OH! A healer meme?! How cute!
See, I’m lame and no one tags me. So I guess… I’ll just pretend someone did…
Oh thanks, Mr. Sushicookie, you tagged me? Sure I’ll fill out this meme-cypher thinger. And I will not follow rules properly since I don’t really watch that many non-druid blogs and tag Miyoh from april-morning.net.  I’ll tag Matticus too if he’s not already tagged. If he is, I’ll just pretend it was from me and skip off in my own world. And… tagging healers on my guild forums and WoW Moms.
Check out everyone else who’s filled it out!

  • What is the name, class, and spec of your primary healer? Sersokhi, Druid, Resto. I do however also have a Holy Priest I just retired from raiding.
  • What is your primary group healing environment? (i.e. raids, pvp, 5 mans) Raids. Sometimes 5 mans. I really just don’t have time to do too many 5-man groups. And I don’t need anything from them so they’re kind of just a waste of time unless I’m helping get badges/gear for a friend.
  • What is your favorite healing spell for your class and why? Lifebloom! I abuse the heck out of this spell! Playing resto back in MC days you had three spells, and you used like 6 ranks of said spells. That was your choice, and forget aoe healing. Unless you call rolling Rejuv on everyone aoe healing. Lifebloom came along and made a lot things easier, and easier on my mana pool!
  • What healing spell do you use least for your class and why? Healing Touch. This is another spell that I used to downrank like crazy four years ago. I had about 3 Healing touches on my bar and I used them like Flash Heals. Back then you could use low ranked Healing Touch and it have a faster cast time. Now, it just feels more situational. I use it when a tnak is tanking large hits and I already have all my hots on them. I used it with Nature’s Swiftness too for an emergency big heal. But that’s about it.
  • What do you feel is the biggest strength of your healing class and why? Hots hots hots hots hots! Also, mobility. I’m the only healing class that can do my job well while running around the room. Heck most trees I watch run in circles. I think being a tree makes you fidgety.
  • What do you feel is the biggest weakness of your healing class and why? Hots. I will toss a hot on someone who has 15% of their life missing, and a priest will go an flash heal them to full totally wasting my perfectly good hot. >:( It would have worked, people!! So then I’m lower on meters because jerks keep overhealing me!
  • In a 25 man raiding environment, what do you feel, in general, is the best healing assignment for you? I can do any of them. I don’t mind raid healing, it’s pretty easy most fights. Tank healing is also a breeze. Hot tank, cast nourish/healing touch when needed. I usually get assigned a tank, though I also toss hots around the raid- because it gets boring just tank healing. I was always raid healing on my Holy Priest, I guess they are only good for CoH. (I know that’s a lie.)
  • What healing class do you enjoy healing with most and why? My druid, it’s just more fun for me. I can run around and still heal. And I get to look like a very angry tree while I do it.
  • What healing class do you enjoy healing with least and why? Paladins. They have like 3 heals or something. I don’t even know. I refuse to try it on my little Ret-tard. A flash heal from art of war proc occasionally is all people will ever get out of him. Just seems really boring.
  • What is your worst habit as a healer? Assuming the disc priest standing next to me, not casting, will throw a bubble on someone. Then I hot them, and they die. When I should have just used Regrowth. Also I don’t use swiftmend much at alll. :X
  • What is your biggest pet peeve in a group environment while healing? Being told who needs a heal. I obviously have raid frames and I can see people need heals. Or in 5-mans when someone says “heal me”. Like I’m not doing that? Also, when people pull while I am drinking. I’m not standing up to chase you down, wasting my drink, if you ran away from me. You can tank that till you’re 20% hp, ya jerk.
  • Do you feel that your class/spec is well balanced with other healers for PvE healing? In some ways. Other classes definitely can do some aspects better, but so can I. Coming from a holy Priest raiding for two years back to my druid was definitely a learning curve.
  • What tools do you use to evaluate your own performance as a healer? I watch Bru! >.> Yeah… that’s my secret. I used to be a pretty damn good druid. But it’s been difficult getting back into the grove since playing a priest. So if I feel like I’m not performing my best I check him out on the WWS. :P
  • What do you think is the biggest misconception people have about your healing class? Assuming because I wear leather, I’m not as squishy. Having played a priest, then a druid. I had way more survivability on my priest. Not that I die much at all on my druid either. But I can get whacked pretty freaking hard. At least a priest has a bubble and Prayer of Mending to bounce of themselves. I have.. a barkskin? That reduces said damage by only 20%. Great.
  • What do you feel is the most difficult thing for new healers of your class to learn? How to preheal. A lot of druids fail at healing because they look at it like any other healing class. You loose hp, I replenish it. And you can’t do that with a druid all the time. You have to be ready for it. You have to pay more attention to how much raid damage is going on and make sure you have all the hots in place.
  • If someone were to try to evaluate your performance as a healer via recount, what sort of patterns would they see (i.e. lots of overhealing, low healing output, etc)?I don’t think evaluating a druid on recount is fair. Considering I get healed over sometimes. I cast a lot more nourishes than I should, and that’s just trying to lose that crutch of Flash Heal from my priest. You could probably tell I’m a hybrid healer, as I play the hots game sometimes but in a bind I start healing priestly with Nourish and Regrowth instead of stacking my hots up. I’m still working on the transition. :P
  • Haste or Crit and why? Both, balanced maybe a lil more haste. Though lately it seems to hard to find too much haste gear. There’s a soft haste cap, I’m around that- and then there is a lot of crit that I probably have too much of. A lot of druid gear isn’t as balanced as I would like it. I’m only rolling with a 2-piece of T-9 because I like some off-set pieces better.
  • What healing class do you feel you understand least? Shamans and Paladins. Mostly shamans because I have never been able to level one past 30. They’re just… blah! Paladins because I refuse to try it.
  • What add-ons or macros do you use, if any, to aid you in healing? Vuhdo! I love vuhdo. And I love binding all my heals to my mouse, it makes my raid healing reaction time much faster. Some people complain that you need your mouse to move, but there is a strife button, people.
  • Do you strive primarily for balance between your healing stats, or do you stack some much higher than others, and why? It really depends on what niche I fall in for the month. On my priest I started stacking crit and mp5 like crazy for a while. She had something like 1300 mana regen. There was no OOM with her. As a druid- Right now I’m trying to gather up more haste, to get faster regrowths- mmkay? I kind of ignore mana regen also lately, because I’m a druid- it’s not that hard to come by, and I have an innervate. STACK SPELL POWER.

