Originally Posted by DeadSpace4
I set out to prove my point and respecced tree form for our Gruul/Mag night. Normally, in hybrid HT spec, I am 3-5th on the heal meters (2 Pally's always take the top spots). In tree form I was dead last; Shadow Priests beat me.
I don't have parsed logs or anything to show info because the experiment was purely for demonstration purposes to my own guild, but there was a significant drop in my healing. Most Pallys and Priests now a days uses the "wack-a-mole" healing style. Just drop heals on whoever goes low.
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This is not a problem with tree form, but rather a problem with the other healers in your guild. If a tree is assigned to keeping the raid topped off, the other healers need to trust the hots and believe that the tree is able to do his job unless he calls for help. "Whack-a-mole" healing isn't really helping anyone, it just means wasted mana and less focus on the MT. I tend to think that very focused MT healers add a lot to his survivability, since the constant casting and canceling on one target (rather than taking time out to whack moles) increases the odds of a heal landing right after damage is taken.
On Gruul, we have me in tree form healing the raid, 3-5 healers on the MT, and 1 on the OT. I don't really put much stock in healing meters, since they don't tell the whole story, but I tend to end up first or second. Our 'who heals whom' wws section shows that the MT healers usually do 90-98% of their healing on the MT, OT healer does about 80% of his healing on the OT with the rest on the MT, and I do about 85-90% of my healing on non-tanks. You can see that we do have some cross-healing, but people generally stay on their assignments.
One suggestion I have is for the other healers in your guild to set up their raid frames to show druid hots -- in sRaidFrames you would do this by adding them to the buff filter. If they see someone is less than 3k hp down but has a rejuv or lifebloom on them, they know that person is being taken care of as long as they are not in immediate danger. I have mine set to show renew so I know not to heal over it.