OOOHHHHH baby.
Ding 80!
I dinged 80 at 18h an eve and 2h later I was Raiding UL10 in my Guild, letting my officer lead it, since I needed to concentrate on DPS/healing.
Well I dinged in full blue's, went to a few tocs and got 2 crafted epics so my total was: 6purples so it wasn't hard to believe I had 16K mana and 1.5K spellpower unbuffed.
To be honest healing Iron Council was a bitch! seriously hard, and I loved it.
But the problem was clear, my heals landed good and on the right targets, though spellpower was a issue it was minor, since The officer leading: Myridin, is also probably the best Druid healer in the game, for serious, If I have him in the raid I only take 2 healers to UL, if I don't I take 3 healers.
So helped me through it, though I switched after Iron Council. byebye smack a mole and welcome pew pew again...
well first question:
HOW THE HELL CAN YOU BE UNDER 1.5K DPS FFS!!!???
no serious: I just dinged: and I did 1.8K dps on everything that wasn't trash and hodir -_- I hate him (Too much moving for my low hp).
Now explain me how a DK thats in full epic could do 1.3K dps? a rogue thats dinged 10weeks already doing 1K? (this is al seen in pugs not in the guild!)
Serious, this is a topic for the FU blog!
Well to be honest I wasn't ready for the UL10 so thanks to The Spirit Blade to carry me through it as a member, not as their leader, I couldn't wish for a better guild and WoWfriends.
So I was sick but now I'm back! Going to get my T8 pieces (already have the healer and Eledps totems from it)
More news soon!
Showing posts with label healing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healing. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
Good comments on forum
Hey not much to tell since I'm not having time to lvl right now.
but I posted my previous entry on the wow forums too (europe ones) and got some pretty good reviews, so => hope for sticky folks!
I'll come back with a real update soon!
Grtz
but I posted my previous entry on the wow forums too (europe ones) and got some pretty good reviews, so => hope for sticky folks!
I'll come back with a real update soon!
Grtz
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Healing as a shaman 101
Healing 101 as a shaman is something that I think is needed since a lot of people and certainly those who are new to healing think that there is a rotation of somesorte.
While yes there are some things you need to do but a rotation is not even close.
Breakdown of spells you need to cast as a healer:
Earth Shield:
If your tank healing this is a godgift. It's not going to keep the tank up but its wonderfull for suppliments and topping him off. mana cost vs healing this can be your best and worst spell.
If he takes little damage fast, it's going to overheal a lot, if he's getting hit big, its wonderfull. Just Keep it up all the time!
Riptide:
Instant Cast: 6 second cooldown. The spell it self is good: Heal + HOT but if you take the tidal waves talent (and its needed!) it becomes awesome! with the changes in 3.2 you get 30% cast time of your HW and 25% crit extra on your LHW for 2 charges. which means that one of those two your going to crit with LHW. (believe me at lvl80 you have 25% critchance)
IF your tank needs to get up fast, this is a nice way to do it without blowing all the CD's
LHW:
Basic spell, also the one your going to use the most, It shines because its fast and it heals decently. I would say use this as your prime healing source
HW:
It's long and cluncky but its such a big heal!
If you are tank healing and you know he will take a huge damage spike and then won't get damaged for 2seconds: hit this: it heals a good deal of his health.
Mostly I only use this in conjunction with natures swiftness: instant heal or tidal force: love to see that one critting.
CH:
Chain heal is a remarkable spell that I love to use when AOE hits the Raid/party.
Use it on the person with the most damage and see it jump.
If AOE really hits the fan this is a macro:
/cast nature's swiftness
/cast Tidal force
/cast Chain Heal (rank X)
Instant critable CH... there is nothing more
Nature's swiftness: 3min CD (2min in 3.2) next nature spell that has a cast time under 10sec is instant... enough said. (use it all the time if the tank or raid members are taking immense damage!)
