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Well, I know it's not the answer you're looking for, but personally, my equation goes something like this...
Success : +1
Failure : -1
Healers aren't about their "contribution" to the raid, they're about making sure everyone lives to get the job done.
Yes, we're all about who lives and who dies...however, as disc, as long as your keeping your tank alive, your doing your job, better gear just means that you have a easier time doing that job and/or you have the ability to heal a lesser geared tank through.
I'll tell you this right now, don't roll disc if your obsessed with healing meters.
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Synectics
Simply link these key abilities to people who don't understand:
Power Word: Shield
Divine Aegis
Renewed Hope
If they can't figure out why you don't show up on healing meters after reading the tooltips, ask them why they're leading the raid in the first place.
By the way, a simple way to figure out your PW:S mitigation is, if you're glyphed for PW:S, simply take the amount of healing you did with it, and multiply that by 5. Granted, while this doesn't account for your Divine Aegis or Renewed Hope absorbs, I've found that my PW:S absorption,
ALONE
, will put me in either first or second on the healing meters.
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karlusdavius
Main reason your HSP is low.
Mitigation. You can't heal damage if damage hasn't been taken. That's what discipline is all about. Stopping damage
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ZoraLink
Erm, not obsessed with healing metres, personally I don't care, the issue is I have Raid Leaders who want to know why I'm showing as doing xx% healing as holy and then, as far as they can see, far less as disc. Sure, perhaps they _should_ know the ins and outs and mechanics of my class, but they don't. It would be handy if there was an equation, such as multiply your incidence of pws glyph by 0.4 or something, that could provide them with the healing data they want in a format they can understand.
As for whether or not the tank's alive, that would be a good measure, providing the other four or five healers in the raid weren't healing him at all.
It's said over and over again that disc priests often have to justify their spec decision, I'm just looking for a way of presenting accurate information to my RLs.
Regs
Get a new raid leader. If they just stare at meters, they're already doing something wrong.
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Synectics
The answer is NO.
There are no mods or parsing tools that will accurately show the impact disc has on a raid's survival.
If accuracy means anything, none of them are even ballpark accurate. NONE OF THEM.
Too many modifier and variables over the course of any encounter/raid really prevent any accurate reporting.
Disc can mitigate A LOT more damage than it can strictly absorb through PW:S or DA, and of course, the timeliness of it's heals and efficiency go beyond numerical quantification.
You're right -- there is no add-on or mod that can reliably show your mitigation as a correct number.
However, the math itself isn't too hard to understand. Even with Recount, you can do the math and figure out a
ballpark
number... it will take a while, but it's possible, if I'm thinking correctly.
Take the total of all critical heals you do, figure it to 30%, and there you go. There's your Divine Aegis mitigation.
I've already mentioned how to get your PW:S mitigation figured out.
Now, granted, there is a bit more to it, as mentioned -- there's a lot of variables in all of this, and some of it I'm not schooled on -- overhealing on crits go towards Divine Aegis mitigation, or not? This would obviously make quite an impact on the final number.
And of course, Divine Aegis lasts for 12 seconds. If it doesn't get used by then, technically you're not mitigating any damage.
So, in conclusion, you can get a ballpark number yourself. But that's all it will be, and really... if someone really wants even a ballpark number from you to prove your worth, ask them to give you numbers on why they are a good tank. If they respond, "Look at my TPS!" inform them that their TPS has nothing to do with picking up adds, positioning, etc. etc. And likewise, to a Discipline Priest, HPS has little to do with what we do -- keep people alive.
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ZoraLink
Not to mention there's NO good way of figuring in the raid wide decreased damage.
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Synectics
Not to mention there's NO good way of figuring in the raid wide decreased damage.
Exactly why I didn't bring up Renewed Hope. :P Lol.
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