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Shaman healing is not all based on mp5. It used to be everything, But late on I've discovered pulling mp5, int and + heal as my main stats is much more beneficial.
Here is why:
I raid two setups.
Haste and Regen.
My haste set is all + heal and haste(2300+heal, 285 haste), MP5 takes a huge dump(185) and I typically will use it on bt/hyjal trash (oh the numbers you can produce) and specific burst dmg/raid aoe dmg fights.
My regen set however has stats to the tune of:
2100+heal, 11kmana(Unbuffed), 290mp5(highest on the server(shaman), woot)
Those are really great numbers because basically I can use max rank chain heal(494 Mana), and chug pots and drum resto and mana tide with no real mana issues EVER.
Another thing ive ntoiced is that haste gear has much more INT than most.
An important thing to remember about shaman healing is how mana tide works.
The mana Return is based on your Mana pool, 6% of TOTAL mana/3 sec for 12 sec. Thats 4 ticks.
The larger the mana pool, the more return. Raid buffed ill be sitting at 13.5k mana. Use a flask of distilled wisdom(a much better choice than mp5) and that is an extra 1k mana. My point is, stacking int in your flasks and pots will help with haste gear, for both longevity and even +healing(small, but its there).
Some math:
Say you had 10k mana.
6% of 10000 is: 600.
600 x4(ticks) is 2400 mana.
Raid buffed and flasked with distilled wisdom my pool sits at about 14.4k mana and my return on each mana tide (and you average 2-3 tides per fight) comes out to about 3500 mana. That is quite a difference.
When I go all out Max haste max heal Ill flask distilled wisdom and pot distilled wisdom and get huge gains on my initial pool and the return from mana tide and it will keep me at a nice balanced level.
Also note: Group yourself with a shadow priest in your haste gear. This makes life simple.
For a final note.
Your pool isnt always everything but 9 times out of ten you'll wish and find it was.
The point of mana tide is to regen mana based on the size of the pool nwhen at a loss
The point of mp5 is to Regen your initial mana back to its start value.
When your pulling 3 stats instead of one, youll find yourself a much more useful and longer lasting shaman.
With the newer easier gears to get, like the badge gears, any resto shaman's target numbers for + heal should be anywhere around 2k.
If you already are in that range, +heal/mp5 gems are not nescessary, do yourself a favor and use 4int/2mp5 gems to boost some of your other class benefits. Not to mention from int you pull a small amount of + heal. Its important to pull as many beneficial stats as possible.
keep in mind even the best and most progressed shamans in the game hit a peak of around 2500 + heal. your not that far off.
Meeting a middle ground between your regen and haste values is not a bad idea, you could be running around with say 200 haste and 240mp5 and use that a general setup.
But hey, if you want to crush everything, suck it up, put a shadow priest in your group(he'll like it anyway with the extra dmg)and call for a random innervate, more and more resto druids hardly ever use them on themselves.
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