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Comment by 9029

This is an interesting talent to have. A few notes on this:

1. As far as I understand, it can be triggered even with rank 1 from healing waves. As such, you can save mana and use it with bigger, proper heals.

2. It works for every shaman in the raid. Yes, only 1 shaman is needed to trigger the effect on the target (example, the MT), and all the others can have their own healing waves upgraded by 20%.

It's a good talent to keep someone alive with bigger heals. I'd personally use it only on the main tank / OT's, since they'd need the most healing. Other raid members can benefit from quicker heals, as in, lesser healing waves.

Comment by 192128

All ranks (and down ranks) spells in the beta cost the same amount of mana as of 9/25.

Comment by Carighan

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I had to re-write this as recent changes have made Healing Way a powerful asset again.

Now that Ancestral Awakening always counts the full heal (including overhealing) for it's proc, the huge HW crits one can get from Healing Way are not going to overhealing-waste anymore. In light of that, make a simple decision: Do you tankheal often?

If yes, you want this. :)

Comment by semlar

This would be far more practical if it affected lesser healing wave.

Comment by 172096

This talent is so lackluster I could almost cry. The bonus is great and all, but keeping 3 stacks of this isn't that practical, and in my pre-naxx gear (1500sp unbuffed) the heal hit for 8k with 3 stacks non TWed and non crit. You should never let your tank dip that low just to make you heals more effective.

So all in all with the Lesser Healing Wave glyph I can spend 3 point more to get 3% crit which will give me more mana than I use swiching to LHW and reduce overhealing by a fair bit.

Comment by 219211

This talent is very useful in case you have to heal a MT or somebody who gets constantly hit for big amounts of damage. Perfect example of that will be healing OT on Patchwerk.

Comment by 264311

Ok maybe this question is a little dumb but does anyone know if this talent still requires 3 points as of patch 3.0.8 to be effective?

Edit: Nvm answered my own question by going to http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?shaman#

Comment by Thander

The value of this talent definitely depends on your gear situation.

As a starting 80 resto shaman, Elemental Weapons is gonna be a much better investment. +45 healing is pretty good when you have <1500 healing. As you start getting better gear, that +45 healing will be less and less of a boost. It will always be +45 healing no matter how good your gear gets.

Once you have 2500-3000 healing or higher, Healing Way is probably better. +45 healing doesn't make a difference at that point, and this talent might help with MT healing. Even if MT healing is not your assignment, you might still end up doing it in an emergency.

Comment by 182403

The value of this talent definitely depends on your gear situation.

As a starting 80 resto shaman, Elemental Weapons is gonna be a much better investment. +45 healing is pretty good when you have <1500 healing.

As you start getting better gear, that +45 healing will be less and less of a boost. It's pretty easy to see it just doesn't scale because Earthliving Weapon does not get any benefit from your spellpower.

Once you have 2500-3000 healing or higher, Healing Way is probably better. Your heals are good enough without the extra 45 healing, and this talent might help with MT healing. Even if MT healing is not your assignment, you might still end up doing it in an emergency.

why do people downrank him, he has the most sense in the whole post, please stop clickin the minus button to purge if you can't understand something...

Comment by 302378

since Healing Way only needs 1 proc to last 15 secs and is only usefull when healing a tank, you dont need to put more then 1 or 2 points into it.

during 15sec's of healing the single tank, you will no doubt have it proc several times again even at 33%.

if your only gonna be raid healing, you wont need Healing Way at all since you will only rarely get to spamheal a dps and if you want to be able to do some tank-heals aswell, simply put the 1-2 points in it to make it happen.

Comment by Kortiah

In answer to both Mjukis & Thander :

Expect you don't use HW when you're healing a tank but ES+LHW(glyphed).

Pretty useless talent at the moment, since we don't use HW except for Nature's Swiftness (or maybe if in very lack of HPM for an emergency heal without NS up but I'd rather LHW+Riptide).

(Note that if ONE shaman get this talent it affects all the Healing Waves cast on the target, even if Healing Ways from different shamans are showed in the buffs.)

Comment by 214

With 3.2 this has changed to a flat 25% more heal on HW. My Shaman has roughly 2.3k spellpower with Earthliving & Flametongue, with which my HW hovers at around 10k non-crit. LHW hits for about half that when ES is on the target (glyph'd), but obviously crits a lot more often when you throw CH into the mix due to the new Tidal Waves changes.

It is a decent buff for sure, but I don't know if it's enough to warrant a HW without NS.

Comment by 132997

A must have for ToC Heroic.

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Healing Way

Healing Way

Talent

Increases the amount healed by your Healing Wave spell by 25%.

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Physical

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None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

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0 seconds

Effect

Apply Aura: Modifies Damage/Healing Done
Value: 25%
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

Healing Wave	Healing Wave	Healing Wave
Healing Wave	Healing Wave	Healing Wave
Healing Wave	Healing Wave	Healing Wave
Healing Wave	Healing Wave	Healing Wave
Healing Wave	Healing Wave

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Healing Way

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