Originally Posted by
Puupi
Have you even looked at shaman logs lately? High Tide ends up being generally 4.5-5.0 CH hits per cast, not 6. On average, CH has overheal% of 20-25, HW 5-10%. If you overheal more than that with HW, it's either intended (spamhealing tank), or you are failing miserably at spot healing. I'm not spreading misinformation, you are just clueless and I don't need to be told how to get most out of the class by someone who started playing shaman like half a year ago and hasn't even done heroic/mythic raiding before this tier.
Of course there are riptides going on, the question is whether those targets require the CH heal or not. Usually they don't, because it's such a long setup.
No they don't have same conditions, CH needs prior setup and it's 0.5sec longer cast, it has a lot higher chance to overheal on its' primary target, overhealing secondary targets is completely random.
Excuse me? Chain Heal profits from mastery by a lot more? No it doesn't.
With High Tide you should hit 6 targets, not 5. Hitting 5 targets on average is possible and very common. It's still 1 short off the maximum.