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Tidal Mastery: While shaman healing is not based on getting crits, it never hurts. It also provides a nice benefit while you are soloing.
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While the itemization isn't quite as absurd for this as it used to be, Tidal Mastery is a damn good place to spend 5 points if you're already spending 3/3 in Ancestral Healing, which you should be. I wouldn't spec 8/0/53 without it. The 25% AC boost that this proc provides will typically provide a good deal more AC than an Ironshield potion. In my current Kara-level gear, an AH proc is worth 3750 AC while an Ironshield is only 2500, and any raid tank can tell you how Ironshields save their ass. It doesn't seem like a lot, but 5% more crit across 3 shamans in the raid trying to get a 15% proc goes a very long way indeed.