I’m really happy to see resto shaman buffs, but I’ve noticed this season is heavy on 10+ target pulls and our damage really doesn’t scale whatsoever beyond 3-6 targets.
Instead of just buffing acid rain/chain lightning damage, I wish they just increased chain lightning target cap to 5 instead of 3 and made acid rain hit unlimited targets but reduced beyond 6 instead of hard capped at 6.
Every other healer has a decent button to press when a 10-20 target pull happens.
Sunfire, consecration, juiced holy nova + halo/divine star, fire breath/deep breath.
Shaman is the only one hard capped at 6 targets. And I’m aware this is an issue for all shaman specs but I’m not familiar enough with them.
The best effort I’ve found so far is to just do a master of the elements + unleash life combo to push acid rain to 8 targets. But that’s a lot of globals to invest when the point is other healers can do a single high value global uncapped/soft capped aoe on a big pull and focus on healing.
If shaman were still the best at single target instead to make up for it I wouldn’t mind so much.