Resto yay!

Last night marked my first night of heroics that went well with Grufft healing. It was only my second set of attempts. I was thrust into them a bit soon for my liking the first time. I knew I was getting into instances, just not Heroic ones. I had done almost no healing in the new instances and didn't yet have a feel for WotLK resto druid healing. Kydic and I had just hit 80 a few days before so my toon was outfitted in quest greens and a couple of quest blues. All-in-all I would say that it didn't go poorly... it went horribly. I lost people on trash pulls (it was usually Udderlybeefy which may have been a bit of his own fault not letting the deathknight tank build up a little threat). We finished whichever instance it was (they all look the same to me, like 5 little green bars) and headed over to the new CoT instance, the Culling of Stratholme. This one smoked pole. It was really cool leading up to it and seeing the story line but healing the first boss gave me a fucking ulcer. We never did beat it.

That depressing night lead me to rethink my heal order and read up a bit on Nourish which I was trying to use as a spot heal. I think Nourish was my biggest downfall that night. I now have regrowth glyphed and it seemed to work well for me last night. There's not a ton of use to the glyph, an extra 20% healing from regrowth if regrowth is already active on the recipient. Nourish is slightly less mana than Regrowth and a slightly shorter cast but significantly less healing since I crit Regrowth about 70% of the time. /toss Nourish

The other new heal is Wild Growth... or some such. It is a talent from the resto tree and is quite nice. It's a 5 person HoT that ticks for about 550 hp at the moment. It does have a range aspect so some people may be missed if they're spread out but I don't typically find this to be a problem.

So far from instances, I have walked away with some nice blues. Feral DPS blues :S
Oh... I can't forget Emblems. I'm up to 11 so far. I hesitate to look at how many I need for a piece of gear but I'd venture 30-45 per piece of armor. I hope I'm not far off.