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Is it viable to heal BRD to 60? From 55 or so. Because that's what I was thinking of doing: questing to 55 then respeccing heals and just doing BRD runs to 60. Or would that take way too long?

It's possible, you get quite a bit of XP from the dungeon quests. Don't just do BRD, put in all the high level instances and do all of their quests. Just grinding the mobs in BRD is probably too slow.

I think I went from 52 to 54 just with BRD quest/mob xp.

Garfunkel wrote:It's possible, you get quite a bit of XP from the dungeon quests. Don't just do BRD, put in all the high level instances and do all of their quests. Just grinding the mobs in BRD is probably too slow.

I think I went from 52 to 54 just with BRD quest/mob xp.

Won't most groups turn me down from Strat/DM because I'm not 60, though?

Also, is BRD shadow heal-able? ZF seems easy enough to heal as Shadow, so long as the tank can hold threat, and I've got a stock of Superior Mana potions if shit hits the fan.

BRD is rough when you are that level for 2 reasons. #1 you agro a lot of mobs that people normally skip in the torch room. #2 the emp hits very hard and may be too much for you depending on your tanks gear.

DM no way, no matter what wing you do groups always skip a ton of pulls at 60 that won't be skippable at 55. I guess it would be doable, but it would be 20%+ longer

Healing BRD at 58 shouldn't be too bad as shadow. This is how I did 58-60 personally. For what it's worth, my tank wasn't level 60 either so he wasn't over-geared. The only difficult fight is really Emperor, so stock up on a couple mana pots for that and manage your mana well.

A complete quest run of BRD (assuming you picked up every quest) gives a truckload of EXP and is well worth it.

I'll just wait until 57 or so, I guess, and then respec Holy and start healing BRD. I always see tons of people spamming for BRD runs / emp runs, so it definitely shouldn't be hard to find a group!

What are the quests, btw?

I know about the Dark Iron Fanny Pack one, and the little questline to get the key, are there any others?

Overmaster Pyron -> Incendius, saving the princess chain (starts at IF king), Bael'dar (starts NE corner of Burning Steppes), Heart of the Mountain, MC attunement, Onyxia chain. That's off the top of my head.
You should definitely make sure you push Ony chain all the way to the confrontation in Stormwind or even further before you hit lvl 60. That chain alone can give over 100k exp.

Btw BRD is indeed healable as shadow, but 1) 3 second cast time for heals gets unpleasant in places, and 2) you might oom on emperor.

5 levels of doing the exact same thing is too long, you'll get sick of it after 5 runs and people probably won't let you in other 5mans before 60. Stay shadow till 60 and then respec if you want. Healing 5mans isn't about talents, it's about gear so make sure to start collecting +healing gear even if you're shadow, and talents don't matter much until you're healing raids in raid gear.

You're not necessarily doing full BRD runs at low levels. There's a bunch of quests you can do at 52 onward already and the loot from the early bosses is already nice. Same with the other high level instances, there are quest groups doing them before hitting 60.

you agro a lot of mobs that people normally skip

That's true for any instance but there are more BRD groups than just level 60 Emp runs happening, I would assume. At least there used to be when I was still in my 50s.

Sunken Temple is a good indicator, op. If you can heal ST without major issues, then BRD won't be too much of an problem. ZF is way easier than either ST or BRD so having no issues in ZF might not be proof that you won't struggle later.

For BRD, make sure to get the following quests - this is Alliance side. Google up the respective Horde quests if you need to:

1. In TANARIS, talk to Yorba Screwspigot. This nets you the goblin head in the bar.
2. In BURNING STEPPES, talk to Helendis Riverhorn. This starts Onyxia attunement chain.
3. In BURNING STEPPES, talk to Jalinda Sprig. This starts the fire elementals mini-chain.
4. In BLACK ROCK SPIRE, talk to Franclorn Forgewright when you're a ghost to get the quest for the key.
5. In BLASTED LANDS, talk to Enohar Thunderbrew. This nets you the beer quest in the bar.
6. In BURNING STEPPES, talk to Maxwort Uberglint. This is for the vault.
7. In BURNING STEPPES, talk to Oralius. This is an easy kill quest in BRD.
8. In IRONFORGE, talk to Royal Historian Archesonus. This starts the Emperor/Princess chain.
9. When you do get to the bar, remember to talk to the succubus, Mistress Nagmara. This quest cannot be "pre-completed", so just do it after your first run and turn it in in your second.
10. In BURNING STEPPES, talk to the dragonkin Cyrus Therepentous. This will get you killing the giant inside BRD.

So that's 10 quests/chains. I've probably missed one or two as well. Together they will net you hundreds of thousands of XP.