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WoW: There is more to deep restoration |
Do we know a boss hits fast and does a lot of damage via many smaller hits that are hard to heal through? Spirit links that druid tank with another druid tank and a warrior in full stam gear to spread the load out. How will this be used in PvP? Does the shared damage act as normal damage, breaking CC like polymorph or sap? This could be the best 51 point talent in the game, depending on these details.
But there's more to deep restoration than the capstone talent. We also have Ancestral Awakening, Improved Earth Shield, Blessing of the Eternals, and Tidal Waves. Ancestral Awakening is a nice flavor spell, helping to cement the shaman as a healer who gains his or her powers through negotiation with the elemental spirits and his or her predecessors, and since it seems to go off whenever a shaman crits on a healing wave or lesser healing wave, there's a nice potential here for some more distributed healing.
I wonder (well, okay, my wife wonders) if the Ancestral spirit who shows up looks like the shaman... can Tauren get Orc ancestral spirits? Should we take 'ancestral' at face value here? And how do the ancestors feel about being constantly pulled out of wherever ancestors spend most of their afterlife every time I crit on a heal?
I'm probably thinking too much about what is a nice utility healing spell. Improved Earth Shield, Blessing of the Eternals and Tidal Waves all look like solid talents you're going to pick up if you're serious about healing... more bang for the ES buck, more healing crit and more bonus from Earth living, and a one-two punch of faster casting and more effect from your heals if you crit on a chain heal all seem pretty decent to me.
I mean, if you're going for Spirit Link anyway, these are all solid talents. |
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