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Feb. 18th, 2010 09:46 pm... I need an icon of my shaman. ♥_♥
It is, however, a little annoying to have two specs that I'm trying to gear for. Raidwise, healing is my primary spec, which is why almost all of my badgers* are going for healy gear and stuff. Which is good for healing (I finally am equipped entirely in ilvl 200+, even if my chestpiece is cloth ffs) but not so much for dpsing (my dps chest is a blue ilvl 183, pants are 200 but still blue, rings are 174, etc, and gearing is painfully slow).
[* not real badgers.]
I actually have found, odd as it is, that I prefer healing to dpsing, especially in five-man random groups. I mean, yes, there's the whole thing where I have to keep everyone alive (and in random five-mans there is generally only one healer), and there's a pass/fail metric associated with that; but people dying is not always the healer's fault. And there's no absolute scale, the way there is with dps: if you don't hit X amount of dps, you aren't doing your job, but if you don't do X amount of healing, it could just be because that much healing wasn't needed.
It can be a bit frustrating not having instacast heals. I have one way of doing instacast (Nature's Swiftness, which makes the next healing spell instant), but it's on a two-minute cooldown. Great for emergency use, not so much for standard healing. And I do have one HoT that I don't use often enough, but the rest of my healing spells take over a second, which is a darn long time in combat. (I swear a third of the time I'm casting pre-emptive healing just in case my target gets whomped between when I start and when I finish.)
I am thinking of doing up some macros. ( macros are fun! )
(did I mention I <3 my shaman?)
It is, however, a little annoying to have two specs that I'm trying to gear for. Raidwise, healing is my primary spec, which is why almost all of my badgers* are going for healy gear and stuff. Which is good for healing (I finally am equipped entirely in ilvl 200+, even if my chestpiece is cloth ffs) but not so much for dpsing (my dps chest is a blue ilvl 183, pants are 200 but still blue, rings are 174, etc, and gearing is painfully slow).
[* not real badgers.]
I actually have found, odd as it is, that I prefer healing to dpsing, especially in five-man random groups. I mean, yes, there's the whole thing where I have to keep everyone alive (and in random five-mans there is generally only one healer), and there's a pass/fail metric associated with that; but people dying is not always the healer's fault. And there's no absolute scale, the way there is with dps: if you don't hit X amount of dps, you aren't doing your job, but if you don't do X amount of healing, it could just be because that much healing wasn't needed.
It can be a bit frustrating not having instacast heals. I have one way of doing instacast (Nature's Swiftness, which makes the next healing spell instant), but it's on a two-minute cooldown. Great for emergency use, not so much for standard healing. And I do have one HoT that I don't use often enough, but the rest of my healing spells take over a second, which is a darn long time in combat. (I swear a third of the time I'm casting pre-emptive healing just in case my target gets whomped between when I start and when I finish.)
I am thinking of doing up some macros. ( macros are fun! )
(did I mention I <3 my shaman?)