Marogar

[TeaLeaf]

The app that just came in is for the resto shaman that I spoke to some weeks ago - I knew I remembered the name from somewhere and last night I found the in-game mail from him that I had saved.     At the time he said he could not make Tuesdays, but the app now says he can.   I think we need to question the vability of this for the long-term as iirc his availability was only due to school stopping?     Worth asking the question.

Spec needs changing too:
Tier 1:
Stone Bulwark Totem (60 sec CD)
or
Astral Shift (2min CD but bigger survival cd).

Tier 6:
Primal Elementalist (using macro to maintain high uptime for the Reinforce or Empower buffs)

Glyphs:
Glyph of Totemic Recall (use it to help cast Healing Stream Totem every 30 sec and recall immediately after last tick for no mana cost)

Arguably there is more to change but these are the major ones.   Gemming is something he would need to find out about by going oom.

[JonnyAppleSeed]

Im happy to give him a trial .....

We will feel a bit of pain as he gears up but with most fights needing 2.5 heals to be stable we should be ok. If we give him the roll of looking after the raid he will not need to sit out many fights

[TeaLeaf]

PM sent following last night.

Hi Marogar

Hope you enjoyed your first first raid with us last night, despite having to sit for a period during the Heroic learning due to lack of HP.   You got some good upgrades and hopefully got to see how we do some of these fights.   It's too early to start going through the rotation and healing style as I am sure you are still trying to find your way again in raid healing, so I'll just try to give you some ideas to think about that might help.

Enchants
I noticed you have a +crit enchant on your cloak.    Obviously you'll do better with +int, especially as you reforge out of crit elsewhere so it seems slightly contradictory to then enchant for it!

Gems
You are missing 2 x Serpent's Eye, so you can boost your stats by plugging those into your current gear for an extra +320 Int.

I'm not sure how you are finding your mana in raids, but you seem to me to be a little low on the regen side, mainly due to sticking +Int gems into every socket.   I know Int is your strongest stat, but it needs to be balanced with regen - oom healers don't heal well!   As you are also short of the 12.5% haste soft cap why not have a think about use of Energized Wild Jade for some yellow slots and purified imperial amethyst for the red slots?    By my calculations if you regem like this:

Chest 2xRed --> 2xEnergized = -0 Int (replaced by gemming 2 x Red Serpent's Eye's eslewhere), +440 Spi, +320 haste
Belt 3xRed --> 1xRed, 1xEnergized, 1xPurified = -280 Int, +440 Spi, +160 haste
Boots 1xRed --> 1xEnergized = -160 Int, +220 Spi, +160 Haste

Total changes:
Intellect: -440
Spirit: +1,100
Haste: +640

The lost intellect will hardly be noticed and in any case will be quickly replaced by new higher ilevel gear and the improved regen & haste will help massively with throughput.

Haste
You currently have 4455 current haste, which becomes 5095 with the above regems.   This meets the raid buffed 12.5% soft cap and puts you within (probably) one upgrade of reaching the 25% soft cap (5676) if you use Ancestral Swiftness instead of Elemental Mastery.   The 25% haste cap is important as you get not only the 12.5% additional ticks of Earthliving Weapon, Healing Rain and Riptide, but also a second additional Riptide tick which in 10 man is really important.   Without Ancestral Swiftness you'll need to reach 8085 haste for the 25% soft cap, so it's worth thinking about in terms of how you gem and gear up.

Talent Build
I've already mentioned the 25% haste cap and therefore the choice between Ancestral Swiftness and Elemental Mastery.    AS gives a nice passive haste boost plus and emergency heal, whereas Elemental Mastery tends only to be used to reach an additional tick of Healing Tide so is of potentially more limited use imo.   Have a think about it!

Hope this helps.

[JonnyAppleSeed]

Gone ..:blink:....

badge removed

[TeaLeaf]

What a waste of frikkin time :angry: