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Draewind
RESTO - SHAMAN
Playing a Resto-Shaman is arguably one of the most difficult positions to fill and do well. Healing is an art, and even more so for the raiding Restoration Shaman. Each boss fight will require differing abilities to be used and TIMING is everything (even group size will dictate your spell usage). I use different trinkets and other gear to boost performance for varying boss encounters. There is no set routine and a beginner can be overwhelmed immediately. Keep at it! With the new "aggro" mechanics, dungeon groups (tanks) will always push to the limit ... the limit being the healer's ability to keep pace. Groups fail for many reasons, but the healer is always to blame now. Take heart, that is your job. Even with high end raiding gear and a thorough knowledge of the class, the tank will push to failure.
My thoughts on stat weights, gemming, reforging, and hence gear selection will always be found here:
http://compuball.com/WoW/TheoryCrafting/RestoShaman/index.html
It will get better and Blizzard has not left us behind. A few of our abilities are almost necessities for many encounters.
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snowghost
Responding to a month old comment on a 4 month old thread.... Guess I have nothing better to do ;)
I too dislike using add-ons and have actively been pairing down the number I use in healing dungeons/raids. So here is what I have done to minimize the need for those add-ons:
Macros - especially mouse over target use for all my healing spells. This does require key mapping for those spells, but if you are still clicking on the action bar to cast a spell that, IMHO, needs to change.
Next I use the raid unit frames for all instances and unlock the raid frame from the side and move it just above my action bars and size to taste.
So now I have limited functionality of healbot and grid without either of those add-ons. I still use a couple of encounter add-ons because I have not reliably learned to watch the boss and the adds + the ppl under my care, but when I'm able to do that reliably those add-ons will go to.
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ioptzu
Is there any significant reason to choose Enhancement over Elemental while leveling or vice versa?
I am specificially thinking of the availability of Elemental Gear and mana shortages as Elemental. This will be a clean start so no gold and no heirlooms. Mostly questing with the occasional dungeon.
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Icejet87
i need help on deciding which weapon enchant is better for ENHANCMENT shaman. elemental for to go off mastery or windsong for the random buff to crit/haste/mastery
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