Well my druid got shipped to Bloodhoof Alliance side, to play with my sister and her boyfriend. Who doesn't want to play a game with their sibling right? I ended up doing a few heroics solo, later on her boyfriend logged in and we fired another out.
This morning however I got to do a slew of heroics with them. One of them being the most challenging imo of all the heroics out for WOTLK. From a healers aspect, there's an emense amount of multi target healing, along with decursing the whole way. I really feel that the Druid is the go to healer to have there. I was really having to spread Rejuv, Lifebloom and Wildgrowth among the 5 of us, along with some nourish spam on the tank, and sometimes myself if an add wasn't picked up immediately.
This differs from the Pit Of Saron pulls after the second boss going up the hill. I learned very quickly that you cannot be idle on that particular string of pulls. Once the mobs start hellfiring you really have to crank out heals. Once it starts I find myself laying a Rejuv, then Nourish on every target taking damage. I lay a rejuv and start railing them with heals. Hit the next person, rejuv and rail with heals. After the initial round of Rejuv+Nourish, I can then slap a wildgrowth on the group and just continue to heal with Nourish bombs alone. I really feel that clicking your spells on those strings of pulls really would set you back in comparison to using your keyboard or mouseovers, where you can really page through group members, fire and move on very rapidly.
Indeed HOR, is alot different, where you have to blanket many heals onto people. The bosses are a big part of that since you're taking damage throughout the fear.
The Lich King portion of the instance also provides its own unique challenges. Heal too early and too much, and you'll find yourself with aggro getting kicked in the face. Most times because the tank is already negotiating a handful of mobs and overzealous dps is already on the verge of ripping aggro.
Nick (my sisters boyfriend), had expressed that his guild needed people for Saturday morning raids, which was one of the reasons I wanted to move over there, it wasn't anything like ICC raiding, however I do find myself just a mere 300 Gearscore points away from 5k, which would open the door of thought of "I could find myself doing toc10/25, and from there possibly ICC, depending on my luck and fortunes on picking loot up in TOC. From doing a Naxx, Ulduar and most recently a 25VOA, I've grown more comfortable with raid healing. With my paladin I had resigned to the fact that I just couldn't blanket everyone with a heal in a short time, so I would always find myself just healing whomever had taken the most damage, and hope that the other healers would pick up the other people. However, the reputation Druids carry of being incredible raid healers gives itself it's own expectations. I found it a bit intimidating seeing all these people that I could heal in such a short time span, but I simply didn't have the knowledge of how to heal them all on a big scale that a raid requires. Switching to keybinds certainly helped that. The only thing I had to accept at that point was that if people were adamant about shoving themselves into the way far corner, out of my range, well they were just fucked. Accept it for what it is,
"they're simply out of range, and if I don't have a second or two to get into closer proximity, they should have the presence of mind to move in closer. If they die, don't even say shit until the boss is down, and just simply let their ignorant asses know that they shouldn't have crammed themselves way off somewhere in the corner."
In my VOA I was very easily the least geared of all the healers. And I DID come last out of the healers on the meters, but I wasn't that far off from the person just above me. So I didn't think too much of it in any sort of negative way, I just looked at it as "I did pretty damn good, with a bit more gear I'll be up on those meters."
All in all it wasn't bad whatsoever, I enjoyed it even! lol. I'm at the point now where triumph badges have little use for me. I'm sitting on almost a full set of T9, just missing the chest piece via my own decision as I felt the chest out of H.HOR is much better with its stats over the t9 chest. It's now left up to drops. My staff I'm using now is quite adequate, however there's an offhand that drops off Lich King that would complement my dagger I picked up from H.POS, to really crank my Haste up.
I recently made my first Frost Badge purchase with a cloak, not doing ICC raids limits myself to aquiring them via VOA, Heroics and the Weekly Raid, so it'll be a bit of time before I pick up my next item, the trinket. Boots will be a cloth upgrade but an upgrade none the less. Along with some other minor upgrades, that perhaps might do the trick of shoving me to 5k, or near it.
We'll see what happens from there :)
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