Help with resto shaman, please

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Hello, can you look on logs and tell me what our resto shaman is doing wrong, please? Im gonna link logs to one fight, but its looking bad on almost every fight, can you perhaps check out other logs too please? Our ele shammy who sometimes play resto as OS is always outhealing our main resto shaman by alot.
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports...C#type=healing

Atm in pvp spec on armory, normally using elemental blast lv 90 talent, high tide lv 100 talent and riptide glyph.
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...yphyr/advanced

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Entierly different casts used for both shamans.
There is a massive difference in that, so also a difference in healing.

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But can somebody say point after point what that resto shaman needs to change, please?

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where the hell is healing wave in that log?????

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But can somebody say point after point what that resto shaman needs to change, please?

Just look at the casts of the other resto shaman
He is simply not casting what he should.

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It looks like he's afraid to use his cooldowns. He's got 2 totems with 15sec durations and 30s cooldowns, so there should always be one or the other up.

We had a shitter Resto Shaman in our guild as well, and it came down to him being afraid to use his skills in case he needed them.
Pop that shit on cooldown. Save Spirit Link until the healing officer calls for it.

And you should have a healing officer that tells every healer when to use their major cooldowns.

[Koor]

He died twice in that particular log, with a long time till he got res after the first one, and then again before the end. Overall he was dead 17% of the fight, so this affects his numbers.

He's relying mainly on casting glyphed riptides and using (non glyphed) chain heals. Since your raid is spread in some parts of the fight, I think some of those chain heals didn't jump well.

I think that in general glyphing riptide, while in theory may be optimal in the hands of a skilled shaman since it can result in more high tide jumps, in practice it is usually a loss, both of the 75% of the initial heals from riptide (6% of the other shamans healing), and not having a cooldown has the tendency to cause us, if we aren't careful, to spam GCDs for riptide on the expense of other spells, and indeed his healing rain casts are low (7 times compared to 27 the other shaman casted), and he didn't cast a single healing wave.

Another thing I noticed, is that he used ghost wolf a lot (11.7% uptime) to move out of fire, and we can't cast spells while in ghost wolf. The other shaman is minimizing his movements better and therefore has more time to cast spells. He was in ghost wolf only 1.93% of his time, and used more spiritwalker's grace (we now have a new glyph, spiritwalker's focus, that reduces its cooldown to 1 min) to keep casting while moving, as well as the new 30% speed boost from unleash.

Looking at Imperator heroic we see similiar things. He casted 120 glyphed riptides healing for 2.57M, while the other shaman casted just 76 non-glyphed riptides, healing for more (3.14M). He casted 62 chain heals healing for 6.74M (108K on average), while the other shaman casted 17 chain heals healing for 2.05M (120K on average). So it looks like, at least on average, the extra riptides gained by glyphing it, didn't make the chain heals jump more compared to the shaman who didn't glyph riptide. Note that this is on average, you might find few chain heals that jumped further in those 62 casts, and maybe they were important. However by glyphing riptide, there were too many riptides and chain heals casts, and too few healing rains (26 casts compared to 45 of the other shaman), and not a single healing wave or healing surge.

Now it may be OK to fill that roll in the raid, since you do have a disc priest and a holy pala which can take care of spot healing. Still, spot healing with single target spells is one of the strengths of shamans (due to our mastery which heals more when the target HP is low).

I'd recommend trying to unglyph riptide, and casting more healing rain and single target spells.

[Alltat]

In addition to what's been said, some simple things to work on:

Earth Shield uptime. Get into the habit of refreshing it before it expires. Not just for the healing it does but also for the healing bonus it grants. His uptime was about 50%; it should be 100%. Get an addon to track it if necessary; I personally use WeakAuras for this.

Movement. Don't use Ghost Wolf unless you have to run very far (like if you're marked on Tectus). Use Unleash Life instead - it grants the same speed bonus, does some healing, and lets you continue to cast while moving. If you keep silencing yourself all the time by shapeshifting, your healing will suffer.