As a healer, you keep the tank up first and you want to have a lot of LOTRO Gold and then the range DPSers after that. They, in turn, should keep the mobs off you. You can not do well at healing when something is beating on you. You have to be at line-of-sight of your target when healing. So stay close, but far, to your target. Yeah, that sound contradictory, but you will work it out once you are playing the Minstrel. If you run out of power which will happen in big fights your group members need back up heals from potions and what not. Use a Quick heal first, its quick to cast, but still interruptible. It heals roughly a quarter to almost half of the morale bar, and it has a 1 second recharge. You can get some Lord Of The Rings Gold in the game if you play the game well. When heal spells go off, any non-agroed mobs may go off on you. This happens a lot with archer mobs. Having a Burglar or Lore-Master stun or mez an elite ranged mob while the fellowship deals with a linked elite melee mob is going to cause the archer to have free rein to take potshots at the healer after it wakes up. I think you will go to buy LOTRO Gold when your skills are good, because only you do this you can be strong and you can do well in the game.