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Resto Shaman ~Spell haste?
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Eleazer
Not sure what there is to discuss. Haste is the single greatest benefit until you reach the 1 second GCD cap. Whether Raid healing or tank healing, haste is the single best benefit for our HPS. In ICC 25 I find that on some fights close to 75 percent of my healing is done with chain heals and Earthliving procs off that chain heals. If your chain heal is at 2 seconds than you don't have nearly enough haste. Min is at 1.89 seconds and I keep wishing it was faster. Can you link your armory so we can gear check you?
Here is the basics of Raiding Resto Shamans. Half your gear should not have MP5 in it the other half you can consider it. Your trinkets should be spell power/mp5 trinkets.
Gemming goes like this
Plus 20 haste every socket except one slot for 10 haste/mp5 gem for blue socket and one socket for 12 sp/haste for red socket to match meta gem.
Another Approach if you are tank healing more often.
1. Red Gems - 12sp/10 haste
2. Yellow Gems - 20 Haste
3. Blue Gems - 20 Haste except one socket as 10 haste/mp5 to match meta gem requirements.
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Matutin
Hello Syriaana!
I've a Resto Shamy on Quel'thalas, here is my link:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Quel%27Thalas&cn=Matutin
I'm aiming for haste on almost every part of my gear, but that isnt posible. I'm too close for the 4t10, i'll buy the globes tomorrow, and want to take advantage from this. Try to focus a bit on crit, when you reach ~33% without buff you are doing it right!
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Eleazer
@ Syriaana, 1.89 is self buffed cast time no raid buffs or food buffs. With food buffs it goes down even farther. I like your gear, but you do have far too much mp5 gear. You are sitting at nearly 500 mp5 without your Water Shield or any buffs. If you are going oom than you aren't timing your mana pots and Mana tide totem, or your other healers aren't doing their job. The only time I find myself going oom is if I spend more time Riptiding and Lesser healing than chain healing. LHW is your burst heal. HW is when you have a tank or dps going down and is your Oh snap heal. Riptide you use just to keep up your other buffs.
There is a huge difference in 1.5 second chain heal and a 2 second chain heal. I am not sure what your responsibilities are, but if you are raid healing than haste is the king if you are tank healing than you are fine with your choice of gear and gemming. I have seen a huge increase in hps since regemming to mostly plus 20 haste. Every heroic ICC 25 shaman raider I have talked to has said haste becomes increasingly important the farther you progress. Haste on festergut and other mass aoe boss is the king.
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apc69
I have gone back and forth a number of times gemming for haste, spellpower, or int and have found haste to suit me the best. I normally take up the role as the 'snipe' healer and raid heals, never given a true healing assignment but being ready to back up anyone when needed. I will admit i need to be a bit better at mana conservation, i do not normally go oom, but I do tend to use all my mana on every fight. As everyone has been saying, in general haste is the way to go, but other tactics work as well.
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Mannoroth&cn=Aeliana
And yes as I have been acquiring T10 pieces and gaining thier bonus, i have been useing Riptide/HW or LHW much more. Anyone have any views on the frost badge totem? Not sure if it is worth the upgrade right away.
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Eleazer
question here: i do a good amount of pugs as well as guild raids...in the pugs...depending on the other healers...i get the role of raid healing and sometimes tank healing. how would you go about prioritizing your gear/gemming.
to be honest i have alot of 12sp/haste gems..but i have finallllyyy finished leveling up my JC to use the badarse gems :D so now i can swap out for 20haste and 3 34hastes in yellows. jw about the question above, not trying to make things difficult
HASTE! HASTE! HASTE! There is nothing better for raid healing. Optimally you will have one sp/haste gem and one haste/mp5 gem with all the rest being Haste gems.
You want to use your red and blue gem slot's where you will get the most from the gem matching. As for the totem, it's the last thing, but it works very well with the 2 set bonus for t10 is it worth it. It's debatable it's a small increase in sp but requires an awful lot of Riptide ticks, since you are usually removing your riptide by chain healing shortly after, it becomes a toss up. If you are tank healing than yes, if you are raid healing than the Chain heal one still wins out.
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Eleazer
yeah i know nothing but haste excluding meta requirement..but what if im on tank heals sometimes...seems i pug more than guild raid with the time allowed on with all the events taking place in RL...would the 12sp/10haste be the way to go if im tank healing once in a while ..or just pure haste period regardless if i tank heal since its pugs? btw Eleazer...you everywhere lol..only fourm ive yet to see you on is the warlock :P
Actually you won't find me on any caster or paladin (I hate paladins with a passion). I was on the priest one, but gave up trying to lvl my priest. I can't stand casters. I feel so lazy standing there pushing one button over and over again. As for warlocks, man I stink at them.
As to your question, every Shaman on my server that is in ICC 25 and ICC 25 heroic says the same thing go haste, SP you will get from gear and enchants. No need to waste gemming it. Even if you are tank healing haste helps more than SP. Only in 10 mans will you be relegated at any time to tank healing and then only for specific portions. Chain heal is still one of your top hps moves because of the amount of raid damage in ICC and ToC
Post by
JaxOmen
I have 1200 haste in my resto set and I wish I had more.
The difference haste makes on your chain heal is so profound it's hard to describe. It's seriously just an amazing benefit. It's also really nice seeing 1.02 second LHW casts when I'm tank healing.
If you're having mana problems, it means one of three things: One, you're spamming spells mindlessly. Two, you're not using your mana abilities intelligently. This could be as simple as refreshing water shield when it expires, or using Mana Tide at about 70% mana so that it comes off cooldown sooner, or even carrying mana pots (worth doing) and making use of them. Three, it could mean your raid is lacking important buffs such as Replenishment.
Also, to help you with both throughput and mana, try getting
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=50339
off ten-man Marrowgar, to pair with your Solace. It's good stuff. Just make sure to use it once you've spent over 2k mana then use it again on cooldown.
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