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Post by
Lasai
Hi guys,
Wow, just did my first bout of healing as a resto shammy, previously a enhance. At 51 i specced over to try it out and it's tough. I have a holy priest main, and wow, resto healing is very different than what i was used to. No HoTs for anyone. Perhaps i'm doing it all wrong, but I'm just trying to spam Healing Wave and Lesser Healing Wave and Chain Heal. Doesn't seem to keep up with the MT as i could with my priest. Could you guys give me some advice for healing rotations for instances and such? I'm 0/1/41 right now. Thanks in advance.
Post by
Mesoforte
Aren't you using Earth Shield?
Post by
Lasai
I am using Earth Shield also, but finding that healing is not as...fluid maybe is the better way to put it then say the Greater heals and Heals of a priest. I like it though, definitly challanging. Is Healing Wave pretty much what we should be spamming then?
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Post by
NeoBlackheart
I will throw this out there. Sure resto is fun but don't remain resto. Go back and go enhance untill 70. At 70 if you want go Resto but know this Shamans are good at raid heals. Much more so than any other class. This is where they shine I have toped out in healing meters just by doing raid heals every time I go but when they assign me to tank heals I drop 2 or 3 spots on the healing meter. So in all CHAIN HEAL is your friend. Also good if your tank sucks and lets aggro drop off him to much.
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Lasai
Thanks for the info guys. Yeah my gear is not what one would call great at 51 for healing. So I am seeing a big difference from my priest. I'm curious though, that we as Resto Shammys do not have a HoT other than Healing Totem.
On a second note, not to sound to noobish, but when you are talking about earthshield, you mean hitting the MT with it, yes? And not on myself?
Yes my first instance was a living hell. We wiped 3x before getting to the first boss because I was so used to having Renew on the MT so much that I was not used to the casting time of HW or LHW. I'm getting a better hang of it as I've been doing a lot of BGs to learn fast heals and such. At 51 I don't suppose there's that great healing mail gear out there for me till I hit OT.
On another subject, speccing over to Elemental is not advised, right till after hitting 60? Just curious is all.
Post by
Gnostik
Basically, Lesser Healing Wave is your bread and butter. You spam it looking for crits. (Stack crit gear and take Tidal Mastery.) Healing Wave for hard-hitting single pulls, Lesser in all other situations. Chain Heal if your melee-range folks are talking damage, otherwise you again are using Lesser Healing Wave to top off ranged DPS.
The healing from Earth Shield isn't all that. It can buy you a little time on the tank, but one of my favorite uses is to throw it on a caster for the anti-interrupt bonus. This is especially effective in an AoE situation.
So yeah, lots of little heals and (hopefully) lots of crits is the way to go. Every crit is a super-efficient heal, and also puts the AC buff on assuming you took that talent.
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Gnostik
I find Tidal Mastery and Ancestral Healing work best with Lesser Healing Wave. Yes it has a smaller coefficient, but that is made up for by the fact that more spells cast = more crits. That turns the spell into a super-efficient heal, and pops an AC buff on the tank. Crits on Healing Wave rarely do you any good because it's almost certainly over-healing.
Post by
hilton
I leveled up all the way as Resto.
1. Keep Earth Shield up on the tank at all times. There is an addon called Totemtimers which has a nice Earth Shield monitor.
2. Get Quartz and spam a lower rank of Chain Heal on the tank and melee when you aren't casting anything else to keep them topped up.
3. Only use Lesser Healing Wave in squeeze when you need a fast heal. It's too mana intensive to use all the time (especially at lower levels).
4. Use Healing Wave if you need to get someone to maximum health. Don't spam it on people.
Post by
Zelven
As Milyardo has stated, LHW should only be used in emergency situations or topping off certain DPS (like Shadow Priests, when you get to higher levels). It's also a decent spell to spam to keep yourself up, when you're offtanking as resto since it's a fast cast and less likely to get hit with constant spell knockback.
For 5mans, if you have melee DPS, Chain Heal is your friend. Seriously. Also, Chain Heal can be great for the ranged if they gather around you and there's AoE damage. Only time the ranged -shouldn't- gather around you is in fights that require everyone to be spread out (IE, Omor of Ramparts). Otherwise, make good use of this fact.
If the above two conditions come up false, then just stick to Healing Wave.
Since you played a priest, you should know full well about Downranking. Shamans are another class that benefit greatly from downranking. Personally, I use rank 2 (Healing Way stacking), 6 (main rank of HW for me), 7, 8, 10, and 12. Chain heal is downranked to 1, 2, and, occasionally, I'll use max rank. LHW, there's no reason to downrank this. The coefficient for this spell is already low. Thus, downranking it does not lend any benefits. Earth Shield should also always be max rank.
When it comes to totems, you have very few you really need to care about. Fire totems are up to you, honestly. Unless you need frost resistance for some fight, fire totems are rather useless to Resto shamans. Earth totems can either be group decided (Stoneskin or Strength of Earth, if requested) or Tremor, again, if the fight calls for it. At your level, you won't have Wrath of Air, so Air totems are up to the group or your own personal preference as well. Water should be either Healing Stream or Mana Spring (and the occasional Mana Tide when necessary). If your mana pool can spare it, use Healing Stream. It may not seem like it does much, but the healing it does really can add up (think of it like a weak, AoE Renew :P ). Otherwise, keep Mana Spring down for you and your group.
Post by
Vancha
Like others have said, LHW is your emergency heal...and Zelven was right about healing stream...with resto spec, that little totem can end up dishing out some very nice healing over the length of a fight. Your group will still prefer mana spring though, so only go with healing stream if you think you'll have difficulty keeping people up or if mana won't be an issue.
Just before I went resto for the first time, I remember reading something along the lines of "A resto shaman is like the battering ram of healing classes", which while I've never played any other healing classes, I can imagine being pretty accurate...it helped me understand the nature of what I was supposed to do, at least. Maybe it will for you too.
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