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Chain Heal Rises as Circle of Healing Falls
World of Matticus —
... we follow to figure out the cast time of your spells and how it’s affected by haste. And look, here it is!
Importance of Haste Rating
If you want to spam your chain heals and heal a raid it’s time to start looking at your haste gear and to start looking at your glyphs.
First of all you should be shooting for somewhere near 350-400 haste. 340 haste with a Wrath of Air totem will net you a 2.2 second Chain Heal cast time.
Your goal should be around a 2.0s ...
Totem Talk: 3.0.8, The Rise of Shamanism
WoW.com —
... and Chain Heal still the standouts. I honestly don't know if this change will really accomplish much: it may encourage people to put a Healing Wave into the rotation just to keep the buff up, but if you're doing 90% of your healing with riptide and CH anyway, you may just not bother and keep not spending the talent points on it. ...
Sapy's Guide to Resto Shaman Healing
World of Warcraft Pro - Brings Game Experience to You! —
... 'heroic' ability. Yes they can be confusing, and it will take a while to figure out the best situation to use them in, but you'll get there sooner than you think. This guide will be broken up into eight main sections: Spells/Abilities, Totems, Talent Builds, Glyphs, Gems, Enchants, Healing Guide and Macros. Let's get started. Table of Contents Spells Totems Talent Builds Glyphs Gems Enchants Healing Guide Macros Spells/Abilities [image] Chain Heal This has long been the target of most Shaman button clicks. The spell ...
Avast Ye, Admiral!
World of Warcraft Pro - Brings Game Experience to You! —
... so you and your group (soloing is NOT wise, but I will recommend some soloing tips later) can celebrate the 1000 kill marker. I also find it fun to see how many times I've killed Alliancenoob-Skullcrusher. An ideal group composition would be a hunter (they can control their pets, which is a good way to make a safe pull). A mage (excellent AoE, plus water.) A Death Knight tank (their AoE comes in handy, since mobs get loose very easily, also Frost Walk is great). A shaman ( Chain Heal which is great with all the loose aggro, plus Water Walking allows eating ...
For the Resto Shaman: Settling the Crit vs Haste Discussion
World of Matticus —
... Water Shield,and Ancestral Awakening.
Takes full advantage of the fix to Earth Shield which now has a crit change equal to the caster and not the recipient of the shield
Allows for Increased performance of preventative healing
Allows for greater single target healing efficiency
Pro Haste:
Allows for lower casting time for Chain Heal which is a shamans most efficient heal (5.23 heal per mana)
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Patchwerk through the eyes of a Resto Shaman
World of Matticus —
... You might ask youself “What is there to know? Don’t we just dump heals into tanks and call it a day? ” There are a couple different roles a shaman can play for healing through Patchy here. The two tried and true methods are Chain Heal spam and ...
A Little Guilty Secret
Elune's Guidance —
... are currently the strongest healers in game, so I've found. Two trees top Losse's Naxx25 over two shamans, a paladin, and two priests. Our resto shaman is bored in Losse's Naxx10 because the tree has HoTs everywhere and has pretty much nothing to do half the time. They're strong healers. Which is why I thought I'd stop in and look at the druid that was doing significantly less healing than me. Wild Growth is a very strong spell. To not use it is like not using Chain Heal or Circle of Healing. Really rather silly, if you ask me. All three of ...
Holy Paladin Healing Guide
Holypaladin.net —
... help to even out burst damage on the tank and Shamans can use chain heal on the tank to heal up all the melee. Having multiple people taking care of everyone means that one person’s mistake won’t necessarily kill someone and we can all watch each other’s backs. Maybe its just because content is relatively easy, but this strategy has worked for us all through 25-man Naxx and its at least much more fun for me than spamming Holy Light on one person all night. ...
Are Holy Paladins versatile healers?
Holypaladin.net —
... solo tank heal is the most efficient use of your healing team. Of course, it depends on your healing team and the skills of your players (maybe your Holy Paladin does suck at raid healing). But, in my opinion, the most efficient healing team will have a number of healers on both the tank and the raid.
Your main tank should be receiving heals from all of the following sources and more:
Druid HoTs
Priest shields
Shaman’s Chain Heal
Other AoE Heals
Beacon of Light ...