Tidal Force: 3 charges: 60% - 40% -20% extra chance to crit... again enough said.
Earthliving weapon: Healing power + small hot, have it on all the time. It's great! Even the small hot will save you mana and make your life a lot easier.
Gift of the Naaru: Yes Gift of the naaru! Mana alsmot out? want to heal yourself very very fast after that aoe and want to pop everyone to full health again? Gift yourself (or another) it's fast and it's free.
Heroism: 40sec. of 30% faster casting/smashing... yes this is awesome for healing.. absolutly fantastic if you know damage is going to come in fast, and the raid really needs to get the boss down: use it and love it. Do note that it costs a lot of mana, so be sure you have enough mana to do it.
How to use them?
following examples are my personal preference, I am not responisble for any raid or party members that using these combinations of spells and/or talents. Use at your own responsabilty and risk.
Preparing:
1- Earthliving + Watershield, keep them up, always!
2- keep your earthshield up all the time!
3- know your buttons, if you are click healing or hotbar healing, know them by hart.
4- full mana before every boss.
In the fight
Single person taking damage
1- Start with Riptide - It will get you faster casting for your next two spells
2- lhw the guy (hopefully the tank) that is taking damage
3- lhw untill riptide is up
4- rinse repeat
This is the basic set up for one guy taking damage against a mob. This should heal them through the whole fight without problems.
single person takes damage + group AOE damage
1- start with riptide at the tank.
2- if group > 90% => lhw the tank
if group <90%> Chain heal on the tank so it jumps to the group.
I'm starting with CH on the tank since he needs to be topped off and is your most important target to keep alive, in a raid you should start with a healer or your highest dps or ofc, the guy with the most damage.
3- rinse repeat
Easy enough agian, do note that here, you already should start thinking, will the CH complete on time? will the guys have enough damage to make it worth it? can the tank keep up so long without putting myself in problems? etc.
group takes damage and is spread out
Spam LHW untill you are sick of it!
really nothing else spam it and try to keep everyone alive, if you see healers taking a spike, don't worry about giving them one too. most of them are so concentrated they probably don't even notice that he took damage. If its getting hard, dont be afraid to pop tidal force for some extra power.
Group takes damage and is close together
No not Spam CH ...
Here you must look and see that CH is going to be worth the mana, time and heal.
fe: 3 guys have 5K, 2K and 900 damage on them. then I will not use CH but just one lhw on the 5K damage and wait with the other two. I'm not a guy who overheals a lot (about 8%) I try to conserve mana and be a precise healer when necisary, I don't care if that lowers my hps by a 100, cause that 100hps is wasted anyway.
OH SHIT OH SHIT OH MY M<3mins>GOD!
oh yeah baby, we all have those moments: one of the best things to do is:
/cast nature's swiftness
/cast Tidal force
/cast Chain Heal (rank X)
really you'll thank me.
This is also a good alternative if you don't have 2 the time to cast them both: the nature's swiftness followed by chain heal then a tidal force and lhw/RT (riptide) like a madman!
If your not a Raidhealer change the CH to HW and do the same.
OOM i'm OOM and 50% to go at boss!
that happens if a tank pulls and your not ready. Learn to live with it.
well first thing ofc is drink a potion. second thing to do is: nature swiftness and HW. its big and buys you time. then gift of the naaru the tank or who ever needs it, tidal force and use RT. by then your mana should be almost depleted or actually back on normal lvls.
You see at end game raiding, you should never go oom, but before end game you have quite a good chance too. Especially in a pug...
Also if your oom check your watershield, there is a good change its out.
If -BIG if only comes in if there is a bad tank in a pug - I go oom, i wait 3seconds, and I can start
LHWing agian every 2 seconds again.
READ ONLY IF YOU ARE DESPERATE AND ARE A RISK TAKER (or if you want to scare the living shit out of the tank)
There is one more thing you could do but I only tried it once in a pug group and think I saved our lifes with it but still....
stand in the fire.
