I was just wondering; what is the healing sequence for 70 resto shammies? I get the whole "keep ES on tank" part, but apart from that, I'm dazzeled.
So far, I've heard several possibilities;
1) 3x Rank 1 Healing Wave > Rank 1 Chain Heal > Rank 1 Healing wave to keep Healing Way up.
2) Highest Rank Healing Wave spam
3) The "none-HOT-priest" way; Highest rank Healing Wave on the tank, Highest rank Lesser Healing Wave on who ever gets damage
4) "One button healing"; Spam Highest rank Chain Heal.
So, what is your sequence? Or rather; what sequence is best?
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There is no "sequence" for healing. Healers don't have that luxery. However little or however much or however many people need healing, that's what you heal. It's not any more complicated than that.
There is no sequence to healing, although there is a sort of formula for resto shamans. For raiding you will usually be put as a party/group healers. And thus will be spamming chain heal and topping off the MT with a few lessers. 5-mans i usually just spam lesser healing wave unless the tank is taking bug damamge in which i spam healing way. but thats just my experience.
If just the tank is taking damage, use Healing Wave. You can use rank 12, or downrank to rank 10 and do just fine.
If there is melee DPS taking damage as well, you can throw chain heals on the tank and let the chains heal the melee DPS.
It's just a matter of being aware of what's happening in the fight and reacting accordingly.
Just because everyone says chain heal is the most mana efficient heal in the game, doesn't mean you should use it and only it. It just means that when 3 people THAT ARE CLOSE TO EACH OTHER all need to be healed, chain heal is the best spell to do it with.
If there is melee DPS taking damage as well, you can throw chain heals on the tank and let the chains heal the melee DPS.
It's just a matter of being aware of what's happening in the fight and reacting accordingly.
Just because everyone says chain heal is the most mana efficient heal in the game, doesn't mean you should use it and only it. It just means that when 3 people THAT ARE CLOSE TO EACH OTHER all need to be healed, chain heal is the best spell to do it with.
Healing Wave is your primary spell when there is no AOE damage.
Lesser healing Wave is generally a "touch up spell" or an emergency spell. It's fast but isn't going to REALLY make a huge difference and is less mana efficient.
Chain heal is your AOE damage recovery. I generally keep the main tank targeted and spam it if everyone is getting rocked by AOE. They get the beefiest part of the heal while touching up everyone else in the party.
As everyone said, you just have to kind of watch all the health bars and pray you click fast enough lol.
Lesser healing Wave is generally a "touch up spell" or an emergency spell. It's fast but isn't going to REALLY make a huge difference and is less mana efficient.
Chain heal is your AOE damage recovery. I generally keep the main tank targeted and spam it if everyone is getting rocked by AOE. They get the beefiest part of the heal while touching up everyone else in the party.
As everyone said, you just have to kind of watch all the health bars and pray you click fast enough lol.
healing wave mostly in 5 mans. Avoid lesser healing wave except as an emergency heal to keep someone alive. like a clothie. Some situations you will find aoe and splash damage, then it is useful to spam chain heal. Occasionally in raids I find the tank is taking too much damage, and chain heal can't keep him up. I have to use healing wave on him. It's a far superior single man heal.
Most of it comes from experience. It may take a while. Don't be discouraged. Eventually healing will come naturally. And if you run with the same tank alot as I do, you'll get accustomed to how they take damage. Though alot of that depends on the mobs they are fighting. As elemental damage messes my tank up faster than physical damage.
Learn not to use lesser healing wave. It's not like pallies flash of light. LHW is inneficient. If you can't keep the tank up with healing wave either the tank is very undergeared (or perhaps you are, and not right spec). Only times I ran into problems is with a duel wielding warrior "tank", another warrior trying to tank using a 2 hander, a 68 pally with 7600 health trying to tank BM, and a druid bear with only 12200 health trying to do heroic slabs. I'm to the point now I will inspect the tank, and dps before doing heroics and such. I refuse to run if I know we will wipe. I had a ret pally in my guild keep pushing for heroic SH runs, it isn't going to happen with that lack of dps (and I have seen his Kara numbers- they weren't great). If you lack too much dps, you will run out of mana healing.
Edited, Feb 13th 2008 9:38pm by thrashering
Most of it comes from experience. It may take a while. Don't be discouraged. Eventually healing will come naturally. And if you run with the same tank alot as I do, you'll get accustomed to how they take damage. Though alot of that depends on the mobs they are fighting. As elemental damage messes my tank up faster than physical damage.
Learn not to use lesser healing wave. It's not like pallies flash of light. LHW is inneficient. If you can't keep the tank up with healing wave either the tank is very undergeared (or perhaps you are, and not right spec). Only times I ran into problems is with a duel wielding warrior "tank", another warrior trying to tank using a 2 hander, a 68 pally with 7600 health trying to tank BM, and a druid bear with only 12200 health trying to do heroic slabs. I'm to the point now I will inspect the tank, and dps before doing heroics and such. I refuse to run if I know we will wipe. I had a ret pally in my guild keep pushing for heroic SH runs, it isn't going to happen with that lack of dps (and I have seen his Kara numbers- they weren't great). If you lack too much dps, you will run out of mana healing.
Edited, Feb 13th 2008 9:38pm by thrashering
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