Comments on: Mastering Shaman Healing

By: Hatefullness

Hatefullness — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:30:21 +0000

I found that wrapping my Bartender4 addon around my Healbot was very affective. The left side of my screen has all my totems in elemental grps and heal bot modified rite out to my likeing. It seemed HB was easy to play with. Made much easyer by my CD’s like Nat. Swiftness and Gift of Naru are leening on HB. Key bindings are made simple thru HB and distance’s and timers can all be moniterd on it to. Chain heals are no longer spent single shotting a warlock off to the left. The one thing i can’t seem to wrap my brain around is that spell with 5 charges of crit proc. Can’t even remember the name. I keep SP so high that the boost would just over heal the crap outa everything. I’ll try for a screen shot.

By: Building a better resto shaman alt | Restokin

Building a better resto shaman alt | Restokin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 22:06:55 +0000

[...] think my shaman is suffering from something that Shields UP describes in a guide to mastering shaman healing: “Many shamans new to shaman healing fail at choosing the appropriate spells for the right [...]

By: E.G.

E.G. — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:21:48 +0000

I am one that spams ch all the time because when i first started my shaman that was what i had been told was the best to do so thanks for the correction here. There were several spells i had even been told by several shams to ignore so i will try them now .

By: Blueberry Raiding: Tackling your first heroics, part deux « Blueberry Totem

Blueberry Raiding: Tackling your first heroics, part deux « Blueberry Totem — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:18:47 +0000

[...] than on your gear. But now, although you may feel like grown up shammling, I suggest you go check this post at Shields Up! out and try to learn what Drug says. He’s kinda like Simon. You know the game “Simon [...]

By: Logan

Logan — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:14:17 +0000

for healbot targetting in macros:

/cast Nature’s Swiftness
/use 13
/use 14
/cast [target=hbtarget] Healing Wave

By: Altheta

Altheta — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:50:36 +0000

My main is my shaman and will always be that way. However I did manage to get a Druid to 80 and I told myself i would never heal on a Druid. Well i went tree the other day and was baffled by how many extra buttons and spells they have. Its a good thing because it forces me to not be such a robot. This was a good read and a great reminder. Your right nothing is worse than seeing your lazer heal going out and hitting one lonely caster. Its like your telling on yourself.

Cheers

Alt

By: Blueberry Raiding: Rahana’s interface « Blueberry Totem

Blueberry Raiding: Rahana’s interface « Blueberry Totem — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:09:44 +0000

[...] the first topic I wanted to start with was some basic restoration shaman guide, but at these days Drug at ShieldsUp posted a great guide about shaman healing beyond the basics. Far few of his points were about tracking buffs and debuffs [...]

By: drug

drug — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:23:40 +0000

I won’t deny it. I can absolutely see how horrible unspectacular a resto shaman must seem to anyone used to druid or priest healing.

In addition, resto shamans are a little bit in a similar place where priests were partly during BC: Great at various tasks, but master of none.

The key to having fun with a resto shaman is understanding the talents and abilities, learning all the little tricks to maximize the output (thus adding a nice challenge, that a shaman won’t find in the number of their healing spells) and then starting to be a really attentive, fast (because then riptide and NS will save lives) and proactive (because only then CH will be fun, save lives and not be a huge pile of overheal) healer.

Also, you won’t really have fun comparing priest spells with shaman spells. Unless you compare Riptide with empowered renew, then it suddenly becomes an insanely good spell, who provides pretty big instant heal. Shamans struggle when competing with tools like PW:S of a disc priest, PoM and of course a PoH+CoH combo. If you focus on the very decent tools a shaman has, then I guess you might enjoy it: Tank healing and healing up all melees. LHW and HW as incredibly good single target spells (while GS is nearly dead for many priests). Totem management and absurdly high HPS in fights, which are ideal for Chain Heal.

By: Cassandri

Cassandri — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:51:43 +0000

One of my alts (I only have 2 really) is a Restoration Shaman. I’m still stuck at #2.

Now I’m sad

The main thing I notice between healing from Priest to Shaman is that the Priest instant spells are quite powerful (except for our HoT) and I always compare Riptide and Earth Shield to Prayer of Mending and Power Word: Shield respectively (even though Riptide and PoM have completely different aftereffects – the short term payoff is an instant heal on the target) and feeling pretty dissapointed by the strength of the Shaman spells.

By: drug

drug — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:04:49 +0000

That’s a very nice and functional UI, I’m really looking forward to an in-depth post, explaining those little tweaks, helping you with shaman healing.

Things like a clean UI, proper buff tracking, proper SP tracking and a clever setup of Grid can really make a huge difference.

In my opinion, many healers just aren’t really maximizing their performance, which is a little bit sad. Part of it, I blame on heal meters. They just give nearly no representation of a players skill. They are somewhat useful to compare the output of players of same class/same assignment as well as checking if healers heal the right target and choose the right set of spells for their task. Apart from that, healing meters are useless and often even reward brainless spamming of highest HPS spell with ridiculous numbers.

So in a 25 man raid, it’s rather easy to go unnoticed as a bad/mediocre healer. Healing meters doesn’t mean anything and most probably other healers will partly clean up your errors. Damage dealers, constantly at the very bottom of dps though will always somewhat draw the attention of other players/guild officers. And that’s what this post is about, perfecting your healing style. Even if you think you’re doing ok, there is always a next and harder boss.

Everyone looking for a good healer setup UI wise, I’m still running with Quse UI:
http://www.shieldsup.ch/2009/09/12/3-uis-tested-and-approved-by-drug/, I moved grid to the right of my toon though.
If I want a change of scenery, I raid with http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info14156-ouf_tewl.html