Say hello. Allow all party members a moment for preparation. Wait for the tank to pull each group of enemies. Ensure the healer has enough mana for each pull. Stay out of the “fire.” Monitor your threat. Be patient. Stay until the end if you start the instance. Be courteous to the other party members. [...]

A group consisting of a well geared tank and excellent DPS will still struggle to clear content if the healer is not up to the task of keeping everyone alive. On the other hand an excellent healer will allow even an under-geared group the time needed to down mobs and bosses…

Miss Medicina posted a questionnaire asking healers about various aspects of what they like and do not like about healing. While the concept is meme-ish in nature, I decided to weigh in with my thoughts without being tagged first (partially because it is a rarity that I get tagged in the first place and partly [...]

Learning to heal as any class can be an intimidating venture, but learning to heal as a Restoration Druid seems even more daunting for many simply due to the wide range of styles and preferences available. While this guide will not be meant as an examination of the only effective way to heal, it is [...]

There is much debate over how to measure a healer’s performance. Some utilize healing meters, some go by the old adage that “if no one dies the healer must be good,” some actually attempt to run prospective healers through trials and see how they fare, and some don’t even bother to think twice about it. [...]

There is one indispensable tool within my arsenal of abilities in World of Warcraft: the macro. I utilize key bindings that call macros to perform actions on my target for practically every healing ability, but there is one in particular that I would be extremely lost without. Quoted below is the macro, with an explanation [...]

There are numerous places for people to find mountains of semi-useful and useless information with regards to class mechanics, how-to guides on end-game playing, quick ways to level, and breakdowns of talents and spells. While the end-game is certainly an important aspect of play, especially given how quickly a determined player can reach the level [...]

Druids and Priests are known for their sheer healing power in a multitude of settings, but they achieve results with quite different healing styles. Even among themselves there are many different ways to approach healing, such as the Druid who emphasizes HoTs versus the Druid who emphasizes powerful direct heals, or the Holy Priest versus [...]

There are two major skills that good healers and good tanks share: situational awareness and adaptive response. When combining these traits with a thorough understanding of game and class mechanics a player is easily spotted and remembered among those with whom they have grouped. Druids have always been quite a versatile class to play, but [...]

Part one set the stage for delving into the single most important skill any healer should work to master: adaptive healing. With the proliferation of ten man raiding there is no longer a strict set of healing assignments, but rather a reliance on healers who know and understand their class and skills well enough to [...]