Category Archives: Shaman

There’s this patch on the PTR and it’s driving me crazy!

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As my regular readers know, I’ve went to work full time!  Yay!  However, this leaves me with lots of obligation and very little time.  Boo!  I will be taking my Guides down until I have time to update them, however, I will leave some great links up for the various healing blogs being written out there!  If you write a healing blog that you’d like shared, please let me know!

I will leave my farming/cooking guide up for now, as *most* of the info it contains is not going to be outdated when the patch drops!

While I do NOT plan to stop writing entirely at this time, my posts are going to become even less frequent as a result of little time and minimal time healing this expansion thus far.  I do plan to update my guides and have them back up once the patch hits and there are resources to link to (and I have time to actually put them together!)

My Healer Resource Guide as is:

http://healingmains.com/guides/healer-resources/

We are always looking for more resources, so if you’d like to be included, OR know a source that would be a nice addition, please let me know in the comments!

LFM Resto Shaman and Mistweaver Monk Bloggers!

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I am looking to update my guide sections over the next couple of weeks!  However, I am lacking in Resto Shaman and Mistweaver Monk bloggers!  If you are, or know any shaman or monk bloggers who would like to be a part of my guide, please have them contact me (or leave their link in my comments!).  If you happen to blog about other healing classes in wow, and would like to also be included, please let me know!

I will be converting my Elemental Shaman to Restoration over this week, and hopefully I will have a nice blog about it up before Christmas!

My new healer is max level…now…how do these buttons work?

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Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve gotten two of my alts to level 90…first my shaman, then my hunter.  Now my hunter is a gatherer and she was maxed specifically to gather.  My shaman on the other hand..well, I want to play her as a healer/dps…but the truth of the matter is I’ve never really done much healing on her.  What to do?  Well…currently I’m playing her as elemental to gather some gear.  But also I’ve got a few other things I’ve been doing to help me transition.

First, since I play another healing class that I’m quite familiar with, I can head over to  Cannot Be Tamed where Jasyla has compared the various healing spells of all the classes….I can learn to shaman by looking at the chart to see what spells compare to healing like a druid.  While it won’t teach me the nuances of the class, it will help me to start healing.  If you’ve never healed before, it will take more time to learn, but it will help you to figure out how to compare your spells to other classes.

Next I would head over to Icy-Veins to check out what most people are using for stat priorities and glyphs, as well as gemming…but while it can help me with quick glyph choices and such, I will head to Mr Robot to look at my reforging needs.  Generally I start with the recommended things, then I customize to my own play-style.  Both sites are great  for people like me who trust other people to do the math, and thus don’t need to know the equation, just the answers.

Lastly I also tend to go to the Class specific blog, in this case, I would head over to Life in Group 5.  While I like the quick, no nonsense ease of using generalized guide for getting my glyphs and such lined up, when I’m learning a class I find reading about the class by someone who plays it makes it easier to identify.  I also can read the comments to their blogs to see if others had the same questions as I may have.

If you are a new healer, having never healed at all before, the best way to learn is to honestly get out there and heal.  I’ve seen suggestions of hopping into pvp, where folks are used to dying, to learn how your spells work.  I have not tried that method, as all of my other healers were leveled as healers until at least level 85!

Who’s the best healer for the job?

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As someone who went from a shadow priest who’d never raided before, to co-leading a guild within the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, I’ve had my stumbling ground when it comes to deciding how to best approach the healing assignments in a fight.  And it was stumbling at first…I really didn’t know much about the other healing classes, and not only that, I was making my decisions base on the healing class, not the healer.  While healing today is much different than healing in Wrath, overall, some classes are suited to one role or the other.

Paladins are, in general, better suited to tank healing, they *can* successfully raid heal, but in general, they thrive better with tank healing.  Discipline priests are strong tank healers, but they lack the aoe of a holy priest.  Holy priests can be wonderful tank healers, so long as they aren’t also responsible for cranking out raid aoe healing at the same time…which can be said about all healing classes.  They can perform both roles, just not at the same time.  (I haven’t yet healed on my Monk, so I can’t really talk about the state of monk healing!)

More importantly though, is the play-style of the healer.  Some people are really great at tank healing (no matter their class) and others *coughs* Kurby *coughs* can’t focus on just one person and make much better raid healers.  Talking with your healing team is a good way to find out who may be suited to a particular role.  Also observation is key, if you’re trying to figure out how your team is going to work together, look at the logs and see who tends to focus and who tends to spread the love.  If your assigned tank healer spends most of their time healing the raid, and the other healers are healing the tanks, perhaps the assignments should be adjusted.  Don’t be rigid in your decisions if it isn’t working!

 

Guide Section Added

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We’ve added pages with links to the Mists of Pandaria Guides!

Gear Lists for Pre Raiding:
http://healingmains.com/mists-of-pandaria-gear-lists/

Guides for Healing after 5.0.4

http://healingmains.com/mists-of-pandaria-class-guides504/

Be sure to check there if you are looking for information on your healing class and/or gear going into Mists of Pandaria!  If you’ve got a gear list or guide you’d like to have featured, drop me an email at Eluna (at) healing mains (dot) com (without the spaces and with the symbols!) and I’ll get it added :-)

I do still plan on adding a guide of healer consumables and the mats needed for them in the near future!

Big thanks to the linked blogs/sites for publishing their content for us to view.  I do not own, nor claim to have contributed to any content linked.

 

Super Busy

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With my computer woes earlier this week, I’m super busy catching up on my school work and getting my kiddos ready for school next week, that means I’m delaying Guild Leader Perspective for another week (I know…LAME!).  I’m working super hard to keep everything in order here and it will become much easier once the kids start school next wednesday! (Yay!).

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I have no original content today, however, what I do have will be helpful for Shaman and Druid healers!  What is it I have you say?  How about a couple blogs about Mists of Pandaria gear!

First, over on Water Bender, Mist Weaver, Elzabeth has all sorts of gear lists for Shamans, including 5-mans, reputation and raid (10 man and raid finder both!) gear!  If you’re interested in Shaman healing gear for Mists of Pandaria, I suggest you head over there and check it out!

Next over on Tree Heals Go Woosh, Tzufit has put together a post about her SUPER EASY excell spreadsheet with current Mist of Pandaria gear, including where to get it for pre raiding.  Not only is the spreadsheet super easy, it’s super awesome, because it will show your total stats for the available gear, so you can plan for what to farm (or have crafted).  I’ve downloaded it and saved it right to my desktop for easy access!

While neither list are best in slot lists, nor do they claim to be, they are an excellent starting point for the beginning of the expansion, and I’ll be using them both!

What I don’t have are Priest, Paladin or Monk lists yet, though, I would guess that monks could probably get some use from the druid spreadsheet in a pinch.  If you know of any great Holy Paladin blogs, please let me know!  Any Healing blogs that are not already on my blog roll would be a wonderful asset to my reading list!  (And I do read every blog on my blog roll, I just don’t always have time to come online and comment, I promise!)

 

Ps:  Once I get a few more links, I’ll be making a special page for Gear lists links, if you have a gear list you’d like to be included, please feel free to send me a link at eluna (at) healing mains (dot) com [without the spaces and ect]