Hmm you bring up an interesting subject. Is there a more effective PvE build than going high resto? Should shaman stear clear of MTT? is it a waste of points that we could use to buff our other totems for melee? I am MTT actually I am 0/11/40 basically I have it cause I have been in caster groups since the first day I stepped into MC and it is what I think benefits the raid the most but what do others think?

Improved Grace of Air is best talent.

The 10 talent points you invest as prereqs to get MTT are garbage. That's the problem. If MTT were a 21pt talent, it'd be pretty nice.

As a one-point investment, MTT is a great return. But as an 11-point investment, when you look at what you could have in other trees instead, I disagree. Shaman DPS is nontrivial, and having max flurry certainly helps in that department. The ability of shamans to contribute 150+ DPS by autoattacking while doing other stuff against many bosses is a Horde advantage that I think we should capitalize on.

The other problem with MTT is lack of scaling. In MC 7 months ago, 1k mana meant a whole lot more than it does today. We all have such deep mana pools and so much more regen, that 1k just doesn't make as big an impact as it once did.

Yeah I really wish they would buff it. I am leaning towards going to purification with no MTT. I dunno I have had MTT for 6 months and it will be depressing to get rid of it. I will have to talk to the raid and see how people feel.

Was anyone?

I sure was!

And I will testify to being on the receiving end of Bloodgush's MTT and it was truly a frightening and awe-inspiring experience.

well I dunno if it didnt cost 30 points in enhancements buffing grace of air would be nice. I am only a moderate fan of strength totem so buffing that is not something I am a huge fan of but your heals and your totems are your biggest benefits to your raid so to help the raid imo you either buff your healing or your totems or both. I have chosen to buff my healing/mana regen.

Imp. SoE actually isn't horrible just because of where it's located in the tree. Personally I want Imp. Lightning Shield because it's very efficient for soloing/PvP and scales incredibly with +damage which I have a fair bit of. But for a 100% pure raid spec, you'd want to put 3 points there alongside 2h mace/axe, as your prereqs for uinlocking Flurry. 3/3 Imp SoE is +10str, which is something I suppose.

Imp GoA is a joke because of its placement in the talent tree. Hmm, Imp GoA or NS? Gee, I wonder.

Could not agree more, they really need to reconfigure out talents.

That gear set is over 5k hitpoints, unless I'm adding it all up incorrectly. Next time maybe just say you disagree with the choice and explain why? =P

+4 All Stats is the best chest enchant for a shaman. Thats why.

I agree with Gurgthock, that MTT is way to expensive, however for fresh starters in the raidbusiness it is a really good asset, since alot of people will still have to learn to manage their mana better. After about one to two months there is usually not much need for it anymore and Shamans can start helping to hack away the trash to improve the performance of the raid. (At least it was more or less like this when I started raiding.)

But back to topic, +healing just becomes better and better the more you upgrade the shaman equipment.
At the start most of the time the shaman will cast Lesser Healing Wave, where you only get ~43% of the bonus.
When the shaman has reached the point wearing five pieces of the Earthfury set you get at least some mana back from time to time, improving the heal/mana ratio. Not really bound to +healing but will still notice ist more then before since you have more mana to cast another LHW.
Finally with the full Earthfury you get a huge Bonus again, since you will do some patchwork healing with the Lesser Healing Wave without the penalty of the Chain Heal (the five pieces bonus of the EF doesn't apply to Chain Heal) bringing up the percentage you get from your +healing to around ~53%.
When reaching this point every shaman will have noticed, that Chain Heal isn't as bad as it look like at first.
When the three pieces bonus of Ten Storms is available the +healing begins to become more and more important since you get around 183% out of it with Chain Heal.

Overall I think the importance of +healing for a shaman is bound to the progress of the raid he is in. The deeper he gets into MC and BWL the more important it will become.

Vardemis

PS: Just noticed that most of the above was said before, but I just don't feel like deleting the heap of spelling errors I just produced. ;)