New Shaman - Healing Pre-BC? :: Free Realms

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I am new to the Shaman world, I have a level 70 mage in T4 level epics and have become somewhat bored with her. I primarily do dailes and raid, and have been lax on the dailies lately. So I rolled a shaman with some friends. Our group is a Hunter, Warlock, and me (Shaman). I want to heal, but for leveling I am planning on a nice Enhancement spec.

Do I need to have points in resto to be effective in the 5-mans pre-BC content? Or will an enhancement spec work? I imagine at 60 I will switch to a more resto spec to heal all the outlands instances. We just reached 20, averaging about a level an hour, and I just wanted to get some shaman advice.

Having been DPS for the past year and a half, healing is a whole new world to me, so it is taking some time to get used to. Any advice would be greatly appreciated :)

#2 Jun 02 2008 at 7:48 AM Rating: Good

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No, you do not need to be specced resto to heal effectively (pre-BC)...you will need a gear set for it though. I went that route (I leveled as enhancement and kept a healing set on me for instances).

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#3 Jun 02 2008 at 8:26 AM Rating: Good

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Awesome! I figured you didn't have to be specc'd. Appreciate the response. I have already started working on gathering healy gear...Currently I have +4 healing!! Yay me! lol. We probably won't instance until SM, so by then I should have a nice set together, going to look out for some clothie gear to boost the healing.

#4 Jun 02 2008 at 8:46 AM Rating: Good

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Honestly, as said above, you really don't need to respec to resto until 70. At least that's what I did. I did very well healing all the way to 70 specced at elemental (respecced to element from enhancement at 60 to play around with it), and using some healing gear.

#5 Jun 02 2008 at 9:42 AM Rating: Decent

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Actually...don't focus on +Healing. My shamy is 63 and resto but until 58 i was enhancement... despite this I healed all the instances i was in except 1. you will need a healing set that consists of +int. That's all you really need. If you pay attention u can heal just fine. at 58 i turned resto and I love it. Tired of dps... so healing is nice :). And i really like resto healing.. more than my priest's :P Enjoy your healing!

#6 Jun 02 2008 at 10:43 AM Rating: Good

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I am totally loving it so far, although I have only really had to heal when we accidently pulled 5 mobs that were 3+ levels more than us :) That was interesting, 1 mana pot, 1 health stone, and some bandages later, I was OOM and we were all alive :)

I can't wait to actually heal my first instance!

#7 Jun 02 2008 at 2:42 PM Rating: Excellent

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You should be able to heal most things just fine, though a few points in Resto would really help. Improved Healing Wave is really amazing, and a must if you don't plan on having any other healers along. Once you get Chain Heal, things become very easy indeed. :)

Int will probably be very important to you since you won't have Mana Tide totem; don't forget to keep Mana Spring down all the time.

As for a more general healing tip: downrank! There's noting more frustrating than either a: completely overhealing because you only use the max rank and end up oom too quickly, or b: having some mana, enough for a lower rank spell, and having your target die while you fumble in your spellbook for it. What I do--I think everyone's method is a little different--is to keep 4 ranks of Healing Wave and 1 of Lesser Healing Wave on my bars, moving LHW around depending on comparative healing power. Max rank of Chain Heal always stays out; I haven't started downranking it yet, though, perhaps I should.

#8 Jun 03 2008 at 5:36 AM Rating: Good

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Thanks for the advice!! Downranking is something I never thought of. With my mage I just go all out lol. I will def put some lower ranks in there and in my healbot. I am starting to get the hang of it, but I do tend to overheal quite a bit. Still very green when it comes to healing, so sometimes I panic lol. Good thing I am running with 2 guildies that I have gotten to be friends with :)

#9 Jun 03 2008 at 5:38 AM Rating: Good

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Yeah, downranking is great for saving mana, especially if it's a fast moving group. I usually just spam LHW. The only time I'll throw a big heal (like HW), is if someone get's to 50% (like in a boss fight, where LHW won't do the trick), then I'd be able to fill them back up.

Edited, Jun 3rd 2008 9:39am by xNocturnalSunx