Comments on: Not it! http://altadin.com/2009/11/02/not-it/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Undergoing a slight crisis of identity ... and taking it all the way to Icecrown. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:42:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Naithin http://altadin.com/2009/11/02/not-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2203 Naithin Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:54:41 +0000 http://altadin.com/?p=4783#comment-2203 Ok, answered! :D http://tankntree.com/2009/circle-of-healin/ That ended up bein a lot longer winded than expected! .-= Naithin´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TanknTree/~3/Ly6CtOEdEd8/" rel="nofollow">Circle of Healin’ Q&A – My (Belated) Turn</a> =-. Ok, answered! :D

http://tankntree.com/2009/circle-of-healin/

That ended up bein a lot longer winded than expected!
Naithin´s last blog ..Circle of Healin’ Q&A – My (Belated) Turn

]]> By: Naithin http://altadin.com/2009/11/02/not-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2196 Naithin Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:47:21 +0000 http://altadin.com/?p=4783#comment-2196 Whoops, I didn't even SEE you tag me! I read your answers and then somehow skipped over the end. I shall reply soon! :D .-= Naithin´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TanknTree/~3/CL3gg_q1nr4/" rel="nofollow">Wrath Raiders are Guinea Pigs</a> =-. Whoops, I didn’t even SEE you tag me! I read your answers and then somehow skipped over the end.

I shall reply soon! :D
Naithin´s last blog ..Wrath Raiders are Guinea Pigs

]]> By: drug http://altadin.com/2009/11/02/not-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2192 drug Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:05:11 +0000 http://altadin.com/?p=4783#comment-2192 I think resto shamans are in a good and in a bad place at the same time as of right now. We have a rather small set of healing tools. Maybe this is one of the reasons, why many resto shamans just aren't great healers. Druids and Priests both have many different tools, which kind of forces them to get to know their class. Paladins can do one thing perfectly, which is tank healing. Shamans can tank heal, they can group heal and they can spot heal with RT - LHW. So in my eyes, many shamans are really to lazy with trying to master their healing style and improving themselves. What makes things even worse, is the inability of many raid leaders to assign shamans to proper tasks. Shamans assigned to group healing when the raid is spreading out, assigning holy priests to tank healing with a resto shaman present etc. Like Discipline said, we are in a place where holy priests were for a long time during BC. We can heal any raid assignment but we shine at none. In the case of tank healing we lack somewhat of stability, throughput and emergency spells, in the case of raid healing we get simply destroyed by holy priests who know their game. This sounds bitter, on the bright side: resto shamans are very much fun to play and the flow of healing was never as good as it is now. If I think back to BC and its CH spammage and look at shaman healing right now, we really made a huge step in the right direction. .-= drug´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.shieldsup.ch/2009/11/16/it-all-comes-back-to-haste/" rel="nofollow">It all comes back to haste</a> =-. I think resto shamans are in a good and in a bad place at the same time as of right now.

We have a rather small set of healing tools. Maybe this is one of the reasons, why many resto shamans just aren’t great healers. Druids and Priests both have many different tools, which kind of forces them to get to know their class. Paladins can do one thing perfectly, which is tank healing. Shamans can tank heal, they can group heal and they can spot heal with RT – LHW. So in my eyes, many shamans are really to lazy with trying to master their healing style and improving themselves.

What makes things even worse, is the inability of many raid leaders to assign shamans to proper tasks. Shamans assigned to group healing when the raid is spreading out, assigning holy priests to tank healing with a resto shaman present etc.

Like Discipline said, we are in a place where holy priests were for a long time during BC. We can heal any raid assignment but we shine at none. In the case of tank healing we lack somewhat of stability, throughput and emergency spells, in the case of raid healing we get simply destroyed by holy priests who know their game.