You'll get damage and get mana... or even more risky...
you'll die, use reincarnate and have 35% of your mana back.
So thats it for now, hope you liked it!
Grtz
Ari
While yes there are some things you need to do but a rotation is not even close.
Breakdown of spells you need to cast as a healer:
Earth Shield:
If your tank healing this is a godgift. It's not going to keep the tank up but its wonderfull for suppliments and topping him off. mana cost vs healing this can be your best and worst spell.
If he takes little damage fast, it's going to overheal a lot, if he's getting hit big, its wonderfull. Just Keep it up all the time!
Riptide:
Instant Cast: 6 second cooldown. The spell it self is good: Heal + HOT but if you take the tidal waves talent (and its needed!) it becomes awesome! with the changes in 3.2 you get 30% cast time of your HW and 25% crit extra on your LHW for 2 charges. which means that one of those two your going to crit with LHW. (believe me at lvl80 you have 25% critchance)
IF your tank needs to get up fast, this is a nice way to do it without blowing all the CD's
LHW:
Basic spell, also the one your going to use the most, It shines because its fast and it heals decently. I would say use this as your prime healing source
HW:
It's long and cluncky but its such a big heal!
If you are tank healing and you know he will take a huge damage spike and then won't get damaged for 2seconds: hit this: it heals a good deal of his health.
Mostly I only use this in conjunction with natures swiftness: instant heal or tidal force: love to see that one critting.
CH:
Chain heal is a remarkable spell that I love to use when AOE hits the Raid/party.
Use it on the person with the most damage and see it jump.
If AOE really hits the fan this is a macro:
/cast nature's swiftness
/cast Tidal force
/cast Chain Heal (rank X)
Instant critable CH... there is nothing more
Nature's swiftness: 3min CD (2min in 3.2) next nature spell that has a cast time under 10sec is instant... enough said. (use it all the time if the tank or raid members are taking immense damage!)
Tidal Force: 3 charges: 60% - 40% -20% extra chance to crit... again enough said.
Earthliving weapon: Healing power + small hot, have it on all the time. It's great! Even the small hot will save you mana and make your life a lot easier.
Gift of the Naaru: Yes Gift of the naaru! Mana alsmot out? want to heal yourself very very fast after that aoe and want to pop everyone to full health again? Gift yourself (or another) it's fast and it's free.
Heroism: 40sec. of 30% faster casting/smashing... yes this is awesome for healing.. absolutly fantastic if you know damage is going to come in fast, and the raid really needs to get the boss down: use it and love it. Do note that it costs a lot of mana, so be sure you have enough mana to do it.
How to use them?
following examples are my personal preference, I am not responisble for any raid or party members that using these combinations of spells and/or talents. Use at your own responsabilty and risk.
Preparing:
1- Earthliving + Watershield, keep them up, always!
2- keep your earthshield up all the time!
3- know your buttons, if you are click healing or hotbar healing, know them by hart.
4- full mana before every boss.
In the fight
Single person taking damage
1- Start with Riptide - It will get you faster casting for your next two spells
2- lhw the guy (hopefully the tank) that is taking damage
3- lhw untill riptide is up
4- rinse repeat
This is the basic set up for one guy taking damage against a mob. This should heal them through the whole fight without problems.
single person takes damage + group AOE damage
1- start with riptide at the tank.
2- if group > 90% => lhw the tank
if group <90%> Chain heal on the tank so it jumps to the group.
I'm starting with CH on the tank since he needs to be topped off and is your most important target to keep alive, in a raid you should start with a healer or your highest dps or ofc, the guy with the most damage.
3- rinse repeat
Easy enough agian, do note that here, you already should start thinking, will the CH complete on time? will the guys have enough damage to make it worth it? can the tank keep up so long without putting myself in problems? etc.
group takes damage and is spread out
Spam LHW untill you are sick of it!
really nothing else spam it and try to keep everyone alive, if you see healers taking a spike, don't worry about giving them one too. most of them are so concentrated they probably don't even notice that he took damage. If its getting hard, dont be afraid to pop tidal force for some extra power.
