Handy resto druid macros

I have macro on all the most used spells. Here is a few which have helped me in healing a lot.

First up, this one (1) links the trinket use to the spells and (2) saves your target finding.

#showtooltip Lifebloom
/use 13
/use 14
/cast [modifier:alt, target=player] Lifebloom; [help] Lifebloom; [target=targettarget] Lifebloom

(1) Change Lifebloom into Wrath, Tiger Fury or other spells. It saves the time to click two button at once. Slot 13 is the upper trinket, slot 14 is the lower one. The main advantage is that it saves time to change name of the trinkets when you have an upgrade or when you change trinkets for different encounters. If the trinket effects do not share the same cooldown, it will automatically use both. If it doesn't matter which one to use, then change /use to /userandom for randomly using one of them; else remove one of the lines and keep your favorite trinket use.
(2) The second part /cast line allow you to heal the target's target, which is very useful in battleground and the boss' current target. Else it works like a normal non-macro spell button; when you press Alt-button, you heal yourself.

Druids' combat ress are valuable. So every druid should have some sort macro or addon so that no two druids are combat ressing the same player. It will automatically say it in bubble and in raid chat who you are resurrecting and also a whisper to your ress target. However, the resurrection will not work if the target has released to graveyard.

#showtooltip
/stopmacro [harm]
/stopmacro [nodead]
/cast [help,dead] Rebirth
/s Resurrecting %t.
/ra Resurrecting %t.
/script SendChatMessage(" = Aethel is resurrecting you = but it won't work if you've released.", "WHISPER", "Common", UnitName("target"));

Druids are rather weak in fast heals but Nature's Swiftness is our friend. Basically, right-click it for instant big Healing Touch (you'll be shift out of tree automatically) or left-click it for instant Regrowth. Similar to the first macro; when you press Alt-button, you heal yourself.
When my shammy is going resto, I can just add "Healing Wave" to the end of this macro and then it will also work for her since the spell name is the same.

#showtooltip Nature's Swiftness
/cast Nature's Swiftness
/stopcasting
/cast [modifier:alt, button:2, target=player] Healing Touch; [button:2, help] Healing Touch; [modifier:alt, target=player] Regrowth; [help] Regrowth;

Tranquility is great when you are grouped with tanks and during big AoE damage. To make sure you get most out of it, right-click it for Barkskin, and then left-click for Tranquility. If you're sure you won't be interrupted, then simply left-click to save a global cooldown.

#showtooltip Tranquility
/cast [button:2] Barkskin; Tranquility

The last macro has been mentioned in a previous post. In short, get a staff with a lot of spirit, make a spirit enchant on it, and then right-click when you want to innervate yourself (auto switch staff) and left-click after your innervate or when you innervate someone else.

#showtooltip Innervate
/equip [button:2] Staff of Divine Infusion
/cast [button:2, target=player] Innervate; Innervate
/equip [nostance; button 1] Merciless Gladiator's War Staff
/equip [button:1] Light's Justice
/equip [button:1] Talisman of the Sun King

Druid items on PTR 2.3

Looking through the new leather items that A'dal are selling on patch test realm, I can only confirmed that the items are between tier 4 and tier 5. There are:
4 items for chests (75 BoJ),
3 items for feet (60 BoJ, missing resto),
2 items for hand (60 BoJ, missing bear-feral and resto),
3 items for head (75 BoJ, missing bear-feral, resto's is a drop),
2 items for legs (75 BoJ, missing bear-feral and balance),
3 items for shoulders (60 BoJ, missing bear-feral),
4 items for waist (60 BoJ), and
4 items for wrist (60 BoJ).

