ShamWOW for HB2 - An Enhance/Elemental/Resto + PVP/RaF Healbot by Bobby53

Zeldrak: Thanks for trying to assist FinnLOL. I'm waiting on his log file and can assist from there. Just wanted to clarify some behavior referenced in your post.

In RAF, a Resto Shaman that is setup with the RAF Combat Style: Healing Only should only cast DPS spells in the following circumstances:

1. Lightning Bolt - cast only if no healing or dispelling is needed AND you have points in the Telluric Currents talent. Those that do not want this behavior should remove this talent from their Resto build.
2. Shock Spells - cast only if no healing or dispelling is needed AND you have points in the Focused Insight talent. Those that do not want this behavior can omit this talent from their Resto build.

So as a general rule, the combat styles are intended to mean exactly what they say:
a. Combat Only - concerned only with DPS. Will self-heal and ressurrect party members if needed, but mana and GCD's are saved for DPS spells.
b. Healing Only - concerned only with Healing. Will heal/dispel group only. Only exceptions to this are the two talents mentioned above which the user can control while speccing, or Wind Shear. These spells are lower on the priority list than the heal spells.
c. Healing over Combat - a hybrid approach. Healing spells have the highest priority, but if no healing/dispels to be done will cast a full range of DPS spells not limited to the talents described above. DPS will be lower than Combat Only, but this is a good solution for when you out gear an instance. I also use this option frequently as an Elemental Shaman prior to Level 30 to run instances as a Healer with InstanceBuddy.

 

Your CC just killed Thyrm the world ender by itself

 

Bobby, thanks for taking the time to respond to my post. I understand more clearly now about totem usage! I was going to mention the "idle state totems" but seems like you've already thought of this...keep up the good work, I truly love this CC!! I've been watching it do AB and AV and it's simply amazing! I'm usually near the top of KB's when I go combat only and I'm ALWAYS top healing even in Elem spec (haha) I don't think I could ever perform as well as the CC >,<

I have another question...the CC is too darn good at keeping it's target when casting! Do you think it looks a little bot-like for me to be constantly "tracking" the target as he's running back and forth in front of me or circling me? Especially fights against a rogue...I'm spinning along and casting, tracking the rogue while the rogue is moving around me a like a crackhead with ADHD!

 

I lol'd hard xD
Made my day, +rep

 

LOL! I hadn't thought about the facing issue in that fashion. I have some additional PVP features that I'll be adding after Cata comes out that should break this up a little bit. Thanks for the post and the good laugh, Bobby53

 

Thanks for the post Mupp, glad to hear it is working well for you! Bobby53

 

Yeah, that's what I was trying to say, but I didn't know the talent names. My Resto has both the Teluric Currents and Focused Insight talents. Casting those spells helps me reserve mana and regen mana pretty quickly. You cleared up what I was trying to say.

 

Any ETA on when the next release will be ready? B/c atm as a resto shaman, level 67, it just spams healing surge which murders my mana. As soon as there is a priority healing rotation this should be fixed. Maybe allow config in GUI when to cast healing wave/chain heal/healing surge? Thanks.

 

I'm getting the same problem where the shaman "double-heals" and doesn't realize the target is fully healed from first heal. And again it's usually healing surge. Also it was spamming earth shield on myself instead of tank and then replacing with water shield etc. it was bad.

Code:

HonorBuddy Mode: Instancebuddy (healing only)
Shamans Location: Sethekk Halls
What should have happened (be specific): Above
What did happen (be specific): Above

 

I would need a log file with a timestamp reference to where you went OOM or drank excessively. Otherwise, how much mana it costs isn't a factor.

Thanks Gimik. My response [link--click here] to another user on this issue.

 

Ah thanks Bobby, just read your response and that makes sense, but is just annoying. Also, since i had Debug output or w/e enabled, i have no idea where the earthshield/water shield issue occurred. It happened during the first pull when i entered the instance if you can find that in the log cause with all the extra debug info i can't really find it.

 

From further using instancebuddy to help me through heroics I have started to get some gear and I have finally gotten everything down.

My personal rotation.

Lightning Shield on all the time (Could I have some more information as a way to make it only put on the Water Shield out of combat?.. I will explain in a second)

Elemental Mastery (If Available), Flame Shock, Lava Burst, Lightning Bolt, and then Earth Shock when I hit 9 Lightning Shields.

Glyphs and Talents are required for this rotation to function.

a) With the Water Shield I have very low mana all the time and I end up looking really bad..
b) With Lightning Shield and the talent Rolling Thunder every time I cast Lightning Bolt I have a 60% chance to gain another Lightning Shield and recover 2% mana.

With form B my mana is almost always full. So could you explain to me more how to get it to use Water Shield the least amount possible or only out of combat if available.

EDIT: It also seems to be removing and adding totems with every mob it changes and even sometimes on the same one.

On the Maiden of Greif it removed and added them 5 times with her targeted. Bug??

EDIT: Switched all the totems back to Auto and it seems to work fine now. It won't let me use the totems I want

 

Liferose, Good explanations but I need the debug log file to be able to assist with it. The copy/paste from the Log Window doesn't contain the information needed. Frequently Asked Questions-FAQ [link--click here] has details on the information needed when posting an issue.

As for water shield/lightning shield, the behavior is called Shield Twisting. Go into CC Configuration for ShamWOW and click the Help button. Look for the topic on Shield Twisting and it should cover what you need. If not, let me know so I can update the help content.

Thanks for the post, Bobby53

 

Damn Bobby, I'm level 67 resto using Squire, and i'm in AB right now and it earth shield'ed a 69 warrior, and i followed him into stables and we 2v5 people and captured stables. Rape! Awesome Plugin/CC, keep up the awesome work.

 

Request/suggestion

Would it be possible to get the Auto combat style to switch to healing over combat, if the healer dies in an instance?
It would also be nice if it could switch to healing over combat when the healer reaches x% mana.

It's already an awesome cc, but I think this would make it even better.
It would require that it's able to identify who the healer is though, and I don't know if it can.

 

Based on sig, I am guessing you didn't mean to post in the Shaman thread. Otherwise just a heads up that the content of your post doesn't appear.

 

Yes, excellent point. It won't be in the next release, but I will add the ability to automatically off-heal in the one coming after.

 

Glad to hear it worked so well for you Gimik, thanks for the post on your success with ShamWOW and Squire!

 

Preview of Group Healing Spell config in next ShamWOW version

Release won't be available until Wednesday, so here is a preview of the new tab in CC Configuration for ShamWOW that will enable you to control healing spells. Explanatory text appears on the screen.

Preset buttons to right allow you to quickly restore to default values for both groups or switch between raid and party defaults for the RAF column only.


Out of Combat healing is always Healing Wave or Greater Healing Wave.

Column is treated as a priority queue using the Health % values entered.

Entering a 0% disables use of that spell.

If none of the spells selected are trained, Healing Wave is cast using the maximum % health given.

If the spells at and above the current health % are not trained or on cooldown, then healing logic will look for a usable spell with a lower health % so a heal can be cast.