As enhancement, would it just be better to get the healing stream totem? Within the 15 seconds of the totem, it heals faster and a bit more anyway. Thoughts?
At max level the amount that HST heals for for enhance is kind of a joke.
I have 5.6 million hp. Which is not even that high compared to most people, and the spell heals for approximately 42 thousand hp per tick. For 7 -9 ticks depending on if you have another talent.
294 to 378 thousand hp over the duration. It does also provide 6% damage reduction against frost / fire / nature with a talent.
That’s about 5% of your heath over 18 seconds.
You could boost that to 8% if you also add earth shield with the 20% healing boost, but unless you really need that frost. Fire or nature reduction it doesn’t really amount to much healing when you could just use earth shield and healing surge to a much greater effect.
I mean, you could grab both. In 11.1, they’re buffing HST for Enhancement by 100%. But, the real value of HST for Enhancement is the 6% reduced dmg taken by Fire/Frost/Nature via ‘Elemental Resistance’. ‘Earth Shield’ is still a valid choice too since Shamans are relatively squishy (in a M+ environment) so any extra survivability isn’t exactly a bad thing but that often depends heavily on who you’re playing with.
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Yeah. I’d have to agree that if you pick just one. Pick earth shield. If you pick both they add up but you need to drop a global here and there to drop the totem.
Shield will also add an extra %20 to all your heals so I think it’s more worth it as HST requires a global to maintain.
I’ve often wished that surging totem would just absorb the affects of HST for enhancement spec … it would save us from needing to plop that down when running totemic. Which is why I usually skip it.
The additional globals needed for HST when enh already has a bit going on, makes HST a no go for me.
So I tried out HST on the PTR and it’s going to be doubling basically …
I was doing calculations before so I didn’t have exact numbers but on live I’m doing like 50k per tick and 100k crits.
On the PTR I am ticking around 100k per tick and 200k crits.
So over like 18s that’d be like 900k healing which is a lot better. As it’s happening passively anyway. Plus the earth shield healing occasionally that will add up better …
Is this doubling for Resto or just Enhance?
For resto and elemental the regular ticks for me were like 75k for elemental, starts at 100k for resto (and then ticks down because of the talent, so I am guessing it’s the same as elemental before you take the water totem mastery talent?)
I didn’t test what resto HST ticks for on live for me.