Comments on: Resto Shaman 101 – Spells http://toomanyannas.com/guides/resto-shaman-101-spells/ Because Raiding and Roleplay are not Mutually Exclusive Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:59:50 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: Selv http://toomanyannas.com/guides/resto-shaman-101-spells/comment-page-1/#comment-1862 Selv Wed, 27 May 2009 16:15:40 +0000 http://toomanyannas.com/blog/?p=1117#comment-1862 I will say that I do think that riptide and CH heal combo is awesome. I use it fairly often and top almost all the healing meters, which don't get me wrong, don't say that I am a great healer, but I do know that with out me, the raid and tanks could be falling. I usually try to to riptide and ES the tank and CH the melee, if a healer is going down they get the riptide. I have 4 set t7.5 and i t8. My trikents are both lvl 200 but they increase my haste by 505 when proced. I would say these are the best trinkets for shamans healing 25 naxx. I have ran with several shamans and they ask me how I get my heals off so fast. When these proc together my hast is over 1k, giving me below a 1 sec CH. In uludar CH is not as useful. I have about a 23% crit, 13% haste rating and about 2300 SP. I don't think you need to do all the math to know how to heal as a shaman. Everyone heals differently and thats why I hate reading negative comments. I have never, never been a LHW shaman, I am adding it in my rotation, but I still don't use it as much. Most fights, people are standing withthin 10-15 feet close enough where CH will reach them. Yes, you will overheal, but does that really matter??? I use SheildsUp for an addon and it gives me a bell when my ES and Water shield is up! With totem timers, so all i have to do is click the totem timers addon beside my healbot when the bell chimes and refresh them both so I am not moving all over the screen. Shamans can be very effective healers, either using CH or LHW, i will stay stack crit for LHW, but you do still need haste! I will say that I do think that riptide and CH heal combo is awesome. I use it fairly often and top almost all the healing meters, which don’t get me wrong, don’t say that I am a great healer, but I do know that with out me, the raid and tanks could be falling. I usually try to to riptide and ES the tank and CH the melee, if a healer is going down they get the riptide. I have 4 set t7.5 and i t8. My trikents are both lvl 200 but they increase my haste by 505 when proced. I would say these are the best trinkets for shamans healing 25 naxx. I have ran with several shamans and they ask me how I get my heals off so fast. When these proc together my hast is over 1k, giving me below a 1 sec CH. In uludar CH is not as useful. I have about a 23% crit, 13% haste rating and about 2300 SP. I don’t think you need to do all the math to know how to heal as a shaman. Everyone heals differently and thats why I hate reading negative comments. I have never, never been a LHW shaman, I am adding it in my rotation, but I still don’t use it as much. Most fights, people are standing withthin 10-15 feet close enough where CH will reach them. Yes, you will overheal, but does that really matter??? I use SheildsUp for an addon and it gives me a bell when my ES and Water shield is up! With totem timers, so all i have to do is click the totem timers addon beside my healbot when the bell chimes and refresh them both so I am not moving all over the screen. Shamans can be very effective healers, either using CH or LHW, i will stay stack crit for LHW, but you do still need haste!

]]> By: Joel’s Scattered Thoughts » Blog Archive » Healing on a Shaman http://toomanyannas.com/guides/resto-shaman-101-spells/comment-page-1/#comment-1853 Joel’s Scattered Thoughts » Blog Archive » Healing on a Shaman Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:05:04 +0000 http://toomanyannas.com/blog/?p=1117#comment-1853 [...] has a lovely guide to resto shaman healing spells.  PlusHeal talks a little more about spell rotations for different situations and provides [...] [...] has a lovely guide to resto shaman healing spells.  PlusHeal talks a little more about spell rotations for different situations and provides [...]

]]> By: Vashi http://toomanyannas.com/guides/resto-shaman-101-spells/comment-page-1/#comment-1845 Vashi Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:05:53 +0000 http://toomanyannas.com/blog/?p=1117#comment-1845 So... How does one place enough talents to make CH a 2 second Cast.. So… How does one place enough talents to make CH a 2 second Cast..

