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Hyperspacerebel
As a hardcore raid-healer I might be tempted to agree with you, however when it comes to single target spam-healing, with all the haste we're packing, healing wave looks better and better. I love beating out holy paladins during thadius (rip, hw, hw, ch, hw, hw, rip, etc). But that's just my preference, if you find yourself never using it, go ahead and take the totems....although that is more of a pvp talent.
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Cordimus
I really like Healing Wave - it's nice to pop off 20k heals.
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Novak
Depends on your role in raids.
I'm never assigned to heal tanks. No sense for me to keep that talent (Or healing way).
If you do heal the tanks (Or do 5mans a lot), it sure is nice.
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Avandare
LHW is very mana inefficient and shouldnt be used by any resto specced shaman in PvE (it gets only half of your spellpower bonus).
More detail please. I used a crit LHW build pre 3.1 and found it to be very effective. Never ran out of mana because of the water shield procs either.
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niemassacre
More detail please. I used a crit LHW build pre 3.1 and found it to be very effective. Never ran out of mana because of the water shield procs either.
More detail? Are you sure?
Check this out than
http://elitistjerks.com/f47/t24796-shaman_restoration/
& this
http://www.wowwiki.com/Lesser_Healing_Wave
And this about spell coefficients:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Spell_power#Spell_coefficients
And this is about why spamming LHW is bad for your Mp pool:
http://elitistjerks.com/f47/t15391-five_second_rule/
Cant really be more precise. (you may feel that wowwiki info is a little outdated, but its still correct to some extent).
You're right, in some ways, that LHW spamming isn't as efficient (nor does it achieve the same HPS) and HW w/ Healing Way, but some of your info is incorrect or misleading. Nothing you quoted actually says LHW is bad - it notes that it's much better when coupled with the glyph. The problem (sometimes) with HW is that lots of the healing tends to be overhealing, and not useful. Especially in larger raids, where you have other healers beating you to the heal.
You generally don't need to try too hard to stay outside the 5SR as a Shaman, since we don't get the same incredible OO5SR regen that Druids/Priests get (and theirs was nerfed in 3.1, too).
Also, just to note, LHW gets a base 80.5% of your SP, talented up to 90.5% with Tidal Waves.
A good Shaman knows how to weave all his heals together to be most effective - sometimes that calls for HW, sometimes LHW, somtimes CH, etc. And some Shamans just become more comfortable and familiar using certain spells over others. I wouldn't categorically tell someone looking to improve to use or not to use a certain spell - give them all a try, see what works for you. You're probably going to be your best if you learn to master using all of them.
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niemassacre
The question stays, whether or whether not to spec into shorter cast of HW. Also some people stated here that they almost never use HW, which according to niemassacre's statement shouldnt occur.
I'll be the first to admit I don't use HW enough. I don't have mana issues right now, on most fights (progressing through Ulduar), and I get lazy and don't try to anticipate damage and queue up big HWs to hit right after. But I have seen Shamans who do, and they are better healers than I am. They are more flexible and more apt to dealing with dynamic scenarios that are more easily handled by using all your spells. That said, only relying on HW can also hinder you - not every heal needs to be 10K. I find that LHW is great for spot-healing (especially in spread-out encounters where Chain Heal isn't as effective), and for dealing with "burst-y" tank damage, where I don't want to let him or her take enough damage for me to use a HW because of the risk of a large burst coming in just as I get a HW off.
As far as the original question of IHW vs. Totemic Focus, I really don't see the purpose of TF unless you're making a raid-healing only spec for some reason. You're saving a very small amount of mana every 5 minutes of a fight.
If you lay down Stoneskin, Flametongue, Mana Spring and WoA (four common totems for Resto Shamans), you'll save under 400 mana for each full rotation. Divided over five minutes, that's less than 7 MP5. Granted, some fights might call for more totem casts, but even if you cast a full set of totems every minute, I would still say this is a waste. If you were running out of mana before, you're still going to run out - we're talking about significantly less than the cost of one healing spell here.
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66520
My LHW cast time with tidal waves is 0.54s.
It doesn't matter how fast your LHW is in Tidal Waves, only how low your GCD is.
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