MMO-Champion BlueTracker - Druids aren't supposed to..

2008-12-04 10:44:40

top the healing charts?

As someone who has always enjoyed healing, particularly on my Druid, I was perplexed by this statement. During a guild "meeting" the person in charge of the healers, who is also a Druid, said that Druids are only supposed to keep people topped of with Hots, and are not supposed to top the healing charts.

Personally, I pay attention to effective healing, and don't watch the charts; However, to make a statement such as this seems ridiculous.

I'm just looking for opinions, thanks :) I'd rather not be doing something wrong when I'm "beating" the other healers.

Jujuheap

2008-12-04 12:03:21

Re: Druids aren't supposed to..

There are plenty of druids topping healing meters.

I think where the problem comes from sometimes is that you need healers who are good at working with hots. When someone has a hot on them, you have to be able to guess if that hot will heal the dude and if it can do it fast enough. Inexperienced healers sometimes stomp on hots, wasting the druid (or priest) mana and making sure that the hot-healer appears to have not contributed much.

Ghostcrawler

2008-12-05 12:01:48

Re: Druids aren't supposed to..

Q u o t e:
You might've mentioned something about the fact that healing meters are kind of a silly way of measuring healer performance. The healers in a raid, more than any other role, need to work as a team rather than a bunch of individuals competing for spots on a meter. The only real measure of the team's success is if people don't die to unavoidable damage, and are saved from avoidable damage deaths when it's feasible to do so.

Healing meters are a silly way of measuring healer performance. Often it's when and who you heal that is much more important than how much you heal. But measuring healing is very difficult, so players tend to go back to meters.

I agree that if a team is beating the boss then their setup works. But sometimes raids wonder if they should have brought a different person or what would happen if someone respec'd so they start to wonder who their best healers are.

Ghostcrawler