Comments on: Trees Do It With Flailing Arms – Leveling Tips For New Resto Druids

By: Pike

Pike — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:23:31 +0000

@ Omogon & Windpaw – I’ll be honest here… I don’t use Healbot! =X I just use XPerl…

By: Windpaw

Windpaw — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:05:34 +0000

@Omogon – I used Grid myself and it *really* takes some of the bite out of healing more than 5 people. Best bet to get started before Pike writes up a guide is to find a you-tube video of how to configure Healbot. I usually just grab one of these and follow along!

::looks at Pike:: You *are* writing a guide right?

By: Omogon

Omogon — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:35:10 +0000

Thanks for the quick and clear answer Could I suggest another topic for you?

“Healbot for Dummies” so far the most challenging places I have been are BRD and Sunken Temple. I have managed quite well by just setting the tank as my focus and watching the other groups members health bars…..but I have no clue how the pro healers in my guild manage in 10 or 25man groups ..especially if they are assigned as Raid healers.

I have looked at the website for healbot and it looks very complicated

By: Echo

Echo — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:38:08 +0000

I played a resto druid for a while (gf’s char)

The trouble is on easy content you do tend to fall asleep, and it you start hurricaning suddenly the dps hate you.

I love the fact that resto has 2 emergency buttons, swiftmend and natures swiftness. More than one time when I was dozing off in an heroic and the tank decided pulling everything and not popping a CD was a great idea – rocket boots to get in range > Swiftmend > NS HT to save the day.

Oh and my personal favourite is the Tree /sleep animation

By: Tzia

Tzia — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:24:27 +0000

Um Pike? I just had to assure my husband that you and I had had no contact what so ever on this topic before the writing of this message. ^_^ He’s leveling a treeling, and I made a joking comment the other night that to heal as a tree is to wave your branches like you mean it. And what do you post? Hehe!

I’ll keep this post close at hand for the husband. Even though I just read the entire thing to him, after checking that he wasn’t taking a drink on number 9.

Now to get him to dance in tree form. *plots*

By: Pookii

Pookii — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:33:03 +0000

My favorite Druid dance is the bear dance. I’m sorry, but the image of a bear rearing up on his/her hind legs and dancing on them… love it!

By: Ellifain @ Khaz'Goroth

Ellifain @ Khaz'Goroth — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:29:45 +0000

Good Guide!
I coulda used this with my druid when i first went resto.

Extra Pro tip: Go deep resto ASAP so at Level 60 you can get Wildgrowth.
Will make levelling through 5mans MUCH easier.

Healbot is also your friend – and can be made to be quite tree friendly.
Ive got big health bars for each party member and room below each bar to clearly show the 4 main hots – regrowth, rejuv, wild & lifebloom, as well as the seconds left on each hot.
This makes rehotting targets so very easy.
Before healbot i had heaps of trouble keeping hots up when healing got hectic. – especially lifebloom.

IMHO at low level grab a big bunch of spirit & int gear (of the owl) ftw, and glyph innervate

By: Urak

Urak — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:02:32 +0000

Pike, Long time listener, first time Poster. Great tips for the new trees to learn. An addition to number 9 on your list… Get GTFO. If I only had one addon, this would be it. I am concentrating so hard on healbot that even I forget to look at my toon, but GTFO sounds a klaxon when the ground doesn’t like me even more. During the Krik and Ick fight in PoS, it will even start going off before the ooze hits the ground. Be careful though. It has scared the crap out of me on more than on occasion when it goes off.

Urak the Patient, 80 tree/bear on Cenarion Circle
For the Horde!

By: Bees!Bees!

Bees!Bees! — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:17:38 +0000

I’ve found that early on glyphing and talenting Healing Touch is a very good idea for the leveling druid. It’s a good spell when both rejuv and regrowth are ticking but the target is still taking too much damage… You know like when the ‘Tank’ really isn’t a tank? (looking at the ret pally who tanks without a shield, you didn’t survive because you’re so awesome, you survived because I was able to brute force heal you through that fight). I highly recommend spending the talent points and getting the glyph while leveling. It’s another button to push too!

A few other very important spells are cure/abolish poison, remove curse and Rebirth. Rebirth is your combat res, and can save a wipe if used properly. Always have reagents on hand if you aren’t glyphed. Don’t burn your cooldown on DPS asking for combat res if things are going well otherwise, but if the tank goes down don’t hesitate to use it… especially when the alternative is a corpse run back to BRD or sunken temple which always results in lost party members.

Also I might add that using an addon such as Vuhdo is a great help to leveling as resto. It helps you monitor who is taking damage, who has aggro, who has an active HoT and it’s timer, who has a debuff on them and when locks have cast life tap. It also puts your health bar in the same context as your party’s health bars which helps with keeping yourself alive as well. It’s convienently immune to the UI bug where you might keep a lower level of a spell on an action bar if you are dual spec and train outside of one spec. For me it really helps me enjoy an instance more because I can actually see things going on around me rather than concentrating on getting this information from the regular unit frames.

By: Pike

Pike — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:15:33 +0000

@ Omogon – Spirit is good– Spellpower is better! (I do like Spirit, it gives me yummy things like mp5. However, you typically get more bang for your buck with Spellpower.)