Bear-Feral
Chest	Vestments of Hibernation	75
Feet	Footwraps of Wild Encroachment	60
Waist	Waistguard of the Great Beast	60
Wrist	Band of the Swift Paw	60
	Total	255 BoJ
Cat-Feral/Rogue
Chest	Shadowtooth Trollskin Cuirass	75
Feet	Nyn'jah's Tabi Boots	60
Hand	Trickster's Stickyfingers	60
Head	Grimgrin Faceguard	75
Legs	Shallow-grave Trousers	75
Shoulder	Shoulderpads of Dancing Blades	60
Waist	Bladeangel's Money Belt	60
Wrist	Master Assassin Wristwraps	60
	Total	525 BoJ
Moonkin-Balance
Chest	Blessed Elunite Coverings	75
Feet	Moon-walkers	60
Hand	Grasp of the Moonkin	60
Head	Mask of Primal Power	75
Shoulder	Pauldrons of Tribal Fury	60
Waist	Starfire Waistband	60
Wrist	Armwraps of the Kaldorei Protector	60
	Total	450 BoJ
Tree of Life-Restoration
Chest	Shimmer-pelt Vest	75
Head	Helm of Natural Regeneration (drop from Jan'alai in Zul'Aman)	-
Legs	Pants of Splendid Recovery	75
Shoulder	Gnarled Ironwood Pauldrons	60
Waist	Life-step Belt	60
Wrist	Gargon's Bracers Peaceful Slumber	60
	Total	330 BoJ

This is how the whole set looks like:

Here I compared the balance and resto gear and will get to the feral part soon. These new items are in-between Nordrassil (t5) and Malorne (t4) set. the biggest differences are the reduction of +spirit (no +spirit at all on BoJ moonkin gear) and the increase in Mp5 and spell haste rating for moonkin.

Balance:

Nordrassil Regalia
	Total	Chest	Legs	Head	Hand	Shoulder
Armor	1703	419	367	341	262	314
Stamina	160	36	37	35	26	26
Intellect	150	32	36	28	27	27
Spirit	114	25	26	24	23	16
Spell Damage	244	54	54	54	41	41
Spell Crit	92	17	26	25	24	-
Spell Hit	44	19	-	10	-	15
Mp5	7	-	7	-	-	-
Sockets	1m 3y 4b	1y 2b	1b	1m 1y	-	1y 1b
Malorne Regalia
	Total	Chest	Legs	Head	Hand	Shoulder
Armor	1540	379	332	308	237	284
Stamina	133	28	32	28	24	21
Intellect	142	27	35	29	27	24
Spirit	97	19	18	22	21	17
Spell Damage	195	46	44	36	33	36
Spell Crit	67	-	25	24	18	-
Spell Hit	19	19	-	-	-	-
Mp5	11	-	6	-	-	5
Sockets	1m 1r 3y 2b	2y 1b	-	1m 1r	-	1y 1b
Badge of Justice Reward - Leather spell damage (Ptr 2.3)
	Total	Chest	Legs	Head	Hand	Shoulder	cf. t5	cf. t4
Armor	1287	404		328	252	303	-49	79
Stamina	115	33		33	28	21	-8	14
Intellect	126	34		39	30	23	12	19
Spirit	0	-		-	-	-	-88	-79
Spell Damage	179	54		46	40	39	-11	28
Spell Crit	52	22		30	-	-	-14	10
Spell Hit	26	-		-	-	26	-18	7
Spell haste	25	-		-	25	-	25	20
Mp5	7	7		-	-	-	7	7
Sockets	3r 3y 1b	1y 1r 1b		1r 1y	-	1r 1y

Chest: The tier-chest carries spell hit which is over the BoJ chest.
Legs: There isn't any other choice than tier set, is there? Oh yeah, Arena Reward.
Head: Since the BoJ helm does not have meta socket for my favorite Insightful Earthstorm Diamond, I'd say the tier-helm is better.
Hand: BoJ hand of course. Imba spell haste rating and then spam Starfire. I would sacrifice spell hit on shoulder for the tier set bonus.
Shoulder: The hit rating is great, but it can be traded for the sake of set-bonus. Take both maybe?
Feet:Moon-walkers is a better choice over Naturewarden's Treads for its 23 spell hit. Socketed with Potent Noble Topaz for the spell crit or Glowing Nightseye for the stamina.
Waist: Starfire Waistband and Belt of the Crescent Moon are very hard to choose from. The former is good for mp5 while the latter is good for the spell haste rating.
Wrist:Elunite Empowered Bracers from Black Temple owns Armwraps of the Kaldorei Protector for the spell hit rating. However, the latter is still a nice upgrade from Windhawk Bracers or Bracers of the White Stag. If spell hit rating isn't the issue, then throw in a Runed Ornate Ruby on the Vindicator's Wyrmhide Bracers, then you have the best moonkin bracer in the game, for now.

