What should shamans gem for

Check out our handy guide! Simply browse for your screenshot using the form below. Screenshots containing UI elements are generally declined on sight, the same goes for screenshots from the modelviewer or character selection screen. Please review our Screenshot Guidelines before submitting! Simply type the URL of the video in the form below. Rank 1 returns 4 mana. Gems can be a major investment. However, never leave a socket empty.

Always put some gem in it. Gems with spell haste can be another viable option. Blue gems should be used sparingly. Before Patch 2. Unlike DPS classes, there is no great meta gem for healers. Secondary colors purple, orange, green count for BOTH primary colors. As a result, the gem has a 3. Wearing gear with spell haste will reduce the proc rate further due to casting more spell during the cooldown period. With more than spell haste rating, the proc rate drops to 3. The meta requires that you have 2 red gems, 2 yellow gems and 2 blue gems.

The two red gems should not be a problem for any shaman. Using these four gems actually provides more benefit than [Forceful Talasite] x 2 — taking into account socket bonuses and using Tier 6 HEP values. While using all spinels provides the highest HEP values, the large amount of haste on end-game gear may make the mana returned from Insightful Earthstorm Diamond attractive.

When it procs you gain spell haste rating for 6 seconds. There is a second cooldown since Patch 2. In real raid situations it will proc about once per minute. However, the proc can also be wasted if it occurs at the end of the fight or when no one needs healing.

This meta gem has a second drawback — it requires more blue gems than yellow. Currently, the best gems for resto shaman are red and yellow.

Blue gives us the least benefit. The gem might have some benefit if put in a secondary or duplicate helm and used as part of a spell haste set. However, yellow gems give spell haste so the meta might work against gems in haste gear.

Take the amount of additional healing and multiple by the duration of the buff. Then divide by the cooldown. To ensure you use on-use trinkets every time the cooldown is available. If you drink super mana pots during a minute fight, it would restore, 8 mp5 to 16 mp5.

However, the advantage is you get extra mana when you need it the most. In actual use, you get about 20 mp5 Cooldown: 45 seconds. Time spent channeling is affected by haste. If it procs once per minute which is more realistic , you get 28 mp5 Cooldown: 45 seconds. If it procs once per minute, it equals It will also proc off Earth Shield charges if you cast it on yourself.

You need to make sure that you are in a fight where you are spamming chain heal non-stop. Otherwise, you can easily see the proc rate fall to once every two minutes 18 mp5.

Entry-level Trinkets All these trinkets are available by completing a quest or can be bought once you have enough reputation with a faction. You keep the stacks indefinitely until you use them, even if you change gear, log out or switch zones. The only time you lose the charges is when you zone into the arena. You can spam Healing Wave Rank 1 to quickly charge it to full. Mortal Strike, wound poison, etc. Does not scale with plus healing. Each jump of chain heal is another chain to proc.

Cooldown: 15 seconds. The trinket would truly shine if it were based on casting Chain Heal instead. Enchanting your gear can quickly drain your bank account. However, it is well worth the expense if you will not upgrade your gear for a while. The best enchant to skip all together if money is an issue is Subtlety to cloak.

In actual raids, this works out to about mp5 per person. If you have a second weapon that is close in quality to your main weapon, you can enchant the secondary weapon with Spellsurge. You can then use a mod such as Caster Weapon Swapper to switch between them while Spellsurge is on cooldown. In this patch: Equipping an item will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress.

Legs: [Silver Spellthread] or [Golden Spellthread]. Also Vitality is a much cheaper and easier to find so it may be the best enchant if you expect to quickly upgrade your boots. By wearing gear with spell haste, we can cast spells faster, boosting our overall healing done for a fight — and potentially have heals landing faster to prevent deaths.

Starting in Patch 2. Many shaman find that when put in a group with a shadow priest, they cannot use their mana fast enough. Please review our Screenshot Guidelines before submitting! Simply type the URL of the video in the form below. It maintains a WoW addon called the Wowhead Looter , which collects data as you play the game! It uploads the collected data to Wowhead in order to keep the database up-to-date! Connect with Wowhead.

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