Just curious... level up First Aid ?

[Vyndree]

For those of you who think leveling bandages isn't worth it because "I can heal myself" -- I wish I had bandages when I dealt with the MC boss in Slabs. I can't emphasize that enough -- I had to make a healing pot macro when the pot CD could have better been used on mana pots. I wish I had bandages those times in PvP when I was OOM thanks to using inefficient elemental healz. I wish I had bandages while fighting Ikiss so I could actually spend my mana DPSing after each AE (he goes straight after searing totems after the AE, mwahaha). I wish I had bandages because right after rezzing it saves my mana so I don't have to waste it drinking.

Seriously. If you have the cloth (which you will), level first aid. There's no good reason NOT to.

I can understand your plight from a shaman perspective. However, if you have a priest stacked with spirit, some MP5 and a decent mana pool then healing the whole group to full barely moves the mana bar. My DPS will run out of mana looooooong before my priest. Only my pally and priest drinks after wipes and usually only if I soulstone rez and rez the whole group and buff which takes a lot of mana. Bandages won't help with that however.

Situations I do see bandages being extremely useful for my group setup:
Aggro sensitive fights
Chain healing fights
Pally and priest down (especially in PvP)

I would still train first aid last on my priest and pally if I do train it. The Warlock could get some mileage out of it and will probably be trained first if I decide to do it.

Even healers and tanks would do well to level first aid.

Last boss in ZA during the tornado phase?

Granted, not a multiboxer-friendly fight, but in any case where silence/mana burn/shutdown come into play (even if it's against a rogue who decided to vanish and makes good use of his "kick" button) you might as well use bandages.