Group takes damage and is close together
No not Spam CH ...
Here you must look and see that CH is going to be worth the mana, time and heal.
fe: 3 guys have 5K, 2K and 900 damage on them. then I will not use CH but just one lhw on the 5K damage and wait with the other two. I'm not a guy who overheals a lot (about 8%) I try to conserve mana and be a precise healer when necisary, I don't care if that lowers my hps by a 100, cause that 100hps is wasted anyway.
OH SHIT OH SHIT OH MY M<3mins>GOD!
oh yeah baby, we all have those moments: one of the best things to do is:
/cast nature's swiftness
/cast Tidal force
/cast Chain Heal (rank X)
really you'll thank me.
This is also a good alternative if you don't have 2 the time to cast them both: the nature's swiftness followed by chain heal then a tidal force and lhw/RT (riptide) like a madman!
If your not a Raidhealer change the CH to HW and do the same.
OOM i'm OOM and 50% to go at boss!
that happens if a tank pulls and your not ready. Learn to live with it.
well first thing ofc is drink a potion. second thing to do is: nature swiftness and HW. its big and buys you time. then gift of the naaru the tank or who ever needs it, tidal force and use RT. by then your mana should be almost depleted or actually back on normal lvls.
You see at end game raiding, you should never go oom, but before end game you have quite a good chance too. Especially in a pug...
Also if your oom check your watershield, there is a good change its out.
If -BIG if only comes in if there is a bad tank in a pug - I go oom, i wait 3seconds, and I can start
LHWing agian every 2 seconds again.
READ ONLY IF YOU ARE DESPERATE AND ARE A RISK TAKER (or if you want to scare the living shit out of the tank)
There is one more thing you could do but I only tried it once in a pug group and think I saved our lifes with it but still....
stand in the fire.
You'll get damage and get mana... or even more risky...
you'll die, use reincarnate and have 35% of your mana back.
So thats it for now, hope you liked it!
Grtz
Ari
70: Healing Nexus without a real tank...
Oh boy... Oh boy... where did I get myself into?
Me, a guildie (Iç!), a rogue and 2 DK's where going to Nexus and pwn the living mashizzle out of the dragons that bade there.
Untill we noticed that no-one was an actual tank. lucky for uss Blizz made DK's so OP that even in DPS spec they can tank.
DK1: 9K hp other (DK2) 12K
So we took DK2 as our tank, sadly enough he had never run this instance before..
Even with his Plate and selfhealing (bloodspec) I needed to be on my toes, including all the bad pulls, aggro changing and everythign else that went wrong.
We only died once... (I got killed first.. thank you for holding the aggro...)
Well once that is untill the end boss.
4 tries to get her down.
You see the last fight requires moving or jumping... As a shaman... I do not have any possiblitie to heal while i'm looking like goat on steroids.
line up:
Riptide : I love you soooo much! 1 instant every 6 seconds
Earth shield: I also love you! 8x 600hp = Goood
Lhw: I hate you!
CH: I hate you more!
HW: I hate you most!
During this fight the problem is that I needed to stand still...now I took about 150 a second if i stood still. which means that if i cast lhw i get 300Damage. now the tank was not so great geared so he needed constant healing... Which meant that I had about 15sec to live, without any heals.
So what did I change on the 4th try? I said fck you to the tank and put earth shield on myself. which cleared about 2sec. every 10 to heal him. since I didn't need to heal myself.
and ofc: Heroism + fire elemental = pwnage.
Me, a guildie (Iç!), a rogue and 2 DK's where going to Nexus and pwn the living mashizzle out of the dragons that bade there.
Untill we noticed that no-one was an actual tank. lucky for uss Blizz made DK's so OP that even in DPS spec they can tank.
