Questions for you.

Greetings Warfist!

I was doing scenarios last night, on my quest to level up, and I noticed something rather interesting.

Since I play a Shaman, I often compare my stats and results of the battle to other healers. The results of what I've seen are all over the place.

While I didn't collect any hard data ( perhaps I should, I would be interested in seeing the numbers ) of the healing/damage done, I can relay what I saw.

Running Nordenwatch about 10 times, I've found that healing classes usually do one of two things.

Heal like no bodies business, achieving over 20k healing… but 0 Damage. I saw a Zealot and a Shaman do this.

Or

Do nothing but damage, and very small heals ( under 2k ). Their total output of the damage done was rather impressive. The Shaman can sustain their assault for some time due to our AP leeching abilities.

I often found myself smack in the middle. I would have 10-12k healing with 10-12k damage.
I would heal the tanks, the MDPS, even the poor sorcerer that was getting feedback. I rarely healed myself as the person spamming heals topped me off.

The point of all this is the following:

In your opinion, what would you consider more effective? Obviously I was not a chart topper, but I kind of relished in the fact I was equal on all parts. I even managed 3 killing blows in a single scenario.

Am I hindering my team by not healing more? Not doing enough damage?
I thought about posting this on a major forum like WHA, or some such - but honestly I'd rather hear your opinions. It is my hope to join this guild, so your input is valuable to me.

Keep in mind I am only level 11, so my knowledge of shaman post 10 is limited. But so far, I "feel" like I've got the hang of my role. I guess that is all anyone can really hope for.

Thoughts?

I would rather have someone like you on my team that's playing the class the way it was designed. It's meant to be the middle ground for both and most people see a heal spell and go "I R HEELZ HURHUR" or the other way with the damage spells. I see far too many ignore the full potential of their class.

when I was playing a shaman in beta I was showing similar numbers. Use your waaagh mechanic. Throw out some insta-HoT's on whoever is nearby and then hit some order with a fully charged damage spell, follow it up with some more damage or healing, whichever is needed, and burn your fully charged waaagh.

you will max you class by going back and forth between damage and healing. That is not always true of a zealot, they are more of your true healbot. A shaman was meant to do damage and heal and the more you do of both the beter you get at both.

Yeah, as a Shaman, balance your damage and healing and you will be the most effective.

Squib Pony wrote:

most people see a heal spell and go "I R HEELZ HURHUR"

I just shat myself.

Squib, I love you.

Yeah if you have a mechanic, use it. The current zealot/rune priest mechanic is they don't generate morale unless they are doing damage (seriously), which isn't much of an incentive in my opinion.