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cosmic_iris in wow_ladies

Resto Shamaning?

Apr 13, 2011 18:16

Ladies, I play a holy paladin. I don't know much about how resto shamans have changed with Cataclysm, but I know they have since healing as a whole has changed. My understanding, for the most part, is that you can't spam chain heal all day anymore, correct? It's using greater healing wave, lesser healing wave, and healing surge mostly? (Again, I ( Read more... )

shaman: restoration, raid: cataclysm

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penguinsane April 13 2011, 23:20:49 UTC

We were having the exact same problem in our 10mans, except there were TWO shamans and a holy priest. One shaman was okayish, the other was absolutely terrible.

I don't really have much advice other than the fact that we noticed that unless someone was standing in their Healing Rains, people rarely got heals from them. Healing Wave is the go-to heal of choice I believe, with liberal amounts of the rest. Make sure she's keeping Earth Shield up and casting Riptide often.

Perhaps on specific fights, go to World of Logs and look up other resto shamans and see what their breakdowns are like?

redikolous April 13 2011, 23:35:39 UTC

You look like you're in 10s obvs. I was about to ask lol ( ... )

redikolous April 13 2011, 23:37:32 UTC

Oh, also, is she getting sniped? It could also partially be latency problems. I say partially because I'm truly confused by her healing. For reals, Riptide has gone from being our debatedly worst spell to the one with the most HPM. It should be cast on every cooldown.

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redikolous April 13 2011, 23:54:26 UTC

Yeah, that's what I mean by debatable. I have seen a few 10s shams who do crit as well. I like the idea of crit, but like haste, it seems like you have to stack a lot before it creeps up more? Plus, even without stacking crit, you get gobs it even if you're not gearing for it. Mastery always works, and if you drop HR enough, you're always are going to get a return, and 4.1 at the end of the month will buff mastery even more!

I still do like the idea of stacking crit however! Mastery does have a lower benefit when there's less people to heal. I think the OP's sham, once she gets her healing in order, should try both.

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jadecat9 April 13 2011, 23:48:59 UTC

I play a resto shaman in our 10 man progression raids, and a lot of raid healing. I do pretty darn well. My hpally & hpriest take care of my tanks. I take care of the rest of the raid, and throw extra heals on the tanks as necessary if the raid is doing okay ( ... )

cosmic_iris April 13 2011, 23:52:52 UTC

Her gear is equal to mine. In fact, she got the majority of her gear before some of the rest of us.

Her stats are as follows:
Int: 4647 (6591sp)
Spirit: 2145
Haste: 10.61%
Crit: 20.12%
Mastery: 9.59%

She also has maxed enchanting and JCing, so she has some additional int buffs from that.

kitk8 April 14 2011, 00:44:42 UTC

I do want to beg to differ you DON'T have to use healing add-ons. The only one I use is decursive. Some people swear by them, some people don't. I find they get in my way more then they help.

regen April 14 2011, 01:37:54 UTC

This! I don't use healing add-ons, but I do have mouseover macros for my healing/utility spells to save the hassle of clicking the target. That's essentually what Clique does in a nutshell to my understanding, but I was more comfortable just writing macros to fit my needs.

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regen April 14 2011, 00:02:44 UTC

Stupid typos. Bah. Let's try this again!

I agree with everything above, especially the Riptide comment redikolous made. It's great to combine with Unleash Elements to throw on a tank, and with the 4T11 bonus it gives the spirit proc whenever it's used - which is essentially 540 spirit all the time assuming she has her tier gear and keeps Riptide on cooldown. Plus it's a more viable way of proccing Tidal Waves (buffs her single-target heals with either increased haste or crit) instead of relying on Chain Heal to proc TW. Chain Heal can be terrible in 10m comps because of the limited number of players spread over large areas, and if it doesn't bounce enough it really isn't worth casting. In some fights it can still be a viable tool so it shouldn't be completely excluded, but perhaps there are other spells that would be more appropriate ( ... )

archangelbeth April 14 2011, 00:05:20 UTC

What healing mods does she use? Because while I haven't pitted my druid and my Healbot against my spouse and his "no mousovers, no addons" priest... I'm going to guess that the only times I'm not going to be able to outheal my spouse is if I'm out of mana ( ... )