Restoration Shaman 7.3

[Guest DrFisky]

9 hours ago, Blainie said:

While this can work sometimes, you have to remember that certain fights require very different management styles. Take Aggramar, for example, where almost all healing required comes during the extremely damage-heavy add phase. Once you have got through the adds' explosions, there is very little to heal. Also, as fights become easier due to gear, progression being over, etc., you will find yourself ending fights with more mana than you normally would. 

This also doesn't take into account external cooldowns, such as Innervate, availability of mana potions, etc.

You are obviously correct. But, as a guide, hypothetically - you find yourself 3 mins in to an 8 min fight. The boss is at 65% health and you're at 45% mana. You're in trouble. This is the time to ask for an innervate and start to conserve spells (cut down on cleanses, lava bursts etc). The guide's written to help newbies. It's a newbie tip. It also helps counter-manage the "Always be casting" recommendation by giving a yard stick. Once you learn the fights then absolutely you know when you can burn and when you need to save. 

[Seksi 208]

I thought about that when writing the guide, and at a point it said "you should keep your remaining Mana % roughly equal with the boss's % HP percent" but opted out of it in the final version because of what Blainie explained: it depends on the fight!

What you lose when Mana runs out is your ability to do burst healing with Healing Surge and Chain Heal, as cooldowns and Healing Wave can easily be maintained with your normal Mana regeneration, so if the final phase is a desperate race against time where you use those non-stop you probably want to enter it with as much Mana as possible instead of 30% or whatever the boss' HP is at that point.

A good example of a past boss that worked like this is Blackhand on his final phase, if you entered it at 30% Mana you were probably doing things wrong!

[Bloodkiller 0]

Great idea. I am going to try that. I always have 75% mana, unless I cast healing surge then I am down around 25% real fast. Good Idea.

[Seksi 208]

While that is a good generalist rule, in practice you want to use your Mana to cover high damage periods, and it can be totally fine to save most of it for the end burn phase if the boss has one.

The Restoration Shaman Uldir boss guides that are about to go out talk about this at length on the bosses that have such burn phases, make sure to check them out :)

PS: Its out! https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/restoration-shaman-pve-healing-uldir-boss-by-boss