Resto Shaman.Follow

0/5/56 the most common resto build is pretty straightforward. As for weapons, healers can't dual wield, and you won't want to use a staff because you'll need a shield for surviability. Look for a crystal pulse shield and whatever the mace is with the 11 mp5 and 227 heal- grab those for a decent AH start. Some good heal mods can help a lot too.

I just had the crystal pulse shield drop from a flower in Netherstorm by the Stormspire. Finally a drop I can use! Rarely happens. Usually for another class. I was using a really outdated shield from Hellfire P. that had spell damage and mp5 before.

Right now I have 5 points in elemental, but mainly to help out solo questing. I'll eventually respec and put those last 5 points in resto. Probably to reduce totem cost. And of course 5 points in enhance to increase int.

My main thing is finding enough healing and mp5 gear for Kara. I think I can get another 150 healing with enchants maybe? That's what a guildie was saying. I'm not that familiar with high level enchanting. I never enchant until I need to. Once I get set on some equipment to fun Kara, I will enchant it.

Been using armory, not sure how useful that is. Some items I can find good healing, but lose out on mp5. Mp5 seems to be the hardest to get. I can't see how I can get 150 mp5 for Kara. And I'm struggling to break 800 healing, one guy is saying I need 1500 healing. I just can't see how to do it.

I'm not sure about not going mail. I like the looks of it. :). Should I go cloth maybe for shoulders or something?



Edited, Dec 28th 2007 11:47am by thrashering

That's good to hear about mp5. I'm having a hard time getting enough. I always heard you needed 150. The 2nd priest says he has 150 and over 1300 healing. So I always felt I was way behind.

I have the one trinket from netherstorm that gives mp5, but I lose some healing with that. with that I can get about 900 healing and 104 mp5. I still haven't done enchants, and that should get me over 1000 healing.

My guild really needs me. They want 3 healers for Kara. I assume 3 healers is the norm? I will be the 3rd healer.

I didn't have nearly as much time as I hoped running instances and getting rep. I'd like to get exalted scyers for the shoulder enchant. But I'll just have to get the honored one for now.

Cen Exp has a healing cloak for revered I'm working on. I think I can get that one in time if I can find groups for steam vaults. Does Underbog give any rep if I'm honored?

And I'd love to get exalted shat ar (or whatever they are called) for that healing mace. But I'm a ways off that.

Anyways ran Bot, Arc, OHB, and BM to finish up key frags. Bot was just a regular run, no key frag in there. They are trying to get me and one other guy keyed. I just hope they know my gear isn't as good as I'd like it. We are only going for 1st boss for now. Our guild is just starting kara runs.

any thoughts on spirit? I've been ignoring it for the most part. At one point it was unmodified. But with my healing gear on, there are some spirit modifiers. I've neglected it for the most part in an effort to get the most +healing and mp5.

Edited, Dec 30th 2007 3:54am by thrashering

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Shu%27halo&n=Grogothic

That's my armory. Says my character hasn't been active. Armory is annoying sometimes. And some of the upgrades didn't show up on armory. Like one drop I found in Black Morass. It was a nice wrist piece from the last boss.

I left my character in my healing set so it could be viewed. But I guess if you are logged out too long it says you aren't active? Normally I'm in my pve solo gear.

Tried getting steam vaults ran last night. I think with the new years coming up it's too hard finding a group. Only instances I have ran have been with guildies except for one failed Botanica Pug run (and that had one of my guildies in it). I'm having trouble finding groups for instances.

But I forgot about that shat halls quest reward. That may be better than the cenarion exp reverered cloak. Where does the quest line start for shat halls? You need a key right? and down a Fel reaver?

edit: I'm logging on right now to pick up the quest in Thrallmar. I was going to do it last night while looking for herbs, but forgot.

Edited, Dec 31st 2007 3:51pm by thrashering

I don't know about resto shaman anymore. Seems like the priests greater heal can outheal our healing wave by alot. And in raids they hit so hard.

And I feel like a complete failure as a healer tonight. We could not get past the 1st boss in normal mech. And just barely got by the mini bosses (I went oom right at the end). The warrior was duel wielding nice pretty swords. He wasn't using a shield, which may have been a problem. We also had a resto druid in our party and he tried tanking in bear form, but I couldn't keep him alive. Right now I'm at 1100 healing and 112 mp5. And that's not nearly good enough. But if I can't heal mech (One of the bosses supposedly has good pants drop), I don't know what I'll do.

ya it's just getting hard to find groups. Usually in guild runs, I do dps, even as resto. We still had no problems with Black Morass. Even with my gimped dps. It's so much nicer doing guild runs. But I can't get the healer spot in guild runs usually.

Kara went badly tonight. We just can't manage the adds on Moroes. I hear it's nice to have 2 shadow priests on that fight. tongight we had 2 resto shaman and a holy priest. Our tank is well geared. But us healers are still pulling aggro on Moroes. And the rogues were tanking the adds. but the adds hit like a truck as well. It's tough keeping them up. Things actually went better tuesday night. We had more casters and not 3 rogues like we had this time.

Those were two seperate parties actually. One was a pug group on a 70 instance. Next time I'll pay more attention to the tank. If he's not using a shield, I'll drop. The second was a guild run through Moroes. We finally downed Moroes last night. It helped we got a hunter to trap any shackles that resist or break early. Which was a problem initially. We also got a rogue to respec, as his spec was messed up (pvp spec).

Now We're on Maiden. Speaking of maiden...

Does anyone know if Chain heal works on the members of the other party in the raid group? Tried putting rogues in my party so I could chain heal them, but then the other priest gets torched by holy fire as my grounding totem doesn't affect members of the other party :(. I really wish it did. So I was thinking most ranged should go in my party, and I'll continue to chain heal the rogues in the other party, assuming it will bounce. They didn't do that great a job keeping her in the middle. And a few times they were out of range of my chain heals, or not in LOS.

Also did some BG's with my resto shammy in full healing gear LOL. I was surprised I could beat a few guys one on one. I didn't think I could kill anything as a resto shammy. Beat a mage, as I slowly wore him down to where he was out of mana and using a wand on me LOL. I do okay against hunters as well. Rogues tear me to pieces though. Mostly I try to stay in groups, heal people, lay useful totems, and use my shocks.



Edited, Jan 6th 2008 2:08pm by thrashering

Resto Shaman is no miracle worker. We are efficient healers that can be beat on briefly (thank god since we don't have any cc), but if your party isn't specced right or isn't geared right, no amount of work on your end can compensate.

An Arms/Fury specced Warrior should go respec. I understand that leveling/questing is harder, but honestly... at 70 if you plan on doing instances, you are expected to tank. Questing/Leveling may be slower, but you can still do it as prot. Tanking as Arms/Fury is hard 60+ and impossible at 70. I want to scream everytime a warrrior is specced arms/fury and then if we try for them to tank, they don't own a shield. >.<

Originally, I was aiming for a 0/20/41 spec on my shaman. At 64'ish I had some points into flury and was actually asked to dps since they had a healer. I had saved all my gear from questing that had AGI/STR, crit, AP, etc. and I did surprisingly well. I pulled hate a LOT more than I expected.

I realized my healing was kinda lacking, so I respecced since I had started doing more instances and figured I wouldn't be asked to ghetto-dps. lol Went to 0/3/58 and never looked back. Chain heal and Ancestral healing is wow... a tank with +25% armor even for a relatively short time is great. You really notice the damage reduction on anyone who gets a crit heal.