OK so this survey was really fun, and although I didn’t get tagged, since my site is really new, I wanted to participate in it anyways!! Thanks be to Miss Medicina at http://missmedicina.blogspot.com/2009/10/its-webring-of-healings.html who provided such a nifty survey 
- What is the name, class, and spec of your primary healer?
Innoue SoulStrider, the Great Dreamer, head of the SoulStrider family.
- What is your primary group healing environment? (i.e. raids, pvp, 5 mans)
Well mainly it is either 10 or 25man raids, though I try to do the daily Heroic for the extra emblems of Triumph, plus I like to get heirloom gear for my alts.
- What is your favorite healing spell for your class and why?
Hmm, I think it is a tossup between nourish and rejuvenation, or maybe a combo of the two, nourish because it does some nice heals and it is a really fast cast, and rejuv because with my sexy set 4 bonus on my tier 9, it crits, and I can rest assured that my targets will survive.
- What healing spell do you use least for your class and why?
Easy one, healing touch, it is the slowest heal ever, and it’s funny, but my nourish either heals for as much or crits for more than what healing touch does in its nine hour cast, though I will admit I do have an insta cast macro, where when I click it, it casts nature’s swiftness and healing touch becomes an insta cast. It is for those “Oh crap!!” emergencies.
- What do you feel is the biggest strength of your healing class and why?
Moar HoTs. Haha, yeah, as a druid we love our HoTs (Heal over time) and it is a huge advantage because we don’t need any haste to keep up with the other healing classes, we load up the tank with HoT’s and throw in a nourish and bam, it’s easy peasy to keep people alive. With our HoT’s we can even “pre-heal” our tanks so they are ready when they engage an enemy, they go in with the HoT’s loaded and are fine without heals for a few.
- What do you feel is the biggest weakness of your healing class and why?
As a jack of all trades we suffer from the “not the best at anything” syndrom, while we can really kick some ass and take names with our heals, it is true that we don’t have any major hella good heals for oh crap instances, except with a natures swiftness and healing touch combo, but its no lay on hands, or riptide ect.
- In a 25 man raiding environment, what do you feel, in general, is the best healing assignment for you?
Well this is a bit of a pickle of a question, because normally when I am healing in a raid they just assign me to raid heals because I am a tree, and I can use wild growth and HoT’s the raid crew, and this is true, it is really easy for me to raid heal, but I can also heal the MT and OT pretty good as well, when I was raiding with Zallu, I focused on the MT and he focused on the OF and we both did raid heals and it worked really well. So I can’t really say if there is a specific place that is best for me and my class because we are so versatile.
- What healing class do you enjoy healing with most and why?
Other druids or a shaman. The funny thing is, I can’t say I have much experience healing with other classes, though aside from a few 25VoA’s for the longest time I only did 10man raids, now with my new guild I am working with 25mans and more classes, Priests and Paladins but in my old guild it was just me and Riseer, an epic shammy healer. And now raiding with Zallu has opened my eyes to how much I like healing with another druid in the party haha.
- What healing class do you enjoy healing with least and why?
Hmm, I’m not really sure haha, since my experience with other classes is limited, and I don’t want to rap on another class when I really don’t know much about them. So I’ll just leave it at that.
- What is your worst habit as a healer?
Well there is this nifty program called Healbot, and since I have grown so attached to it I love my click a button on my mouse and the spell works, one of the problems that go with that is clicking when another healing isn’t needed. My favorite thing to do is use rejuvenation when there is already a rejuvenation on the target, I am still not sure how or why this habit appeared, but I’m still working on mastering that.
- What is your biggest pet peeve in a group environment while healing?
People yelling out that they need heals, yes I can see your health is dropping, but hey, look at the tanks, his/hers is dropping as well, probably more so, and they are infinitely more important than you. I will heal you the moment I can, so don’t go making a macro screaming help whenever you think you need it, because chances are, you don’t.
- Do you feel that your class/spec is well balanced with other healers for PvE healing?