This sounds bitter, on the bright side: resto shamans are very much fun to play and the flow of healing was never as good as it is now. If I think back to BC and its CH spammage and look at shaman healing right now, we really made a huge step in the right direction.
drug´s last blog ..It all comes back to haste

]]> By: Discipline http://altadin.com/2009/11/02/not-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2127 Discipline Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:16:24 +0000 http://altadin.com/?p=4783#comment-2127 Bah, Disc is easy to understand. On the contrary I dont agree with you on shaman being OP or in a good position compared to other Healing classes. I think Shamans are terribly broken. Holy Priest can raid healer better than shamans and Holy Palla/Disc Priest can single target heal better than shamans. The shamans are the middle of the pack type healers they aren't the best at anything nor the worse at it. I play disc and its a ton of fun and i do understand my class mechanics but I dont get shaman class mechanics. It is confusing to see how game patches that change all classes slight lead to the total change of gear and gem priority. This isn't so for other classes that change very gradually and only during major make overs like 3.0 did the total of the concept change. But for shamans they go from int, to haste, to crit to whatever else every patch. XD Bah, Disc is easy to understand. On the contrary I dont agree with you on shaman being OP or in a good position compared to other Healing classes. I think Shamans are terribly broken. Holy Priest can raid healer better than shamans and Holy Palla/Disc Priest can single target heal better than shamans. The shamans are the middle of the pack type healers they aren’t the best at anything nor the worse at it. I play disc and its a ton of fun and i do understand my class mechanics but I dont get shaman class mechanics. It is confusing to see how game patches that change all classes slight lead to the total change of gear and gem priority. This isn’t so for other classes that change very gradually and only during major make overs like 3.0 did the total of the concept change. But for shamans they go from int, to haste, to crit to whatever else every patch. XD

]]> By: X http://altadin.com/2009/11/02/not-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2095 X Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:55:52 +0000 http://altadin.com/?p=4783#comment-2095 haha. Awesome haha. Awesome

]]> By: Elleiras http://altadin.com/2009/11/02/not-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2094 Elleiras Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:05:30 +0000 http://altadin.com/?p=4783#comment-2094 I was actually using X as a variable. :P It was Neville, it happened last night and, yes, I am still mad at Keaton. .-= Elleiras´s last blog ..<a href="http://altadin.com/2009/11/02/not-it/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed" rel="nofollow">Not it!</a> =-. I was actually using X as a variable. :P It was Neville, it happened last night and, yes, I am still mad at Keaton.
Elleiras´s last blog ..Not it!

]]> By: X http://altadin.com/2009/11/02/not-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2093 X Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:50:54 +0000 http://altadin.com/?p=4783#comment-2093 I cant help but notice your obvious choice of example names. You even mentioned "mage"! Maybe you don't want me back as much as I think you do! kidding aside, I wish I had started a class capable of healing when I first started the game. I have a 45ish druid, and Tree form is sexy, but I had more fun leveling that darn hunter. :) I cant help but notice your obvious choice of example names. You even mentioned “mage”! Maybe you don’t want me back as much as I think you do!

kidding aside, I wish I had started a class capable of healing when I first started the game. I have a 45ish druid, and Tree form is sexy, but I had more fun leveling that darn hunter. :)

]]> By: Forreststump http://altadin.com/2009/11/02/not-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2092 Forreststump Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:23:15 +0000 http://altadin.com/?p=4783#comment-2092 Tagged what? Who? .-= Forreststump´s last blog ..<a href="http://forreststump.blogspot.com/2009/10/this-cartoon-should-be-required-viewing.html" rel="nofollow">This Cartoon Should Be Required Viewing</a> =-. Tagged what? Who?
Forreststump´s last blog ..This Cartoon Should Be Required Viewing

]]> By: Elleiras http://altadin.com/2009/11/02/not-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2091 Elleiras Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:32:51 +0000 http://altadin.com/?p=4783#comment-2091 lol, thanks. :P I'm enjoying reading other shaman perspectives, personally. I think Zigi over at twentynineboxes.wordpress.com is on the opposite side of almost every issue (and we play the same class!). I'm going to have to poke around s'more when I get home, because most gaming blogs (including yours :() are blocked at work. lol, thanks. :P

I’m enjoying reading other shaman perspectives, personally. I think Zigi over at twentynineboxes.wordpress.com is on the opposite side of almost every issue (and we play the same class!). I’m going to have to poke around s’more when I get home, because most gaming blogs (including yours :( ) are blocked at work.

]]> By: Elleiras http://altadin.com/2009/11/02/not-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2090 Elleiras Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:28:28 +0000 http://altadin.com/?p=4783#comment-2090 But it's so pretty! But it’s so pretty!

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