Has anyone seen official word on whether or not Healing Stream Totems will still stack after 3.1?

[knopstr]

I know this has been discussed in the past and I'm aware that mana streams will no longer stack, but no one knew if healing streams were going to be lumped in with this change.

Has anyone seen or heard if this is going to happen? Is anyone on the PTR that could check?

Thanks

[Twyman]

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html



they haven't posted anything yet... if they do, it kind of feels like they are targeting us shammy boxers to nerf us.

[Powerwar]

I have made some testing on live servers and so far this is what I found...

4 x mana stream are ok and will usually keep a tank + 3 DPS + 1 healer away from oom state during any fight.
The tank (prot pala) and the 3 DPS (elemental) shamans will never run oom regardless of mana totems or no mana totems as long as the tank has blessing of snctuary on. The elemental shamans have so high mana regen that they basically need about one thunderstorm every 2 minutes to keep up with the dps indefinitely.

The only problem here seems to be the healer, that will run oom pretty fast.

My current macro for heroics is a castsequence ,,LHW

With 4 healing totems instead of 4 mana totems I was able to go to this cast sequence ,,,LHW

This basically saved about 30% mana on my healer, and on the long run made it quite good with his normal mana regen.

Its a nerf for sure, but I think that the real damaged ones are the healing shamans in raids, that will get severe hit on their healing performance on long fights. If mana spring totem did scale with spell damage like healing stream then it would be more like a buff than a nerf.

Thing about it... mana spring ticks for about 200ish mana like our healing totems do now for 200ish HP. you can drop a mana totem and 3 healing totems for a complete pwnage... or mana totem, disese and poinson cleansing ones + healing... or whatever other combo.

I think the best is to wait for the patch and then see.... Personally, if that change is game breaking for me I will spec all my shamans in enhancement and go PvP causing funny lols with dogs x 5... will have to rename my guild to <Who Let The Dogs Out?>

also could start leveling my 5 warlocks for dot madness.

[puppychow]

i tested on ptrs about 2 weeks ago and mana streams were not stacking (as we expected from patch notes) and healing stream totems were still stacking. i'll test again prob next week since that should be final PTR patching.