Insane Tsulong Healing (Resto Shaman)

[Aegeus]

I did not find this, but I have tried it and can confirm it works (Our Guild did it last night for our first 25m Tsulong kill).

I'll share the post I found on the MMO Champion forums.

So how is it done? Our new resto shaman turns out to be a smart fellow. He found out that pets, while not counting as targets for Ascendance healing, still take healing from it. I think that requires a bit better explanation:

Ascendance duplicates healing and splits it between targets within 20 yards of the shaman. If no one is in range of the shaman and he casts a heal, he will simply heal himself for the same amount. If one other player is in range, that healing is divided by 2, but heals both targets. Let's say our Shaman heals Tsulong for 6 million. Ascendance heals another 6 million, which is split evenly between the Shaman and Tsulong, so 3 million each. Now, since pets don't count as targets, but still take the healing, the pets will ALSO take 3 million healing each. Coupled with Ancestal Guidance and Guardian Spirit, you get idiotic healing on Tsulong.

Ancestral Guidance takes 40% of the Shaman's healing done on targets and heals 3 injured targets within 40 yards. As a hunter, I can summon up to 31 pets at the same time (12 per snake trap (readiness = 2 snake traps), 2 dire beasts also with Readiness, my main pet (+1) and Stampede (+4)). Additionally, I specced every pet Tenacity for 40% increased healing, and obviously used Spirit Bond for another 10% (stacking multiplicatively, yielding a total of 54% increased healing). In the kill above, I didn't use Dire Beasts, but I had double Snake Trap and Stampede up.

Anyway, using the example before, and for simplicity's sake, 30 pets without any increased healing taken on them:

Shaman heals Tsulong for 6 million. Tsulong, the Shaman and 30 pets take 3 million healing each. That's 96 million healing. 40% of that (38.4 million) will jump to 3 other targets; Tsulong and 2 raid members. But wait, Tsulong has Guardian Spirit from a holy priest (which also resulted in a higher initial healing, without it the 6 million heal would be less than 4 million), so the actual healing from one 6 million heal with 30 pets up is 38.4m * 1.6 = 61.44m.

The funny part is, our shaman actually messed up a bit and didn't get to heal for as much as he could have. I've personally seen a log from a russian guild whose Resto Shaman also did quite a lot of healing, but that's cause he healed several times in the region of ~15-16 million. That would basically have been ~180m in one heal, had they used this strategy with 30 pets

[Mantycore]

Impressive! And you forgot the Dark Harvest ability from warlock which shortly improve healing by 25% during 12sec.
Moreover if you still heave the Dog Wistle (trinket from the old monastery), you can summon another pet for 10min (since MoP he isn't able to attack). He has 284k HP on my character and can count as another pet. In addition to that, you don't have to keep the trinket on you after summoning the dog, The pet will stay with you if you change back for your true trinket =)

However I think this exploit will be fixed for the next reset, nobody will be able to try it.

[Aegeus]

Interesting additions, will try it if it's not been fixed on Wednesday :P

[Alshakar]

You could also try to use Barov Servant Caller - Item - World of Warcraft (in case you kept it) or Cooking School Bell - Item - World of Warcraft. And if it's just about the number of pets Druids could spec their Treants, Demonology-Locks use their Imps etc, but i think that may be common sense.

[Dalemaunder]

My friend is also a resto shaman and discovered that ruthers also counts... Use the ruthers macro and you have some ridiculous healing.

[Dalemaunder]

Good job, you can copy + paste, your mother must be so proud.

[Watcher]

Good job, you can copy + paste, your mother must be so proud.

It's a spambot, already reported him just ignore it

[chitoh]

My guild tried this last night, we couldn't get the healing to actually go to Tsulong but it would instead just be ~600m overhealing. I know we did something wrong but I cannot figure it out. We tried making sure everyone was out of the 20 yrd range that is AG + Asc but something still wasn't right. Any suggestions?

[iispyderii]

This has been hotfixed. All the healing goes to overheals.
Shaman in a 25 man did 1.3 billion on overheal.

[Caveguy]

I'm just wondering, if this was truly hotfixed about a day ago, how come a guild like this WoW Guild snuffed @ Mal'Ganis :: WoWProgress - World of Warcraft Rankings managed to kill the boss roughly 7 hours ago?

[iispyderii]

I'm just wondering, if this was truly hotfixed about a day ago, how come a guild like this WoW Guild snuffed @ Mal'Ganis :: WoWProgress - World of Warcraft Rankings managed to kill the boss roughly 7 hours ago?

EU? I'm only on US. And it's well known that hotfixes in US don't go in the same time as hotfixes in EU.

[Caveguy]

EU? I'm only on US. And it's well known that hotfixes in US don't go in the same time as hotfixes in EU.

The hotfixes went live on Wednesday morning, they killed him like 10 hours after that.

[Razzerlol1]

So it's fixed or not?

[Sosila]

The hotfixes went live on Wednesday morning, they killed him like 10 hours after that.

WoW Guild snuffed @ Mal'Ganis :: WoWProgress - World of Warcraft Rankings

They are EU, so how does it still work? Here the Log
Dashboard - 16-01 20:04 - snuffed - World of Logs