DK1: 9K hp other (DK2) 12K
So we took DK2 as our tank, sadly enough he had never run this instance before..
Even with his Plate and selfhealing (bloodspec) I needed to be on my toes, including all the bad pulls, aggro changing and everythign else that went wrong.
We only died once... (I got killed first.. thank you for holding the aggro...)
Well once that is untill the end boss.
4 tries to get her down.
You see the last fight requires moving or jumping... As a shaman... I do not have any possiblitie to heal while i'm looking like goat on steroids.
line up:
Riptide : I love you soooo much! 1 instant every 6 seconds
Earth shield: I also love you! 8x 600hp = Goood
Lhw: I hate you!
CH: I hate you more!
HW: I hate you most!
During this fight the problem is that I needed to stand still...now I took about 150 a second if i stood still. which means that if i cast lhw i get 300Damage. now the tank was not so great geared so he needed constant healing... Which meant that I had about 15sec to live, without any heals.
So what did I change on the 4th try? I said fck you to the tank and put earth shield on myself. which cleared about 2sec. every 10 to heal him. since I didn't need to heal myself.
and ofc: Heroism + fire elemental = pwnage.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Shaman Guides... non existent?
So this is quite weird...
I have my own rotation for healing/dps etc..
But to improve them I usually look for a basic guide/ rotation / talent spec etc...
I never use the standard spec, but it's always based upon one.
Now I was looking for lvling guides, rotation guides and good specs for shaman and wel...
There aren't many.
I have found no "lvling" guides with decent info on how to play a shaman.
I have found only one rotation/spec guide for shamans (elitist jerks)
Is the class so underpowered or unattractive that no-one plays them? That there is no need for a decent healing guide as for other classes? I've seen the Theorycrafting breakdown on Elitist Jerks ofc. since I theorycraft myself this wasn't a lot new stuff. Also I was dissapointed by their "best rotation" since 1: there is no real healing rotation 2: lhw RT lhw lhw rt isn't something I think should be used as standard?
So fellow shaman tell me this: Have you read any decent guides about the class we play?
PS: I was looking at them since I wanted to post a small guide here at the Blog but wanted to make sure I gave decent info.
I have my own rotation for healing/dps etc..
But to improve them I usually look for a basic guide/ rotation / talent spec etc...
I never use the standard spec, but it's always based upon one.
Now I was looking for lvling guides, rotation guides and good specs for shaman and wel...
There aren't many.
I have found no "lvling" guides with decent info on how to play a shaman.
I have found only one rotation/spec guide for shamans (elitist jerks)
Is the class so underpowered or unattractive that no-one plays them? That there is no need for a decent healing guide as for other classes? I've seen the Theorycrafting breakdown on Elitist Jerks ofc. since I theorycraft myself this wasn't a lot new stuff. Also I was dissapointed by their "best rotation" since 1: there is no real healing rotation 2: lhw RT lhw lhw rt isn't something I think should be used as standard?
So fellow shaman tell me this: Have you read any decent guides about the class we play?
PS: I was looking at them since I wanted to post a small guide here at the Blog but wanted to make sure I gave decent info.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
lvl66: Healing UB and SP
After doing UB and SP yesterday, I turned in the quests and dinged 66.
Now the Group wasn't too bad... though it was far from perfect. We went to UB first and here is the write up of it:
2 DK's (one of which with tank spec) and 2 Paladins (also one with tank spec) The DK and pala tank kept switching aggro back and forth up untill the first boss. which was far from ideal to heal. After the first boss we decided that the Pally could heal, since the DK tank went down during the first boss, even my oh shit buttons couldn't help him stay up. I looked at his gear after that ...
O_O I was suprised he could even tank the trash... jeeez!
One tip to DK tanks: DO NOT WEAR LEATHER
Oh well on the first boss the DK went down and the pally took over, no further incidents.
