Questions for New and Experienced Resto Shamans, and Everyone In Between

[redikolous]

This is a post about knowing the ins and outs of the resto shaman toolbox, but it really applies to other healers and their toolboxes too, in a way. I liked the article a lot, and I know wow-ladies has a pretty big resto shaman community. I also stan for Vixsin, so...Back when LiG5 was in its infancy, and this lone blogger was searching for

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[chilayse]

All I know is my barely geared for it shaman really can't heal heroics if the balance druid keeps breaking the CC with the blasted mushrooms. He proceeded to tell me he's one of the top mages on his server. That's nice, go play your mage, and stop putting mushrooms on my hexed target.

In the meantime I'll poke at this list, because I'm mediocre at healing with my shaman (I don't chain heal spam, but neither do I manage all my totems correctly for healing, thanks to leveling entirely as enhancement. I keep forgetting I have spirit link totem...)

[redikolous]

The biggest thing about those little totems, is that I moved them to my main cat bar. I know I'm trying to shrink my UI, but even with Totem Timers, it was a pain to root around in all the menus. It was becoming a terrible goofing-thing.

[redikolous]

I would love this for Holy and Disc Priest. I'm working on both of those, and they're a lot harder to get than Druid or Shaman.

[netzgeek]

Excellent timing! My main healer is a paladin (Rhonwen) but since she's saved for guild runs I needed another healer to run with friends. So two days ago I brushed off my resto shaman and started to gear her up (Nesstra, if you're curious). I've refreshed myself by reading the forums on EJ, but I think this post is going to help me even more as I practice in heroics.

Thank you so much for posting this!

[redikolous]

No big! Your shaman is looking good, just need new gloves and feet and you can try your hand at healing cata heroics if normals aren't challenging. (I'd go with a guild group, but I only say that because I panic if it's a pug group and I'm new at the class.)

[enveri]

I wasn't able to answer all of these, but I found the article interesting. I changed from mainspec resto a while back.. and I think the problem I ran into most was answers to these sorts of questions felt hard to find. Maybe my googlefu was failing, and I know I definitely LOVE LiG5 (I still read it so I can keep up to date on resto for my offspec), but.. I think a lot of things that are intuitive to people that have raided since classic, are good at number crunching and reading logs that... really just aren't for people that are just now trying to improve their game.

Or maybe I'm just not that good, either's equally likely. :)

[redikolous]

I've just now joined a guild that has logs, and I'm still learning how to really read them. In my guild before the last, there were two people who could compare and crunch logs like no one else. I could read a healers log a bit, but I couldn't crunch one.

I think that a lot of these things would be things to think about whilst trying to improve. It's usually like a lightbulb. Of course, if you crunch logs, you might see these things sooner. But not everyone has to.

I don't think you're bad at all! You might learn better in different ways. I think a lot of people get directed to EJ where they say, "You heal this? Take this spec and go." Where I think that one of the marks of a great healer is that they can know why they cast the heals they do, with their team, how they fit, etc. For some, people can go to EJ and get all the info they need, for others, they may need something like this.