bonus to wards

[konflic]

my question is kinda a noobish question. sorry for asking if the answer is obviouswhat healing bonuses affect wards and which ones do not. do +heal items have an effect on wards?do basic healing AAs from the shammy sta AA Tree have an effect on wards ?do bonuses to critical heals affect wards?my hidden question behind this is : for a mid range(40-50) defiler focused on being main healer, what bonuses should i be focusing on ?thx in advance

[fleip]

+ heal items do add to wards sta aa????? don't know what you are talking about so no... if you are talking about the wis line ritual no that only helps heals but is still handy IMHO for when you have to group heal or get behind on wardsyes bonuses to crit heals do help wards just as muchwhen I was 40-50 there was no gear with + heals, crit, or adornments at all for that matter I don't really know whats out there these days for the lower lvls but for t6 you can get some nice adornments on your hat gloves neck and weapons I believe

[cggerth]

+heal items do add to wards. not really sure what you mean on this one either, I didn't think there were +heal things in the sta tree.  I think there is + heal crit.  In the defiler tree, the +ward amount only affects our buff that has a ward for magical damage.Yes wards do crit so bonus do help.Personally for me, I see myself benefiting ALOt more from +heal then from +crit.  When parsing raids in my guild, the shaman have extremely low number of crits.  (not sure if it counts ward crits or not though).  with how the druid and cleric reactive/regrowth works they tend to "cast" alot more heals which means they crit more often.  One good thing about +heal, for wards unless you have over 50% of your ward amount in +heal items, you won't max out.  (ex, if you had a ward that healed for 1000, you can have up to +500 +heal without hitting a cap.  2000 ward would be +1000 heal).  for clerics and druids where that number is ALOT lower (reactive might trigger for about 500, which would mean they would cap at +250) so crit tends to be more powerful for them, +heal tends to be more powerful for shaman.