Resto Shaman PVE Guide [Cataclysm 4.0.3]

Post by BobTheGreat

I will update this guide once I progress more through cataclysm

First of all, I want to say that Cataclysm healing is VERY different from WOTLK healing. Meaning you cant mindlessly spam chain heals anymore-this will make you go oom pretty quickly. You now have to know spell to use in what situation.

This is the build I am using and it seems pretty good for heroics:
http://www.wowhead.com/talent#hhZbh0oZcGbRsdfoGo

Reasons why I picked these talents:

Tidal Focus
Pretty obvious, less mana spent, more heals you can cast
Spark of Life
The bigger your heals are, the faster your target's HP will go up
Improved Water Shield
More mana regen
Totemic Focus
You won't have to keep resummoning the totems and you wont have to spend more mana on them
Nature's Guardian
Filler talent, the best I could get to move on to the next tier
Ancestral Healing
Makes your target take less damage, pretty straightforward
Nature's Swiftness
An instant heal every 2 minutes. Why wouldn't you take this?
Nature's Blessing
More heals on your Earth Shielded Target
Soothing Rains
Your AOE heals will heal for more
Improved Cleanse Spirit
Without this, your cleanse spirit only decurses the target, this will also remove magic debuffs
Cleansing Waters
This will help heal your target if you dispelled a DOT from them which made them take some damage
Ancestral Awakening
A free heal, this is awesome for raid healing
Mana Tide Totem
Use it when you're oom during fights
Tidal Waves
Without this spell, you are doing it wrong
Blessing of the Eternals
Gives a HOT to a target that's low on HP
Riptide
Need I say anything about this?
Elemental Weapons
Increased healing with Earthliving Weapon and Unleash Elements
Improved Shields
More heals on your Earth Shielded target
Acuity
Increased chance to crit with heals
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What are the heals you have and what are their uses?
Healing Wave-This is your new lesser healing wave and this is what you will be spamming most of the time
Greater Healing Wave-A healing wave that costs more mana, and heals for more. Same cast time as healing wave. Use this instead of healing wave in the rotation if you need a bigger heal. (Rotation after these spells)
Chain heal-A good heal for healing multiple targets, but you don't spam it like in WOTLK anymore. You will only use this mostly in the rotation. This triggers Tidal Waves
Riptide-I cant explain how awesome this spell is. This is the first spell you will be using in the rotation because it triggers Tidal Waves.
Healing Surge-I don't use this spell very often. I only use it when the tank suddenly gets really low HP. Costs almost the same amount of mana as Greater Healing Wave and heals for around as much and has a faster cast time. This will be one of your panic buttons by spamming it 4-5 times once your target is back to full HP and you continue with your rotation
Earth Shield-Always keep this up on your tank. It really helps healing the tank a lot.
Healing Rain-Haven't used this a lot because I always keep Healing Stream on. Best time to use this is in raids in front of a boss or where a lot of stacked people will be taking damage at the same time
Cleanse Spirit-Use it when anyone has a magic or curse debuff
Unleash Elements-An extra instant heal. Doesn't heal for much but the buff it gives will give you a bigger heal
Earthliving-A nice HOT to help you get more targets back up faster
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Rotation:
Riptide-Healing Wave-Healing Wave-Chain Heal-Healing Wave-Healing Wave
Repeat

Notes on this rotation:
-You can insert Unleash Elements anywhere in this rotation
-When you need to, replace the healing waves with greater healing wave for bigger heals.
-With this rotation you won't go oom pretty quickly and you can heal pretty efficiently

Why this rotation?
Tidal Waves causes Healing Wave and Greater Healing wave to have a faster cast time and bigger heals. This has 2 charges so you cast 2 (greater) healing waves and then a chain heal. Tidal Waves is triggered by Riptide and Chain Heal.
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Totems to use in normal fights:
Stoneskin Totem-Gives more armor to everyone, thus making them take less damage so you don't have to heal for as much
Flametongue Totem-Increases spell power, which gives bigger heals
Healing Stream Totem-AOE heal. With the glyph, you also increase resistance Fire, Frost, and Nature
Wrath of Air Totem-Increased spell haste. You cast heals faster.

Other totems I use:
Tremor Totem-Use in fights where there is an AOE fear
Mana Tide Totem-Use if you are in danger of becoming OOM in the middle of a fight. If you are at around 50-70% mana and you are sure you will go oom, use it already so you can use it again later on in the fight
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Glyphs:

Prime Glyphs:
Glyph of Earth Shield-More heals on your Earth Shielded target
Glyph of Water Shield-More mana regen
Glyph of Riptide-Your riptide will stay on your target for longer

Major Glyphs:
Glyph of Healing Wave-You also heal yourself for a small amount your healing wave heals. Helps when you are in a fight where everyone takes damage
Glyph of Healing Stream Totem-Increased resistance to Fire, Frost and Nature. This puts your Healing Stream and Elemental Resistance totem into one.
Glyph of Chain Heal-This decreases the heal on your primary target but you heal more on the other targets. This is good for raid healing.

For the minor glyphs, you can take any but the one I can say that you SHOULD take is the Glyph of Renewed Life because you won't have to buy any more reagents and you have more bag space.

Post by BobTheGreat

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Post by soccergenius

You need to distinguish between 5 man healing, tank healing, and raid healing. Using chain heal at any time when healing less than 3 people is never a good move. Riptide + Healing Surge is more often than not greater HPS than Riptide + GHW. Unleash Earthliving + Healing Wave is a waste of a 15 sec CD; if they needed more healing you shouldn't use Healing Wave in the first place.

You have Nature's Guardian as a "filler" point when you don't need it. You have 32 points in resto when the min is 31.

Ancestral Swiftness is better than Totemic Reach. "The" boot enchant in WotLK raiding was the runspeed one so AS is going to be worth a lot. Ancestral Swiftness is 15% vs 8% and makes GW instant. Win-Win.

Post by Mesoforte

http://www.wowhead.com/forums&topic=173939

/bored

Post by Onijitsu

Nature's Guardian is a good way to reduce aggro. But I've been taking Glyph of Stoneclaw, so I can reduce incoming damage when (not if) I do get aggro. It frees up talent points, and allows me to respond situationally. (It also allows me to do CC pulls for my tanks, without going down - an instant 17k damage absorb!)

I'd much rather use the talent points to boost my healing in Resto. Nature's Guardian doesn't do that.

Otherwise, though? I really appreciate anyone trying to make heads or tails of the way the game has changed.

Post by soccergenius

Post by Onijitsu

If you're pulling agro as a healer, your tank sucks big time. No, it's absolutely not a PvE talent.

It's not a talent at all. It's a Glyph.

Post by Mesoforte

If you're pulling agro as a healer, your tank sucks big time. No, it's absolutely not a PvE talent.

It's not a talent at all. It's a Glyph.

He was talking about Nature's Guardian.

If you're getting hit on a hex/sheep pull, the tank really needs to step up his game to pick up the remaining.

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Post by Mesoforte

sooooo because there is also a sticky, you deceided there was a need for another non-sticky resto guide. Tnx mate http://www.wowhead.com/forums&topic=173939

/hugs

Post by Bloodspeaker

I noticed that sticky...but whenever i try and look at the specs posted there there is nothing in them. They are blank

Post by Mesoforte

I noticed that sticky...but whenever i try and look at the specs posted there there is nothing in them. They are blank

Make sure you're not running No Script or something, because its there.

Post by Bloodspeaker

It's working from other threads. All the scripting options in my security are turned to enable and it still shows a blank talent page, but only from that one thread.

Resto Shaman PVE Guide [Cataclysm 4.0.3]

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