Duct Tape and a Prayer

Want to really get good at healing? Find a group in their low 70s, strip naked, and heal Nexus. (Consider offering to pay their repair bills to assuage their fears and really put the pressure on you.) Oh, use your highest-ranked spells – you don’t get any benefit from downranking anymore. But other than that, don’t give yourself any buffs, don’t eat any food, don’t wear anything that gives you any primary or secondary stats. (I have a Frayed set from the human starting area, plus a white Quarterstaff from the vendor in Stormwind.)

When you’ve shown that you can heal Nexus without any benefits from gear, food, or other buffs, move up. Heal Azjol-Nerub naked. Then Old Kingdom or Drak’Tharon Keep. Continue onward. If you reach a point where you truly can’t move on, find the minimum you can do it with. If you find that you can successfully heal Utgarde Pinnacle, start over with heroic Nexus. Again, keep going until you can’t anymore.

Find your minimum for each instance. Keep figuring out new ways to lower that minimum.

If you really think you’re up to it, try healing 10-man Naxx in the buff.

Then, when you actually put all your gear back on and go heal Naxxramas or Obsidian Sanctum or Eye of Eternity, bask in the pure luxury of all that mana, all that spellpower, all that crit and haste and regeneration, and stick to the habits you’ve ingrained from instance after instance of having to be as efficient, adaptive, and free-thinking as possible.

(As a side benefit, you’ll discover that you’re more likely, when gear for you drops in a raid, to say “…do I really need to spend the DKP on that?”.)

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