Beautiful new Restoration visuals

[Tirilka]

Healing Wave
The water surge is sent to the target before the cast finishes, which is very cool. If you stop it pre-emptively, water dissipates mid-air.




Healing Surge
Almost the same as Healing Wave, but faster, and the animation is racial, instead of the new 'rising hands' one.




Chain Heal
Very watery now. So good.



Healing Rain
It became more rainy, more sparkly,and the puddle itself is more oily, compared to live.

[Hey There Guys its Metro]

Thanks for the gifs instead of videos. They are gorgeous and honestly has me thinking of dusting off the shaman.

[Deleted]

The animation where the shaman raises his hands seems a bit out of place/sync...

But then again; i don't know how exactly shaman healing works so keeping it in sync would probably require other work to be done.

[Kaeth]

The new animations are beautiful, but that Chain Heal doesn't appear to chain anymore. Mr. Draenei is clearly multi-shotting water at everyone in that GIF.

[Deleted]

The animation where the shaman raises his hands seems a bit out of place/sync...

That could just be PTR syncing, so will most likely get fixed.

The new animations are beautiful, but that Chain Heal doesn't appear to chain anymore. Mr. Draenei is clearly multi-shotting water at everyone in that GIF.

Chain Heal hits multiple targets and always draws a line from one to the next. What you see is the shaman hitting target A, chaining to B, back to the shaman itself and ending with the person on the ground.. Look very very closely at the direction of the water. There is a line betwen the two standing up but not after the one lying down. It's a Chain of healing, not multi-targeting at work.

[Nyoken]

As long as we get to keep our old chain heal animation i'm good : p

[Irisia]

New chain heal looks like trash. Healing Rain is harder to see, so good luck having melee stand in it under all the other ground / spell effects. Hopefully there will be glyphs or toys to turn the new visuals off.

I like the spell effect on healing wave/ healing surge though, but the casting animation is horrible...

[AtomicT]

New chain heal looks like trash. Healing Rain is harder to see, so good luck having melee stand in it under all the other ground / spell effects. Hopefully there will be glyphs or toys to turn the new visuals off.

I like the spell effect on healing wave/ healing surge though, but the casting animation is horrible...

yeah the healing rain is actually pretty hard to see, hope they make the colours brighter or something to make it standout more

[Phaty]

The new animations are beautiful, but that Chain Heal doesn't appear to chain anymore. Mr. Draenei is clearly multi-shotting water at everyone in that GIF.

you can see it chain off the back dranei to the female to the caster then to the dranei lying down

[Kralljin]

Rather curious about the fact that Healing wave / surge has now a missile.

There's a reason why almost no healing spells have a missile.

[Tirilka]

Rather curious about the fact that Healing wave / surge has now a missile.

There's a reason why almost no healing spells have a missile.

It's purely visual, the 'missile' launches before the cast even finishes - the actual heal happens at the exact same time the cast bar is full.

[warlockiii]

It's purely visual, the 'missile' launches before the cast even finishes - the actual heal happens at the exact same time the cast bar is full.

If other player see the missile, I'd expect this would make the shaman a lot more easy to locate in PVP.

[Aggrophobic]

If other player see the missile, I'd expect this would make the shaman a lot more easy to locate in PVP.

If you have issues locating other players in PvP you need to get a better UI.
For players at the skil level where it actually matters, this will hardly be a big deal.

On topic: That look amazing, for sure.

[Beingbob]

I wish they didn't change the previous chain heal animation on PTR, the one with the golden glow. It was terrific, and the new one is very lackluster - looks like an offensive attack. But oh no, can't have yellow lighting as a shaman due to muh class fantasy intruding on priest/paladin. Nevermind that chain heal in WC3 was a golden ray.

[warlockiii]

If you have issues locating other players in PvP you need to get a better UI.
For players at the skil level where it actually matters, this will hardly be a big deal.

On topic: That look amazing, for sure.

As a healer, you should be well aware that even small amounts of time can sometimes make all the difference, which is why most good healers use clique or mouse over macros. Seeing a splash of water's incoming trajectory and immediately being able to turn and follow it to the source vs seeing a splash and having to pan around will make the difference in some scenarios. I like the new animations as well, but that's just a fact.

[Aggrophobic]

As a healer, you should be well aware that even small amounts of time can sometimes make all the difference, which is why most good healers use clique or mouse over macros. Seeing a splash of water's incoming trajectory and immediately being able to turn and follow it to the source vs seeing a splash and having to pan around will make the difference in some scenarios. I like the new animations as well, but that's just a fact.

Ok, I don't know what kind of PvP you do but if you're surprised by a healer standing behind you, casting spells then... I'm not sure why you even bother.
Are you saying that you lose sigh of players in 3v3s and you need to look for spell effects to find them? Are some shamans invisable to you or? I don't get it but I have a hard time seeing that you would be competent enough that this would matter at all.

[warlockiii]

Ok, I don't know what kind of PvP you do but if you're surprised by a healer standing behind you, casting spells then... I'm not sure why you even bother.
Are you saying that you lose sigh of players in 3v3s and you need to look for spell effects to find them? Are some shamans invisable to you or? I don't get it but I have a hard time seeing that you would be competent enough that this would matter at all.

Let me break it to you, arena is not the only form of PVP. Of course, keeping track of 3 players in arenas is not a problem. Other PVP activities have a lot more going on and people to track. 3 vs 10 or 15 or sometimes even more.

[Aggrophobic]

Let me break it to you, arena is not the only form of PVP. Of course, keeping track of 3 players in arenas is not a problem. Other PVP activities have a lot more going on and people to track. 3 vs 10 or 15 or sometimes even more.

Thats... Cute.

[Rezhka]

I love previous Chain Heal (the one with golden glow chaining effect) spell effect better. This one is kinda looks like you spray a water jet with a firefighter hose... I thought they said, they'll just tune the color to be blue to make it more watery. But instead they changed it completely with this. Kinda disappointed.

The Healing Wave and Surge looks great, until I see that water missile...

[Bugg]

Personally I like the current blue CH better.