Resto Shaman Spec

[Ualaa]

One of the easier ways to deal with a shammy who is both a DPS and a Healer is dual-spec.
One day of dailies will easily pay for it, with a team of five.

In Elemental spec, the resto has the exact same hotkeys as the rest of the team.
I have this shammy drop the mana totem as their water totem.
In Resto spec, the water totem is either mana spring or mana tide.

In Elemental, like the other shammies I have a key for each elemental to LHW, assisting the tank's target.
In this way, I can have the Elementals either spot heal here or there, or assist the Resto with some heals.

When the Resto shammy is in Resto spec, I have assist heals and targeted heals.
I have five macro's, keybound to Shift F8 through Shift F12.
The macro's are written with the condition [nomod:alt] Riptide; Healing Wave.
Basically G1-G5 are just Shift F8 through Shift F12, which is Riptide on a specific target.
And G7-G11 are Alt + Shift F8 through Alt + Shift F12, which is Healing Wave instead.

The Resto has Chain Heal on the same key as the Elementals.

So I have the option of Lesser Healing Wave (all shammies, any spec).
Chain Heal, all shammies (either spec).
Riptide/Healing Wave (with Resto in resto spec).




If you wanted the healer to DPS, you could write macro's using the modifier:ctrl or mod:alt arguement.
That way, they'd help with dps, if the dps key was spammed with the correct mod.
But otherwise not help, which leaves them free to heal unhindered.

[Hurricane]

I like the idea of having the healer casting riptide on every cooldown and cast dps at all other times. Is there a nice macro for that?

I want the macro to cast riptide on tank whenever its of cooldown, and then assist the tank with regular dps spam, is that possible?

[Otlecs]

I like the idea of having the healer casting riptide on every cooldown and cast dps at all other times. Is there a nice macro for that?

As discussed here, the best bet is to have two separate macros on two separate keybindings - one for when the healer actually needs to heal, and one for when he's DPSing.

There's no way to reliably interweave the roles with a single macro because the macro can't make decisions about when to heal.

[Los]

Well you could put it in a click macro, but why heal if there is nothing TO heal , just diepiees

[Khatovar]

I like the idea of having the healer casting riptide on every cooldown and cast dps at all other times. Is there a nice macro for that?

I want the macro to cast riptide on tank whenever its of cooldown, and then assist the tank with regular dps spam, is that possible?

Here's my /click for Riptide on 2 targets +purge. You can probably try to throw LB in for purge and adjust the commas accordingly, but I can't confirm that will work.

/click sdf_click1
/click sdf_click2
/click sdf_click3

CLICK1

/castsequence [target=Kina] reset=3 Riptide,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

CLICK2

/castsequence [target=Messkit] reset=3 ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Riptide

CLICK3

/cast [target=focustarget] Purge