What I've Learned Healing High M+ Keys

[00:02] I've learned a lot over these past few weeks. I wanted to share all the things don't tell you about. Most guides I've how to do your healing rotation, how to press your buttons, but never really why

[00:15] or when it actually matters. I'll give a quick recap first on where I'm at for with my journey. So, as some of you guys may already know, I started out this healer journey as a resto druid, and I was mostly playing the dream of

[00:29] YouTube, and I actually got quite far. I got to 20 Brazil with a 21 pit of Xerons. It's mostly with pugs, a couple of them with a group of friends like Twix and Augles, and the rest of Druid nerfs happened. The meta shifted. And to

[00:44] really dumb that they nerfed Misw Weaver and Brew Master. It turned out that the entire time, Mistw Weaver is just a way better healer. In my opinion, even before the buffs and nerfs, it was only a matter of time before Guardian and

[00:57] Misw Weaver took over because even before Guardian got buffed and before Russ got nerfed, this healer combo or healer tank combo is, in my opinion, just way better. I could not believe how OP Mwaver has been. And it it seemed

[01:10] like no healer knew about how good Misw Weaver was until the bear changes Mwaver instead. I kind of got bored. I know nothing. I Well, I knew nothing been about 2 weeks now since I've started it. The only thing I knew about

[01:24] Mwaver was it had cocoon. It had chi cocoon shields that you can put on people and they like to spin a lot. And there was also that one time where Elmir Tiger Palm the mob that made his team go non-verbal cuz he decided to do that

[01:36] instead of heal his tank and the greatest NA team ambition blew up. So that's about the extent of my knowledge on Missw Weaver. So yeah, I managed to get 21 Brazil with a couple of 22 keys timed. Could have timed more, but

[01:49] depletes. Definitely planning on playing more Missw Weaver. But anyways, let's First most important thing I've learned is dungeon knowledge. Knowing what does damage, how to use your utility, and what's going on at all times, in my

[02:03] mastering your own class. This is very particular to healer because on other hit your buttons really well. But on a healer, it's much more important to know the dungeon itself. I was able to heal a 19 pit on my first time playing Missw

[02:16] talents or abilities even did simply because I knew the encounters extremely well. Example being knowing how to remove the chain debuff in Seat, the slow debuff in Pit, the dangerous overlaps in Sky Reach, and the damage

[02:29] this information, as long as you press roughly the buttons you need, you can overcome most of these challenge without being optimal. In many ways, I treat M plus as a healer like it's a PvP match. And coming from a PvP background, this

[02:42] kind of helped a lot. If the rogue mage druid team opens with a blind kidney immediately react with a big cool down of my own, like a trinket and maybe pressing like another big cool down top of that. As a DPS and tank, it's all

[02:54] optimal buttons and pressing cooldowns off cooldown. But as a healer, I find appropriate and not just hitting my buttons blindly. One thing a lot of damage prevention. By preventing a lot of damage, you minimize the amount of

[03:10] healing required tremendously. Some of the most OP things this season are night I'd always recommend playing night elf. You can melt to avoid venyaling absorbs from the subjugators and seeds and

[03:22] points. You can also meld any of the channeling beams that do an absurd amount of damage, like the ones in Sky Reach, the golems, and the mobs at the infusion on the third boss of seed, completely nullifying all the damage.

[03:36] buttons like leg sweep to help your tank drop bleed stacks in Sky Reach and using Ring of Peace to knock the fixated birds away on the bird boss in Sky Reach helps massively. Even if you weren't a mist weaver, other healers have crazy ways to

[03:49] completely ignore certain mechanics. The priest can temporarily mind control the casters in C to make the void callers disappear. They can also mind control run into the boss and deal zero damage. Now, obviously, you can't avoid all

[04:03] you should make it a priority to avoid damage just as much, if not more than healing. Which leads to my next point, being the tankiest person in the group. the last man standing and to make yourself an unkillable beast. This means

[04:18] to press your own buttons really well to live. By being a good liver, you are able to allocate a lot more healing onto your group. As a restor, I find myself allowing me to offload a ton of healing onto squishier targets or for the noobs

[04:34] mechanics. Just by being good at living, you can get very far. And this ties directly into the next point. Not everyone requires healing. Automatic properly ramp and how you should be rejuving everyone or putting enveloping

[04:48] mist on everyone before damage comes out, but the reality is M plus damage who's tanky in your group matters a lot. And like I've said, by making yourself the tankiest person, you can spend your resource on the group. I'd say 80% of

[05:01] the time I don't even need to heal the meta specs, DK, DH, or even myself. I'm spending most of my iron barks, litany, cocoon, or chi on my group. You can even look at a lot of the highle logs and see that most of their healing received is

[05:15] extremely low compared to some of the squishier specs. This also changes how you press your buttons. Knowing that DKDH takes zero damage and AUG takes a healing checks by leaving life bloom on the AUG or pressing cocoon on them on

[05:29] every AoE mechanic, making it so that no one in the group takes any damage. Now, pugs don't do that or I don't play meta comp or I don't only play met." The thing is, most of the times in 2026, WoW, it's about their passive tankiness.

