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I have not done ZA yet, but I know my strengths as a healer.
Generally I too am stuck main healing the tank, and Im not the best at it.
Its mostly because of the long cast times.
I try and tell the group that the pally/priest/druid should be the one healing the tank and I should be healing the raid, but they want me to do to it because my +heal is the highest.
Quite frankly that stat means very little to a shaman in the sense that it doesnt mean you can heal better than another person. It just helps the heal that you manage to land.
Every single time I heal, i constantly have the tank screaming, "tank needs heals". I want to scream, YES I KNOW, im in the middle of casting one.
Any raid that expects a shaman to keep a tank topped off is asking for a wipe because it will drain your mana too quickly.
You should be suggesting raid healing to your guild, because it is the biggest strength to shammie heals, plus as mentioned above, i feel we are limited to main tank healing.
Adding to my previous post:
I ran ZA for the first time this weekend, we attempted the Bear boss only.
We had three healers:
Druid: 1500+healing
Shaman (Me): 1500+healing
Paladin: 1700+healing
I thought we did pretty well, we didnt down the boss, our tactics are being improved through learning of course.
Basically on that fight every healer has too be on the tank and heal full time, and you should not be healing anyone else in the raid, they should bandage.
Wow is that tough when he switches to bear, he hits hard, and with the bleed affect and silence right in the middle I swear its enough to make anyone scream. :) We would have had em, if our dps was just a little stronger, we didnt have our normal dps and had to take some alternates which really hindered us on the fight. This weekend maybe some loot. :)