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crimsonsentinel · 06/16/08, 9:01 AM

The resto tree is looking pretty bloated right now, which makes me want to believe that blizzard wants to see resto shaman in WotLK split into two camps: MT healing, focusing on crit and HW/LHW talents plus spirit link, and raid healers, focusing on CH talents and haste. The good thing is that each complement each other. The MT healer helps out on raid healing with ancestral awakening while the CH healer evens out the damage split caused by the MT healer's spirit link. If this is the case though, spirit link should be unlinked from improved chain heal.

I don't envision CH raid healers to be heavily invested in putting up the spirit link buff themselves because it looks to be a fairly small damage mitigation that will have to be renewed fairly frequently in on a MT. That leaves very little time/mana to do any raid healing, especially if sunwell type raid damage is continued in WotLK. Keep in mind the only real aoe heal introduced so far has been flourish, so unless paladins get something amazing Shaman retain their role as king of raid healing.

Spirit link and the crit changes also happen to make shaman much better PVP healers which is pretty nice.

Edit: Also, I don't know where to post this, but has anyone else noticed the huge disparity between priest heal values and shaman heal values?

# Flash Heal (Rank 10)- 640 mana, 1684 to 1956 healing.
# Flash Heal (Rank 11)- 775 mana, 2054 to 2386 healing.

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# Lesser Healing Wave (Rank 8) - 805 mana, 1382 to 1578 healing.
# Lesser Healing Wave (Rank 9) - 965 mana, 1606 to 1834 healing.

# Greater Heal (Rank 8)- 1095 mana, 3395 to 3945 healing.
# Greater Heal (Rank 9)- 1290 mana, 3950 to 4590 healing.

# Healing Wave (Rank 13) - 1355 mana, 2624 to 2996 healing.
# Healing Wave (Rank 14) - 1600 mana, 3034 to 3466 healing.

06/16/08, 9:01 AM	#90 (permalink)
crimsonsentinel Hungry Hungry Hippos Finatey Human Death Knight <Wrecked> Daggerspine	The resto tree is looking pretty bloated right now, which makes me want to believe that blizzard wants to see resto shaman in WotLK split into two camps: MT healing, focusing on crit and HW/LHW talents plus spirit link, and raid healers, focusing on CH talents and haste. The good thing is that each complement each other. The MT healer helps out on raid healing with ancestral awakening while the CH healer evens out the damage split caused by the MT healer's spirit link. If this is the case though, spirit link should be unlinked from improved chain heal. I don't envision CH raid healers to be heavily invested in putting up the spirit link buff themselves because it looks to be a fairly small damage mitigation that will have to be renewed fairly frequently in on a MT. That leaves very little time/mana to do any raid healing, especially if sunwell type raid damage is continued in WotLK. Keep in mind the only real aoe heal introduced so far has been flourish, so unless paladins get something amazing Shaman retain their role as king of raid healing. Spirit link and the crit changes also happen to make shaman much better PVP healers which is pretty nice. Edit: Also, I don't know where to post this, but has anyone else noticed the huge disparity between priest heal values and shaman heal values? # Flash Heal (Rank 10)- 640 mana, 1684 to 1956 healing. # Flash Heal (Rank 11)- 775 mana, 2054 to 2386 healing. # # Lesser Healing Wave (Rank 8) - 805 mana, 1382 to 1578 healing. # Lesser Healing Wave (Rank 9) - 965 mana, 1606 to 1834 healing. # Greater Heal (Rank 8)- 1095 mana, 3395 to 3945 healing. # Greater Heal (Rank 9)- 1290 mana, 3950 to 4590 healing. # Healing Wave (Rank 13) - 1355 mana, 2624 to 2996 healing. # Healing Wave (Rank 14) - 1600 mana, 3034 to 3466 healing. Last edited by crimsonsentinel : 06/16/08 at 9:55 AM.