Hi! I’ve just got into healing raids, but I struggle to perform well. Im on resto druid, ilvl 680, doing normal raid. I’m doing fine, but other healers (typically around 686-695 ilvl) are doing 60-100 mil healing, while I’m doing 25-30 mil. Even tanks are healing more than me. I don’t have raid set yet, but I don’t understand why I’m performing so badly. I’ve watched guides and I’m trying my best to heal well and to copy others actions.
I’ve tried other healers too, including resto shaman that I’ve mained for quite a long time in the past, so I know how to play it. Still same pitiful results
Is that ilvl thing or what? Please help me understand!
Getting good raid healing logs is all about sniping heals before other healers get their heals off on players. It’s quite degenerate and doesn’t necessarily indicate that healer A is X times better than the rest. Also, especially on normal and heroic difficulty, the highest HPS logs usually involve a low number of healers, so that there’s more damage that can be healed. It’s riskier, but allows big HPS numbers to be pumped.
You could check on https://lorrgs.io/ to see when healers with the best HPS logs blast their cooldowns and then set up in-game timers with https://wowutils.com/viserio-cooldowns.
On normal, healing requirements are very low, so it’s difficult to learn when the bosses do a lot of damage just by looking at the raid group’s health frames.
Honestly, don’t worry too much about raid HPS. As long as you know when the big boss healing checks are and you’re doing your resto druid ramps correctly, and you’re using your focused spot heals (Swiftmend?) on people in danger, and you’re combat rezzing instantly whenever needed, you’re good.
One big thing to understand is that healing has a rotation. you’re not supposed to just sit around and wait for people to drop low before doing anything. If you do that, you’ll always be behind and your output will suffer.
Think of healing as proactive rather than reactive. You should always be doing something.
Don’t be afraid to overheal a bit. Overhealing is expected. You need to maintain pressure. You manage your mana and cooldowns so you can afford to keep healing. Don’t heal only when it’s “needed”. Track the boss mechanics and precast big cooldowns right before big damage happens. But manage your mana.
You’re a few ilvls behind, gear make a difference. But the gap you’re seeing is likely more about your mindset and uptime.
Yeah, especially as resto druid, you need to know when the boss does damage and ramp up on time. Some other healers can kinda get away with healing only when player health bars start dropping, but for resto druid, that’s not ideal.
I’ve raided with 2 other restos last raid an their biggest heals came from Regrowth, which was quite suprisiing for me - I was relying on rejuvenation, wild growth and other hots. Is there something wrong with my approach?
And overhealing doesn’t make much sense when everyone is healthy? I come from FFXIV and the idea there is “the only HP that matters is the last one”. And here in wow am I supposed to keep healing when whole raid is 100%? I thought I’d better do damage in such moments, throwing hots moments before damage spikes
Because Resto Druid is the most HoT-based of the healer specializations, in order to maximize potential output and (more importantly) chance of saving someone, you have to keep HoTs active.
At the same time, for almost 10 years we have entered the manafree era. Mana has not been a limiting factor for a very long time. The only times it can become limiting is in extremely fringe cases of superhigh end pushing. For more than 99.99% of players, the concept of “out of mana” is undefinable; mana is infinite. So you never are afraid of running oom like in the past, which was the major punishing system of overhealing.
Not a profi druid here but you should try taking advantage of your Mastery - the more hots you have on a target, the more healing you do on the target.
So you have to pre-HoT people before damage happens so your burst is stronger. I have only played Rdruid in PvP but I can imagine you will have to spend quite a lot of time pre-HoTting all the people in a raid.
