Hi there!
After many if’s and buts I’ve decided a few weeks ago that I am maining a druid.
I was choosing between priest, mage and druid. I wanted a cloth class really because of the awesome t-mog. I wanted mage because of good pvp and DPS burst. I wanted priest since they heal. Ended up with druid because I like the story, like the versitility, and also… I want do DPS but I usually fall back into healing.
Right now I heal in PVP situations. And I’d say I’m pretty decent. I’ve soon got 1,4 areana 2v2 rating. I’m a defensive healer and I’m good at kiting and staying alive!
In PVE I DPS curerntly as balance. However it just now struck me, that I think I suck?? Not only as a DPS but as a healer.
People talking about resto druids doing so much dmg? Like wtf? I’m a returning player from WoTLK… healer good at dpsing? Since when did we healers dps if u were a disc priest?
So now I need you guys help. What’s a good healing pve rotation where I also can dps alot? And… what’s a good balance rotation so that I can top the DPS lists in PVE?
Give me all of your tips! I want to hear them all! I wanna master the class of druid! And also… Please! If you think I should go feral instead of balance as dps! Hola at me and motivate why!
heal druids usually catweave means they heal and when the group doesnt need healing they aoe/attack in catform. its not uncommon for healers to run dmg essences/corruptions as well. (this isnt exclusive to resto druid though)
but dealing a lot of dps isnt really important until you run m 20+ imo. i just moon, solar and wrath it when i got time to spare (without dmg essences or corruptions) and i do just fine arround m+15.
you can also read up some guides if you want. or watch some videos, helps quite a bit.
I can highly recommend to use Grid and Clicque when healing, it just makes everything SO much easier especially if you are new at healing. It’s also helping on catweaving because you free a lot of spells off your hotbar
There is a lot of setup guides in youtube. I personally used Madskillz setup guide (though he talks somewhat fast ) Check it out
I will definitly check this out Questina!
Although I was a healer back in the days, and I used Healbot then, and hehe… well I do use healbot now aswell!
Note! I’ve healed M+7-9 without complications! but… I never done dps at the same time haha.
I have been a loyal healbot user for years. And thought I needed a change. So I tried Madskillz suggestions, and man it is so much better actually, I wish I had started out with this
To do healing and DPS on the same time, kinda requires a set group of people. In my experience it gets hard in pugs because a LOT of people either do not know mechanics or just doesn’t care. If you do NOT have time for anything but healing, it is almost always not your fault (unless you don’t really have the gear to keep up ofc)
Just give it time and practice. Pop down in catform when u feel u have the time and get some dps in, but focus on getting confident with healing first.
Assuming you’re not trying to push 20+ keys you don’t need to do DPS at the same time - Just throwing out a sunfire on group pulls is enough to literally do like 10k damage from literally 1 damage ability…
Just focus on keeping your team alive, practising will let you find time to catweave because you’ll see the pattern of when damage does and doesn’t income. But it’s not your main role to be doing mad DPS, especially if you’re a newer druid.
I haven’t played much this patch, but I assume everything I said still applies as it has for years.
I despise this “Healer has to dps” meta. If a healer can safely bail out their teammates from too large pulls, it’s great.
But unless you’re going for genuinely high keys, talking about 23+, or if you’re a mistweaver monk and the only monk in the party, you don’t have to dps every single time.
That being said, druid is insanely good at dpsing, since most of their heals come through hots and said hots do keep on ticking, even when you’re rakeing and ripping. Unless there’s huge spikes of damage coming in, there’s rarely a situation where a wild growth, two rejuvs and a lifebloom don’t do the job, afterwards you’re free to rake in some points of damage.
You don’t suck, you just haven’t practiced enough. If you care enough to do the research and practice, you’ll manage to be at the very least pretty decent at just about anything. And well, if you don’t, you don’t, that’s also fine.
Thank you so much for confident boost and info everyone!
If someone whats to write or link a written guide, please do! I feel like reading is my way to learn and most of it all is on youtube where people talk hella fast! I just need like you know
1.) Keep x & y up on x-person.
2.) go in to cat form - do x-attack then y-attack!..
Like I’ve never touched the feral side of druid haha!
QuestionablyEpic has a nice guide on catweaving: https://questionablyepic.com/restodruid-catweaving/.
I’m not playing my druid much this season, but the little I do, was made infinitely nicer by this guide. I used to hate feral affinity, and went with balance instead in S3, but once practicing a bit based on the guide’s suggestions, kitty form is starting to grow on me.
) Check it out 