-Chainheal spamming is no fun
-Being back to chainheal spamming for a good chunk of WotLK would be horrible
-In BC many very mediocre resto shamans could choose any T6 guild just because they were shamans.
-And even if many shamans won’t like me for that: spamming chainheal is very easy. Not comparable to druids who never drop their HoTs on tanks. Not comparable to priests who really make use of their wide range of healing spells.

Only time will tell what’s going to happen. 3.0.8 won’t change a thing because of fairly easy content. I’m very curious what the first hard instance is going to bring regarding healing class balance. And I hope raidwide bloodlust and totems bring enough to the table to prevent shaman stacking.

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The thing is.. one of your points in your article regarding haste is that faster heals = prevent deaths = safer. However, in our current 25 man teams there are many instant abilities and faster methods to save a tank/player.

Hence… I’m suspicious about this stat and what it “really” brings.

What I do fear is that some fights will rely on Shamans to get us through. Blizzard aims for a system where lacking one spec/class won’t necessarily give you a penalty but in this case I fear they made an exception. I don’t see 2 holy priests, 2 druids and 2 paladins get through heavy AoE fights as easily as a shaman team. Then again.. the same problem existed before the nerf with holy priests and (to lesser extent) druids.

Now, regarding the haste part of the article.. I always find that haste is a dubious stat for a healer. When it comes to healing, and producing high HPS, then spell power is a very viable stat. Next to increasing HPS it increases efficiency as well. On top of that, Chainheal scales better with spell power than many healing spells in the game. How does haste balance out with that? 45% of your chainheal is smartheal. Haste does not make smartheal more efficient. So why this focus on haste?

Now here’s a tricky part.. I don’t invest in haste and this makes my major spell, the greater heal, a 2.5s cast. Now.. it’s hard enough to get an efficient heal out of it as is but when Shamans start stacking haste I can see notable increase in my overheal and decrease in my efficiency. Oh yeah, the shaman numbers go up alright… but not because they are doing more healing… but because they are sniping other people’s heals. So my question would be:
When speeding up your smartheal, what are you really increasing? Your HPS or your position on the meter?

We killed Malygos with 2 holy priests, a disc priest,resto druid ,1 shaman and pallies.
We went back the next week with 1 holy priest, 1 disc,3 shaman and pallies. It was so much harder!

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With this nerf we should at least be allowed to wear mail, or have blood lust of some sort, so we’d actually still have spots in the raid (as far as raid healing goes).

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Spell haste affects the GCD down to 1 second. I don’t believe this has changed.

More info @ http://www.wowwiki.com/Casting_speed#Global_Cooldown

I don’t know at what point – with Heroism- your GCD would cap out. I’ll leave that to a mathematically inclined Shaman.