Shaman: Quick n Dirty Resto Guide

[friznit]

Courtesy of TF's ace raiding resto shaman, Booshman threw this together for our short class guides:

Stats - In general you're looking at SP > mp5 > Int > Crit > Haste (though you can bump haste up more for extra burst heals during very heavy damage fights). Under no circumstances should Spirit be touched.

Gems - again a mix and match really, but you should look to be using to gems to cover for a shortfall in the above stats. But again prioritising SP > mp5 > haste > int, wouldn't bother with any Crit gems.

Totems - in most cases it will be Flametongue Totem/Healing Stream/Wrath of Air

When lacking a DK in a group it may be worth dropping Strength of Earth, or when melee heavy Windfury. Not forgetting Tremor and Cleansing when necessary, as is often the case now in ToC.

Spec - 0/16/55 Glyphed with Chain Heal, Earth Shield & Riptide.

Note there are no points in Healing Way however, but I find this somewhat useless as Healing Wave is still not an efficient heal, and if it can be avoided a resto Shaman should never be assigned to a Main Tank. Clearly that's aimed at raid healing, but the incoming damage in heroics is minimal in comparison, so the same applies.

Rotation - An effective skills rotation in most cases is Riptide > LHW > LHW on your main target, and other than that its just spamming Chain Heal for the group.

Gear to Get - Currently ToC is by far your best bet to hunt for mail healing gear, and the Mariel's Sorrow healing mace drops from Eadric the Pure in heroic mode. The rest is simple badger farming for the Conker purchases and the odd boss drop.

[Dog Pants]

Cheers Friz, obviously this will be of most interest to me. I was pretty much doing that anyway, but there's a few bits that are new to me. One thing that seems a little strange is glyphing for chain heal but cycling LHW. I'm assuming, like he sort of mentions, that this is a raid healer spec which can be used as a main healer in heroics. Which is what I am (not that I'm likely to be raiding any time soon).

[friznit]

Chain heal is your only AoE heal, and as such tends to get spammed a lot, saving your Riptide/LHW/HW rotation for keeping the tank alive. Unglyphed it only hits 3 targets, but with the glyph it'll hit 4 (i.e. everyone else in the party). That's pretty win and saves you a lot of healing time keeping the 4th member topped up.

[FatherJack]

Can the abbreviations be typed in full at least once? It kind of makes my head hurt otherwise.

[Dog Pants]

LHW = Lesser Healing Wave.

[friznit]

WoWiki has a huge list of acronyms, which is quite scary. However, some of the ones see alot include:

SP = Spell Power
Mp5 = Mana Per 5 Seconds
GCD = Global Cool Down
(L)HW = (Lesser) Healing Wave
FoL = Flash of Light
HL = Holy Light

[FatherJack]

TQ