Nether Vortices 15 badges on PTR

[Concillian]

Edit: I do know that since I'm tired of them screwing over shaman and I'm seeing more of it with the latest patch notes as well that I'm going to be making Taiza my main instead. She's been more of a hybrid character than Mogo has for a long time now. There have been some improvements to shaman (thank you current water shield), but it doesn't make up for everything else they've broken/made to feel broken by boosting other classes.

This is what I like least about the new regeneration model.

Basically paladins are pretty good because every heal oriented stat but + healing also adds to inside FSR longevity (MP5, Int, Crit)

With the change to mana regen, Priests and Druids get equal or better due to the spirit / int synergy.

Shaman get nothing from the change unless they are outside FSR due to no stat allowing regen in FSR. In the current patch, I think Shaman compare quite favorably, with water shield + mana trickle + mana tide + natural MP5 they have a comparable amount of regen to a priest. However, if the changes in 2.4 go live, shaman will need some talent somewhere to allow them some amount of regen inside FSR (either int related or % regen related).

The mechanics of chain heal still make Shaman very valuable in raids though. Similar to how you generally assign a pally + second healer to a tank so you have FoH spam for constant incoming HPS, then a cast / cancel healer for handling spikes. CoH can provide the spam HPS, while Chain works on the spikes. Since chain is "smart" it works extremely well. In the two VR kills I've been in on, I really learned how to do this properly with me + Jenjan. We finally figured out the right way to work together so we both last a while and can basically keep up ~1.5 groups fine with just the two of us.