A note to anyone planning to respec to resto...Follow

That made me laugh. YOu earned you're cookie for the day.

Um.... LOL Spirit is the LAST stat a shaman will ever look for. If all stats are equal on two pieces of gear and one has spirit too, then yes, take the one with spirit. In the off-chance you are outside of the 5 second rule, you will gain more mana regen.

The issue here is Shaman is RARELY ever outside of the 5 second rule when raiding and doing 5 mans. This means you only mana regen you'd get from spirit is between fights when you'd be drinking/eating anyways and getting significantly more.

There is a reason there is virtually NO spirit on our tier gear and a reason Shaman's don't even care if their gear has spirit.

+healing, MP/5, INT, Stam, spell crit, armor... those have far more interest to me roughly in that order than spirit.

fixT

This reminds me of the days when I was playing my feral druid. For some crazy reason (u might say) I wanted to rise all my resistances as much as I could. I even filled every socket I had with +4 resistance to all (I know I could have much more AP by using other gems but I never raid so my 2700 AP was just fine for epic instances). So there was that beautiful cloak that drops in Botanica (first boss) that gave +12 resistance to all. Considering the fact I could enchant it for even more resistance to all I wanted it badly. So Botanica became my home. It droped. About 6 times. I got it the 6th. All other times warriors and paladins that where dazled by its descent armor bonus rolled on it. But most probably selled it to a ventor after they got a better drop a few days later. That cloak did not give any other stat appart from armor and resistances. Which I understand that is good for tanks. So practically the person that needed that cloak more than anyone was ME (I was tanking a lot too, with the difference that I was trying to 'specialise' on the resist all field - the rest where probably thinking that 'oh! ok! a little resistance is never bad'). But that's what u say after u have heard my whole boring story. I had no reason to accuse them for rolling on my precious cloak. I just kept insisting until the next time I could claim it.

baseline is... Everybody has a story. Others are so fend up of their spec they long to respec resto, others are so in need of a necklace that will replace the one they are currying since lvl 50, others are dissapointed of the luck of mail healing gear they are after so badly. However frustrated you are this is the game. Surelly you can talk to people about your needs before the instance but that does not really keeps ninjas from ninja-ing. Nevertheless there are some rules that I keep following since I started playing this game and they pretty make sence to me.

1. If the healer/tank etc rolls need on healing/tanking gear EVERYONE bucks off unless they ask

2. If the healer/tank greeds/passes u may need and noone can tell u anything about this PLUS you cannot accuse anyone for doing the same (unless it's obvious they need for DE - ex. he's a drood and rolls for plate). So if you are an Enh. Shaman and you heal you cannot accuse a s.priest for needing healing gear. He could be the healer and you the dps. You where playing in the same group and needed the same gear. The fact that one picked the role of the healer does not give him any advantage over gear for that role... Unless you are implying that only healers that protect our backs are the ones that really sweat for the team... ok the tank too... dps-ers do not contribute at all in teamplay.

3. Needing for an alt is just LOL. Go ahead, start a business. Ask your friends and relatives to pay you for gearing them up by needing every item u get from instances

Edited, Jul 16th 2008 9:17am by helekin

Edited, Jul 16th 2008 9:23am by helekin

And then there are PuG's where it's sometimes not easy to explain why you want master looter on. Some don't even know what it is and think that they don't get those drops.

Oh wanted also to say this. Some say that when they level as resto they become better healers since they know the class. While it might be true in some cases it's still not always true. In shaman point of view leveling as enha is faster and that way you reach the top little faster than resto. Now you will havce faster some lvl70 gear and maybe you have already done some healing as offspecc.

Some people might lvl as resto and still have no idea about mechanics since they dont study theyr class, just level it up. Some might lvl strictly as dps and still do theyr homework even before they get to respecc.
It's all possible while it's true that you only learn to heal by healing =)

Some will never learn and some learn easier.