02-19-2008, 09:13 PM
Quote:I'll second Conc's remarks on chain heal.Yes, chain heal is nice. It's very handy in a lot of situations. There are more keys than just chain heal for a shaman to use. *gasp* I know, radical thinking. We used to be hybrids. Now, because of the inflation of damage and heal numbers, you must specialize. You can choose one tree and that's it if you want to be raid viable (although I did have a bit of fun with an elemental/enhancement spec but there was no way I could even pretend it would be raid viable if I want to do anything but be just a totem dropper). My priest is more of a hybrid than Mogo. She does more damage, has some bit of CC for undead, and can heal just as well. Why bother playing a gimped healer when I can go back to my first love of the hybrid role?
We wouldn't remotely be where we are in progression without our chain healers and our enhancement shamen. Both are massive boons to 25 man raids. I don't see resto shaman usefulness falling off anytime soon either, considering the massive amounts of ffa damage floating around the raid in a lot of MH/BT fights that people on EJ boards refer to.
Intolerant monkey.