Comments on: Why I Use the “Wrong” Glyph

By: Rakkar

Rakkar — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:56:36 +0000

DPS is science, healing is art, tanking is strategy. It is amazing how much truth is in that statement:
I know my average DPS will increase by 0.0001% if I switch out that gem.
Missing health caused my old raidframe to have black holes, and i filled them with color.
When tanking, I see my whole environment, knowing what will happen next, cooly calculating my moves.
So yeah, if a certain glyph fits your painting style better than the one that has been number crunched to yield 0.0001% more brush strokes per minute – then you should absolutely use it.

By: khizzara

khizzara — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:23:07 +0000

I used the Regrowth glyph all through Tier 11 because I was too lazy/cheap to swap glyphs out on Chimaeron all the time. I’ve gone back to the Lifebloom glyph for Firelands because there just aren’t many situations where people sit below 50%, so usually Regrowth drops off without being refreshed.

Lifebloom seems like a lacklustre glyph because I don’t really think of Lifebloom as providing much healing. It just feels like a buff I keep up in order to get other benefits. However, I just looked over our last few raid logs and Lifebloom is my number 3 heal! That honestly surprises me, but it makes me feel like the glyph is a much better choice than I thought.

By: Analogue

Analogue — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:59:41 +0000

Yeah, I checked him out. Now I have gear envy. Sigh. I really am thinking about a respec… just have to remember to do it…

By: koalabear21

koalabear21 — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:30:18 +0000

true

but it might give her some ideas!

By: repgrind

repgrind — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:28:50 +0000

Zarm is not human.

By: koalabear21

koalabear21 — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:09:28 +0000

Have you checked out Zarm’s stuff? That dude is an insane druid healer

By: Analogue

Analogue — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:08:12 +0000

Mostly just talking I’m always thinking about how I can improve or stretch myself though.

By: koalabear21

koalabear21 — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:59:29 +0000

hmmmm

were you wanting to change up your healing style or just talking about how you heal?

By: Analogue

Analogue — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:58:26 +0000

Not any more, but I do use two mana regen trinkets and Innervate like it’s going out of style.

If I have time to heal someone up, I drop a Rejuv on them then Nourish or HT them to health. If they are really low and I don’t know for sure that I have 7 seconds, I drop a Regrowth. That’s also my strategy if I have a bunch of people to heal.

On one of our best attempts on Ryolith last week, Rejuv way outhealed Regrowth for me. But I didn’t use Nourish or HT hardly at all, so I was using Regrowth and SW as my “direct” heals that fight.

By: koalabear21

koalabear21 — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:48:51 +0000

I used to use Regrowth constantly when I healed on my druid in the beginning of Cata. I didn’t have the patience for Rejuv to heal people up. I eventually just got tired of druid healing and switched to priest healing lol.

Are you still having mana issues?