To be honest since that the pally was tanking things went a lot better, and my "poo"shield could keep him up against most pack of mobs. We had one other "oh shit" situation which was fairly easily healed, though I got 3x "Nice Healing" on the shit hits the fan pull and I loved it!
Since I love those kind of responses here is a line up of what you and me need to know:
What healers want others to know:
1) If your not the tank, don't pull
2) If your an aggromonkey, I will let you die.
3) If I die, its the Tanks fault
4) If the Tank dies, it's my fault
5) If DPS dies, it's their own damn fault. (if there is no AOE from mobs)
and most important:
6) Do NOT stand in the fire/acid/ whatever... It's BAD for you, serious!
7) Do NOT spam Heal me, heal me, heal me
What DPS want healers to know:
1) On boss fights they can take AOE: HEAL them...
2) cleanse debuffs... if they have a 10% dps reduction it means longer fight, more healing, worse for the healer
What Tanks want healers to know:
1) Do NOT run a way when you have aggro!
2) Stay behind uss and don't pull... (duh)
3) Heal me... (obvious)
Thats about it for now,
Maybe next time a breakdown of efficient healing as a shaman.
Grtz
Now the Group wasn't too bad... though it was far from perfect. We went to UB first and here is the write up of it:
2 DK's (one of which with tank spec) and 2 Paladins (also one with tank spec) The DK and pala tank kept switching aggro back and forth up untill the first boss. which was far from ideal to heal. After the first boss we decided that the Pally could heal, since the DK tank went down during the first boss, even my oh shit buttons couldn't help him stay up. I looked at his gear after that ...
O_O I was suprised he could even tank the trash... jeeez!
One tip to DK tanks: DO NOT WEAR LEATHER
Oh well on the first boss the DK went down and the pally took over, no further incidents.
To be honest since that the pally was tanking things went a lot better, and my "poo"shield could keep him up against most pack of mobs. We had one other "oh shit" situation which was fairly easily healed, though I got 3x "Nice Healing" on the shit hits the fan pull and I loved it!
Since I love those kind of responses here is a line up of what you and me need to know:
What healers want others to know:
1) If your not the tank, don't pull
2) If your an aggromonkey, I will let you die.
3) If I die, its the Tanks fault
4) If the Tank dies, it's my fault
5) If DPS dies, it's their own damn fault. (if there is no AOE from mobs)
and most important:
6) Do NOT stand in the fire/acid/ whatever... It's BAD for you, serious!
7) Do NOT spam Heal me, heal me, heal me
What DPS want healers to know:
1) On boss fights they can take AOE: HEAL them...
2) cleanse debuffs... if they have a 10% dps reduction it means longer fight, more healing, worse for the healer
What Tanks want healers to know:
1) Do NOT run a way when you have aggro!
2) Stay behind uss and don't pull... (duh)
3) Heal me... (obvious)
Thats about it for now,
Maybe next time a breakdown of efficient healing as a shaman.
Grtz
I healed again! *happy emote*
Yesterday on my 64-65 grind, A group invited me as a healer to BF.
I didn't think twice... I wen't.... I cried. This was the first time, I went with a tank I didn't know...
holy crap that made a diffrence.
Well the tank himself was good, not excellent but good.
the rogue was a pain in the butt, an aggromonkey if you saw one , constantly spamming: "Link dps meter". The paladin dps was ok. The hunter was... well huntard, constantly asking for gold (he knew i was the author of one-copper) and at the bottom of the dps meter (400DPS).
The rogue died 3 times... after he stole aggro, I warned him I would not heal him anymore. After his third death he got the idea. We also wiped once... I /rw OOM after chainpulling from the start untill the first boss. (trinkets and mana tide already popped) and the hunter decides to pull... very nice with a healer without mana and a dps afk....
I made everyone run to their corpse... I'm not waisting my mana on rez, when you can get back and up in 30secs.. which takes less time, then me rezzing all. (10secs x 4 guys = 40secs)
After that everything went alright, though the dps was quite low.
