

This talent has already been strongly rated elsewhere, but it’s worth looking at the numbers again. Although a complicated talent to unpick fully, the best case scenario for this talent is to add the equivalent of 1.25 Healing Waves to your Chain Heal cast. Finally, Cloudburst totem’s healing comes in lumps which might not be beneficial to your raid and therefore it will be useful to pay attention to when damage spikes are due to hit.Ĭloudburst would synergize extremely well with Elemental Mastery if used simultaneously. On the high end of the scale (replacing Healing Wave with Chain Heal, assuming best case scenario), Cloudburst does 93% of a Chain Heal heal value (a lot!) at almost three times the efficiency.Ĭloudburst totem is a “value” talent it’s more mana efficient a spell than any in your main rotation (except a best-case-scenario Healing Stream Totem) and therefore will be very attractive for general-purpose use, in particular when you have sustained periods of medium or light damage. The total healing it achieves is slightly more than one Healing Wave, which will be split between all players equally within 40 yds (not much per player, but reliable nonetheless). If we assume that you use Cloudburst totem in your maximum mana efficiency rotation (Riptide – 2x Healing Wave – Riptide – 2x Healing Wave, fits inside 15s) then Cloudburst is 30% more mana efficient than your rotation and 16% more efficient than Riptide, which is your most efficient spell.

The amount of healing it deals depends strongly on how hard you are healing throughout its uptime, which will be a benefit in periods of sustained damage but difficult to use effectively when there is burst damage happening at a defined time.

* – Not actually perfectly you’re unlikely to get them to line up 100% flawlessly due to the other things you have to be paying attention to during the raid, like healing people in a pickle. In terms of throughput, its main feature is that it has consistent throughput throughout the fight. Tracking this spell will be an absolute necessity if you take it. This is a major modification to the rotation, since to get the maximum benefit from the totem you have to be placing it perfectly on time after Healing Stream Totem expires – failing to get it within about a second will start to lessen the benefit you gain from taking the talent. This took a lot longer to make than it should have… Cloudburst TotemĬloudburst Totem (CBT) is where this discussion begins to get interesting! Cloudburst Totem adds another short-cooldown healing totem to your rotation, which syncs* with Healing Stream Totem.
