Behind every great boxer, is an even greater healer :D

[Spynx]

Thanks for all the replys guys.
We put some of these tips into practice last night, and although we ended up with around a 50/50 ratio it definately felt like we were 'getting there'

I dont think we got completely owned by anybody for a change, every fight was either us kicking butt, or them scraping a win from us.....(which is still pretty annoying, but meh)

anyway, another healer/gear related question....

Atm, i am using the pvp trinket and the Vial of the sunwell for a 2k insta heal (and 15mp5) would people/do people use anything different? The vial is useful but it's obviously affected by MS....

And just to repeat one of my first questions really....do your healing shammy's go with the 00/20/41 build? or do you sacrifice some toughness/dodge etc for better chain heals, or a quicker big healing wave?

[Ðeceased]

I'd go as far as hiding your presence by putting yourself on follow at the start and ay earth shield is a nono at the start :S it's just such an agro magnet.. once they establish that you are the healer and need to take you down then move in front of the mob, and draw them away from the group (not too far.. only a couple of paces)

and don't worry about heavy melee (3+) teams beating you.. it's almost inevitable >.< although I would say make sure you have at least two poison cleansing totems down

[Spynx]

I'd go as far as hiding your presence by putting yourself on follow at the start and ay earth shield is a nono at the start :S it's just such an agro magnet.. once they establish that you are the healer and need to take you down then move in front of the mob, and draw them away from the group (not too far.. only a couple of paces)

and don't worry about heavy melee (3+) teams beating you.. it's almost inevitable >.< although I would say make sure you have at least two poison cleansing totems down

Cool, i think i'll try that. The general rule seems to be to try to get the melee to charge me so the boxer can nuke, while trying to not look like a healer 8o

I think we have a pretty decent totem farm at the start, which is normally 4xgrounding and 1xWoA, 4 tremor and an earthbind, (although i think we'll try a stoneskin in there next time), 4 poison and a mana, and 4 magma and a searing......any comments?

We are doing our best to BL, purge and lay Nova totems at the start, but ofc it can get a bit hectic ^^

we are slowly getting there though. Thx for all the input as always

[Spynx]

Ok, i've finally levelled my pally healer to 70 and will soon be swapping him in instead of my shaman to heal my boxing buddy.

I've never healed as a pally before of course, so have a few questions for some of you more experienced guys.

1 - What sort of resillience, +healing and +crit do i need before i can start healing in the arena properly? (my shaman is 428 res and 1800 healing....i guess i can go with less resillience as a pally?)

2 - Is there a standard pvp build (as with shaman) for the arena? and if so what is it? i've asked for some advice from some guildies, and they posted the following, which i guess is a normal 5v5 or bg build:

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/ba...00000000000000

Now, i'm assuming that there's a slightly different build setup when healing a boxing team, and again i've been given the following as an idea. There are still 3 points to take and i was wondering what to put them in? Imp conc aura, or hammer of justice? or even 2 in stoicism and 1 in pure heart maybe?

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/ba...00000000000000

Any advice/opinions would be greatly appreciated.

Thx

[magwo]

Improved concentration aura is THE most important talent for you.

Edit: Concentration aura is the only reason I don't use another healing class with more utility. I would love to have priest aoe fear or druid root/cyclone/stun.. but concentration aura is just so good.

[Icetech]

Heals in arena?! thats insanity!! That would slow down the time my 10 losses take every week

[Ellay]

Triple Melee teams are a lot easier when using a Paladin because they can take the hits better and has a BoP to use. Try to Peel the rogues off the healer. Depending on their CC sometimes it is better to spread your characters out (only happens usually on really good teams)

[xtobbenx]

If you are all shammys then make a /follow on his main aswell and have that on in the start so you basicly look like one of his shammys. Some teams will fall for this for sure. and dont notice you as a solo guys healing. Maybe even do Earth shild on one of his alt in the start.. so he gets the focuse..

I have a mate that is curantly lvling up a shammy with the same name as my shammys for 5v5 in expansion. We will use the /follow tacktick and then ofc he have the same name so it will be even harder to pick him out form the grp.

But its true.. with full CC/stuns on you, non can expect you do be able to heal a whole 5v5 team. So your mate ahve to learn when he have to suport you and when he are free to nuke ppl down

[Spynx]

Ok, got the pally levelled now and am currently gearing it up...

I can really see the potential of a paladin healer..... the fast big heals, the bubble, the stun, the aoe 2 second silence (blood elf)....Judgement of Justice on the druids and shammys, to name but a few

Just a question really to all those teams out there.....Does anybody actually have any success at all with a shaman healer???

My shaman is geared to look exactly the same as the boxers i'm with,(and i have 1800 healing and 450 res) but it only takes 1 game (or less ) for them to figure out i'm the healer and keep me locked down. There's only so much constant healing my boxer can do before he kinda has to dps something.....

We had a terrible run last week. It started out promising though, we won about 6 in a row, then came up against a team that kept owning us. And i mean that in every sense of the word..... I can't explain how frustrating it is to have a warrior MS 2 characters, while the rogue just stuns me to death.....then the warrior pummels, the rogue kicks, cheap shot, kidney punch, pummel, blind......etc etc etc

And honestly no matter what we did, we just couldn't get the team down (Druid, warrior, 2 hunters and a rogue if i remember) and we lost about 10 games (started by losing 17 points to them, and ended up losing about 6 per game)

Anyway..... I was so frustrated by the end that we actually played 1 game with my paladin (1200 healing, 100 res....7k hp!) and some how owned them ?(

I stood there spamming my puny 1k heals and BoP'd their target when it was at about 20% health and for some reason they didn't even touch me at all?? I mean, i didn't even have to bubble or anything! Do teams just see a paladin and think 'they are invinsible, don't waste your time trying to nuke his 7k hp'

I guess my point is (after all this rambling) is that i can see the real potential with my pally once it's fully geared.... Do people find when healing 4 elemental shaman with a paladin, the paladin is pretty much left alone?

And my main question is...... Has anyone actually achieved a decent rating with a shaman healer? (our highest is 1647)



thanks for reading :love:

[Tizer]

We won that last game coz i got the druid unaware while he was pissing about in cat form taking down totems Then i got aggressive and moved in on the hunters and stopped the shaman rezing.

Cocky fuckers they were and really hard to take down. 2 hunters with bloodlust on my main shaman was tough to heal through when im also trying to dps :/