Originally Posted by Flinkindolin
I'd hope so too. I have a hard time imagining any scenario where CoH proves unviable in a raiding setting and still provides a challenge to the healing core. After experiencing the early TK trash and then BT/MH trash, it would be a pretty serious backstep.
Thanks Const.
EDIT: Changing topic slightly.
Please take a moment to take a look at this WWS ( Wow Web Stats). My guild has recently added a new CoH priest to its ranks, and - though undergeared compared to every other healer - he has quickly soared to the top of our meters. Looking at his methodology, he constantly casts Flash Heal.
I'm attempting to craft a counterargument to the obvious utility Flash Heal spam has, but I'm having difficulty in the face of such obvious evidence to the contrary. As an Alchemist with a stone, he's having no problem keeping up the Flash Heal spam for the entirety of a boss fight. His Mana Potion consumption on most nights more than doubles most other healers.
On the WWS, the new healer is Eratos.
The one piece of numerical evidence I can find is that since his arrival and relatively unorthodox healing method, the overhealing of every healer (except the druid) has gone up almost 10%.
Guild leadership has become infatuated with this guy, but his healing method is generally pretty selfish and is entirely aimed at producing big heal numbers. How can I make them realize this?
And if this isn't the case, has Eratos discovered some new viable healing method now that 2.4 has hit? |
No he has not. The fights all last a very short time. With average boss kill times of about 5 minutes, it does not matter what you use. With pots and shadow priest I can spam GH7 or CoH for longer that. He is simply very quick at targeting people. Do you have click casting or are you using a select+click method. IF you use select+click you will never manage to compete even remotely with someone that has click casting. He is gaining 0.1-0.2 seconds on every cast on average.
If you wonder why he is beating you, its because you are trying to do similar things to him only he is faster. Look at who heals whom and you will see that in nearly all kills your healing overlap is very high and you have similar focus, meaning you pretty much try to heal the same targets. Your gheal usage is slightly higher than his but your flash heal usage is very high only your heals land too late. Look at your rage winterchill kill. Your flash heal has 59% overheal. His flash heal has 30% overheal. This means that you get 40% of the value of your flash heal as effective heal while he gets 70%. You both have very high flash heal usage. More importantly if you look at the anathereon kill he is using mostly gheal, while you are spamming your guts out with flash heal.
Also your shaman and druid are underperforming by a significant margin.
More importantly WWS stats are not such a great way to determine top healing, because they don't count prayer of mending. Get recount to determine the real numbers. It seems that newer versions of WWS do not even tell you who cast PoM, so they are useless for determining top healing. You also need to determine how many PWS you are casting as PWS is 2k a pop. Other things not included in WWS are lifebloom, earth shield and healing stream totem. In most fights given how much healing PoM has, you may actually be significantly higher than he is depending on your relative PoM usage.
I am not qualified to advise you how to improve since I have not been in these fights. What I can tell you is just facts based on the numbers reported: You are both using very similar healing tactics and targeting very similar damage type only erato does is better than you. It seems to me that he simply has faster reaction times and is quicker than you.
One thing that you may want to consider is increasing your CoH usage. The stats strongly suggest that you are only using CoH when 5 ppl benefit. My raid healing experience tells me that CoH/pom is twice as effective as flash heal in most 3+ group situations.