Shaman Talents Released!

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Or you're spam-healing a flagcarrier in Warsong in a team with either no other healers, or healers that aren't healing because they're "dps spec."

Or you're throwing shocks, lightning bolts, and totems around while healing yourself and others.

Or any other many situations.  Shamans have innately small mana pools and horrible mana efficiency.  Maybe epics alleviate this, but my experience is in tier0, not tier5000.

I don't recall my healing waves ever reaching 2500+.  And I know for a fact that an Earth Shock crit will hit for at least 1000, not 600.  Add an automatic 9% melee crit boost on your next attack following that spell crit, and I'm thinking EM might become more popular or at least AS popular as NS, especially now that it's on the same three-minute cooldown.
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Shock crits break 1000 if you have the talent, yes. If not, probably they don't very often.