Healing Anub’arak
Healing this fight would be a lot harder without two things: DBM and Healbot. I will get more into this later, but here is a run down of what I do and why. This is about healing the 25 man TotGC Anub’arak, but the same concepts probably apply to the TotC fight.
Just before the pull I HoT up the tank. I keep this stack rolling and have enough time to put a second stack of HoTs on the tank who will be grabbing the adds. From this point on, until he burrows, I worry primarily about penetrating cold. And this is why those mods mentioned above are sooooo nice. DBM will mark all the penetrating cold victims with a raid mark. I assume for this to work your raid leader or someone with marking privileges needs DBM set to “announce.” If you have the latest version of HealBot, you see the raid marks right on your healing bars. I don’t use it myself, but I am told you can also setup Grid to do this. Basically everyone with a raid mark gets rejuvenation in all phases of this fight. One Rejuv should cover all the damage of penetrating cold in this phase. In the time between when all these penetrating cold targets get their HoT and when he targets the next set of people for penetrating cold, I reapply HoTs to the tanks.
In the burrow phase, I just do a lot of spot healing, rejuvs all around, a little wild growth. One thing to keep in mind here is that if you are targeted by Anub, and you want to be able to kite him a little bit longer, you should switch into cat form and dash. You can also go with a swiftness potion, but why waste a potion CD if you have dash for free! When you come out of this phase and go back into phase one, try to notice if anyone has excessive stacks of the DOT the little bugs give you. Make sure these people stay HoTted for awhile.
You repeat this stuff until you get to phase three. Now as you know, in phase three Anub’arak leaches life so you want people’s health to be very low. BUT, if their health is too low, then penetrating cold can kill them, so it’s a fine dance. What I do in this phase is similar to phase 1, in that I put rejuvenation on every target with penetrating cold. However, in phase 1 my rejuvenation alone is enough to heal it… in phase three, it needs more than one healer assigned to it (PWS makes a nice buffer while I HoT and someone casts heals.) But make sure you also have healers assigned to stay on the tanks in this phase. I also use wild growth every time the CD is up because it targets the people with the lowest health, so I know it won’t take anyone too high. Just stay calm and focused on your job, and it will come together!
If you have any other tips or tricks you want to add, please leave a comment! 
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Thanks for this guide. It is clear you never use Nourish… right?
I’m new into healing, because my main spec is Moonkin, therefore I heal only when our main resto druid is offline.
How do you heal other fights? Are all similar to this? Have you wrote other guides?
Thanks, bye
Hi There…
here you can see in my video how it looks like in Grid
Anub 25 hc / POV tree
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI26oOqVOeg
greetings
Jada
@Pasqoo I wouldn’t say *never* use nourish, but only in an emergency really. If a tank is going down I find swiftmend is my first reaction, before casting a nourish.
@Jada Thanks for the video
nothing to thank for..
your guide is nice, but i heal another way at anub…
i use healing touch (skilled and glyphed) for the PC-victims…
but i think everyone has his own way to do that
but it depends on the raidleader as well.. in our raid, every healer has his own PC-victim via Raidicon.. the swarm is healed passive by healing stream totems, shadow priests and seal of light.. so we must only heal the pc-victims and the tanks…
sry, for my bad english…
greetings from germany
We are getting stuck on the kiting for the most part. Haven’t made it to the third phase comfortably. What was you healing set up for Phase 3? I think we might try the assigned icon/passive healing approach.
Here is what we do:
2 paladins, each beacons one tank and heals the other (we do the 2 tank method)
2 disc priests, each starts at one side and works their way to the middle for penetrating cold targets doing PWS on each, and then (I think) renew. So one guy starts doing Group 1 –> 5, while the other does 5 –> 1
1 Tree (that’s me!), I keep full HoTS on both tanks, and a rejuvenation on all PC targets. Also, I do the occasional wild growth when I see people dropping below 5% because I don’t want them to die on the first tick of PC before anyone can get a heal or shield off, and since WG targets low people, it’s nice.
We also bring 2 more healers, sometimes it’s 2x holy priests, usually its 1 priest and 1 shaman, it just depends who’s available. They help on PC as needed and spam tanks.
Also, it helps to have healers in a group with a shadow priest for the return healing (also put your hunter who is misdirecting in this group) because we aren’t getting Judgement of Light like the DPS. And if you stand right on one of the tanks, you can get some of those splash heals form the glyph of holy light splashing you.
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