Raid Healing as a Druid?

[Watto44]

I agree with teske, but it's worth elaborating on a couple of things. (Bear in mind that I haven't raided in about 3 months, so a lot of this is probably pretty dated.)

Rank 5 and up healing touch receive the full benefit from +healing equipment. What this effectively means is that at a certain amount of +healing rank 5 healing touch becomes more efficient than rank 10. (It's somewhere are 230 for me, but it would depend on talents and all that good stuff.) Once you hit that figure, rank 5 ht becomes your bread and butter heal. (Although there are times when you'll be using rank 10 when a large damaging spell in coming in at a predictable rate ala Ony. - Thanks Gnollguy. :D )

By and large you'll be leaving the clutch healing to priests and shaman, who both have far more efficient fast casting heals. (I know that we have Regrowth, but as GG pointed out, most of the time the HoT is just overheal and thus waisted mana an pointless threat.) However, that said, there's nothing like hitting a tank with NS + HT when things have gone a bit sour.

I personally didn't use rejuvination that much, although you can cast it on rogues who have run out of range and are waiting to bandage to get them back in combat quicker. (I think we had rejuv + renew stacked on our main tanks, but can't remember. Wasn't my job since I had crappy gear. :) )

What else, what else? Umm, don't forget to bring lots of reagents for GotW. Buffing 40 people one at a time isn't fun. (Really, really not fun. Believe me, I've done it a couple of times.) As for bar setup, it's really up to you. I run around with 4 ranks of HT (5, 6, 8 and 10) and 2 ranks of Regrowth (5ish - I can never remeber - and max rank) although I typically only use regrowth (either rank) for healing on AoE pulls in 5 and 10 man instances.

For the most part, the best advice I can think of is talk to the guild class leader about this stuff, and the person who is handling your groups healing strats. They'll both be able to give you specific advice and instructions that will work for your guild. No point me saying use rank 5 HT when they're expecting you to spam rank 10 on an off-tank. :)