Originally Posted by
Rife
If you think Rsham ST healing is a "joke" you're in for a rude awakening when you try to ST heal on other classes. Rsham has better ST healing than every other healer in M+ other than MW and perhaps Rdruid stacking mastery and maintaining 4 or more HoTs on the target.
If you think Rsham sucks at AoE healing while also keeping a tank alive you're again in for a rude awakening when you try to do that on MW and go OOM in 20 seconds or Hpal which simply cant, or Rdruid which can when talented for it but even then relies on procs and being able to stand and turret heal or Discs and Holy Priests who just cant either.
Stop comparing Legion Rsham to BfA Rsham and instead get some experience on other healers. Then you'll realize that struggling to heal a tank and the party taking AoE damage in M+ isn't some magical Rsham weakness, it's hard or impossible for ALL healers.
I swear it's like 90% of the player base struggle at something and think it must be a spec problem when in reality you are meant to struggle with it, same goes for all healers.
My 360 Rsham can already pump similar numbers as my 380 MW in M+ but can do it without spending even half the mana my MW does. When 8.1 comes I'll be able to comfortably pump 25-35k HPS @ 360 ilvl without issue while my MW atm can burst 35-40k but can only sustain about 25k over the course of a boss fight due to mana constraints.
Even in the 12-15 range of keys there aren't many instances where anything over 20k HPS is required unless your group is screwing up mechanics. Rshams now can easily pump 20k HPS while bringing damage, purge, stun, slow and tremor so I don't know where this meme about Rsham being bad is coming from when 90% of the people complaining aren't even chesting 10's.
TL;DR: Spec Undulation, stack Crit/Mast, learn to use Tidal Wave stacks and watch those 1.2s cast time 65% crit chance Healing Surges crit for 100k then log over to a similarly geared Hpal/Disc/Hpriest/Rdruid/MW and spam those generic 100%-135% spell power casts with zero spell interaction for 20-30k crits and tell yourself that Shaman spot healing is a "joke".
If it wasn't for how OP MW ST healing is right now no other healer would be complaining about theirs while conveniently ignoring MW weaknesses.