Tobiasmm wrote:
The "Cookie Cutter build early on is of course the 0/5/56 build.
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=hZxZEfxtAektcd
But as you get further into the raiding scene and outside of the 5man instances and the 10man raids you will find 8/0/53 infinitely more useful.
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=hxcZZEfhtAeotcd
In fights such as Vashj, and Hydross (Two small examples) you take so much splash nature damage that it adds up extremely fast. Not to mention on Vashj you HAVE to interrupt her casts, and earthshock is one of the best interrupts in the game.
So my simple explination for choosing one of the other.
0/5/56 for 5-10man Raids.
Then switch to 8/0/53 once you hit The Eye/SSC and above.
One you are doing only 25 man raids I highly suggest you go 8/0/53 (Different spec actually)
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=hxcZZVfxtAestcd
Once you hit 25 man raids you shouldn't ever be casting Healing Wave. Shamans are not main tank healers, although we can of course.
Chain heal is what you will be casting, and only casting really save for the few lesser healing Waves that can save lives. As long as you never MT heal, this build does wonders.
Edited, Jan 31st 2008 11:32pm by Tobiasmm
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Tobiasmm wrote:
In the PvP sense earthshock is bad. The Mana amount, Global Cooldown, even the damage is Mediocre at best. But lets look at it from the PvE point of view.
Level 1 Earthshock costs next to no mana for the exact same effects of it's highest rank. So you still get the interrupt.
Instant cast makes it very good and reliable for interrupting spells.
6 second (Or 5) second cooldown makes it the most spamable interrupt in the game.
Now think about certain bosses in PvE content. Shade of Aran, and Vashj to name a couple. Both HAVE to have their spells interrupted (Well Shade is iffy, but news teams getting into Kara usually will interrupt the spells).
So combine that with an Elemental Shaman, or Enhancement and you have a lot of quick, mana efficient interrupts that can last the 10 minute or longer fights of 25man raids.
Make sense to ya now?
Edited, Feb 1st 2008 3:30am by Tobiasmm
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OK, here's where I have to disagree with you. In Arena, if I didn't have an Earth Shock Rank 1 Focus macro, our ratings would be lower than they are now! I'm not that great at PvP, but I sure as hell know that interrupting that @#%@#%ing druid's Cyclone has saved my, or my warrior's, *** quite a few times!
I love Earth Shock; it's got the shortest silence and the shortest CD of any interrupt. Of course, I really do think it should have a slightly longer silence effect (3 seconds, maybe?) -- then it would be "poifect".
EvilShenanigans wrote:
Gaudion wrote:
Draeneipally wrote:
oh?
last night i healed heroic BOT using mainly lesser healing wave because i never went OOM during a fight.
I didn't say I went OOM during fights. I said I would like to see our spells become a little more mana-efficient.
mana efficiency is helped by healing way
shammies are best left as the MT healer, as well as the raid damaging attack spam healers when there is massive AoE but WE ARE NOT GOOD SPOT HEALERS, a perfect example of this is illidan :D if you see a video of this fight you'll notice the chain heals flying every which way during the shadowbolts
chain heal is a massively efficient heal and it is controlled by a much better secondary and tertiary heal targeting system than it used to be. this is evident in lower end fights as well such as illhoof where everyone is being dmg'd during the skellies of nightbane and if your raid is able to stand sorta linked during aran and for healing the people on kill duty of the sparks on curator. I have yet to heal ZA or even think about healing SSC/TK ( I only worry about blowing sh*t up there). but shammies are really good healers all in all and we bring awesome group buffs as well compared to other healing classes.
You, sir, are inexperienced and foolish. Chain Heal is pretty much the only heal you ever use in a 25 man raid; think about all the damage to the melee, or when anyone is grouped up (think trash fights, and many boss fights). Hell, the melee and the tanks will always be together, and they'll always take some small AoE -- read Lewt Reaver, where you just stand under him spamming Chain Heal -- so why use any other heal? It's less efficient and it doesnt' get the whole effect of our +healing.
What you're suggesting is akin to telling a resto druid that he should only use Healing Touch, and never use any HoTs -- because, well, that HT heals for more, right!? >.<
Paladins = MT Healers
Druids = well, a lot of things, but they only do it through HoTs
Priests = great all around healers with useful buffs
Shamans = raid healers, and certainly not the supreme MT healer
Shamans can be a MT healer if really needed (like in a 5 man), but that is not our bread and butter, so to speak.
Edited, Feb 1st 2008 9:02am by GWynand
