i never said it prolly is not a better choice? i agree with you in fact but im not going around worrying about LHW or HW in 80% of fights since those are AoE fights. I swap trinkets and playstyle when doing the other bosses and ofc cast more direct heals. LHW and HW hit good enough for me without adding talents/glyphs to them. its just heals that are rarely used that i tend not to focus my gear and talents on.
im lost what are we talking about here what haste vs what spell power? swapping trinkets? gear? im lost what we are comparing exactly here.
either way we are talking about about a .11-.13 heal difference so you would get a "free"( what i mean by this is that while you would start casting your 11th chain heal chain heal i would be on my 12th thus i would have one more full CH out) every 10 chains going with haste and this would continue to get lower every 9-10 casts vs if your 662 exrtra sp hits for each chain 662x4(CH hits)x10(amount of ch before haste would grant a free heal) gives you 26,480. so at max 26k going with spell power vs getting a free CH which has a chance to hit all the way up to like 35k so actually haste is the better choice when AoE spam healing. or look at it like this. its basically the same when you add in the extra CH you get every 10 casts. so it really does not matter what way you go but haste has the potential to do more than the sp would give. Or better yet haste has the potential to do less or more healing but Sp is more static.
in fact im not even sure where you are going with all those numbers. im not going to worry about my 3rd and 4th most used heals unless im doing a certain boss like HLK or RS. why are we even talking about LHW and HW all of a sudden? i thought we were discussing CH. im not saying ur math is wrong but... most ICC fights revolve around AoE CH spams
i understand your view but there are soooo many different ways to play a shaman that i cant say your wrong or right and that is the exact way everyone should play and spec. ive seen resto shamans with 2 set and casting 1.3 second chains outside raid with no rip up. it just really depends.
also why are you giving up 2 points in ancsetrial knowledge? granted is only 9sp but if your so focused on sp and maxing it idk why earths grasp. pointless except 1 boss and thats HLK.
ive said it once and ill say it again. this guide is just a roundabout way to play shaman as an overall way not a boss specific way because literally to do a shaman guide you would have to base it on AoE healing and tank healing specs/gear/glyphs ect. because everything else is just how you want to do it.