That's not exactly true, since you can't use aquatic form inside the portals.

Switched from Rogue to Resto shaman a short while ago and loving it!. But, as im browsing through WMO parses to figure out what other shamans do compared to me i see that mostly its CH spam for about 50+%.

Now, when damage is pouring in im usually going into a static spam mode throwing RT, Hasted CH (2t10), 2 hasted HW or LHW after which RT is or is just about to off cooldown and i start over, and so im seldom throwing anything that is not hasted.

Since everyone else seems to go CH spamming, im guessing im in the wrong here, so i started looking at one of the spreadsheets here, but cant find that specific rotation. How can i make that calculation?

I used HST Glyph a while ago in ICC-10. I'll dig up the report to check what they are saying.

The main reason I switched to another glyph is that I was the only cham, and some group member could use the extra regen of the MST.

Also, I would add that Glyphed MST is situational. Where in fight with little AoE damage, the main outcome will be overheal. On other hand, it can be awesome for example on Dreamwalker when you are the portal jokey... the glyphed HST can provide tremendous heal to the raid!

PS: It's my feeling, from mostly a 10-man raid point of view.

For the last couple guys, Greyhawk and Jodadda:

It all depends on the other members of your raid. My opinion is that shaman have the least flexible talents, but a very flexible healing style. So if two pallies and two disc priests showed up tonight... you're CH button is going to get smashed a lot. If 2 druids and 2 holy priests showed up.. your CH button will get quite dusty tonight.


Our normal raid makeup is 2holy paladin, 1 shaman, 1 druid, 2 priests (they change specs quite often per boss).
The following are my normal duties in ICC 25, if that helps:

Marrowgar - CH spam on the soakers with the tank... lately i have some free time to LHW a bone spiked person who is low.
LDW - RT+LHW and remove curse on the fanatic kiter. Randomly CH or LHW on other raid members depending on whether they are stacked or split up.
DBsaurfang - CH on whichever tank is currently holding the threat. We tend to have the first couple marks go to the melee spot.. so my CH splashes marked targets and the 2nd tank. I switch to LHW or a hasted HW when saurfang has really high blood power. About midway through the debuff wearing off on the 2nd tank, I'll RT that tank so when it's his turn to actually tank my first CH will be boosted.

Rotgut - cast whatever i can get away with... CH at melee, LHW at ranged people, nature totem is the real bonus i bring.
Fester - CH spam on whoever is currently tanking...unless we have 2 pallies and a disc priest. Then I'm pretty much CH melee, CH ranged when they are collapsed for spores, LH+RT ranged when not collapsed for spores. Again, the nature resist totem is probably the most important totem I can supply.
Putricide - CH mainly all over the raid. I'm also the healer of the red-gas target, that person gets RT+LHW.

Princes - lots of LHW+RT
BQL - CH ... and healing stream. I CH the tank's soaker, then CH someone else in raid. This is a 25man and we make sure to stand close to each other for AOE healing. In a 10man environment, I could see how you can't just CH ranged people.

Valritha - HW+RT, sometimes I CH the raid. I normally do not take portals... I'm the guy who stays outside and heals the dragon.
Sindragosa - all healing spells get used or I'm unchained and no healing spells get used. I'm considering glyphing healing stream for this fight... it'd be very nice for my group to get some healing during those blistering colds in phase3.

LichKing - I have yet to defeat the heroic. So my situation here is still in flux. Normally I'm healing tanks during phase1 and making sure to cast a chain heal such that it lands just after infest finishes casting. I usually do two CHs at that time. Rest of the time is LHW+RT on the tanks. During relentless winter, of course it's CH spam on the raid.

Rapparee - I see you're running an unusual resto spec. I assume this is LK HC orientated? Earthbind radius for the Valkyr's and Stoneskin for the tanks?

I think it's worth looking at this a little more. I'm sure there's quite a lot of people out there who currently blast through 11/12 heroics then hit a lich king shaped wall.

We're still in the early stages of learning the fight (wiping when the first valkyrs come) but given that all other bosses are generally a one-shot (or should be), it seems sensible to have one spec entirely focussed for LK. Earthbind I think I can live without but I'd like to accommodate the Imp Stoneskin into my spec somehow. Is the loss of healing focus proving to be any loss at all? What does and doesn't cause spell pushback? Infest ticks and pain and suffering are the only things I can think of that might. I'd guess infest doesn't and pain and suffering does but confirmation of this would be great. The first transition phase isn't especially strenuous for healing so I think I could live with this. Infest ticks would be a big problem though as it's generally our job to cover what the shields don't.

For general resto play on this fight, I'm doing pretty much the same as described. Time your CHs for infests, ES and LHWs on tanks, keep AF up on both. Glyph choices of ES, CH and LHW should be pretty standard I would think. For the same reason, anything past the haste soft cap seems wasteful. Tank healing with HW would obliterate my mana but my mp5 is low (festergut and saurfang don't like me).

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For having removed Healing Focus for some time now I can tell you that you won't miss it for the first 11 bosses. No avoidable damage does cause pushback (I even saw latelly that Lana'Thel's aura doesn't trigger mana orbs anymore).
The only noticeable pushback is on the Lich King, both Infest and Pain and Suffering does trigger pushback. But honestly it isn"t a real problem. For Infest if you do time properly your CH you won't have any trouble with it and for Pain and Suffering just spam CH anyway. The only problem I have with not having Healing Focus is in P2 if I have to remove the Pest and Arthas is casting Pain and Suffering on me endlessly, then I may have to stop a heal to dispell the disease in time, but honestly nothing that troublesome.

Well if the infests are causing pushback then it may be necessary to throw the first CH through yourself. I was talking about the heroic mode where Infest is actually pretty damaging. In normal, it does disappear instantly yeah.

We may well be doing this tonight and I'm thinking of a 1/3 Healing Focus, 2/2 Guardian Totems build. If pushback is a problem then it may be Healing Way that's on the way out. Obviously you're then limited to LHW and your NS macro is hurt. Damaging your ability to heal the tank in favour of 200 or so armour may be counterproductive. Was hoping for 2 free points really!

Choices, choices.

Why is this?

Doesn't 2/2 Improved Stoneskin Totem provide 1380 armor which is significantly less than the 1807 armor provided by 3/3 Improved Devotion Aura? I may be missing something, which is why I ask.

They stack.

They stack, something easy to prove in any raid environment. Perhaps they aren't supposed to, but they certainly do.

Whether the additional armor from the talents is worth it is another story entirely, but you should have the totem down regardless.

yes, my spec is more screwy than I like.

Earthbind radius for vile spirits (on valks the stuns are much more important than my EB).
Earthbind was originally to slow the bloodbeasts on saurfang, but being in melee range ended up being too much healing aggro for us.

Like others have said, stoneskin stacks with improved devotion. At least it stacks on the character pane window.

The cold flame on marrowgar has caused me some pushback. Almost always getting out of coldflame is more important than finishing a heal (unless it's a heal on a spiked guy who is in cold flame... even then move to NS+heal as you run out).
Infest on heroic lich king does cause pushback and it's at a time, when I can't really afford pushback. So I'm thinking of dropping earthbind to grab a few points in HealingFocus. Until we get to vile spirits, it doesn't make a lot of sense for me to worry about earthbind. Relentless winter doesn't seem to cause pushback on me, I could be wrong.