Helping Raid Leaders & Their Healing Team
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Glyph of Chaining was another one of those oddball situational major glyphs given to Resto Shamans. It would increase the jump of Chain Heal by 100% but added an annoying 4 second cooldown to the spell.
5.4 will see that Glyph of Chaining CD reduced from 4 seconds to 2 seconds. It might make it a bit more appealing for Shamans for situational fights and would probably be worth it for a Shaman to buy the glyph to have it when that oddball situation arises.
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One of the big complaints from Shamans this expansion is that there aren’t that many instances where groups of players are stacked up enough to get the full utility out of Healing Rain.
Previously, the radius of healing rain was 10 yards. Blizzard has now increased the radius to 12 yards, which will help slightly with all the fights that require the raid to be spread out 8-10 yards. The 12 yard radius change applies to all Shaman specs.
This isn’t a huge buff, however, it is nice and might help shammies get an extra player or two in their Healing Rain. It is quite noticeable when dropping Healing Rain on the PTR though.
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It looks as though Innervate is getting revamped yet again.
Causes the target to regenerate mana equal to 50% of the caster’s Spirit every 1 sec for 10 sec.
This is a change from the previous Innervate which saw mana regen of 10% of the caster’s maximum mana over 10 seconds, with an additional 10% if self-casted.
Glyph of Innervate has also been revamped.
When Innervate is cast on a target other than the caster, both the caster and target will benefit, but at 40% reduced effect.
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Hand of Purity is getting some changes for 5.4, which will will help negate some of the changes that were hotfixed back in March during Throne of Thunder progression.
Hand of Purity
now reduces damage taken from harmful periodic effects by 80% (up from 70%) and reduces damage taken from harmful periodic effects that cannot be prevented by immunities by 40% (up from 0%).
You may remember that Hand of Purity was used for Frostbite on Council of Elders, and made it so easy during the first few weeks of heroic kills that it was necessary to stack pallies for that reason specifically.
This is a nice buff to give it more utility that was taken away with the hotfix.
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Glyph of Riptide is a glyph really only used for very situational fights, especially because it is the only instant heal that shammies have, and the glyph nerfs that initial instant heal by 90%. In 5.4, the glyph gets slightly buffed.
Removes the cooldown of Riptide, but reduces the initial direct healing by 75%.
Blizzard has also reduced the mana cost from 16% of base mana to 12% of base mana. For a level 90, this means it now costs 7200 mana per cast, as opposed to 9600.
While not an amazing change, it will help a bit for those situational fights where the glyph is used – which also makes me wonder if one of those situational fights will make an appearance in T16.
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It isn’t that unusual to see a Resto Druid spamming Wrath when the raid is at full health, or to get that bit of extra needed DPS for a fight. Now, Druids become the next class to get their own version of Atonement, where they can do Wrath damage that gets converted to healing.
Blizzard reworked the Dream of Cenarius Talent and it is quite impressive for Druids.
Restoration: Causes Wrath to deal 20% more damage and heals a nearby friendly target for 100% of the damage done.
Dream of Cenarius is in the 6th tier talents for level 90s, so Druids will have to chose between Dream of Cenarius, Heart of the Wild and Nature’s Vigil.
