Boosted a druid.. Did I make a mistake?

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There are so many buttons I get lost. I want to be a resto druid main this expansion but having 2nd thoughts.

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Nah you’ll be fine. Watch Growl’s guide for resto druid on youtube, you’ll be healing a dungeon in no time.

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Watch some guides, practice a bit, and always remember; no matter what the dps say, it is not your fault, and most likely the fault of the loudest dps. :slight_smile:

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Just like with everything in life you cant expect to be amazing at something youre new at, you can give yourself an edge by watching guides beforehand but its all a learning curve, resto is very fluid in its heals just keep learning.

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Any multi role class is going to have a tremendous amount of buttons, it’ll take some time to get used to it; but you’ll get there. I don’t know how Shadow Priest compares, but when I came back it was also a bit overwhelming compared to pure DPS classes.

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Sorry but it can indeed be a healers fault stop spreading lies.

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well since druid is the best class in rest of druid is the best druid you have made the right choice.

you might want to check out questionably epic they’re very solid choice for restoration information although it’s not a beginner’s guide.

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Supposedly they’re the “best” M+ healers. But everytime I do AA they struggle to heal the tree boss. I can heal through that boss and end the fight with over 80% mana so I don’t believe the hype.

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Just focus on your spec. Yes setup the bars for your other shapeshift forms but apart from that just ignore them. Your resto so just be resto. I play balance. Bear is setup for emergencies akd cat too but I don’t even think about those forms unless I’m in real danger. As for healing i just keep an eye on my bar. Lookin shifty? Rejuvenate swift rejuvenate and back to moonfarr

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That’s the problem with boosting. Easier to learn if you level from level 1 instead of getting all your abilities and talents at once. It can be too much especially as a Druid.

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IMO I think it was a mistake.
Better to roll a new class and level from 1 so you dont get overwhelmed by all the new buttons, as you seem to be now.
I recommend only boosting if youre rolling a class you already know.

But druid is fun and worth rolling. Just takes some getting used to.

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Download vuhdo addon and your basically done. Concentrate on healing and ignore damage buttons completely.

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Imo definitely better to get those buttons one at a time while levelling, but to each their own

Invest in making help/harm macros and that’ll reduce your keybinds by half

Ie starsurge when targetting enemy, wild growth when targetting ally
Lifebloom/moonfire
Rejuv/rake
Regrowth/ferocious bite

Etc etc

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I tried a resto druid back in bfa cause I thought they were cool. They’re cool until you try to play one, I didn’t give it much of a shot… I got pretty stressed out even in normals. I guess I just don’t like the healer playstyle or something. if you’re new to healing definitely don’t try to dps and heal. Start with healing only or people will probably die.

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You didn’t make a mistake. You made a choice. Druids are great. You’ll figure it out. Different forms get their own action bars, and you don’t need every ability in every form.

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If you want less buttons, play tiddlywinks.

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NGL, druids have LOTS of buttons.
BUT, you don’t really use all of them as resto unless your doing some weaving, and weaving isn’t really something you need unless your in some truly difficult endgame content.

You CAN go all out and throw up moonfire, and sunfire, and then turn into cat and pop in rake, thrash and rip, and then maybe throw out some wraths while energy recharges and then redo moonfire and sunfire then go cat again… etc etc… Or you can just moonfire and sunfire when you get a chance an work on it one step at a time.

To be clear, there’s an endless debate on here as to whether healers should even push moonfire and sunfire or be ‘dedicated healers’ who never dps…

But I’m off topic.

TLDR take it slow and just work on keeping people up with your hots and swiftmend, cycling through cooldowns as needed, and not worrying about much else until your very comfortable with it.

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One does not choose a Druid to main. The Druid chooses you. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Druids can definitely be overwhelming. Lots of keys, forms you gotta switch to, etc.

Just need to keep practicing and figure out a keybind/macro setup you can get used to.

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yes you did