9 Responses to “Healer Cypher”

  1. Ophelie says:

    I don’t know how I missed your blog until now! I totally would have tagged you. (The no-fun people I tagged didn’t even join in)

    A couple of people have mentioned Vudho and they all really seem to like it. Is it very different from Grid+Clique or Healbot?

  2. Sushicookie says:

    Oh cuz I haven’t been around too very long! :) Vuhdo is a lot like Grid/clique or healbot, but it updates and has a faster reaction time I feel. It makes the others pretty much obsolete in many aspects. It also seems to use less ram to run.

  3. Matticus says:

    I saw this going around and hoped someone would secretly tag me. I’ll tackle this sometime later today for a weekend post.

  4. Sushicookie says:

    Oh you’ve been tagged my dwarven friend!

  5. Beruthiel says:

    Why…hello there! I’ve not seen this little corner of the intrawebs before! :) I will have to check back often!

  6. Lath says:

    Sushiecookie! I wanted to tag you but the rule was that you couldn’t tag someone who played the same class as you :( I’m glad you did it anyway!
    Lath´s last blog ..Tag, You’re It! The Healer Cypher My ComLuv Profile

  7. Sushicookie says:

    I know… :( But rules are made to be broken! >.>

  8. [...] to Sushicookie for reaching out and tagging me (as well as sending me a direct tweet about it since I usually miss these things). [...]

  9. Hi, good post. I have been thinking about this issue,so thanks for posting. I’ll definitely be subscribing to your posts.

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