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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Nourish


Way back when I spent most of my time if not nearly all of it healing as a paladin. The revelation of being able to be mobile when healing is still something I'm getting used to. The ability to lay a few hots on a tank thats rushing ahead, and then taking my time to loot mobs without a care is something I've welcomed.
 Often times when I've been healing with the paladin I felt I had to park my ass right onto the tank, since once I start healing, I don't move entirely much at all. So I had to make sure I was set and ready to heal.
 However with the Druid, it doesn't exactly matter. If I'm behind the tank, that's great, generally speaking I rather the rest of the group get smacked around than me.
 Tank runs ahead, I smack a hot on him and go about my business until I want to throw more onto him.
 If anything the advantage of a druid is the premptive heals you can shell out onto something, then move along and pick up whoever was also taking damage. Often times in pug heroics I find that almost always there's a nimrod dps that manages to take 3x the amount of damage the tank does. You can easily slap hots on the tank, slap a regrowth onto the dps that took the damage, and then sit there staring into space on most trash pulls.

 However there are the fights where aoe damage is going wild, and from now healing with a druid at 80, I can see why they really shine. If I had been on my pally (before beacon) I can totally see that sort of fight being really stressing. But with this class you have an aoe hot, and then can roll a series on every person.
 However my new love is Nourish. My first Heroic Pit Of Saron, on tyrannus the tank started taking heavy damage. I had rejuve and 2 stacks of lifebloom. I slapped a swiftmend, and then started railing Nourish into him. BAM BAM BAM BAM 9k 9k 9k 9k. I loved it. It was everything I loved about healing on a paladin, but rolled into a quick cast that benefits from hots. I can control how big of a Nourish Bomb I want to lay into someone, this is something that other classes suffer from, but where druids shine.

 It's something I definitely have taken a liking to, however as people who really know me understand, I hate requesting, regearing and so on. I was fortunate with my rogue in that I had constant humor and fun on vent to curb my distaste of heroic grinding. However at the moment healing especially with this class is holding my attention firm. I can't remember the last time that I wanted to shell out heroics just to get a single piece of gear!

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