Brief Look at Resto Shaman in Cata Raids
So I’ve cleared all content on normal mode as Resto at the moment, for epic raid healing HPS to some Awesome tank healing (Nef10 I Heal the Onyxia Tank Solo).
I have to say that Resto Shaman is a very strong healer – if played and geared correctly.
At the moment gear wise you should reforge Crit and Mastery to HASTE. On Crit and Haste items you should reforge the CRIT to SPI.
Gem wise should be INT (Red Sockets) and INT+SPI (Blue Sockets) and INT+Haste (Yellow Sockets) with INT in Prismatic Sockets.
Generally speaking it’s impossible for me to OOM on Halfus, Magmaw and Omnitron. This is using the Telluric Currents talent, on Magmaw for example its VERY easy for me to regain in excess for 175k mana per “exposed” phase, meaning I can spam until the point of OOM, regen and spam again. Halfus for example has a static increased dmg debuf which means I can again bolt for over 10k mana back from a crit – this is like 20k mp5. Omnitron you have the puddles that increase your DMG (and give shitty mana regen) bolting in those gives you a good 7-9k mana backk too!
Of course we have to be efficient healers on the rest of the bosses, and any boss fight that’s constant moving is a really bad fight for us!
I will write articles on “hows best to heal” various raid bosses, and what the “Best Spec” I think is for that fight.
Resto shaman is very powerful in ideal raid healing situations at the moment, although Paladins and Holy Priests still continues to rape the meters. An example is my Holy Pala in 324 equipped, doing 12k HPS Overall on Halfus 10 – this isn’t even fully gemmed or enchanted!
Fingers crossed in time to come shamans will be buffed, or gear will level the healing out – though I doubt it.