Yes, very much so actually. Druid are very versatile and can basically perform any need to do with healing, we can heal multiple targets at once, help in those sticky situations where the tank needs a little extra boost, all sorts of things, we can help pick up main heals or raid heals, we work well with others, plus that battle rez is hella convenient.
- What tools do you use to evaluate your own performance as a healer?
Uh, I guess I just got recount recently, not that I use it much, usually I forget about it until it asks me if I want to reset the data, and I’m like, oh yeah, that thing. Usually I get told that I am doing well or that I’m sucking it up, I go off the fact that if a lot of raid members are dying and I’m raid heals, then I am doing poorly. If I am tank and the tank dies, I am doing poorly, but if I am tank heals and there are raid member dying, I am still doing poorly because I know I can main tank heal and help out with raid heals as well. I was joking with Zallu the other day about ToGC10man, where we fight the faction champs, I was like, I bet you could solo heal this one, and he says, “On regular I could, but not Heroic.” Funny thing is, I really bet he could, druids just rock that hard 
- What do you think is the biggest misconception people have about your healing class?
That since we have wild growth we are only good for raid heals, and that we can’t heal the main tank or off tank. And that if the tank dies while I am healing raid it is somehow my fault for not throwing in that last heal that would have saved us all. And rightfully so, I’m sure I could have tossed in my instant cast macro and given him that little boost, but when I get consistently thrown as raid heals and underestimated in pugs, then I feel a little less inclined to help out that arrogant priest who thinks he can do it all. (nothing against priests, just arrogant buttheads who think they are the best)
- What do you feel is the most difficult thing for new healers of your class to learn?
How to use swiftmend and nature’s swiftness effectively, and which HoT spells to use when. I know for the longest time I never used rejuvenation because I just didn’t think it was very good, only later, and to my embarrassment, Rejuv is one of the best HoT’s because it has a low mana cost and you can use swiftmend to get a nice instant cast, can you guess that I never used swiftmend either? Haha. I’m still learning things about my class that I am surprised I never knew, things that make me feel foolish for not knowing, yet a better healer once learned. I think it is only through trial and error that you can fine tune your skills as a druid healer.
- If someone were to try to evaluate your performance as a healer via recount, what sort of patterns would they see (i.e. lots of overhealing, low healing output, etc)?
There is a bit of over heal, which is too bad, since I have been trying to cut down on that, though it is a bit competitive when I am healing the tank and raids, haha, I might cast a heal only to see someone else topped off that particular dps’s health. Either way, I am usually third from the top on healing when in 25’s and second on 10mans because we two heal them haha, and Zallu is way OP.
- Haste or Crit and why?
Err crit I guess, since as a druid we don’t really need haste, my HoT’s are lovely, and nourish is a really fast cast, so I do love to see high numbers when my heals go off, though spell power and spirit are my main factors. Spell power and spirit are a druids bread and butter, or so I have been told haha.
- What healing class do you feel you understand least?
I would have to say, Disc Priests, they are the weirdest spec I have ever seen, haha, I love being a druid because we have a few heals and spells that are simple to use and effective. It seems like Disc Priests have a heck of a lot of things to use, all sorts of spells to remember, and all those bubbles and shields, idk, I haven’t gotten my priest up very high yet, but I want to do a Disc spec just to try and figure things out haha.
- What add-ons or macros do you use, if any, to aid you in healing?
Healbot, that’s it. I love the one click aspect of it, all I have to do is click a certain button on my mouse key and boom, my spell is cast, I can pay attention to people’s health via the health bars arranged by healbot and I can see debuffs, like poisons, or curses that I can either remove or abolish! I love it
- Do you strive primarily for balance between your healing stats, or do you stack some much higher than others, and why?
Again, spirit and spell power are a druids bread and butter, though I do enjoy crit for those lovely high numbers. I usually am pretty balanced when it comes to stacking my stats, I feel that I can be a better healer overall that way, instead of say, just focusing on crits, so that I have huge crit heals, but run out of mana too fast or something like that.
