Originally Posted by Labrie
Just as a further example; heres a WWS of a 7 healer, 3 shadow priest kill to give people a better illustration of VE heal. I believe they were all specced improved VE, and as you can see, it is certainly a nontrivial amount of healing done. We kept them behind Brutallus so they didn't have to move when they got burn.
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Take a note here - those shadowpriests could do a lot more healing if the shamns didnt heal with chain heals. Overhealing was huge there. I guess this depends on specs of your shamans too (not only the "major" specs, but also details like resto talent spreadout). With 3 shadowpriests doing 1.5M dmg total imp VE is able to heal 125%x1.5 = ~1.8M healing rounded down. Total Meteor Slash ability dmgwas around 1.1 M. Now with lets say 7 soakers per side+1 tank (9 melee+non soakers) the worst scenario is losing 2 people from one side bringing soaker number down to 6. The worst meteor slash timer is between 2nd and 3rd slash. 2nd slash dmg = 35000 split among 6 people = ~5800. Over 12 seconds spriest will heal up (assuming 1500 dps) 375x12=4500 hp (5400 to warlocks). That leaves the group at 1300 hp deficit, and about to take the 8300 slash. Sufficient hp to survive = 9600, which should be attainable by the brutallus attempting people easily.
Well you can imagine situation when 2 people miss the 2nd slash then spriest has to leave etc etc. But in reality it just doesnt happen, and if anything you can ask a shaman to drop 2 chain heals on tanks, so the jumps top them off.
Truth is we run 2 spriests, and they alreayd cover up our healing basically. They end up much higher on healing then labrie report simply because of more damage to heal. Anyway Morthoul damage was 516K - enough to do close to 650k healing IF his group actually needed it. More then any healer on this kill did.
Another thing to mention is, that 2 or 3 spriests let you put one with MT healers, which just makes it easier. No matter how many time i read on this board how "healers can manage" etc... its just easier when you have 3 paladins basically spamming 7k heals on your tanks. And on top of it we dont lose dps cause we can bring less overall healers doing more healing. I can understand that healers CAN last brutallus fight without spriest, but i wont accept the thesis that giving them spriest "doesnt improve their performance at all".