Return of Reckoning

Faction balance changes a lot.

We've been through phases were order was favoured, destro was favoured. sometimes healers were overpowered, sometimes so squishy it hurt. Sometimes there was a melee favour, sometimes ranged.

Devs do their best but there's so many variables they're never gonna get ...

If you wanted to ditch some damage for more survivability, consider dropping the 10% crit tactic for Green Cleanin - this will heal you when you cleanse yourself, and you'll often be cleansing.

Personally, I'd prefer the crit tactic - since a lot of your self healing comes from life-taps, doing ...

I haven't personally tried to create a tanky shaman, but from my experience I'd say you're gonna have some trouble.

All your gearsets are light armor, so physical mitigation is always low. In my heal gearset, I use mostly armor talismans and a few wounds talismans. That still only comes out at ...

Thanks for the input! Will check out the build from the guide as well.

On a non-gear related note, what is the single target rotation for a melee SH? Are you supposed to actually use autoattack or are you supposed to use Ard Noggin between your other cooldowns for single target.

I will be going ...

Sadly, staring at health bars is a necessary part of being a healer - you need to know who to heal, and health bars tell you who needs it.

I do find this game much more engaging than most for healing, precisely because you do need to pay attention to the fight, you need to move around a lot, and ...

Its so that you can do some PvE without gimping yourself too much.

Keeping your PvP rank the same or higher than your career rank is advisable in this game. Most of the PvP gear in this game requires your renown rank to be the same or higher than your career rank, so letting it fall behind can ...

Class balance is ever changing, so I wouldn't base any of your choices on current balance unless you fancy chasing the latest "easy mode". Every class wants a buff, and every time you die to someone you think that class needs a nerf. Just human nature.

What's needed? Same as always, tanks and ...

Players not getting the bolster buff in scenarios sounds like a bug, one I've not experienced. If you're level 16-39, you should always get bolstered whether in scenarios or rvr.

T2, T3 and T4 were merged for RvR. The lower zones do get used and I have a particular fondness for some of the T3 ...

Squig herders are extremely squishy!

In order to get to high damage numbers, we need to stack a hell of a lot of weapon skill and balistic skill, ranged power too if you can get it. Renown points need to go into crit too, so we have nothing left over for defences.

This makes us into glass cannons ...

I only play shaman, but I feel the new mechanic is working great for DPS spec. Mostly I DoT people up, which gets me high up the mechanic, then get to 5 with either heal debuff, bubble or a HoT. Its very quick imo, can be done whilst on the move which is important, and gets my core damage going ...