As long as you only heal 5-mans spellpower is about the only thing you have to focus on as long as you don’t mind drinking. If you start healing raids mana regen through pure MP5 or spirit is very much needed for you to last through the fights but I think you’re fine for starting out on the easier parts of Naxx. That’s also when haste starts to get needed, mainly when you’re on the raid, and what you want to look for is to get the GCD down to 1s (with the help of GotE ofc).

One thing I’ve found useful when doing CoS as a healer though is to keep Thorns on yourself all the time. That way all those zombies will die after only hitting you 2-3 times and that is most helpful.

I hit level 80, and knowing I wanted to tank, I got the best pre-heroic gear I possibly could. It wasn’t much, but hey, I had 520 defense and 22k health, and I was feelin’ pretty good. I got gems, enchants, arcanums, and glyphs, and thought I could not have been more prepared. Someone asked me if I would tank their H VH run. I said “Well, I’m a bit new, It’s been about 40 long levels since I tanked anything.” The person, an Orc Warlock, assured me it would be fine.

It turns out no matter how prepared you think you can be, you’re bound to forget something. I would’ve much rather forgotten enchants than forgetting to get a rotation. We wiped on the first boss 4 times before the group broke up and I quit playing my paladin for a few days to get my confidence back.

So, imagine your situation 50x worse: In a group of strangers on a PVP server and actually wiping the group.

I spent the next few weeks working out a rotation in Gnomeregan.

i’ve made myself dual resto now (along with my oomkin….left the ways of the feral finally after 4 yrs!) and its scary going to heal places. i’ve not done many yet as we usually have a great priest with us.

i’ve grabbed a few proper healing items but still using 2/3 oomkin bits of gear.

and yes i’ve already died when healing through completely forgetting about myself /sigh

Anyway, thanks for the welcome…

And as to the old days, yes I had the hybrid spec and swiftmend was my friend. I never healed a 40 man (been Feral since Feral was but a joke to some) but spent many a night in kitty or bear in those organized chaos, DKP driven romps otherwise known as a 40-man. :P

Grats on what I think is a wonderful addition to the game from someone who really turned his nose up at the idea at first!

I am in complete sympathy with your “I forget to heal myself” oversight. I am a relative newbie to the game and, after leveling my feral to fifty, recently dual specced to resto. We went into Strath last weekend. Wiped twice because I was so busy keeping everybody else alive that I failed to note that my tree was getting ripped, limb by limb…. Then things got worse when, in response to my visual inattentiveness, I decided I would try to move my Xperl frame to the middle of the screen. Somehow or another, while moving the da** thing around, it disappeared. I then had no way of knowing how much health I had, unless I targeted myself. After a couple more wipes, I persuaded my party members to let me log out and disable Xperl… Thereafter, things did get better…

BTW, I also had the “no right click options” problem you refer to with Xperl. AFter disabling a couple of Cartographer’s dependencies, things did seem to get better, though.

Yours was the first WoW blog I discovered, five months ago, when I began playing. I appreciate all the time you’ve put into the game and educating its players!

My first real healy experience was offhealing in uldar 10… scary… But, like many others i’ve had a lot of sudden time constraints and don’t get to play much anymore. Hope to get back to the game soon.

Now a Bear with feathers would be a good combination.. I might swap resto to feral soon.

lol . . . you and every other healer in the game, man. Welcome back to the ranks.