One thing I’ve oft said when referring to my old druid is that I did not like healing with her.  Something about hots etc. just didn’t click for me.

However, I promised myself that I’d do some pvp whilst levelling 60-70 in an effort to have some honor when I hit 70 for my pvp tanking items.  Now, a level 62 druid has little chance of damaging anything in kitty or baer so I figured - hey, I might as well be useful and heal!

Now, of course, I’m used to healing in bg’s with Avarix (my shammy) who has a lot more oomph to his heals but I started to find it oddly satisfying to hop in, throw a few hots into the fray, and hit some big heals before I was inevitably mortal squished by some Tauren warrior.

So - now I’m actually keeping a third set (kitty, baer, resto) as I level.  I’d done this, sorta, on Mharai but it had been a case of making sure I had something for all slots for ‘healing’ in my bank with more heed paid to how it looked than it’s value as healing gear.

A few runs in Slave Pens / Underbog netted my new little druid some tasty feral items along with the utterly awesome looking [Coilfang Hammer of Renewal] and [Tunic of the Nightwatcher] which, along with some crafted gear and quest rewards (for which there was no feral alternative) has brought me up to a whopping ~350 +heal *ahem*.

Now, my first love as a druid will always be feral - I love the challenge of tanking and shredding things kitty-style, but I’ve found a new fondness for the resto side.  I’m really not sure why I’ve suddenly found an ‘understanding’ or any enjoyment with druid healing.

I suspect that because I’ve now had another healer whom I enjoy playing and have had some experience with the ‘flow of damage’ in a fight, that I now find it easier to deal with triksy hots.

For a first time healer, in my opinion, or someone doing druid off-healing, hots are hard to fathom - you need to know how much all of that hot will tick for or have a good idea at least.  Priest, shammy and paladin healing has a much more immediate effect in terms of a persons health boost (I know priests have hots, too, but they tend to be stopgaps from what I’ve seen) and it’s easier, in my opinion, to judge how and when to heal.  As a druid, healing a group seems much more preemptive in nature.

Anywas, I’ll stop rambling now before I make a fool of my little nooblet-druid-healery self and leave it at the fact that I now have an eye on learning a bit about the leafy side of druiding.

I never thought I’d say that…