Healing as a Shaman...

[maky]

well there are many different ways how to heal as a shaman... first there are only 5 healing abilities shaman have... Healing Wave - Strongest heal shaman have with biggest cast time... Lesser Healing Wave - smaller version of healing wave with much shorter cast time then healing wave... Riptide - is an instant and overtime healing spell, meaning it will heal some amount of health when it's used and will continue healing over a few seconds but for less hp ofc... Chain Heal - chain heal is the only multiple targets heal a shaman has but because of it shamans are great raid healer's, it affects 4 tragets within 10 yards radious, that means it will jump to next lower hp % target if it is in range the only problem is every jump is 40% weaker... Earth Shield - is also a healing ability it protects the target with earth shield reducing their pushbacks on spells by 30% and healing them while shield has charges... depending on what u heal, combinations of heal's are different... for some encounter's u don't use chain heal at all since u have no use for it coz u maybe don't need it and it has big cast time so u need to rely on healing wave + riptide combination, while on other enconters chain heal is needed a lot... depending on your gear and stuff u can make usefull macros like i did, for example i have 128+ intelect it gives 599spell power over 20 sec, the problem is u need to activate it every 2 mins (it has that much of a cd) so i made a macro to activate it every time i use riptide and that is a lot... i know that isn't much but it helps... and also as shaman healer use riptide a lot it help much and watch for those cd's they can be very usefull in a bad situation...

[maky]

also what i do to boost my healing for few heal's is to use chain heal even if aoe healing isn't needed, why well that only works if u have (Totem of Calming Tides), that helps u in this way... every time u use chain heal there is around 70% chance u will get 234spell power for next 15sec so that means u will have your other heal's stronger for that amount, as i said before a lot of different ways to heal as a shaman and chain heal isn't everything, if u rely only on it then u aren't too good of a healer, also a good way of poping your cd's is to use both Nature Swiftness (that ability make your next healing or dmg spell instant) and Tidal Force (it increases your crit chance by 60% on Healing Wave, Lesser Healing Wave and Chain Heal for 20 sec each crit reduces it by 20%) when a lot of ppl are badly dmged and need a lot of healing so pop those 2 and chain heal or a usefull to helpout on tank healing when it is missing a lot of hp also pop those 2 and use healing wave... as i said a lot of trick's and stuff depending on what suites u the most...

[derxor]

if u want advice to heal as a sahmmy dont do what maky does