600, 580, 500, 400 and 1 respectivly for Pala, rogue, warrior (tank), hunter and me.
Now I ran that same dungeon with a diffrent group as DPS a day before and I topped the DPS with about 750.... closely followed by 2 DK's 710 and 680~ and a boomkin 600. I mean... That we even got the damn boss down is a suprise! Oh well finished and everything is alright I guess.
I'm just happy I didn't make any mistakes and kept everyone up and running... except for the aggro monkey
I didn't think twice... I wen't.... I cried. This was the first time, I went with a tank I didn't know...
holy crap that made a diffrence.
Well the tank himself was good, not excellent but good.
the rogue was a pain in the butt, an aggromonkey if you saw one , constantly spamming: "Link dps meter". The paladin dps was ok. The hunter was... well huntard, constantly asking for gold (he knew i was the author of one-copper) and at the bottom of the dps meter (400DPS).
The rogue died 3 times... after he stole aggro, I warned him I would not heal him anymore. After his third death he got the idea. We also wiped once... I /rw OOM after chainpulling from the start untill the first boss. (trinkets and mana tide already popped) and the hunter decides to pull... very nice with a healer without mana and a dps afk....
I made everyone run to their corpse... I'm not waisting my mana on rez, when you can get back and up in 30secs.. which takes less time, then me rezzing all. (10secs x 4 guys = 40secs)
After that everything went alright, though the dps was quite low.
600, 580, 500, 400 and 1 respectivly for Pala, rogue, warrior (tank), hunter and me.
Now I ran that same dungeon with a diffrent group as DPS a day before and I topped the DPS with about 750.... closely followed by 2 DK's 710 and 680~ and a boomkin 600. I mean... That we even got the damn boss down is a suprise! Oh well finished and everything is alright I guess.
I'm just happy I didn't make any mistakes and kept everyone up and running... except for the aggro monkey
Monday, July 20, 2009
243+ totems to drop (part 2)
So as said my line up changed considerably since now.
Soloing and grouping as elemental:
Since i solo in Elemental, I try to reduce my downtime as much as possible and I try to keep my damage as high as possible. So the line up is the following:
- Totem of wrath (or magma totem)
- Water shield
- flamethongue weapon
Yes I only drop one totem.. sometimes 2 (mana spring) if i'm low on mana.
Why? => since i'm spamming LB and FrS all the time the earth/wind/water totems aren't needed. Or atleast not untill i get my wrath of air totem. It also costs mana, and its not effective.
why do i use FrS (frost shock) Well the mobs don't live long enough to benifit from FS.
Solo i hit 550 DPS (in group 750) and i drink about 2times a lvl. (granted i use my trinket, thunderstorm and if needed potions to get mana)
Note: with this setup in a group I drink quite a lot though, since i CL FrS LB all the time.
Healing in a group:
-Water shield
- earthliving weapon
- Flamethongue totem (spellpower ftw)
- Mana spring totem
Again minimizes the downtime and gives a nice SP boost.
Mostly i can just earth shield the tank, and LHW or Riptide him.
Lvling and healing at lvl63ish is easy and fun, so no need for large tactics or rotations. keep it simple and if needed use your "oh shit buttons"
i use grid+clicque so i have lhw at left click, chain heal at middle, riptide at rightclick
HW at shift left, ES at shift middle and the decurse/depoison/dedisease at shift right
hotbar: 1- instant o shit button 2 - 60/40/20% crit oh shit button
so a "1" shift click is instant save. (not like its ever needed before lvl70+ or with a bad pug
Soloing and grouping as elemental:
Since i solo in Elemental, I try to reduce my downtime as much as possible and I try to keep my damage as high as possible. So the line up is the following:
- Totem of wrath (or magma totem)
- Water shield
- flamethongue weapon
Yes I only drop one totem.. sometimes 2 (mana spring) if i'm low on mana.
