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Mesoforte
Shaman aren't as "rotation" dependent as druids are. If you can learn to time healing waves, it is more efficient for tank healing (ie time it to minimize overheal). Otherwise, most raid situations have forced (ie other raiders healing damage before it becomes efficient to use healing wave) lesser healing wave style as the norm for tank healing with the glyph.
The most important thing to do is keep tidal waves up when healing.
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exavious
It's not about rotations, it's all about timing. Riptide and watch health bar. Start casting healing wave and if it's not needed, jump. You really just watch the situation and decided what would work the best at the time. I like HW vs LHW for the healing done vs mana cost, but some people don't want to see the tank under 90% so they just spam LHW on him.
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exavious
I haven't looked at any of the up and coming patch notes, but with haste and the 30% casting speed increase from riptide/chain heal... I have LHW at about 0.9sec cast and HW somewhere around 1.6sec cast. LHW may be better for less then a second casting but HW isn't that far behind, and when that crits it can hit for more then 15k healing.
If someone just needs a bit though, I will just throw a chain heal to help out a couple people, plus if your glyphed you can sometimes spam chain heal and run 3-4 HoT's(or more).
Another thing for any healing, if you like spamming heals... spam the hell out of chain heal. I think I can continuously cast chain heal about 50 times without going OOM. After that I can pop a potion or manatide totem and be able to cast another 30 again. Also from what I understand we can now benefit from chain heals mana gain from our water shield as of next patch. That could be almost 4+min of continuouly casting chain heal before going OOM.
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Mesoforte
alright rotation isnt exactly the best choice for a word. I think everyone knows by now that healing is much more complicated that dps in the sense that you dont have a set rotation and you have to decide what heal to use on who at a moments notice or they could end up dying. Now i know in 25 man lhw is the best choice to mt heal as they're other healers. But say in a 10 man encounter with 3 healers. My guild is very druid heavy when it comes to healers, hence me making a resto shammy as we have none whatsoever. We usually have a pally on the mt, a druid on the ot who bounces into other healing jobs when the ot is capped, and a druid on raid. What if at 80 i take the place of the pally as the sole mt healer, do i use healing wave then as other healers arent going to beat me to the heal?
edit: pretty much waht i mean is, if you can plan the heals out to not do as much overhealing, which is more mana efficient, lhw, or hw?
Healing wave is more efficient in HPM terms. Lesser healing wave is less efficient in HPM terms. If you can time a HW, then by all means its the better heal. The change from druid to shaman will be interesting for you. From what I hear from other druids I know, the druid heal style is very rotation dependent (keeping up hots all the time on the right targets). Shaman are almost the direct opposite. While there is a degree of anticipatory healing in our class, a lot of what we do is pure reactionary.
*Before I forget, as we're pretty loose in a healing style, a lot of times you'll completely forget about efficiency and go for speed. There are important times to do that, but its never something to worry about doing. If you find yourself using LHW heavily, its not really a problem. You'll learn more about it when you start healing heavily.
That's the most important thing about learning shaman healing, a lot of it is just conditioned reaction. :\
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