The Daily Quest: Healerific
by Dan O'Halloran 
Jan 8th 2011 at 2:00PM
WoW Insider's on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.
Healers play a game of covering the mistakes of others. Tank didn't get to his panic button in time? DPSers not controlling their aggro? Cat jumped on the keyboard? Your friendly neighborhood healer is there to smooth over those hiccups and keep things running smoothly. In today's collection of links, the first one is for everyone and should be committed to memory should you want to live through most encounters. The rest are aimed at specific healing classes to help them up their game. Enjoy -- and don't forget to thank your healer.
- Tree Heals Go Whoosh covers the new AoE healing spells available to healers in a visual guide to things your healer wants you to stand in.
- Tales of a Priest lays out examples of when to use Leap of Faith.
- Falling Leaves and Twigs exports their Power Aura settings for druid resto (and balance) spells.
- Blessing of Kings blesses us with a list of tips for holy paladins in heroics.
- TotemForest explains the math and glyphing of the shaman mana regeneration spell Water Shield
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Hillazon Jan 8th 2011 2:21PM
When to use leap of faith? When standing right at the edge of a cliff, duh.
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, splat
Corath Jan 8th 2011 3:08PM
I am truly thankful for the amount of Druid healer blogs out there, especially Restokin. This is my first time trying healing on a Druid, so the amount of information out there is quite excellent.
I have a new blog post at Corath's Blog, all about the balance between gaming and real life stuff: http://corath.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/life-getting-in-the-way/
Enjoy!
Kurash Jan 8th 2011 3:09PM
"Your friendly neighborhood healer is there to smooth over those hiccups and keep things running smoothly."
And to smoothify things with, uh, smoothness! ;)
Ronin Jan 8th 2011 3:54PM
"Healers play a game of covering the mistakes of others." Yeah, that's all they do, right? They make up for others' mistakes. If it weren't for mistakes, they wouldn't be needed, amirite? There isn't an actual game-mechanic that requires Healers to heal even during a perfect run?
Healers play a vital role in group encounters-- as do the Tank and the DPS'ers. Sometimes everyone makes mistakes-- healers included. Do we really need to add to the current climate of acrimony and recrimination between the various roles?
Ronin Jan 8th 2011 4:01PM
Btw, that's a great article on Tree Heals Go Woosh. Nice visual guide!
Magefest Jan 8th 2011 9:45PM
Ronin,
I suspect that the writer was just making a little joke. Relax. Nobody thinks that healers are perfect and it's everybody else making all the mistakes.
Ronin Jan 8th 2011 11:23PM
I'll fess up-- when I wrote that, I'd just woken from a nap and was really groggy and cranky. I should learn not to post in that state of mind. Still, while I get it may have been the author trying to be cute, I'm not sure it's the best way to get non-healers to read an article that's aimed (in part) at them.
Krof Jan 10th 2011 9:11AM
Today Rapid Fire gives a review of Archaeology. What are the flaws of this new profession and how can it be improved?
http://rapidfirewow.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/archaeology-in-review/