]]> By: Nils http://toomanyannas.com/guides/resto-shaman-101-spells/comment-page-1/#comment-1861 Nils Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:07:33 +0000 http://toomanyannas.com/blog/?p=1117#comment-1861 I'm still learning how to use riptide & tidal force. My first instance/raid after the 3.0 patch was actually Zul'Drak, and I was in shock at how fast I went oom, but after playing around with no longer being able to downrank spells, and swapping out a few gems for +MP5, I was fine the next week when we re-ran ZD. I never had any problems healing 5-man heroics in BC once I had a few Kara pieces of gear, so not sure what to say to your experience, shama. Maybe group composition has something to do with it. But I doubt anyone can effectively heal a group that is constantly fighting for aggro with each other ;-P Since I have not found a specific healing "groove" for Northrend heroics, I use all known techniques depending on situation (or mood!) I have found LHW spam to be effective, also found CH and HW to be effective, too. There does seem to be more "hopping around" in which cases the bomb HW gets used less in those situations, but Tidal Force + CW is nice when you gotta heal the group after a mis-read in AoE (some people can never seem get out of the way of a whirlwind or a nova!) Flask of major mojo + Blessing of Wisdom means you can play around with various casting styles and not worry too much about mana while playing. Many sites say CH is useless in 5-mans - people who say this may not play a resto shaman very much IMHO ;-P Like it says elsewhere on this site - if it hits at least two people = "we win" button. Especially when you tavel with either a hunter or a warlock (or both) with pets - then CH has 7 potential targets to work on. In this aspect, 10-mans typically have 12-13 CH targets... What hunter or warlock will say that losing their pet is no big deal to their dps or survival? I’m still learning how to use riptide & tidal force. My first instance/raid after the 3.0 patch was actually Zul’Drak, and I was in shock at how fast I went oom, but after playing around with no longer being able to downrank spells, and swapping out a few gems for +MP5, I was fine the next week when we re-ran ZD.

I never had any problems healing 5-man heroics in BC once I had a few Kara pieces of gear, so not sure what to say to your experience, shama. Maybe group composition has something to do with it. But I doubt anyone can effectively heal a group that is constantly fighting for aggro with each other ;-P

Since I have not found a specific healing “groove” for Northrend heroics, I use all known techniques depending on situation (or mood!) I have found LHW spam to be effective, also found CH and HW to be effective, too. There does seem to be more “hopping around” in which cases the bomb HW gets used less in those situations, but Tidal Force + CW is nice when you gotta heal the group after a mis-read in AoE (some people can never seem get out of the way of a whirlwind or a nova!)

Flask of major mojo + Blessing of Wisdom means you can play around with various casting styles and not worry too much about mana while playing.

Many sites say CH is useless in 5-mans – people who say this may not play a resto shaman very much IMHO ;-P Like it says elsewhere on this site – if it hits at least two people = “we win” button. Especially when you tavel with either a hunter or a warlock (or both) with pets – then CH has 7 potential targets to work on. In this aspect, 10-mans typically have 12-13 CH targets… What hunter or warlock will say that losing their pet is no big deal to their dps or survival?

]]> By: shama http://toomanyannas.com/guides/resto-shaman-101-spells/comment-page-1/#comment-1852 shama Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:07:46 +0000 http://toomanyannas.com/blog/?p=1117#comment-1852 A couple of things... the crit is nice if you can spam your WS during a long fight. I rarely go OOM. Macro your water shield to the wheel button on your mouse and you can rebuff this nonstop and easy during the fights. Also-- Save HW for those Oh Crap moments and use with nature swiftness. Otherwise Riptide followed by chain or LHW is the way to go. I am still figuring out the best rotation and its hard to give up chain heal. Best to try and get assigned to healing off tank + melee. With the earth living proc and the glyph for 4th target you can have 8 heals go off at one time= sweet :) Still trying to figure out my best rotation since EVERYTHING about my shammy has changed but I am glad I can at least keep a 5 man heroic alive now which was close to impossible in BC. shama A couple of things… the crit is nice if you can spam your WS during a long fight. I rarely go OOM. Macro your water shield to the wheel button on your mouse and you can rebuff this nonstop and easy during the fights. Also– Save HW for those Oh Crap moments and use with nature swiftness. Otherwise Riptide followed by chain or LHW is the way to go. I am still figuring out the best rotation and its hard to give up chain heal. Best to try and get assigned to healing off tank + melee. With the earth living proc and the glyph for 4th target you can have 8 heals go off at one time= sweet :)
Still trying to figure out my best rotation since EVERYTHING about my shammy has changed but I am glad I can at least keep a 5 man heroic alive now which was close to impossible in BC.
shama

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