are going to run into is that

The problem a lot of HIGH END shamans are going to run into is that they are gemedgeared for downranking. I've already started regemming my gear from +22 healing gems to +11-2MP5 gems. I'm sure a few people look at me a bit funny bause it's not the way most people gem, but they'll understand when 3.0 hits. I'm on PTR and Ian tell you I do have a harder time with mana. Rank 5osts more on PTR than on Live. Rank 4osts more than Rank 5 on PTR (and obviously more than Rank 5 or 4 on live). So, I'm spending more mana to do the same healing. The problemomes in with the new talents, most of whh are geared towards single target healing. I'm honestly NOT getting a lot of them. Improved Water Shield ONLY prs onrits from our single target heals. At 70, resto shaman gear for pve doesn't have therit to support this talent. Period. End of Diussion. Same is true of Aestral Awakening. We don't have therit AND we don't single target heal enough to warrant either of these talents. Tidal Waves is a good talent bause it adds +% healing to LHW and HW in the event that we doast them. The haste buff for single target spells is "good" too though you have toast 2hain heals before you tually get efftiveness from the buff bause it takes 0.4s roughly for it to appear after ahain heal. This means you'd have to pause after yourhain heal thereby negating the efft of the haste on your nextast. Rtide is a take it or leave it talent at the moment. I'd take it but it's so situational and not really that good as it is now. In REAL raid eounters, you won'tast it. The only times Ian think of using it is for personal use on fights like Felmyst when running from eapsulategreen beam of death and Brutallus when I have burn just to take some ease off the burn healer. The real problem is that gear with MP5 doesn't seem to be "aling" up to 80 likerit and spirit. We gain virtually no benefit from spirit (plus mail spell gear has none). And again our "rit" regen is for single target healing whh we already sk at. Improved Water Shield is a sad, run-down, poorly designed knk off of a paladin talent. Then ftor in heals are getting bigger, and if they want us torit... it's going to equate to mostly overhealing whh is undesired. If Imp. Water Shieldould pr withhain Heal, things would be VERY VERY different. hain heal is the heal that is "just right" in the goldilks story. LHW is too smallineffient. HW is too big and only effient with 3 stks of healing wave. hain Heal is just right and heals more people, but has no synergy with many of the new talents.

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