Chain Heal?

[Elili]

I have my 5 shamans target a different one and hit chain heal. For the most part my shamans tend to be full or nearly full when getting aoed for semi low to med damage. For any other aoe damage, chain heal casts too slowly. self target + lesser healing wave is king for those.

If you drop a man, one of your guys will just heal himself (Providing you made sure to the macro tells it to) won't he? Unless you put a pretty long list of targets (IE Try to heal A, then B, then C, then D). I personally just self heal everyone with chain heal if I want to get a lot of healing flying out. When you self heal it will still proc to the next two targets. It goes in order by who's taken the most damage. I have heard that if you have everyone on top of themselves sometimes heals won't proc around. Can't say I can confirm or deny this (It's on some thread), I don't notice it if it happens that way.

From http://www.wowwiki.com/Chain_Heal

This target is healed for the advertised amount (plus 5/7 = 71.4% bonus from +heal gear). The spell then jumps to the friendly target within 5 yards with the largest current health deficit, and heals it for 50% of the amount from the first one. After that, the spell jumps a second time (but never back to the first target) to a third target, which is healed for 25% of the initial amount.

I've never had a problem with it not sending enough heals to everyone. In bad situations I prefer a self heal with lesser healing wave though, or 5 lower ranked to one person, since I tend to only heal when I'm getting hit, -a lot- and chain heal takes a while.

I do also have a hard coded chain heal that goes to specific characters bound, but I only use that for showing off, never in combat. I don't see the point.

[aNiMaL]

Confirmed it won't jump when all are full health.
I've been playing around with it a lot lately, trying to make a full font with the heals.
(not for typing, just for show in game or use it as some intro to a movie I'll probably never make )

I myself have them CH on a hard-coded target for combat if I have no healable target.
It has my preference,
because a char getting hit is usually the one needing the most and fastest heals,
if they would heal themselves they could get interrupted and only get procs to heal them.

[Toned]

I have 3 chain heal macros... I usually only use 1 of them on a regular basis.

Macro1: All shamans cast CH with the target being themself (most commonly used)
Macro2: All shamans cast CH on my focustarget
Macro3: Staggered A>B B>C C>D D>E E>A

Most the time I use macro 1, or just use my all cast lesser heal on self button, then for single target healing I usually just use Lesser Healing Wave on a defined toon for self healing my group. Healing people outside my group all cast lesser healing wave on my focus' target.