And he’s repeatedly put out “guides” that were horribly wrong. He’s a youtuber/streamer. He gets paid for making content. So he tried to make content for everyone, and has in the past gone quantity over quality. His most recent 8.3 predictions was a great example of this.
If that’s the case, the disc would have been worse. While normally, you want more damage where you can, your disc repeatedly underperforms. Actually, the only healer you have that consistently is putting out high hps, even taking into account damage reduced by DRs, is your monk. Your problem isn’t non-meta healers, it’s bad healers. Like most 1k guilds.
They do this job well but a disc priest or a hpal still does it better. If you are in a position where you have dull choice of healer comp assuming equal skill you would take a disc priest or pally over a shaman unless the shaman has something in its tool kit that is unique.
I don’t play disc but last night on my pally I did 42k dps on a boss fight without padding on adds raul the gluttonous in wcm) and burst up to 50k dps in wings. I even forgot to second pot.
Or alternatively bring an hpal of diac and do like double thier damage. Hps requirements are seldom the break points in a boss fight anyway.
Healer dps is more valuable than healer hps most of the time in the current fights
On the contrary, he has been highly critical of bfa. He is biased towards the hardcore end of the game but I think he is relatively fair in his assessments.
I will disagree with the highest healer damage but the rest is exactly what I said. If they bring something that is needed they get taken. For healing or damage or damage reductions though 99% of the time the best will be disc and hpal.
And everyone is wrong on their raid predictions in some way. Until you hit live, you won’t know for sure what comp will work or what will be powerful based on boss mechanics.
I only speak as a LFR noob, but I love shaman healing. My druid healing feels inneffective, even though I know I am helping a lot. But Shaman? My heals feel powerful.
That’s fine we can disagree. I will keep getting my info from the best players in the world and keep ing all over every resto shaman I see. Beat of luck to you.
Yea it totally depends on the fights totally but almost every fight seems to be large bursts that a damage deduction cd would be awesome for followed my periods of super low healing. Disc and hpal suit this the best with the short cds on their ramps and very high dps.
Edit. Yes like greysonx said below me any healer is totally fine u till mythic progression. Even then most of the time a healer who is good at a spec will be better sticking with that than rerolling to a new meta spec
ing all over every resto shaman I see. Beat of luck to you.