05-28-2008, 05:08 PM
Quote:Oh she still heals them just fine. She always has been able to solo heal undergeared/undermanned/underleveled. It's just annoying that being deep in resto and still having healing be easier on the priest who isn't specced for healing. Priests just have more tools to use so it's easier.I haven't played a priest past level 20 or so (more and more, this is about the point where I start feeling less like playing a character) but this is definitely the impression I get whenever I get a chance to watch one of Avarice's priests. Especially in ZA, where the relatively small groups really let them show what they can do.
For a while I was torn on Shaman healing. I leveled from 58 to 70 as resto, (excluding a brief relapse into Enhancement) so a lot of that was instance healing. When I got to raids, it really felt like a step back (and still does), since where I have to manage the majority of keeping everyone's health up in 5-mans, raid healing assignments are a lot more straightforward and the skill part changes more from "healing skill" to "staying out of the fire skill." (This is a reason I really like Zul'Aman:))
On the other hand, I really am pretty glad that Resto Shamanism is pretty straightforward. It made it pretty easy to ease into the whole thing, and I don't have to face as much competition for spots as if I were a healing Paladin, Druid, or even Priest.:lol: At this point, I can't even really imagine going to other specs; I don't consider myself a great healer, but I'm certainly better at it than DPS, and I enjoy it more, even playing solo. (I've tried to respec for dailies, but it never really works out.)
I'm really looking forward to future Shaman changes and I hope that they open up the play styles a little more. But I've definitely come to be content with what I have (especially in PvP, which is consistently the sort of frantic, quick-decision-based play I really enjoy), and I think it'll stay that way.
Also, because Heroic Terrace came up in this thread: I really hated it for a while, it felt kind of cheap and (at least for Paladin/Shaman healers) relies more than other 5-mans on party members helping themselves some, which for some people, especially those who can heal themselves and may have been wearing a decent amount of spellpower *cough*, may have taken a while. It's really the only instance though that's still fun and exciting when you outgear it, and moreover the whole thing changes pretty drastically depending on your group setup. (I want to try an all-melee group sometime, but finding four others gutsy enough to try could be difficult.) I'm not really sure when wipes and near-wipes on Vexallus and Delrissa went from frustrating to entertaining, since that's pretty much the opposite of most fights, but any battle that's not just broken down into the same process for me every time, or that I can feel like I pretty much did my best and still barely scraped by, is one I can enjoy repeatedly.