I want to friend you up!

Might be a good idea to list the character names we should contact if we want to play.

Well I was already located on this server. My friends kind of jumped on the server without my knowing and started leveling up. They don't level all that quickly, some of them being new and all. I would feel bad to ask them to all start over, and this way I can feed them gold for mounts/bank tabs/etc from my 70s doing daily quests and the like.

Depends on the level Crashed...i'd say if they are 30ish and under, they will level quick with loaded bags and such if they hop over. If not...good luck, and we'll see ya over there.

So I figured out why I prefer leveling alts with people I know. The pugs at the start of the game are so much worse than end game pugs. I've had mages run into melee range and start swinging a sword instead of wanding (not even out of mana), Cat fights between a priest and a mage, group members that can't figure out aggro and why they keep getting killed when I can't heal both them and the tank at the same time, and various other strains of the retardation disease.

Ah well it's been fun so far getting to go back and see the old instances again from a healers perspective. You definitely get to take in more of the scenery that way.

Well as Brett Farve has shown us, retirement is only meant to last a very short time .

Chain heal is very mana efficient when you consider the multiple jumps it makes.

The simple answer is "use it regardless". The life of a resto shaman is chain heal, chain heal and more chain heal. Leave Lesser Healing Wave on your toolbar but only for a quick emergency heal. For anything other than that it's cost to use ratio makes it useless. Healing Wave is our biggest heal but it is not as efficient as Chain Heal. So yes, chain heal, chain heal and then chain heal some more.

But if you think Chain Heal is great wait till you get Earth Shield. I'm sitting on a base healing of about +2100 unbuffed. If I drop my WoA totem and pop my trinkets I can pump that up to almost +2800. Earth Shield on our MT ticks for around 1400 to 1600 and all that lovely aggro goes right to the tank!

If you're interested in the theorycrafting behind this there's an exceptional write up at EJ.
http://elitistjerks.com/f47/t24796-shaman_restoration/

One thing I have noticed though is that Resto Shaman aren't the greatest healers to have on the MT. Our best heal is a 2.5 second cast and it's amazing how long that is when the tanks getting pounded on. In 5 mans we're fine but for raids you're better off with a Paladin or Priest on the MT. However, for healing a melee group in a raid we're simply outstanding!

I've had a Shaman on the Horde side for almost 3 years. He started out with GWJ Horde then migrated to Blades of Vengeance when they merged. I've been Enhancement since level 1 but we're terminally short on healers and didn't have any Resto shaman. About a 2 months ago we (the late night group I usually run with) left BoV, changed servers, merged with another guild. We're just ramping up again and started to push hard on SSC. We're currently banging our heads on Leo. We're not where we need to be but we're getting better. We've got about 15 rock solid players and about 25 people who play like they just installed the game yesterday!

Resto is not my favorite spec but it's growing on me and it's substantially less work in a raid than than Enhancement. No more running around twisting totems, now I just stand in the back, drop my sticks and spam Chain Heal. Unfortunately this does require me to pay attention all the time which isn't my strongest attribute.

I usually take our melee group and just refresh ES on the MT. We've got a Fury Warrior who does crazy dps and as a result his aggro rewards him with some solid incoming damage. I just spam CH him and it usually keeps the entire melee group up. That is of course unless one of them has a lapse and eats a cleave. What is it with rogues and their propensity to eat cleaves anyway?

I'm going to start running a bunch of ZA's, I want to see if adding some uber haste gear makes MT healing a bit more bearable. I'm concerned though because to me it seems that a ton of haste means I just risk going OOM too quickly, I unfortunately can't regen anywhere near as quick as Druids or Priests. Bastards!

I have found that Resto in BG's is a hell of a a lot fun. There's nothing more rewarding than having a rogue flail aimlessly on me while I slowly dissolve him with Flame Shocks and fire totems!

I'm still working on my gear but here's a link to the infamous Bearamoo:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Uther&n=Bearamoo

You can kill a resto druid?

Well thats good to know. I just switched to enhanccement last night to help speed up the lvling. All the criting makes my fury warrior look like a scrub when compared at similar lvls. I plan to go resto when I get into the outland stuff, or maybe once I hit 70.

Yeah I could see shamans not being the best as a Main Healer but would rock as an off healer. We will see how it all goes down, but I have an Arms warrior and warlock for all the dps I could need so this toon will definitely be going back to resto at some point.

Also, Enhancement Shamans rule at the lower levels so far. I've never seen so many windfurys and crits from one char before. Definitely some form of awesome . I hear they aren't that great when raiding until like t5 or something like that.

Hahaha yeah that's true.

I was amazed at how much aggro I got though. The tanks I ran with weren't very good, and that could have very well have been the problem. However, just doing white damage got me some unwanted attention from mobs at times. Of course that was after 3 windfury crits in a row .

Hey you guys still letting GWJers in? I just decided to give into the Wow addiction again, looking to start out all fresh and new.

I'm very low level, so its lonely over on Blackhand, I tried it for a bit a ways back, no one else around that server to level with.

I have a major case of Alt-itis, and with that I have multiple low level characters that I enjoy playing. I'd be happy to run around with ya.