Druid Heal!

This is part 2 of my new resto druid mega guide 3.0: Glyphs.  A druid can improve or change their spells through glyphs, enchants for your spells. Glyphs might change the way you use your spells. You will have three Major Glyph and three Minor Glyph spots at level 80. Restoration druids have access to the following major glyphs:

• Glyph of Swiftmend – Your Swiftmend ability no longer consumes a Rejuvenation or Regrowth effect from the target. This means you don’t have to consume a recently casted Regrowth or Rejuvenation on your target and leads to more healing over time and mana efficiency. A druid without this glyph is handicapped, it makes swiftmend a very valuable spell;
• Glyph of Regrowth – Increases the healing of your Regrowth spell by 20% if your Regrowth effect is still active on the target;
• Glyph of Lifebloom – It increases your Lifebloom with one second. In theory you could have a 9 second Lifebloom with the appropriate talent (Nature’s Splendor>) and this glyph;
• Glyph of Rejuvenation – While your rejuvenation targets are below 50% health, you will heal them for an additional 50% health. This glyph is a very good raid healer for encounters with a lot of raid damage like Hodir;
• Glyph of Healing Touch – Your cast time is reduced by 50%, mana cost 25% and healing by 50%. It converts your Healing Touch into a flash type heal like Nourish. In my experience a glyphed Healing Touch has higher heals then Nourish but is also costs more mana. Which one should you use? Do you want a fast panic button (which you already have with Nourish) or do you want to be able to cast 7-10K heals with a non glyphed Healing Touch when nessecary? It is all about preference.
• Glyph of Nourish – It will buff the bonus part of your nourish spell by 6% per HoT on the target. This glyph stacks with the T7 4 set bonus.  The glyph is supposed to replace the T7 4 set bonus after you have replaced your T7 with T8 gear;
• Glyph of Wild Growth – Heal 1 additional target with your Wild Growth, might become handy with the talent Revitalize, 1 more target, 1 more change to proc. Apart from the talent an additional target that get heals is always good especially since the raid has a lot of aoe damage in Ulduar.

Not glyphs for your healing spells but you might like these:

• Glyph of Innervate – With enough spirit on yourself you will not be needing this glyph, but if you cast it on someone else your regeneration of mana will be a 100% for 20 seconds;
• Glyph of Rebirth – Increases the amount of health on a character brought back to life via Rebirth by 100%. Nice but not really needed.

Which Glyph should you use? The plan at first was to provide you with a decision tree but while making it occured to me that some choices are hard to make. Nowadays I easily change my glyph between fights if I feel it is necessary. Some guidlines I use:

1. It depends on your healing style. It would be silly to glyph a spell which you hardly use.
2. What is your role in the raid? Are you raidhealing, tank healing or a bit of both (i.e. normal dungeons or heroics)? Some suggestions (not in this particular order):
   Raidhealing:  Glyph of Rejuvenation, Glyph of Wild Growth;
   Tankhealing: Glyph of Nourish, Glyph of Regrowth, Glyph of Healing Touch.
3. What gear do you have? More importantly which tier set bonuses do you have?

An example: if you have the tier 7 4 set bonus it gives you a 6% bonus to Nourish per HoT you have on the target. You could take  Glyph of Nourish to boost it even more or choose not to glyph Nourish because it heals good enough for your style and choose to glyph Glyph of Wild Growth to boost your raid healing.
Lastly I would like to point out that there are minor glyphs, there’s only one I would recommend:

• Glyph of Unburdened Rebirth – Your Rebirth spell no longer requires a reagent.

Next episode will be about talents!