Restoration:

Nordrassil Raiment
	Total	Chest	Legs	Head	Hand	Shoulder
Armor	1703	419	367	341	262	314
Stamina	165	36	37	40	26	26
Intellect	151	33	36	28	27	27
Spirit	129	31	27	31	24	16
Healing	461	103	101	103	77	77
Mp5	34	-	11	8	9	6
Sockets	1m 1y 6b	3 b	1 b	1m 1y	-	2b
Malorne Raiment
	Total	Chest	Legs	Head	Hand	Shoulder
Armor	1540	379	332	237	308	284
Stamina	127	28	30	22	28	19
Intellect	142	29	38	25	27	23
Spirit	119	25	26	24	25	19
Healing	370	88	84	62	68	68
Mp5	32	-	10	7	10	5
Sockets	1m 1r 1y 4b	1y 2b	-	1m 1r	-	2b
Badge of Justice Reward - Leather healing (Ptr 2.3)
	Total	Chest	Legs	Head	Hand	Shoulder	cf. t5	cf. t4
Armor	1388	404	353	328		303	-53	156
Stamina	118	34	30	33		21	-21	19
Intellect	137	35	40	39		23	113	22
Spirit	60	30	-	30		-	-45	-34
Healing	346	101	86	86		73	-38	49
Mp5	34	12	12	-		10	9	12
Sockets	3r 3y 2b	-	1r 1y 1b	1r 1y 1b		1r 1y

Chest: Mp5 on the BoJ chest over the sockets on t5.
Legs: Mp5 and sockets over the spirit on t5.
Head: Since the BoJ helm does not have meta socket for my favorite Insightful Earthstorm Diamond, I'd say the tier helm is better.
Hand: Tier set is your choice as it's better than Bark-Gloves of Ancient Wisdom.
Shoulder: Mp5 on BoJ shoulder over the spirit on t5.
Feet: No new items from ptr2.3. Enchanted Leather Sandals from Mount Hyjal is not much better than Orca-Hide Boots, except for the stamina.
Waist: Life-step Belt wins over Belt of Primal Majesty, which is a Dreamstate restokin belt with spell haste rating.
Wrist: Grove-Bands of Remulos for the mp5. The latter is useful to support the ToL aura if spirit is lacking in other armor pieces.

Next time I'll take a look at the feral gear.

Innervating with a +70spirit staff

My enchanter shammy alt has finally reached level 50 and enchanting skill 300. She was honored with Thorium Brotherhood after a long grinding on Auction House and then she learned the Enchant Weapon - Mighty Spirit. And then she enchanted that on the Staff of Divine Infusion. Now I have this sweet +70 spirit staff for innervate.


To make it easier to switch weapon during battle, I made a macro so that I can right-click to innervate myself and switch to the spirit staff and left-click to switch back to the healing weapons or innervate someone else.

#showtooltip
/equip [button:2] Staff of Divine Infusion
/cast [button:2, target=player] Innervate; Innervate
/equip [button:1] Light's Justice
/equip [button:1] Windcaller's Orb

Since Moonkin and Tree of Life share the same stance (stance:5),
I would need to change that to Merciless Gladiator's War Staff when Aethel goes as moonqueen.

Treez

Karathress - A healer's perspective

This fight is not very different than other fights.
The main difference is the random damage a healer would take. A combo of shadow bolt or water bolt or multishot or spitfire has proven to be fatal.
As a druid healer, I always have HoTs on my targets so they very seldom go under 50% HP.
Therefore, the most important thing is to keep myself alive, healing up the damage taken and also overhealing the expected damage incoming.

An oom healer can bandage but a dead one definitely can't heal.

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