[05:42] buttons will still take very little damage and won't actually require much healing. I actually order my party frames in order of classes I find to healing so that the ones near the center receive the most attention. And even if

[05:55] you aren't playing metac, there are a lot of very sustainable DPS like warriors, warlocks, paladins. The way I see it, when you're doing lower keys, players will suck and they will take a lot but largely healable damage. And

[06:08] really need to heal the ones that actually matter. When people die in higher keys, it's usually them getting one-shot by failed mechanics or not just want to make sure you're in the camp of always healing the appropriate

[06:21] Another important tip I've learned particular to healer is building good habits with good keybinds, macros, and UI. There are a lot of weird bits that healers have to deal with that no other role does. One of them is key bindings

[06:33] and macros. Healing felt very clunky to me until I set it up properly with things like offensive spell macros. My druid, for example, I have a star surge and starfire macro that will prioritize my focus target followed by my target of

[06:46] target followed by my own target. This makes it so that I can set my focus accidentally lose my target as I'm spamfiring while healing. I can also their target the entire time while healing. At the same time, I've set up

[07:00] the same bind, but only when I'm mouse overing my frames. This way, I can press three to moonfire while also pressing three to reju my teammates. There are like right click modifier to prevent accidentally right clicking a target

[07:15] another great add-on that substitutes a lot of the dungeon week or packs before the midnight add-on nuke. It has functions like showing who gets the next AoE mechanics about to happen on trash, and has a bunch of TTS options, calling

[07:28] when mechanics are about to happen, timeline reminder, or method raid tools cooldowns for bosses, and just having dandruff frame set up properly. I've screen rather than the usual left side of my screen to have a better localized

[07:42] view of all my CDs, procs, and healing. A lot of these changes and habits I've terrible healer movement and having a hard time dealing with mechanics that plagues a lot of healers. Last few revelations I've had as a healer is

[07:54] proper city planning and staying active. Well, as a highle player, this isn't foreign to me since I've always worked with my group on planning CDs. But by situations that would normally be a panic moment for most others. Using

[08:07] cooldowns often and rotating them well matters a ton. For example, when I'm entering Everdawn in Windrunner Spires, I'm ripping a Chi-i and Cocoon every enough where he's uh spitting and doing

[08:20] tornadoes. On top of Chi and Cocoon, I'm rotating between conduit and litany for every other. If there are any dire situations, I can always use Renewal or Reckless Pot. Other than that, I have my own Fort Brew or Health Pot needed if my

[08:33] team is not using them so that I can heal them instead of myself. So, for example, like if my demon hunter doesn't press blur and there's no AMS going out, then I can always press for Brew and just spot healing them. After killing

[08:45] plan of action is to try and conserve CDs for the flame nova plus throwax guys on the pull of the archers and screeches. All I'll use are Line on Pole and Chigi on the screech. If it ever gets bad for whatever reason, then I'll

[08:59] otherwise, I'm conserving until the danger actually happens. A very common mistake I see when I'm playing with other healers is they all send CDs to non-lethal. So what I mean by being

[09:12] stuff even when nothing is happening. Amongst some of the highest level players I've seen, even those guys are slacking a lot. As a mist weaver, I'm always pressing renewing mist in between pose, refreshing it with RSK and tiger

[09:24] palm on the way in, and keeping soothing mist on the tank with enveloping mist while they do a long gather, giving them 6% DR and a strong healing the moment I'm always keeping hots rolling even before combat. Trying to maintain at

[09:37] plant. Aside from that, following the rules of always be casting carries over a lot from DPSing. The idea of not maintaining is like not keeping your dots up as a boomkin or not building souls on devour before the pole even

[09:50] begins. So don't be that guy. Just make sure you're always staying active even when there's nothing happening. The last advice I have is happens. and you kind of just see it all. You don't have nearly as much control over

[10:04] the success of the key compared to a tank, but ultimately it becomes a number tank, healer, or AUG allows you to fail You get invited to groups and as long as you do your job, you will climb. So, the

[10:18] version of yourself. People do the dumbest things. People don't press their buttons. They stand in fire. You can learn a lot from seeing these patterns. I know that a lot of people tend to die in the first section of Sky Reach. So,

[10:31] what I'll do is I'll try to overheal that pole like crazy and get ready to slam big shields or damage reductions on players who get targeted by mechanics. On poles where I know the tank takes crazy damage, I'll pay extra attention

[10:43] to their health and try to use as much early on as possible to make it comfortable for them. Anyways, that is it for the video. Hope you guys enjoyed like the healer stuff, I can put out more. thought about making a video

[10:55] talking about how I approach every hard encounter or maybe some highkey Misw maybe just more for fun content. I'm not sure what I'll have in store. Been far in the season. Anyways, so I do plan on doing more healing keys if you want

[11:10] to drop by my Twitch channel. But thanks for watching. Adios.