Main Healing/Solo Healing as a Shaman

[swirly]

Mogo has 4 different sets of gear - casting gear, healing gear, hybrid gear and melee gear.

I actually think the differences you and I saw in healing difficulty Swirly are because I didn't even have 5 mans in the 5 man instances until Zul'Farrak (I think that was the first full 5 man I healed with Mogo).

Edit: Oh, and I also had the issue of seeing just how much easier most of the encounters were to heal as a priest.  :)
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I only used one gear set on my shaman. My blue goals were pretty similiar to the ones artega listed (mail helm though, not leather) and I used it for healing, tanking, or damage. : ) As a shaman tank I always found that the added healing helped more than anything else I could put on myself. I've said before that my shaman tanking style involves alot of healing though so maybe thats just a difference in playstlyle.

My group with my shaman actually didn't really start having warrior tanks till we were around 60. I spent alot of time doing both rolls with no backup which is probably why I ended up with my healing style of tanking. It was what was required as both main tank and main healer. : ) Overall I would say that I actually spent more time as a tank than a healer. Not that that is all I did, but I did do it more. Its kind of funny. I sometimes think that in instances where their aren't nature immune bosses, that shamans may be better tanks than warriors. We would have recap running and when my shaman tanked I would be taking 80-90% of the damage. When we had warriors tanking they would usually take (if they were decent ones) 60-70% of the damage. Even on Terenas its rare to see a warrior tank go above 70% damage taken I think. Some of this is because of pets and AOE and such, but I've always found it kind of interesting. I think its mainly because a warrior needs time to lock down a mob where as a shaman can shock things to pull and get good initial aggro. Course its kind of like people have said in other threads about druids tanking. The thing with warriors isn't that they can't be beat with aggro, its that they get so much more mitigation than others. Plate, +defense, +stam, etc. For 5 mans I sometimes question how much it is needed though. : )

As to the priest bit, one must remember that I did play a priest till 56 before I played my shaman. Means I didn't play her at the 60 instances (stopped at ST), but I do have some experience with priest healing. : ) Priests are definately easier when it comes to healing AOE and various other things.