Help with resto basics

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Hello, i just got a SoR shaman and have went restoration as i have been wanting to play one for awhile. I am wondering if anyone can point me to a good basics of shaman and resto in particular guide(s) or give me some tips on how to learn and get used to the class. Any help would be appreciated.

[Decimation2g]

http://www.icy-veins.com/restoration...-healing-guide

I'm sure there is a sticky post in this forum as well if you look up top.

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Thanks ill take a look and just about to start reading the sticky thats here

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http://elitistjerks.com/f79/t130574-...aling_5_1_mop/

You can also check this one.

[Quilava]

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^ this everytime

[Shammyspice]

After 3 minutes of that video I want to blow my head off.

[Soullord]

Basic pointers.

Keep earth shield on the tank
cast riptide on cooldown
use healing rain if people are stacking

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As has been mentioned above there a few key points that if you do them gets your 90% of the way to being a good Resto Shaman

Gear:

• Wear Mail with Intellect and Spirit. On nearly all occasions a higher ilv piece will be better than a lower level one irrellevant of secondary stats
• Ensure you have at least 871 Haste Rating, for additional ticks of Healing Rain, Earthliving and Riptide
• After that focus on gaining additional Crit or Mastery, it basically doesn't matter which
• At lower gear levels just gem Spirit in everything. With +120 Int or Spirit bonus match sockets.

Glyphs:

• Healing Wave
• Healing Stream Totem
• Totemic Recall

Talents:

• T1: Astral Shift (if the fight has a massive damage mechanic), Stone Bulwark Totem (if the fight has constant raid damage)
• T2: Windwalk Totem (if the fight has a troublesome mechanic which can be removed with this), if not then Earthgrab Totem (especially in fights with adds)
• T3: Call of the Elements
• T4: Ancestral Swiftness, or if the fight has intense burst healing requirements and gear is enough to reach first haste breakpoint Elemental Mastery
• T5 Healing Tide Totem
• T6: Unleashed Fury (for high single target damage fights), Primal Elementalist (for high AoE damage fights)

Healing:

• Keep Earth Shield on a tank (that's getting hit!) all the time
• Keep Water Shield up on yourself all the time
• Keep Earthliving on your weapon
• Use Riptide (unglyphed) on cooldown
• Use Healing Stream Totem on cooldown
• Use Healing Wave if light single target damage is going out
• Use Greater Healing Wave if large single target damage is going out
• Use Healing Surge is someone would die in the time it takes to cast any of the above
• Use Unleash Elements then Healing Rain if multiple people need healing and are stacked together (and will stay there)
• Use Chain Heal if multiple people are stacked and need light healing
• Use Uleash Elements if you have to move and Riptide is on cooldown

Cooldowns:

• Use Mana Tide Totem when you are below 80% mana (and there isn't upcoming regen time in the fight)
• Use Healing Tide Totem when the raid needs massive amounts of healing
• Use Ascendance when the raid takes a large amount of damage. Ideally only pop this when Riptide is up on 3 people and Healing Rain has just been cast
• Use Spirit Link Totem when the raid is grouped up and taking damage (especially high single target damage)
• Use Primal Elementalist (if talented) when large AoE healing is needed
• Use Spiritwalker's Grace if you need to move for an extended period of time and the raid still needs healing

Advanced Tips:

• Use an addon like WeakAuras to help keep track of all the above
• Use cooldowns early and often
• Use Totemic Recall (Glyphed) just before Healing Stream Totem is about to finish to gain the mana back

Best of luck!

[Umira]

What Amex said covers most things. I've recently gotten into shaman healing as off-spec so I can be more useful in our raid group, and anything and everything I've researched he just said, plus a few more things I was unsure about.

So listen to him! Excellent tips.

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I'll guess this is about PvE?