Guide to heal as a Shaman! (LVL 80 Ofcourse)

[[Ban Hammer]]

FEDERAL BUREAU OF MOO's SHAMAN HEALING GUIDE!

Hey guys - Federal Bureau of Moo's back again with a new selfwritten guide for ya ;> This time we will talk about shaman's and their great healing.


SPEC:
So, first of all i would like talking about their specs. For a shaman pve healer there is only one spec to go, and that's raid healing. Here is a link to my favorite spec:

Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft

Your job lets say on Patchwerk(can be any boss tbh) is to wait for the MT to go in, once he is in use "Riptide". You should now check every members status and see if they need heal, if 1 guy needs heal - use "Lesser Healing Wave". If more than 2 needs it - use "Chain Heal".

Use "Healing Wave" on MT/OT. Incase he is on low hp, then spam him with "Lesser Healing Wave" until his hp is atleast 70%.

Ofcourse this can vary alittle and you might have to be creative with some lesser healings and stuff like that if needed ;>

GLYPHS:
Seeing Glyphs as an important thing since they help maximizing your spec fully, i've created a full glyph system that matches the spec i like to use. Here it goes:

• Glyph of Lesser Healing Wave (Major) - Your Lesser Healing Wave heals for 20% more if the target is also affected by your Earth Shield.

• Glyph of Healing Wave (Major) - Your Healing Wave also heals you for 20% of the healing effect when you heal someone else.

• OR

• Glyph of Chain Heal (Major) - Your Chain Heal heals one additional target.

• Glyph of Water Mastery (Major) - Increases the passive mana regeneration of your Water Shield spell by 30%.

• Glyph of Water Shield (Minor) - Increases the number of charges on your Water Shield spell by 1

• Glyph of Water Breathing (Minor) - Your Water Breathing spell no longer requires a reagent

• Glyph of Renewed Life (Minor) - Your Reincarnation Spell no longer costs a reagent.

Ofcourse you can vary out the glyphs to fit your play style, but this is what i would choose. I'm sure you might wanna know why i picked those glyphs, and sure i will tell you now ;> The lesser healing wave glyph is a must for LHW spam for tank healing. As for the Healing Wave vs. Chain heal it is a toss up based on your play style. If you find that you don’t cast HW that much then you might want to take the increase of CH, but having an ability that heals myself without having to think about it is a win in my book.
As for the minor glyphs it is always a toss up. I find the underwater breathing glyph to be very convenient and that reincarnation doesnt cost a reagent also helps me alot. As for the water shield, it is probably negligible, but the less I have to cast it and waste a global cool down the better.

ENCHANTS:
Well, enchants are hell important - and can maximize your sp with up to 200 if you focus it alittle, here's what i would do regarding enchants.

Head: The 30+ SP and 8mp5(I think that's it) From Wyrmcrest Accord is every healers number one, its a must to pick this if you are revered with WA.

Shoulders: The Sons of Hodir allows you to buy a simply awesome one when you hit Honored, and an even better one when you hit exalted. the honored enchant gives you 18+SP and 4mp5, and the exalted enchant gives you 24+ SP and 6mp5. So deffo worth getting.

Back: Tbh, i would go with the 22 haste one. Haste is always a good stat to take and i do not see alot of better ones at this very moment. But it can vary ofcourse and pick whatever you like ;>

Chest: 10 stats is always a winner, handy for every class and certainly for the shaman aswell, if you dont like that you can also go with 275+ mana on chest.

Bracers: 30 spellpower. Nuff said, only thing that is good to pick - and it aint very expensive either ;>

Gloves: 28 spellpower aswell, always good to stack spellpower with your enchants, and you will see that it can help you alot.

Legs:Only thing you should take is 50 SP 30 sta for more survival and the SP stacking.

Boots: 6mp5, mp5 is an important thing to stack for a shaman. Even tho you got both totems and shield - mp5 will always help you.

Weapon: 50 or 63 SP. Depends how your economy is.

GEAR AND STATS:
Well, as a shaman you should prolly go after these stats:
Intellect
Spell Power
Mp5
Haste

and in this order SP>Int>Haste>Mp5.
All of the things is important to stack, but since you already got water shield and stuff, mp5 aint as nescessery as the other ones and can be stacked alittle less.

How to obtain the gear:

Well, i would first look at my stats, how are they? If your SP is below 1400 - mp5 below 200(with shield and while casting). I would do some normals to get the quest gear changed out for some dungeon blues.

Once i archieved that i would start by doing the easy heroics(UK, AN, Nexus) for whatever gear becomes handy(Especially that mace from Nexus hc). I would also go do VoA and VoA heroic(Vault of Archavon) since its an incredibly easy instance with awesome drops.

Once your healing is on 1500 and mp5 on more than 200 while casting, you can focus on the medium heroics(Everything but HoL, UP and HoS should do it) and go to OS norm/hc(Obsidian Sanctum).

After you've archieved that, and got bored of it/no more drops for you then your healing should prolly be 1700 or 1800+ (and 300mp5 while casting). Now its time to do Naxx normal. Complete that with a guild or a pug(if your server is that good) and you should get a few more drops and some boss experience. After that is done you can progress to hc naxx which is alittle harder but same boss tactics. So shouldnt be that much of a problem. Ofcourse you can go Malygos 10/25 man aswell but that requires a few good pieces of gear and knowledge on how to play your class.

