Where do you find "The Love"?

[Kevin]

Aleri has felt useless on raids.  If there's one hyper-active healer around, the rest feel useless.  Silverflail does that to me a lot so in order to not feel bored, I'm turning hyper-active healer too unfortunately just so I can feel like I've actually done something.

I was right to be worried about soulstealer then since I was a cross healing hyperactive last night. You knew about it since you were in the room with me and while I said once or twice in raid chat to tell me to knock it off if it was annoying that doesn't mean that comment was seen or that there was a person who felt comfortable saying to stop reading it. Of course the cursing both of us let out when Galreth died because we both somehow got out of line of sight where it made no sense for at least me to be out of LoS was pretty horrific and having that magnified two fold wasn't a benefit of being in the same room.

You also have to walk a line with cross healing, I think I haven't really healed in raids as I said and I'm still learning, where it helps the other healers out at times but doesn't annoy them as well. I know that you and/or soulstealer healed people in 'my group' at times and I was really glad you did becuase I had just healed someone else in my group and wasn't going to be able to get a heal off on the other person fast enough. And I loved you shielding my mage and lock since I simply can't. A heal landing in my group when I'm being punted across the room was great too. There were a few times where a heal landed on my group where I was damn it there goes all that mana from my heal since I didn't have time to stop it.

But yeah I need to learn some more about raid healing. I think druids have an advantage. Our HoTs heal more per tick than the priests does and we have 2 HoT with one being front loaded. Spreading those around doesn't seem to me like they will cause mana loss issues as much as some of the priest heals could. Though now that I look more closely a flash heal has less on the front end than a regrowth does, at least untalented. So I tried to just use HoTs when I cross healed unless it was on someone who was really hurt and I knew I had time to get a healing touch off and that even if a greater heal was inbound that non of it would go to waste.

So is that the basic strategy? Only use flash heals and HoTs if it is out of your group or a non emergency type heal? I know there is special coordination used for healing a tank in places like Onxyia but a raid in UBRS or a pindle/baal raid where you aren't going to have such serious issues is something like that good, bad, indifferent, a waste of mana? Is it better to focus mainly on your group and the other healers and try to cross heal as little as possible (depending on how much commo you have)?

Edit: I'm going to break this off into a strat thread and I'll edit a link to that back in here so hold off on responses please. :)

Edit 2: http://www.lurkerlounge.com/forums/index...topic=6297 is the other thread I started, took me awhile becuase I was going to do some theorycraft then pulled it out to look at it some more.