Why? => since i'm spamming LB and FrS all the time the earth/wind/water totems aren't needed. Or atleast not untill i get my wrath of air totem. It also costs mana, and its not effective.
why do i use FrS (frost shock) Well the mobs don't live long enough to benifit from FS.
Solo i hit 550 DPS (in group 750) and i drink about 2times a lvl. (granted i use my trinket, thunderstorm and if needed potions to get mana)
Note: with this setup in a group I drink quite a lot though, since i CL FrS LB all the time.
Healing in a group:
-Water shield
- earthliving weapon
- Flamethongue totem (spellpower ftw)
- Mana spring totem
Again minimizes the downtime and gives a nice SP boost.
Mostly i can just earth shield the tank, and LHW or Riptide him.
Lvling and healing at lvl63ish is easy and fun, so no need for large tactics or rotations. keep it simple and if needed use your "oh shit buttons"
i use grid+clicque so i have lhw at left click, chain heal at middle, riptide at rightclick
HW at shift left, ES at shift middle and the decurse/depoison/dedisease at shift right
hotbar: 1- instant o shit button 2 - 60/40/20% crit oh shit button
so a "1" shift click is instant save. (not like its ever needed before lvl70+ or with a bad pug
So I'm healing or DPSing?
This is my first question in every pug... And sadly the awnser is 99% chance.... DPSing...
I mean Whuh?
There is a healer shortage everyone knows that, and still I may only heal if there is no other way!
I'm gonna make some screenies tonight of my pugs 'cause this needs to be known: a resto shaman can heal.... really...no I'm not kidding....Stop laughing....ok are you done?
My specs are: Resto (MS) Ele (OS) and I love them both, though Ele is just for soloing... and yet i keep getting asked to dps...
Okaj, not to brag, but since lvl50ish (BRD pug) untill now, i've never come second on the dps meters, always first head and tails over the rest... yes even the DK.
My dps: 730ish the rests: 500-650ish (every class even mage and dk) Now I still play with guys from a few lvls back, so they keep asking to dps, thats normal. But still... I've healed everything from DM till BRD, did Ramps and BF as a healer, and I only wiped once... (in ST)...
I mean 1 wipe, how many can say that? I have a billion "oh shit" buttons and still they won't take me. there's always a priest or druid that wants to heal, even an occasional paladin.
Healer shortage my ass....
So tell me... 300SP, 6.5K mana, 3 oh shit buttons... what do I need more to finally get to freaking heal, without begging my ass off!
For the record: yes I <3 healing .... no not kidding... yes, stop laughing... ahhh nvm *shuts door*
I mean Whuh?
There is a healer shortage everyone knows that, and still I may only heal if there is no other way!
I'm gonna make some screenies tonight of my pugs 'cause this needs to be known: a resto shaman can heal.... really...no I'm not kidding....Stop laughing....ok are you done?
My specs are: Resto (MS) Ele (OS) and I love them both, though Ele is just for soloing... and yet i keep getting asked to dps...
Okaj, not to brag, but since lvl50ish (BRD pug) untill now, i've never come second on the dps meters, always first head and tails over the rest... yes even the DK.
My dps: 730ish the rests: 500-650ish (every class even mage and dk) Now I still play with guys from a few lvls back, so they keep asking to dps, thats normal. But still... I've healed everything from DM till BRD, did Ramps and BF as a healer, and I only wiped once... (in ST)...
I mean 1 wipe, how many can say that? I have a billion "oh shit" buttons and still they won't take me. there's always a priest or druid that wants to heal, even an occasional paladin.
Healer shortage my ass....
So tell me... 300SP, 6.5K mana, 3 oh shit buttons... what do I need more to finally get to freaking heal, without begging my ass off!
For the record: yes I <3 healing .... no not kidding... yes, stop laughing... ahhh nvm *shuts door*
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