Post by Runawaynow
From the
link vixsin posted earlier:But, the still waters of discussion belie the harsh undercurrent of sentiment...
Amazing wording there, sir.
Also the entire post is a good read and very beneficial information. Specific situations in every current PvE raid encounter for maximum TC return are listed as well.
Edit: And this thread appears to have no still waters... so much rage...
Post by Onijitsu
N-E-V-E-R drop ancestral swiftness.Already did. Thanks for the advice. Considering picking it up again, if I wanna drop something else.
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Crit gives Shamans both bigger heals and better mana regen. Both of which we need. I'm not going to give up that talent to get a slightly faster Ghost Wolf.
I'd like to direct your attention to the type of moron I will cover in the latter part of my post.
He says to drop acuity but crit is good? Lol?
First of all, define "
acuity" as it means anything to you?
It doesn't seem to match any of the general English standard definitions. (Since that is the standard you wish to hold
everyone else to)
Crit rating is highly valued for
healing heroics for the mana regen. It doesn't give you bigger heals. Mastery does.
Ignorance. Crit gives you bigger heals. Irregularly, yes, but with mana regen benefits.
Resto-Shaman Mastery also gives you bigger heals. Situationally, but
still irregularly and
without mana regen.
Mastery is useful for us primarily in 25-mans. Other stats still seem more useful in 10-mans and Heroics. Frankly, I'm not all that impressed with Resto-Shaman mastery. I think it needs an overhaul.
As a shaman you want to get 916 haste for the soft breakpoint, and then focus on mastery. Mastery is far and away better - and so is ghost wolf.
Others have already taken issue with this. No further comment.
It's not for the actual spell (who uses a gcd to move out of fire?)
but for the 15% base movement speed.To reiterate: in my thinking, if I'm OOM, it doesn't matter how fast I can run. A Healer without mana is like a Tank without armor.
Please don't post advice if you are going to use blanket statements and have nothing
credible to speak of.
To the people who read this, please don't listen to this person... he sockets stamina gems as dps.
I hope you have something "credible" to back this libel up. Please: produce your proof.PS. dut is not a word, try google before you, again, blanket statement. Nikos is a really dumb troll and if he actually WAS foreign, he would have learned english by now.
You, sir, are a Chauvanist.
(I use the classic, English version of the term in this case)
To really make effective use of TC, you need to invest either at the very least 9-10 talent points (for 2/3 or 3/3 Elemental Precision) and there is another 3 points you can put in Focused Insight to make it slightly better. In doing this you miss out on Cleansing Waters, Nature's Swiftness, Elemental Weapons, Improved Shields and Ancesteral Swiftness.
Between the speed bonus from Ancesteral Swiftness (getting out of the fire faster meaning you have to heal yourself less), the extra regen from Imp Shields, and the extra throughput from Elemental Weapons, I think you would be gimping you healing to go the other way.
However I'm sure if you have no trouble keeping people up then the other way may end up being better for your raid over all. My advice would be to duel spec and try them both out over the course of two weeks or raiding. Do each fight in both specs and see which one suits each fight. I'm sure some fights (like magmaw) would suit one over the other.
No you certainly do not. Aside from that, focused insight is a *!@#ty talent, and you don't spec into cleansing waters - ever. You don't benefit enough to warrant taking out of other talents - if you DID have to dispel for some reason.If you're having trouble healing you need to learn to prioritize heals and learn to use healing rain properly. Most people with TC take it because they nuke the %^&* out of their mana bar chaining 1-2 people. If you aren't in hard modes, it's extremely situational and mediocre.TC isn't uber. Especially without adequate haste or other benefits. But it does produce a net mana increase. And that is worth considering. You're so intolerant and incapable of examining other viewpoints it disgusts me. I think I'm done giving
you much credence.
p.s. -- if you saw any "stam gems" on anything? It was probably my PvP set, which I use for questing and helping guildies
on my PvP server. (Helpful suggestion, in case you're wondering where the hell they might've gone)