Infraction for ineedmoney: Grammar

◊ Kaubel · 12/16/07, 10:58 PM

Post: [Shaman] How to Heal like a Pro
User: ineedmoney
Infraction: Grammar
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As a shaman most of the time im assigned to raidhealing which basicly means chain heal/lesser healing wave rotation, i usualy end the night with less than 10 healing waves casted, almost all of them after nature swiftness, thats why i simply dont see the point to take improved healing wave and healing way. On MT healing paladins and priests simply outheal us (we do have one shaman on MT tho for ancestral fortitude buff). I can tsay im happy about Blizzard making us almost one button class, but thats the reality - chainheal is the best raidhealing skill in wow atm (there are not much, but still there are some fights where its not that efficient). We have the improved chainheal as talent and t6 bonuses are simply awesome, thats why as soon i droped t5 4piece bonus i droped the healing wave talents. I admit healing way looks nice on first sight - more healing is always nice, but if you think about it to be viable you have to be on MT healing and the maintank is always spamed from the paladins, hoted, earthshielded, power word shielded so this 18% more healing from healing wave ONLY are rather useless. As for the elemental warding - its an awesome talent which is not viable but compared to what you drop to spec it gives it huge advantage. Improved reincarnation is the most underrated resto talent imo, i admit you should not die, but still there some fights where this is unavoidable (Teron, Azgalor) or if you are very unlucky to take all the AOEs on the council or you aint healed on time on barrage on Illidan and ankh up w/o this talent is near to useless (you ankh with 2k mana = 4-5 heals, at least one of them on you). Anyway thats my opinion for the spec. About trinkets i think that eye of gruul is one of the best trinkets for a healer atm - passive healing and even if it procs only once per minute its worth more than the fathom-brooch, which has 1 minute hidden cooldown, imo only memento beats it (anyway im not much into theorycrafting). As for the macro section, i simply love it. I just havent interested myself that much about macros before (i had only some for downraking my spells). I have some question about them tho. First the relic swaping macro is very very nice but i loose the selfcast option when using it (im using Bongos2) so i have to add other lines with modifier for targets. Can that be avoided so i can keep using modifiers for downranking? For the mount macro i have added a line to equip my riding trinket, but i cant find a way to unequip it and equip my previous trinket (no matter of the set i am atm - resto, elemental or enhancment) after dismounting. I know outfitter equips your last trinket you had before when u make a riding set, so i hope it can be done with macro too.