So, at 70 I am going to try to get into doing a few BGs a night for a while. I want to get the Mace and Shield from honor (a little over 40k). Basically, from what I have done in BGs, I run around and spam LHW and Chain Heal when allies are close together.
Are there any tips for Resto Shamans in BGs?
I am alliance so winning is few and far between, I think in the last 30 BGs I have done I am lucky if I have been on the winning end 5 times. So it is a slow process and I want to maximize the honor that I can get out of each BG.
I do my best to keep everyone alive, only to find that shortly after all the horde are dead they repop and gun for me while the allies stand and watch...being a healer in BGs is not very glorified...lol...but I would rather heal than DPS :)
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Edited, Aug 20th 2008 1:54pm by compgenius
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Sounds about right, I used rank 7 HW most of the time instead of LHW spam. Keep earth shield up on yourself for the 90% chance to ignore spell pushback from that and talents
Try and stay in the group and maybe open with chain lightning so they think you're ele to be dealt with later and then start healing.
Try and find out what time your battlegroup is good in what bg. Mine ends up being AV and EotS pretty much day and night, AB during the afternoons and WSG NEVER. If you can figure out when the kids and noobs go away and you can actually get a few wins in, it will make your honor grind that much easier.
Oh and heal yourself before them. It's funny to watch them beat on you for 2 minutes while you heal through it and having someone come up and pimpsmack them in the back of the head.
Try and stay in the group and maybe open with chain lightning so they think you're ele to be dealt with later and then start healing.
Try and find out what time your battlegroup is good in what bg. Mine ends up being AV and EotS pretty much day and night, AB during the afternoons and WSG NEVER. If you can figure out when the kids and noobs go away and you can actually get a few wins in, it will make your honor grind that much easier.
Oh and heal yourself before them. It's funny to watch them beat on you for 2 minutes while you heal through it and having someone come up and pimpsmack them in the back of the head.
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Ha try playing more BGs at night, if you are alliance most kids go to bed around then, but most kids also play horde because they look "cool", so playing during the day is alright for honor, some kids just have to go in BGs when they're too low so it works either way.
I've done my part in BG's also as resto (started as low as 60 and still was very useful since sometimes healers are not around). I have to back up Galenmoon that keep ES on your self. First when I started I was "maximizing" by throwing ES on someone else instead of me, WRONG. Es helps alot to stay alive and by staying alive you have more time to either, a) keep yourself alive when opposite faction is trying to kill you (while your party kills them where they stand) or b) keeps you casting more and less interrupts by npc/enemy.
I'm using Grid so I tend to check there if I keep spamming HW to tank or CH when killing balinda/van (yes on horde side) but when I see that there is enough healers to keep tank alive and topped I normally start using CH on tank and rest to keep everyone topped.
Also remember to bind Purge on your keys. It's nice to get everything stripped from that foolish paladin who think he could come and mess with our towers. Grounding totem and earthbind when there are lots of enemy and big battle so u keep pissing them of. Oh and one more thing, When you see rogue coming out of stealth you maybe wanna give him nice fire shock so he cant maybe vanish again to be safe. What else, so many things and I dont know half of them.
I'm using Grid so I tend to check there if I keep spamming HW to tank or CH when killing balinda/van (yes on horde side) but when I see that there is enough healers to keep tank alive and topped I normally start using CH on tank and rest to keep everyone topped.
Also remember to bind Purge on your keys. It's nice to get everything stripped from that foolish paladin who think he could come and mess with our towers. Grounding totem and earthbind when there are lots of enemy and big battle so u keep pissing them of. Oh and one more thing, When you see rogue coming out of stealth you maybe wanna give him nice fire shock so he cant maybe vanish again to be safe. What else, so many things and I dont know half of them.
Great advice! Thanks all! I will give all of those a shot. Right now I respecced ele for the 69 - 70 grind so that I could speed up the process, so I am staying out of BGs for now. Should be 70 tonight, back to resto!
Again, thanks for the advice!
Again, thanks for the advice!
I pulled this macro from somewhere a while ago and I haven't tried it, but the creator described it as being the quickest/simplest way to gain honor with a single button push:
/targetfriend [nodead]
/cast [nodead] Lesser Healing Wave(Rank 1)
Apparently it cycles through friendly players in range (including the caster) and drops a Lesser Healing Wave on each.
/targetfriend [nodead]
/cast [nodead] Lesser Healing Wave(Rank 1)
Apparently it cycles through friendly players in range (including the caster) and drops a Lesser Healing Wave on each.
BG healing with little-to-no resilience can get ugly: definitely keep ES on yourself. Pick up the reputation blue PvP set as you can.
Chain Heal is a good spell (when you're not getting beat on), but gets you noticed as a healer very quickly. Same with the toilet bowl animation of mana tide.
Bind rank 1 earth shock somewhere in reflex-range. Possibly frost shock too, but ES for sure.
Get a mod with a range-finder so you know who's around you (I use X-perl).
Nature's Swiftness is your get out of jail free card, use it wisely.
Stay in a group; you're generally worth more healing than you are defending. If stuck defending, remember wolves can't be sapped.
Heal early, heal often. You can't wait until you're at 20% and expect a LHW to save you.
GET NATURE'S GUARDIAN. Yes, it is that good.
I like to train them. When they're locked in to you, they're determined... so, run away. Half of their team will follow you, killing time for them while your teammates can (hopefully) do something meaningful. You'd be surprised how few priests/shamans realize that they can remove your ghost wolf.
Chain Heal is a good spell (when you're not getting beat on), but gets you noticed as a healer very quickly. Same with the toilet bowl animation of mana tide.
Bind rank 1 earth shock somewhere in reflex-range. Possibly frost shock too, but ES for sure.
Get a mod with a range-finder so you know who's around you (I use X-perl).
Nature's Swiftness is your get out of jail free card, use it wisely.
Stay in a group; you're generally worth more healing than you are defending. If stuck defending, remember wolves can't be sapped.
Heal early, heal often. You can't wait until you're at 20% and expect a LHW to save you.
GET NATURE'S GUARDIAN. Yes, it is that good.
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...gun for me while the allies stand and watch
I like to train them. When they're locked in to you, they're determined... so, run away. Half of their team will follow you, killing time for them while your teammates can (hopefully) do something meaningful. You'd be surprised how few priests/shamans realize that they can remove your ghost wolf.
Since I play enhance but hope to go resto at 70 (or maybe even late-69 for some practice) -- stay away from other shamans. We can purge that ES and burst right past Nature's Guardian. (I make a point of hunting down resto shammies in BGs.)
If possible, toss water breathing up after ES so a hunter's shot only dispels the useless buff. If you can convince others to buff you as well, that's more protection against purge/dispel spam.
If possible, toss water breathing up after ES so a hunter's shot only dispels the useless buff. If you can convince others to buff you as well, that's more protection against purge/dispel spam.
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