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Healing at lower levels
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Vaeku
So I searched for this and didn't find anything, sooo...
I'm interested in healing dungeons. My shaman is enhancement, but I'd like to be able to both DPS and heal sometimes in dungeons.
Anyways, from what I understand spirit is useless for us, and in the early levels I should be keeping a second set for healing, with intellect and spell power (since the other stats aren't usually available until later), right?
The other thing I'm sort of concerned about is that at 20 we basically have 2 healing spells: HW and LHW. I know there's the healing totem, but for the majority of dungeon runs I think it would rarely be used since the group will be on the move most of the time. I guess I'm just used to having a HoT spell (since I also have a priest and a druid).
Any other tips you guys have?
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Shiverlynn
Actually the healing totem heals a lot and doesn't cost much mana so you can drop it anyway. If the tank pulls a large group of mobs it won't help you keeping him alive by itself but if the tank doesn't take much damage or when the group gets hit by a weak to average AoE, the totem is enough to bring everyone back to full life.
Spirit is not exactly useless, it is only useless if you spend the whole time casting. But you shouldn't do that unless your group takes insane amount of damage, and therefore you will often be out of the five seconds rule and regenerate a bit of mana from spirit on your gear. Thats number one. At lower levels you don't have the gear to continously casting for 5+ minutes.
The number two is, before Outlands there's very little gear with mp5 on it, but tons of gear with spirit on it. Don't discard an item just because it's a spirit piece, if there's a useful stat for healing on as well, like int or spell power, get it.
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Vaeku
i would recommend you get a addon called
Clique
it basically allows you to make hot keys for your spells. I have Shift+left click for lesser heal and Shift+right click for greater. In 5mans you just to this on the players pic for raids use a raid frame like grid.
The Clique addon is a life saver...literally
Yeah, I have HealBot (this isn't my first healer, this is just my first time playing a shaman), and love it.
Actually the healing totem heals a lot and doesn't cost much mana so you can drop it anyway. If the tank pulls a large group of mobs it won't help you keeping him alive by itself but if the tank doesn't take much damage or when the group gets hit by a weak to average AoE, the totem is enough to bring everyone back to full life.
Okay, that's good to know. I like HoTs as they're like a little bit of insurance against DPS pulling aggro and such.
The number two is, before Outlands there's very little gear with mp5 on it, but tons of gear with spirit on it. Don't discard an item just because it's a spirit piece, if there's a useful stat for healing on as well, like int or spell power, get it.
Oh yeah, I know that. I should also be looking for cloth AND leather healing gear, since there's not a whole lot of caster leather before Outland, right?
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skribs
CH actually has a mana cost between that of LHW and HW. It's a very efficient spell
if more than one target need healing
. My recommendation is that at lower levels, as off-spec, you use HW for efficient heals (let the tank drop a bit before using it) and use LHW for quick heals (without Healing Way or Imp HW your HW will be slightly more HPM but less HPS than LHW). Mana Spring totem can be very useful, I believe moreso than Healing Stream.
My friend is levelling his shaman elemental along with my prot warrior, and we do mostly instances. He goes in as healer, and between casting heals on me manages to do a few hundred DPS (he'll average 270 through a whole run at level 38), and he never needs a mana break because of his insane regen. This is compared with my disc priest who only heals and needs a mana break every few pulls.
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