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Dechno
You shouldnt bother as long as your raid is a success.
The other druid is probably using Wild Growth more often, making his HPS higher.
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asakawa
HPS is a terrible way to judge the quality of healing done.
keep the little bars as big as possible. if you feel like your HoTs are getting stomped on by a flash healing class like a pally then ask for healing assignments to be given then success is even more clear cut. if your assigned players live, you win at healing.
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Blunderbuss
use hots on everyone whos taking damage
rejuvenation and wild growth should be covering most of the healing you do
if your healing isnt at the top of the charts then not enough people are taking damage or the other healers considerably out-gear you
unless i am assigned to a tank i dont bother with them
remember over-healing does not count as healing done or healing per second
on a fight that is easy to heal like 0D sartharion, i hot everyone taking damage nd they are all topped off before my hots can do anything
since there is no one in dire need of a heal i dont use nourish or other direct heals much at all unless someone does somthing stupid
a fight like sapparion i do consideably more healing than everyone else since its all periodic damage that i can counter by putting a hot on everyone and use lifebloom on cooldown
in ulduar i have to use a few more nourishes and other direct heals more often as well but i usually top the charts on every ulduar fight
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sunwukung
Fights with large amounts of raid dmg, (sapp and such) HOT HOT HOT. For fights with small/medium amounts of random or regular raid damage, I like to use nourish, WG and single LB's, but that is me. I dont use rejuv to much for small raid dmg because I dont have tier 8 set bonus yet and by the time the first tick heals (3 secs) another healer as topped them off, unless I am duo healing with another druid, then I use it more. My style continuosly puts in the top 3 healing done and HPS and low on the overhealing.
Tank healing is easy, Regrowth, rejuv, LB, nourish, LB, nourish, LB, nourish or wait for the bloom depending on the fight and who else is tank healing with me. I throw WG in there when I know the melees are taking damage. Refresh hots and repeat. This method is easy doable on 2-3 tanks and will yield very high healing output.
Proper druid healing uses all the spells we have, except healing touch normally, and a thorough knowledge of the capabilities of the other healers with you.
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amphitrite
Unless you use some random outdated dmg meter, it will split your overheal and actual healing done up. Recount splits them up and I don't really know of any other reliable meter. Even WWS and WMO split them up.
As a druid hps second is a bad way to judge, esp since we all like to rely on the fsr a lot.
Always use WG. Everytime it's off cd, use it.
If it's mass raid dot dmg, use rejuv. Fight's like Saph or Hodir.
If there is random spike, or raid spike that a hot just wont cover, nourish. Nourish is an amazing spell that is way under used. Like on Hodir Frozen Blows.
Idc if I am assigned to a tank or not, I have all my hots on the MT at all times. I top the meter's almost every fight. I never go oom. Even on Iron counsil, I keep full hots (rejuv, LBx3, let it bloom, regrowth) on all 3 tanks and WG the raid, and never go oom.
If your going oom, stop stacking haste/SP and add spirt. If you never go oom stop spirit and go SP, or haste.
3 LBs on your tank will not take any mana if you let it bloom.
For me lifebloom adds up to 887 mana with a chance of 18,500(non bloom crit) total healing. And my blooms have crit 17k+. Your hots depend on if the person is 100% life or not, but it's not any different then a pally bigheal going to overheal.
Even if I'm not MT healer, LB is battling for top spot on my healing on the tanks alone with WG, and I'm always top.
Meters aren't everything either. Being undergeared sucks, but it may just be that. It may be your not confident yet. When I first switched to my druid in BC I was terrified to heal. I didn't know if I would go oom, if I wouldn't move in the right place. Trust your heals. Having mana left over at the end of a fight is a waste anyways =)
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QuestionC
This is my strategy. This assumes primary raid-healing duties, which is the role Druids are best suited for. My build revolves around having good MP5 while casting, in addition to hitting the Haste soft cap of course.
Only use Lifebloom on Tanks
Do not let Lifebloom bloom unless the tank needs spike healing when the timer is up. This is a very rare occourance.
Wild Growth on every cooldown.
Use every spare GCD on Rejuvenation.
Regrowth is the 'safe' spike heal. Swiftmend is the 'emergency' spike heal. You need to gauge whether someone has the extra time to live, based on their current hots and damage source.
Lifebloom is extremely useful on tanks because it fills a lethal healing gap that no other heals really do (getting hit twice in a row while coincidentally no heals landed).
Rejuvenation is useful because the mana burden of chaincasting it is very low. A raid member who has Rejuvenation on him BEFORE he takes spike damage is very easy to heal.
I was always under the impression that recount showed total healing done (including overheals) and overheals by themselves. I can be wrong though.
Recount (the version I'm using) shows effective healing (which does not include overheal) and overhealing. Note that Druids generally have almost 0 overheal because HoTs do not tick on full-life targets.
Druids rank high on recount effective healing meters, but that's just the nature of Druids and raidhealing. Druids
should
be on top of the healing meters. If you are not topping then charts, then you are probably doing something wrong, or have a weird (bad?) healing assignment. Healing meters are biased towards our class.
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