not to. It allows wild growth to effectively be more mana efficient as you're getting the same healing per minute but with less casts, but it indirectly increases your healing per minute because you free up gcds you can use on other stuff.
if you're low level enough to not have Wild Growth yet then Glyph of Thorns can be quite useful for lower level Dungeon Finding. You may be frequently coming across a lot of people playing on a new character as a tank, and they may have not quite mastered aggro yet. So using the Glyph and casting Thorns on the tank just before they enter combat seems to be helpful to them for keeping better threat, especially in AOE situations.
Great guide. But why would anyone use Regrowth with Nature swiftness versus healing touch and Nature Swiftness?
I was thinking this. HT is way higher healing and lower mana cost. NS removes the only downside vs. Regrowth (cast time).
Man. Great video. Thanks.
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All y’all asking about lifebloom. Remember if you let it fall that’s 3 more global cooldowns to have it back up. Granted I drop it all the time because dungeons and Netflix, but ideally a regrowth or a healing touch will be better than the bloom.
Good way to put it! 3 GCD's is a lot
Do you keep lifebloom up at 3 stacks at all times on 1 target or do you let it fall off??
I keep 3 stacks!
@@JaviHeals in dungeons you can manage with 1 to 3 and switfmend on the last tick of rejuv
I appreciate the video, but this is all pretty basic. What a lot of us REALLY need is an actual video made of in-game play, along with pauses at certain points detailing what you did, and why, both for the ezpz part of upkeep for self buffs, and also when in difficult OMGWFTBBQ type situations, especially for heroics. That kind of video is what people are actually looking for to refine their techniques from a "complete healing guide".
Feel free to come to my streams to see it in action, and I can answer those questions there if that helps! My content has always been fairly beginner friendly but appreciate the feedback😁
Then you should check out preach's resto guide 4.3
Do you let lifebloom fall off? or just keep 3 stacks whole time and fall off only when tank needs the heal?
Read the tool tip. Been a while since I played druid but I'm pretty sure that last tick when it falls off is the biggest
@@merick92 I know that, but i just wanne know if we let it fall off or not.
Because it stacks to 3, I personally refresh it to keep it up
@@JaviHeals alright, i do the same thing. Btw in raid you pick furor or no? Rather have the extra healing from hots?
is there a reason that we dont take 3 points in natures bounty? for regrowth it heals better but its still not that much of an upgrade so i kid of understand that but im curious about making nourish go from like 2.2 secs to 1.6-1.7 when we have 3 rejuvs 30% of a nourish cast time seems like a no brainer to me but every guide i look at takes just 1 point in it out of necessity so that we can get out of the resto tree.
Yes. Regrowth is poor unless you have clear casting. Very mana inefficient. Now for the nourish buff; this is strong if you are solely raiding healing but the issue you have to keep 3 rejuvs up which is also not ideal. Rejuv, while pretty mana efficient, it does a lot of over healing and can be a mana waste. You don’t always need to heal people to full, and knowing when damage is coming is key. Basically, WG on CD and using a nourish to top people off is the way to raid heal. A rejuv to heal those who did not get WG is ok but you’re likely not going to spamming it to keep the nourish buff up.
@@stamatiosmanes8706 ok i see thanks. :D
@@fadiyousif5700 I wouldn't thank him too quickly since his logic is completely wrong. You would still want to only spend 1 point in the talent. If you're solely raid healing, most of your mastery uptime is taken care of by clearcasting and swiftmend so you aren't using many nourishes (as an example, on a 6 minute H al'akir I use maybe 10 nourishes for 95%+ mastery and lfiebloom uptime). And you're focusing so much on the raid that you generally aren't doing anything to the tanks more than lifebloom + rejuvs and maybe regrowths on clearcasting procs if a raid member doesn't need it.
He's also wrong about overhealing. On raid damage heavy fights, like H Al'Akir, I cast 60 over 6 minutes. That's essentially more than 1 rejuv per 2 gcds. My overhealing? 10-13% and very little of that was on the raid. Cata healing focuses on more sustained aoe dmg patterns where healers want to be efficient in their healing so other healers generally aren't sniping your hots.
If you look at any of the top parsing resto druids like myself, you'll notice that we only have enough nourishes to maintain harmony. We never, ever, ever, ever, ever want to be raid healing with nourish. It's inefficient hps and inefficient mana per heal vs a hot even if a hot would overheal significantly.
Your raid healing priorities are, in order: Swiftmend on cd if people aren't topped off for efflorescence. Wild growth under the same rule, rejuv if it won't overheal much (I usually pick anyone 50-70% on health and let small heals do people 70-80%+ unless a lot of damage might be coming in). Beyond that, throw a healing touch if they absolutely need it but if you would ever think of wasting 2 seconds on a raid heal nourish for 10k, you should be using better parts of your toolkit and letting healers who are more efficient at spot healing do it because resto druids are much weaker spot healers compared to the other classes. The exception here would be in 10man as your role shifts to being a more blended raid+tank+spot healing in tandem with the other healer. We get relegated to heavy raid healers in 25mans.
Like I said earlier though, every single top parsing and progressed resto druid healer's logs confirms everything here.
@@d1vin1ty thanks m8, this was something i had to learn through trial and error :P was at the bottom of the meters all the time and when we had a feral or boomie go os healing they were healing a lot better than me even though i was both better geared and my gear was more for healing while they just healed in their usual dps gear. so i had to check the logs and noticed that most druid spam rejuv a lot more than i did. i now mostly use nourish to refresh my lifebloom on the tank and to refresh harmony and i only ever use regrowth when i have cc or if anybody absolutely needs a quick heal. my healing has improved since i last saw this post but ty for taking your time to help anyway :)