GEMS:

For gems, i would suggest this:

For yellow: 16 intellect(Brilliant Autumn's Glow)
For red: 19 spellpower(Runed Scarlet Ruby)
For blue: 9 spellpower and 3mp5(Royal Twilight Opal)
For meta: 21 int chance on spells to restore mana(Insightful Earthsiege Diamond)

Those are the ones that i find best for a resto shaman, ofcourse you could use other sockets - but this is just my 5 cents on how to do it ;>

ADDONS:
As in my other priest guide, i got a few good addons for you, those will be listed here:

VisualHeal - spares you alot of mana because you can see whoever heals your target and if you or them casts the spell first.

Grid - a nice addon showing your raid, and how much hp they need.

DBM - Every proper raider should have this baby. Nuff said.

This should be the 3 prio addons for healing/raiding. If you got those you have already taken a long step into becoming an awesome raider.

THE END
I think that this is it, i will add whatever i miss and if i find new tricks on how to play a shaman healer.

Thanks for reading, take care and baibai!

[Xeya]

I like it.

[stormcrowsix]

This guide does not tell you how to heal as a shaman at ll.
You has healspells. You clickhealspells when on MT. If not click chainheal...

Thats not really telling people how to heal imo

i like your description of the enchants and glyphs, a bit more indepth would be nice, and I also miss a lot of info about gear and gems.

Decent as a starter, not complete enough to be called a "guide"
+1 for the effort, hope you update this one a bit more

[Poglia]

My main is a Resto Shaman, and I can say that this guide sucks.

First of all it's outdated: Glyph of Renewed Life doesn't increase your stats since patch 3.0.8. I bet the whole guide is a copy-paste.

Second, you don't really tell how to heal. This is how to heal:

1) Have Earth Shield always up on tank and Water Shield always up on you.
2) The first heal used on the tank should be Riptide.
3) Always prefer Healing Wave as heal if only the tank is damaged.
4) You should Lesser Healing Wave only:

- If the tank has low health and you need to heal him quiclky.
- When healing people different than the tank.
- When healing yourself.

5) Use Chain Heal only if more than one player is damaged.

This is only a basic guide of course, I can provide more details if needed.

Third, MP5 is more important than haste. For Heroics and Raids you should first reach at least 300-350 MP5 with Water Shield, then work on Haste.

Fourth, the build is nice but should include at least 1 point in Healing Way, and of course Improved Earth Shield.

Fifth, best glyphs are Lesser Healing Wawe, Water Mastery and Earthliving for Heroics and Chain Heal, Earthliving and Lesser Healing Wave for Raids. Glyph of Water Shield (Minor) is mandatory if you have Improved Water Shield.

Sixth, Spirit ftw? No, Shamans don't need Spirit.

[[Ban Hammer]]

Sorry aye, missed a few things out because i were in a hurry - will add more things to it - and no. It aint copy/paste - selfwritten.

EDIT: Added gems section - and more detailed where to gear up guide ;> More will come.
EDIT: Added a more detailed section of how to heal (thanks Poglia for the description, found it good and will work out the critics). More will come!

Incase some of you has more critics of anything i can do better - post them and lets see if i agree with you ;> I'm not the "awesome healing guy" as a shaman, but i healed at tbc and i do somehow know how to heal, and this is just my idea of shaman healing and how to do it.

[Flawl]

I am a shaman aswell. Not resto, though, but enhancement.
Still I was thinking to go with Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft this spec instead. Only thing I did was moving 3 points from Healing Grace to Elemental Weapons. I think I'd do that. To be honest you won't need Healing Grace for PvE. Atleast I have never really seen a pro resto shaman with that talent.

If I'm wrong, please feel free to correct me.

[zutto]

:| i have 80 shaman, main spec is ele -> ele has no mana problems at all [spells cost like nothing afaik O.o]

but sometimes i roll resto when i am bored to heal some random Hc's..

the problem is my mana.. how am i supposed to keep it up 24/7?
mana spring totem does not recover enough to be usefull
mana tide has cd...
water shield is up 24/7 but doesnt help that much
some tips to be on high mana without mana potions all the time ?

[[Ban Hammer]]

:| i have 80 shaman, main spec is ele -> ele has no mana problems at all [spells cost like nothing afaik O.o]

but sometimes i roll resto when i am bored to heal some random Hc's..

the problem is my mana.. how am i supposed to keep it up 24/7?
mana spring totem does not recover enough to be usefull
mana tide has cd...
water shield is up 24/7 but doesnt help that much
some tips to be on high mana without mana potions all the time ?

Have you been putting 3/3 points in "Improved Water Shield" because that spells gives you a chance to consume one of your orbs when casting and granting you the mana for it, which is a HELL loads of mana ;>

If you did that - and it still doesnt help i would suggest getting more mana and mp5 from both gear and gems ;>

My 5 cents

[zutto]

Have you been putting 3/3 points in "Improved Water Shield" because that spells gives you a chance to consume one of your orbs when casting and granting you the mana for it, which is a HELL loads of mana ;>

If you did that - and it still doesnt help i would suggest getting more mana and mp5 from both gear and gems ;>

My 5 cents

yep its 3/3.
500mp5 atm without water shield :/

[[Ban Hammer]]

yep its 3/3.
500mp5 atm without water shield :/

Strange ;p Go stack mana then - because with 500 mp5 and still getting low on mana in hc's it shouldnt be possible ;>

[skiter]

I'm a level 80 resto shammy... general knowledge at least I though may help others.
Not trying to bash you just saying. gonna rep yeah for it.