I’m having trouble surviving 1v1or even running away as a resto shaman. Does anyone know of a video guide they can share?
Go to your trainer, reset talents and go ele.
You’ll still heal just fine but you won’t have to run you can fight back!
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You’ve sent them down the path of the darkside. 
So few healers left.
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Can you link talents / gear you have ?
positioning for group, pant heal to damage rune for 1v1
in Vanilla WoW the only healer who could survive 1v1 and beat any other character or class was Priest, with points in all three specs.
as Shaman you will always die… what you can do to survive sometimes is, Shaman has ways to prevent most kinds of CC, at least once… try to prevent, and when you do, you drink a Swiftness Potion, get some range, mount and leave.
it also works well sometimes when there is more than one, I’ve seen only one person in all my PvP in SoD who actually used a Swiftness to catch me, so it’s very effective versus a party who may be camping your body.
How to survive as a Resto Shaman:
- Go to character select.
- Delete Shaman.
- Create Priest.
In all seriousness, even Priests don’t survive very long. After Dispersion falls off they’re dead anyway. They just bought themselves 5 extra seconds.
No healer can survive or even heal other people if more than 1 DPS is targeting them. The burst is stupid right now.
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Every DPS has an interrupt now, it seems. Half of them can stun or silence. Playing a healer in PvP against competent players feels real bad right now.
Priest has it better than everyone else, but it’s still bad. I can’t survive a single geared Rogue, Ret Paladin, Warrior, Enhance Shaman or Feral Druid. Kick / stun Penance and its gg. Faking casts does no good because I’m dead anyway with the insane amount of damage going out.
I have far better survivability as a Shadow Priest than I do as a healer despite having much, much better healing gear. Make that make sense.
The only way this is gonna survive is a size-able drop in Rune ability damage.
Until then, it’s near pointless to have a healer, let alone be one.
(That’s why there’s so many SPriests with CLEARLY healing character names…)
Here is the step by step:
Respec Enh > Right click target > Press 1 > if target was still alive press 2
I have no clue what you are talking about… when I was 10-0-21 I was already un-killable, same now 0-0-31, and they absolutely MURDERED shadow priest with the SW:D nerf… it was nerfed so badly that, Penance, now, will often do more damage… and we can choose to heal instead case we need.
it appears to me people are following fail builds from websites and BIS stuff, which is focused for raids - and trust me, raids are irrelevant, it’s so easy you can heal 0-0-31, I mean, last PUG we had ONE shaman chain heal the entire raid.
and you can’t resist more time as Shadow Priest compared to regular priest, because at the moment you will lack Martyr if you go 0-0-31, and that alone is what keeps you alive… the very first Crit any melee hits you it’s free cast, you can bait the kick/silence or you can just try the odds and cast anyways… the amount of resistance between Martyr and Unbreakable will make you resist almost all interrupts, apart from Paladins repentance… Martyr is the only way to stay alive while you get Fear & Smoke back from cooldown.
also, let’s face it… people are running STR+AGI gear while on World, 99% of people have absolute no HP bar… most times, almost ALL times, I throw VP+DP+SW:P+HUM+SHADOWFIEND and I just smoke – and seriously, unless its a healer, that alone kills some three times, some DOTs are still 10 seconds remaining and the person is dead… it’s just, the issue here is not everyone does much damage, the issue here is, people failing to read websites telling them to get STR+AGI gear - and missing the part RAID BIS… those items you carry on the bag and you only equip when you are inside Gnomeregan.
the irony is this is a healer meta despite everyone saying its a burst meta. the better healer will always win for their team, its just that dogsht 3 priest premade players did not adapt to the change of hunters being the only high sustained dmg class to every class being a threat and still position like they can outheal a team with mending. its low ttk and low time to full heal. a skilled healer meta.
also if burst is all that mattered the mage groups at altars would die in 3 seconds instead of 15(duration of the 5 mass regen beacons)
Idk as a resto druid i can survive in the open world. Instant hots, ns, swiftmend, roots, travel form, bear form
Die, ankh, lava burst them from behind
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Hide beind the yhe boomie hes large enoghe none will see you
I have no idea how any of that pertains to what I said.
If you’re “unkillable” as a healer in phase 2, you’re playing against very, very bad players. It’s that simple.
agreed, I probably pile up on people like you, whose got no idea how it is even possible for a Priest not in Shadow Form to kill every other class.
and what I said is closely related to your comment “playing a healer in PvP against competent players feels real bad right now” - and in all honesty, you have no clue what you are talking about, PoM is very strong when you have anyone near with a brain, doesn’t work for solo… Penance is strong no matter what, all you do is FAP and you already beat dead most classes, Shield + FH + Penance will bring you 100% most cases.
perhaps you have issues because you follow non-sense tutorials on the internet… it has to be that, I have stated how you beat any other class hands down… worst could be a Warrior, due to Mortal Strike, but you can dot him all the way + humun and then Disperse, most Warriors are so weak and so clueless they have Agility instead of Stamina.
You’re talking about 1v1 as if anyone cares about duels. And you’re unironically saying you have to pop a FAPs every time you want to win a 1v1. 
The fact remains, in any kind of organized PvP, if you’re playing against competent players, you’re dead. There is no surviving the burst as a healer currently. You say Penance + Flash Heal takes you to 100% like you’re just free casting, which tells me you’re playing against terrible players. Take a video of yourself casting Penance + FH with a Rogue and a Warrior on you. Go ahead. I’ll wait.
You play elemental shaman instead and mitigate damage by killing people before they do the damage. It’s technically healing.
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and I will tell you one more time, Martyr + UW, and it is free cast… and no, I said FAP for this very reason, they can be on me… both, Warrior & Rogue, doesn’t matter, we already have a native 25% chance to resist interrupts, add 35% from what I mentioned above and you are 60% solid.
you won’t lose cast time due Martyr… how is it hard to cast? - and I play with people all the time, perhaps YOU die, but I don’t… as I said, you just cannot cope with PvP, you in all likelihood have incorrect gear from w/e you collected Raid, you have incorrect Talents and your friends have no clue how to CC people.
PS: you entire group will have full PvP talents and gear, it’s not optional… raid garbage you leave on your bank until you are on the boat to BB once each 3 days.