Shaman resto spec

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#hZ0xZx0euIxoxkdIRt

is the basic form.

You have 12 points left to spend somewhere.
Options are:

Ancestral Healing
Tidal Force
Healing Way

Alternately you can get better
Strength totem
Imp Shields
Elemental Weapons
Thundering strikes
Sham focus (for interupts)


Elitist Jerks

Another point in imp chain heal, then 5 in the crit in enhancement and 3 in improved sheilds. And i go for ghost wold aswell coz i <3 it.

coeus wrote:

Another point in imp chain heal, then 5 in the crit in enhancement and 3 in improved sheilds. And i go for ghost wold aswell coz i <3 it.

yeah those are all valuable. Although the 3 in shields is only useful if your main focus is the main tank, other than that its useful for the water orbs butI prefer the water shield from resto tree.

Ty asked me about one Shaman that stacked haste gems. So I wondered what was new...

In a nutshell according to Elitistjerks.com (http://elitistjerks.com/f47/t24796-shaman_restoration/)

The soft haste cap for resto shamans is 1269 haste rating (38.7%).

Default Values
Spell Power 1.0
Mp5 1.0
Intellect 0.6
Haste rating 1.5
Crit rating 0.8

So Haste turns out to be the best investement according to math...

Still I got a feeling it is also about how you play the game. And I just heal based on slower bigger numbers rather then on small fast ones... But if we think we should go haste I am willing to think things over and see what it means if I start gemming for haste in terms of loosing spellpower and intellect...

Brinsonar wrote:

But if we think we should go haste I am willing to think things over and see what it means if I start gemming for haste in terms of loosing spellpower and intellect...

Been playing with the numbers for me and found the following numbers:

Spellpower
Gems : 25 + 12 + 15 + 19 + 23 + 12 = 106
Bonus : 5 + 9 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 29
Worst case: 135 sp

mp5
Gems : 5 + 5 + 8 + 5 + 8 + 5 = 31
Bonus : 4 + 2 = 6
Worst case: 37 mp5

Intellect
Gems : 16 + 10 + 16 = 42

Haste
11 gems times 20 haste.

Without any boosts
I loose 5,1% spellpower.
I loose 6,2% mp5.
I loose 3,0% intellect (so some spellpower and mp5 aswell).
BUT!!!!! I gain 94,4% haste...

Hmmm... What to do, what to do....

So in actualy fact you would loose very little and gain a lot of haste.

But then again whatever you would loose wouldnt be a difference really:

Loss of spell power would be fine with because you cast a faster spell.
Mp5 wouldnt be needed so much if you have a high enough crit lvl from riptide.
Intellect is the only loss I can see because you would have less mana to play with and less crit from INT.

Typhuse wrote:

So in actualy fact you would loose very little and gain a lot of haste.

Well more or less... Been reading further and the best gemming is:

Red: [Reckless Ametrine] => spell + haste
Yellow: [Quick King's Amber] => haste
Blue: [Quick King's Amber] unless you need to meet the meta gem requirements. Then use [Energized Eye of Zul] => haste + mp5

Unfoprtunately Iv again being wrong with my shaman, this will be costly.

Atm my shammy stands at 971 haste, currently around 29% haste rating.

What it needs to be is 38.7% which is 1269 haste,

Bearing in mind 5% from WoA and swift retribution aura, (3%).

So only 30%.

Regemming is in order then.

your joking right. reGemming for that small %. not gonna be that big of deal. If you get some more 264 upgrades you'll be on it soon enough. Thought we agreed it was a bit overrated.