Originally Posted by Kortar
Elemental Focus does not appear to reduce the cost of healing spells - only damage spells.
As to Ancestral Awakening, I do not account for it when I discuss 'single target' healing. While it's certainly useful to have that healing bounce, when we're talking about burst healing on a tank, the fact that you occaisionally get a stray raid heal out of it isn't particularly important. I did run the numbers include Ancestral Awakening in an earlier post - and HW/LHW still didn't stack up against Greater Heal/Flash Heal even including the bounce.
From the way it looks, this will not be a problem in 5-man instances, since Spirit Link will make up the shortfall in healing throughput/efficiency. However, in a 25-man raid setting, the Shaman heals appear to be dramatically inferior to what other healers receive.
Right now, as far as I can tell, there is an enormous disparity between the effectiveness of Druid/Priest healing and Shaman healing in WotLK. My suspicion is that this will be changed prior to release, but I have no idea how.
To make up the discrepancy between Healing Wave/Greater Heal, the proc would need to be roughly 5 times the power of Lifebloom. I think it's reasonable to suggest that the Earthliving proc is not going to be that powerful.
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Well the reasoning to include it would be that if the tank was the lowest on hp then the bounce would go to him, giving a 60% free crit heal on the tank greatly increases the amount healed and the mana efficiency per point healed. Especially when considering all the crit talents taken by a shaman for HW in this case. Also does anyone have any idea if the 60% crit heal can also crit? I would think it unlikely but if anyone knows, was just curious on that.
edit: Also It's 60% of the critted heal, not 60% of the baseline heal. Crit for 10K, and it's going to do 6K to the lowest target (could be the one you healed.). Also likely that this heal will be cast after the first landed, like all other proc heals (not added into total and slight delay).
3.0s cast time Healing Wave (Rank 14) - 1600 mana, 3034 to 3466 healing.
Talents effecting:
tidal focus 1520 mana, 3034 to 3466 healing.
improved healing wave 2.5 second cast
Tidal Mastery 5% to crit
Healing way 18% increase to Healing wave
Purification 10% increase to healing spells
Blessing of Eternals 4% chance to crit with spell, increase earthliving healing.
Ancesteral Awakening On crit heals for 60% of amount healed. LHW and HW
Tidal wave 5% crit LHW and HW, 25% more from +healing to LHW and HW
Base coefficient:
85.71% (assuming no changes in healing coefficients in WoTLK and the spellpower change)
I'm not sure if the increase in +healing is a additive or multiplicative, though i am certain that someone here does, and will leave the math equations to those whom actually know what they are. My main point was that you need to account for all of these, and the fact that a shaman looking to go along this way of healing is going to be having somewhere well over 30-50% crit depending on how gear escalates (right now i could get 38% crit if i had these talents, unbuffed).
Anyway, someone do the math to include this and if we are still getting creamed by priests then i don't know what to say.