Galenmoon wrote:
Either way, regardless of skill of said shammy, any class in which you can take someone who has an offspec and let them respec to heal is a great class for healing.
A Warrior with First Aid could heal non-heroic Slave Pens.
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Earth shield + high MP5 = good tank-healer in my book. You might "think" they are not, but you can't objectively say that that are.
Yes, actually, I can. I've played and healed as every heal-capable class until at least 50, and I can objectively tell you, as someone who mains a Shaman and lists it as his favorite class, that we are not as good at single-target maintainance as Priests, Druids, or Paladins. Furthermore, as I've just said, I raid with all three of the other classes regularly, and having compared our performances as objectively as possible, I consider them better at it than my class, which is why I am always happy to relinquish the job of tank-healer and take up the mantle of cross-raid healer.
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I can't say that they are, and I can't say that they aren't, but I won't put my opinion down as fact and spread it out to anyone new who happens along the shaman forum and starts asking what the facts are.
So ask the others here and see what they say. Ask Draenei, I know for a fact she's Resto and is devoted almost entirely to PvE. Not sure if anyone else here is specced Resto, but I would expect them all to tell you the same thing.
Lesser Healing Wave is extremely mana-inefficient, so our tank-healing basically comes down to Earth Shield and spamming Healing Wave. 2.5 seconds is a
long time when you're healing past 70, so unless you're constantly pre-casting Healing Waves (which you sometimes just can't do with boss mechanics), you run the risk of being too slow, too late, and your tank dying. If you just spam Healing Wave, then you're left with a ton of overheal and are still mana-inefficient.
Paladins' Flash of Light, a more efficient spell by comparison, does not require them to make that choice. Plus they have Cleanse.
Druids' HoT's not only tick for several hundred HP a second, but are extremely efficient as well,
and are all instant, allowing them to cast even while on the move, meaning the tank is almost never without attention.
Priests are about equal with us as far as efficiency goes, but being able to shield and throw up an instant HoT when forced to move, and a dispel put them ahead of us for single-target healing. That, at least, may be opinion, but you can't argue against the above two.
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I consider us all pretty equally skilled.
LOL
Care to explain why that is funny?