There a few things i need before haste, intel to get my mana pool up, but i think that will come fairly easy with my gear progression. Also what im finding hard now is getting all that restro gear while playing as a dps simly becasue, im not nearly geard to try and get some expereience and restro gear in some of the heroic’s.

The reason i think is so hard to get a shammy healer is i dont think theres alot of shammy restro gear before level 80, and even at 80 you have to do some time as dps before you can attempt to got pure restro imo.

How hard it is to play a resto shaman depends on a lot of factors. Personal skill of course, and gear makes a huge difference; your group, their skill, their gear, their experience, even their classes and talent specs all have a huge impact on your job as a healer. Your group’s strategies make a difference. Your group’s raid composition makes a difference. Your individual gear/spec choice and how that interfaces with all of the above also makes a difference. For example, it’s a lot harder to heal an undergeared raid of players of below average ability and lacking experience than it is to heal a hardcore group of minmaxing progressionists – particularly if you don’t have the kind of gear and experience that comes from said progression.

And a lot of people come to the class without any idea of how it plays looking at bewildering talent selections, vast arrays of abilities and totems, and bosses that seem to be able to almost instantly kill their entire group. For them it is not easy, and they need help and advice from people who understand how hard and confusing and puzzling it can be. This is where the most experienced “hardcore” resto shamans and their associated ways and means are, frankly, not generally very helpful.

To take one example from Rahana’s blog, I totally agree with the post about not stacking haste until you’ve geared up a bit. Because I remember being at that gear level and struggling for mana regen and spells to hit hard enough while getting all the haste I needed from Tidal Waves and Heroism. And I remember what a difference it made gearing up to late tier 7/early tier 8 level – now, in tier 9, I stack haste haste haste NOM NOM HASTE. But I’d never recommend a freshly minted level 80 do the same! Yes, gearing up is a lot easier than it was. But you still have to put in a vast amount of actual playing time to farm all those emblems while in your substandard gear.

At the end of the day, it’s also worth remembering that there’s more than one valid way to play a class/spec – that’s part of the brilliance of our game. Not everyone will play the same way, but that doesn’t mean they’re wrong.

haste.

you better not mess with my haste!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LEAVE HASTE ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyways, comments like that aren’t helping anyone.

~Vix

In the meantime, thanks for the links to the other Shaman blogs. I ready 25-boxes and strongly recommend it. Looking forward to checking out the others.
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