I am a noob at this game, and I can’t seem to heal properly. My friends try to help me but I still can’t manage to maintain or retain the advice they give me to git gud… I am a resto druid and I don’t know the talents, nor the rotation to use properly… What addons would you guys recommend for a scrub like myself? Thanks
Go over to the druid forums and ask over there. It might take a little long for a response but it will probably be helpful. There are website that can help, do some searching around.
I wouldn’t bother with a healing add on myself. I use the built in frames and mouseover macros. The things to use though is what works best for you to efficiently hand out heals. Learn your spells and what they do. The sky is the limit.
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Read all your spells thoroughly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF4WbLi4vaM&ab_channel=MadSkillzzTV
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The first stop is the class Discord.
https://discord.gg/Dreamgrove
This is the Druid one. I can’t speak for it personally, but the Warlock one is extremely active and all the information in it is up to date.
READ THE RESOURCES FIRST.
If you ask a basic question like “what talents should I use”, you will inevitably be told “go read the FAQ/Resources”.
Once you’ve got the theory under your belt, the next step is practice. Practice in easy content til that content becomes easy, then practice in slightly harder.
No-one in WoW became good overnight. It’s a game built on theory and muscle memory.
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I was just about to post this! The Dreamgrove is an excellent place for Weakauras and other tools, and the users there tend to be friendly and open to giving advice.
There are separate rooms for each spec, so you can tailor your questions for it.
It is very active!
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Had to give that disclaimer since I haven’t used the Dreamgrove personally.
Though I have heard good things about it and pretty much every class discord in regards to activity and accuracy, it’s become the main hub for every class. I can personally attest that the Warlock discord is fantastic and is where I get most of my information about the class.
Which I’m a big fan of. It’s nice to have the class communities concentrated in one easily accessible place instead of having half a dozen different websites to piece together halfway reliable information.
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The only specific advice I could give would be switching over to mouseover healing. A lot of people use addons, but I don’t think it’s necessary.
Stock UI frames with macros like this were how I healed in other games though I have no experience healing in WoW:
/cast [@mouseover, exists] Regrowth; Regrowth
Aside from that, go to the discord above, watch a guide or read icy-veins or wowhead’s guides, and just play the game. You’ll get a feel for your CDs so you don’t have to stare at your bars so much the more you play. You’ll find out what outgoing damage will look like at different points in a dungeon or raid, but you’ll just have to experience it to get a feel for it on your own. The people you see with CE, on glad mounts, or timing +20s play the game a lot and have mostly played for a long time.
Ohhhh Yeah. I almost forgot until Awkward said, “practice”. If you want to get practice handing out heals do epic battlegrounds and follow the biggest group. The healing proving ground is excellent for getting practice, it’s almost exactly like healing a pug group. Do it until you can get comfortable in silver.
Try using addons like Clique or Vuhdo.
Do your research. Find some video guides, but don’t forget to read some text guides too. Icy-veins is a good starting place.
Watching someone of a higher caliber playing your class/spec is a double edge sword. Learn from them, don’t try to mimic them.
Lastly is practice. You won’t get good if you sit in Oribos planning and learning the mechanics of fights is very important.
Damage is predicable. If you are prepared for it, you’re winning.
This is not financial advice. 
Don’t actually play the game… Just play the forums and pretend you are better than you actually are by telling other people to “git gud”
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Good advice to use mouseover healing, but disagree with not using addons. Clique does exactly what you’re describing, but makes the process far easier. Also allows you to easily create the functionality help/harm macros without actually setting up the macro (which can be confusing for new players).
I use Clique on my shaman, addon that makes healing much easier. Hotkeys you use for attacks can also heal when your mouse hovers a unit frame. On that note consider ElvUI or some other add on that lets you move unit frames, you want your party frames in the middle of the screen so you can quickly hover them to heal.
I don’t play Druid much, but one thing I can say is that you want to keep HoTs rolling on the party. It’s different than reactive healing in a dungeon like on other classes, it’s proactive and a bit harder if you are new.
Easy!
$ git clone <URL_TO_GUD>/gud
…hic!
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Icy Veins usually has some good info.
h@tps://www.icy-veins.com/wow/restoration-druid-pve-healing-guide
(replace the @ in h@tps wth a t)
The only advice I can give is don’t use the class forums
Avoid that place like the plague
Just fork the repo:
https://github.com/benthayer/git-gud
(For those who are curious, it’s actually a command line tool to teach people how to use Git)
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