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Healadin troubles
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Crisis121
I leveled my paladin alt to 80 fairly recently and I've been running heroics and raids with no problems so far. I have found that through OS 25, Naxx 10/25, VoA 25, and most of the heroics, there hasn't been a boss fight which I haven't been able to heal through.
My problem is that I always do really badly on the healing meters. I mean outhealed by Death Knights bad. My 10-man raid group runs with 3 healers including myself (I take it that 2 is the standard), and at first I thought this was the problem. Healing Naxx 10 with 3 healers isn't exactly difficult, and it's not a situation where powerful burst heals will really shine.
But then I did an OS 25 man PuG where a paladin completely dominated the healing meters and left me totally in the dust. He was doing 3-4 times as much healing as me. He was on MT duty and I was on an off tank, but I tried to keep myself busy by spamming heals on the MT when my assigned target wasn't taking damage. By the end of the raid I was outperformed by all of the healers except for 1, which I think is the first time I've ever been able to beat another healer on the meters.
It could be a gear issue; I didn't check how well geared this other paladin was. I'm pretty sure my talents are fine. With my playstyle, I tend to favour FoL spam over HL spam, partly because most of the time in my 10 man raid group our tanks don't take enough burst to be worth it, and partly because I like to have a reserve mana pool for when the other healers run low on mana and I have to pick up the pace.
Armory link here.
Normally I don't let healing meters get to me, but I'm being given the chance to try out healing an Ulduar 10 progression run and I could use all the advice I can get.
Post by
svirve
Look at effective healing meters instead of total healing.
10 bucks sais you're not overhealing while other healers are. Especially in the case of the blood DKs.
Edit:
Ofcourse there are some things on your gear that needs upgrading badly (2nd trinket, back, neck) but otherwise there's nothing wrong with it.
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Post by
TheWarTycoon
I agree with what Caean has said. Though it is nice to see your name at the top of the list for healing, it is not essential. Healing meters don't do justice to the work a healer has done, like dps meters can generally do.
It is also hard to compare yourself to other holy paladins, are even other ret paladins. This is because of JoL, which can put out a huge amount of healing in a 25 man situation, so it really isn't a fair comparison. There have been many times that I top the charts simply because I am judging light. As Caean said, ANY paladin can judge light and blow other healers out of the water. At the same time, it is an amazing spell that gives a paladin some kind of AoE heal other than glyphed holy light. Just keep in mind that a holy paladin judging wisdom for raid mana regen will very rarely put out as much healing as the paladin that is judging light. In all reality you shouldn't unless the paladin is just standing there doing nothing else.
If tanks are dying in raid do to lack of healing, you are not doing your job. As a holy paladin, if the person you were assigned to keep alive stays alive, then you ve done your job. It does not matter whether another healer healed more than you did.
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Crisis121
Actually I think he was judging light, which would explain a lot. Normally I don't bother with 100% judgment uptime, and this hasn't caused a problem in heroics - evidently it's a great aoe heal in 25 mans, so is it worth it in 10 mans?
Thanks for the advice everyone! I will definitely implement Caean's suggestions.
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