It consists in casting a heal before the damage to top up your target(s) as fast as possible. Pre-emptive healing depends a lot on the encounter. On some fights this is needed on tanks (Soul Reaper on Lich King), on others it's on the raid (aoe on Algalon or Toravon). This aspect of healing is really important for a restoration druid because of the hot mecanism. If you don't do it, you will usually feel in late with damages. There are 2 kinds of pre-emptive healing.
First it could be on a boss ability. On almost all bosses you can find abilities that can be anticipated and where pre-emptive healing can be used. To get the best of it you should, if possible:
- know the ability timer or cooldown: a good bossmod helps with that
- know the targets: sometimes on the tank, sometimes on someone else.
- know what spells you have to use: Nourish/Regrowth/NS+HT/Swiftmend/Rejuvenation on single target or direct damage. Rejuvenation/Wild Growth on multiples targets or damage over time.
Then you have pre-emptive heals derived from the previous form. Mostly about tank healing, it means you have to cast spells even if the tank is full HP because he could be hit during your cast. Paladin are spamming Holy Light and pre-emptive healing is what they do pretty much all the time. As a druid you have to do some for important reasons:
- Your 3 hots are a support and, except for the bloom of Lifebloom, they won't save the tank. You need to do active healing as much as you can. I know this is almost never your assignation but imagine you are on a boss and the tank die, followed by a wipe. Stop there and ask yourself: "if I would have casted a Nourish and saved the tank, would we also wiped?" I doubt that.
- Your Nourish is boosted by hots/Glyph of Nourish and will heal a lot. Thus, the Living Seed talent will take advantage of strong Nourish and add another assist on tank. A good Nourish spam on tank is always beneficial for his survivability.
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