The increased range, glyph, and T10 set bonus mean this spell is stronger than ever and still your go-to healing spell. On Chain heal: Its still king and the #1 reason why you exist as a healer. But as said above, healing meters are beyond pointless.

Paladins and Druids will always beat Resto Shaman on the Healing charts. thats just got to be because of bads, not cos i am uber cos i really aint :P but then i also top / near top dps meters as shadow spec (ie alt off-spec). The important things are:ДЎ) Did you / everyone else enjoy themselvesД«TW i top meters on my priest which is an alt. In general, i agree with the sentiments that you should not be topping healing meters with your level of gear, but at the same time (as many people would echo) healing meters mean very little. However, this does not take into account 'intelligent' healing - whats the point of healing up a group of ranged to max with a CH when the tank dies? Obviously as gear levels go up, output increases, but you could be artifically increasing (or bads are decreasing their) throughput Is there a disc priest and are his absorbs being taken into account? etc etc etc - in general healing = output *throughput - more SP /crit = more output, more haste / mana / faster healing = more throughput. Have you looked in detail as to why you are top? What are the healing assingments? If there is no / bad druid / holy priest then your CH could be the only AoE healing and thats why you are dominating. Sorry but i'm at work at the moment and therefore have my analyst hat on. I always thought a druid would be easy to heal as. I have found myself really enjoying playing the shaman, I was just wondering is it really that easy to heal as a shaman. I should not have been #1, even I knew that. I laughed and said yeah, we need better heals. I asked to see the healing meter and I was #1. After 2 wipes, the raid leader started kicking the low DPS and heals. I went into 25 man VoA right after the new boss came out and was almost kicked before it started because of GS. Not exactly my rotation, but you get the point. But with a shammy, it seems, Chain heal, Chain Heal, earth Shield, chain heal, does the job. I have healed as a pally, which I despise and a priest. I have played this game since 04, but this is my first shaman. Now, my question, is it OP or what? I do not consider myself 'Pro' by no means. But when I come in second on healing in a 25 man with people in mostly 245+ gear, that question ends. When I get into the raids people ask why I am in the raid with shitty gear and tell people I should be kicked because my GS is way to low. Now, I still have a bunch of iLvL 200 gear. Well now I have people whispering me wanting me to heal for ICC that I grouped with before. So the past week I have been healing in PuG raids and Heroics. I have healed with a priest before, but a long time ago. I just hit 80 feb 2nd and bought all the BoE gear iLvL 200 to ilvl 264 that I could, specd resto and started healing.

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