My Druid is level 56, about to be 57, and I have started healing dungeons. I downrank my spells according to what WoWhead suggests
Healing Touch ranks 4, 6 and Max
Regrowth ranks 5 and Max
Rejuv rank max
I try to keep Rejuv and Regrowth (Rank 5) on the tank and I try to heal the group with Healing Touch 4 (Or 6 / max if it’s needed)
I seem to run out of mana rather quickly, and I mean like really quickly.
Can any druids out there give me any advice? I really like my druid and I want to be good at her =(
It’ll get better as you get more +heal on gear because your downranked heals will hit harder. Additionally, the gear and skill of your tank will make just as big an impact on your mana usage as your own gear.
Additionally, don’t be afraid to innervate yourself whenever necessary.
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Those ranks are very very wrong. You should not be using regrowth AT ALL until you’re rolling hots on tanks. You don’t have the mana pool for that yet. You should be using Rank 3 max for consistent healing, and Rank 5 if someone needs a big heal. Rejuv should be max rank, and make sure to swiftmend near the end to get the maximum value.
With using these strategies, you can find yourself sitting around for 10 seconds not healing, especially with a rejuv rolling for 12 seconds. Try to maximize time outside of the 5 second rule, as a Druid’s mana reg inside the 5SR is bad compared to a class like Priest.
At a low level like this, you need to be as efficient as possible, and low rank HT will be your best friend.
I disagree. The ranks of Healing Touch are fine - it’s what I used, myself, without much issue. Rank 3 Healing Touch receives reduced spell power from +heal gear, Rank 4 and up don’t suffer from that.
I agree with regards to Regrowth. It requires too much mana to be used often. At that point I would throw out a rank 3 regrowth early in most pulls and then used either Rejuv or Healing Touch. But definitely, relying on Regrowth is going to cause him to OOM too fast for many pulls.
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Rank 4 typically results in bad habits and way too much overhealing. It should not be used as the main heal, as you will run OOM if you consistently cast it. The HPS may be higher, but so is the mana cost. Someone still leveling really shouldn’t be using it. The point is basically that you’re wasting mana upping your HPS to a point it does not need to be at.
I used Rank 2 HT personally all the way through leveling up to level 60. It’s extremely mana efficient, but I wouldn’t suggest it due to HPS being too low. I paired that with Rank 4 as the “big heal” and did fine.
I tried using rank 2 HT, but it wasn’t really doing much and I felt like I had to sit and spam it.
I did go down to rank 3 regrowth and it seemed to help a bit. I was mostly just using it on the tank to keep them safe while I healed the group with HT.
If you dont have over 200+ healing, downranking isn’t worth your time. Downranking is for geared players.
Higher rank spells have higher healing per mana spent generally, with low amounts of +heal. You’d then only downrank near the end of a pull when you’re oom and need to cast something, anything.
So, in general, max rank heal them, put hots, and then get outside the 5 second rule to regen mana instead of trying to chain downrank.
A max rank regrowth and rejuvenation hot can keep a tank up for quite some time, assuming they aren’t playing stupid and taking unnecessary damage.
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If you have to throw more than 1 or 2 heals on the party then they aren’t playing correctly, or the tank isn’t tanking correctly.
This is my experience as well. I healed on my druid all throughout vanilla without ever even being aware that down ranking was desirable. However, we did use CC on a regular basis.
I’d argue that if everything is going perfectly then you aren’t having enough fun. Not dying not trying 
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There’s a difference between a bad pull and just scraping by and running oom because all the DPS have their own targets and are play PVP with the damage meters.
Besides, if anyone dies with a druid healer, its a run back for them, as they can only do one rez, in combat, every 30 minutes. I don’t see many druid healers past the lvl 20 bracket until you get to raiding. A paladin/priest/shaman healer is much better for 5 man content and a druid should be tanking to have the most success. This especially important for long dungeons like BRD because once you get so far in, anyone who dies and cannot be resurrected may as well leave the group.
In dungeons I used rank 4 HT, max rank HT, regrowth/rejuv max rank. Barely use rank 3 since you need to spam it resulting in you not getting your mana regen after 5sec.
If the tank isnt too squishy, or the pull too big, you can just use rejuv without regrowth as he pull. Then patch with max rank HT when he needs or heal with Rank 4 HT the dps that get hit by something.
My rule is to cast as fewer spells as possible to be able to regen mana after 5 second not casting.
Ofc it will get wayyyyy better once you get good gear! Downranking works better with +heal (id say 400+)
Just as a follow up to demonstrate why downranking is a trap until you have enough +healing:
At 0 healing and no talents, since talents affect all ranks equally-
Max rank HT heals for an average of 2086, at 720 mana, giving 2.897 health per mana.
Rank 6 HT heals for an average of 838 at 335 mana, giving 2.501 health per mana.
Rank 4 HT heals for an average of 417, at 185 mana, giving 2.256 health per mana.
If your typical mediocre geared druid with stat gear and no + heal has about 4k mana, they can heal 11,591 health before going oom with max rank, 10,005 before going oom with rank 6, and only 9027 before going oom with rank 4.
You can do 28.4% more healing with max rank before going oom than you can with rank 4. This is in addition to max rank healing for more which allows you to wait longer between casts and regenerate mana for even more healing.
The story is the same for Rejuv and Regrowth.
Downranking is a trap for newbies. Ignore the guides that say to do it, they are leading you to fail.
Downranking should not be used until you have ample +healing to bring the Health per mana of lower rank spells high enough to offset the base efficiency and 5 second rule advantage of higher rank spells. Or, if you absolutely must heal now and dont have the mana for a max rank heal.
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Thanks a lot =D, I’ll try sticking to max ranks to see how that goes =)
I also only have 155 + healing.
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Google “ozgar downranking tool” it will let you know the exact HpM of all ranks of your spells as a function of your gear and spec. Personally, until i get about 300 + healing, I use a Max rank rejuv and a high rank healing touch on the main tank, and then wait as long as is safe before healing again, so that I can benefit from the 5 second rule.
Dont follow the downranking tools.
They are garbage…
I agree with most of what Jtgam has said. Once you’re raid geared you can look at using max rank rejuv+rg on MT’s and rank 8 rejuv, rank 5 RG for raid healing with your bread an butter being rank 4 HT. If you precast you should have not too many issues healsniping average priests while keeping your overhealing low. Ideally you also want to swiftmend a target at the end of a max rank rejuv
look up videos on youtube I watched all of melderons Resto shaman videos and now I top parse heals on him and know every trick in the book. But I’m sure there is a youtuber out there for druids. Overall though youre a healer you want to be going oom every pull (depending if your tank is doing big pulls, if he doesn’t then you should be going oom for 2-3 pulls I think), if youre not then youre not doing as much healing as you could. Not having much or any Raid gear is the main reason for going oom very quickly though.