Turning the Tide: A Resto Shaman Beginners’ Guide
/hug —
... I’ll also point out where things will differ depending on if your focus is towards eventually raiding 10 mans, 25’s or doing heroics with your friends.
Caveats done, let’s start:
Spells
Stats
Mana Regen
Talents
Addons
Gear / Gems / Enchants
Random Extras
Links
Spells
Chain Heal (CH)- Multi-target, moderately heavy on your ...
Resto Shaman changes hinted
WoW.com —
Shaman news part two: revenge of Shaman news! You may still be reeling from the revamp to the totem interface announced earlier today, but Ghostcrawler presses on. In a thread bemoaning the current state of Resto Shamans, he pre-announced the following changes for patch 3.2:
Healing Way changed to "work better" with Healing Wave.
Improved Water Shield will also work with Chain Heal, and IWS procs will not consume a Water Shield orb.
Nature's Swiftness cooldown reduced to two minutes "so you can HW more often." ...
Official 3.2 Patchnotes for Shamans
World of Matticus —
Ok so yesterday I posted what the Devs were saying, but now they are officially up on the forums. Lets see what shamans have cooking for the patch
Shaman
A customizable totem bar will now be available for shaman allowing the storing of 4 different totems. These totems can be placed on the ground at once in one global cooldown for the combined mana cost of all 4 totems.
All Shocks now have a default range of 25 yards, up from 20 yards.
Base health increased by approximately 7% to correct for shamans having lower health than other classes.
Chain Heal: Jump ...
Holy Paladin Healing in Patch 3.2
Holypaladin.net —
... a tank up by himself for the entire fight, using Beacon or otherwise. Healadins will need to use Flash of Light much more often or risk running out of mana. Because of this, we probably won’t be able to keep up with all the damage the tank is taking using Flash of Light alone. This means we’ll need help from at least some of the following on the tank:
Druid HoTs
Priest shields
Shaman’s Chain Heal
Other AoE Heals ...
Raid Rx: Importance of group assigned healing
WoW.com —
... Because there was never a need to. Raid healing was very simple. Coordination wasn't even needed at all. Target players, hit healing spells and call it a day. It was quite easy to "faceroll" your way to victory as a healer. Healers did not have to be assigned to heal group 1 or group 2 or so on because a smart heal would just happen to land on a player who desperately needed it (Chain Heal or ...
Comparing Healers in Patch 3.2
Holypaladin.net —
... Chain Heal was buffed. Each link will jump farther (12.5 yards now) and the amount healed per jump is only reduced by 40% (down from 50%). This helps shamans AoE healing when people are a little more spread out. ...
State of Chain Heal 2:”Hail to The King, Baby!”
World of Matticus —
... Chain Heal: First of all, the Range between target was increased. 12.5 yards between targets is pretty good. It’s better when you consider that this is a smart heal and directs itself to a healing priority list and makes sure those who need it get it. This gets even better when you add in the Glyph of Chain Heal which lets it hit another target for a grand total of Four at a time! Now add in the change that between jumps the amount healed only is reduced by 40% (down from 50%) and you have yourself one sexy heal again. ...
Tier 10 Healing Bonuses
World of Matticus —
... sec reduced cast time.
Priest
2 piece: After your Pain Suppression and Guardian Spirit talents expire on your target, they grant your target 10% increased healing received for 10 sec.
4 piece: Your Flash Heal spell has a 15% chance to reset the cooldown on your Circle of Healing and Penance Spells.
Shaman
2 piece: Your Riptide spell grants 20% spell haste for your next spellcast.
4 piece: Your Chain Heal critical strikes cause the target to heal for 25% of the healed ...
Mastering Shaman Healing
Shields Up! —
... Chances are pretty good, that you kinda suck when it comes to you and Chain Heal. I’m sorry, but it just has to be said. If you ever mindlessly spam Chain Heal into a raid group you will burn in an even hotter hell than the one reserved for the guys not ever casting HW. If you’re one of the shamans producing tons of overheal but getting slightly aroused by their position in the healing meter, well then I it might be too late for help already. The animation of chainheal is pretty addictive, as are the big numbers popping up. Problem A) Holy Priests are ...
