A closed form equation that predicts each of Norfair's WG ticks (to within less than +/- 1):

Tick_heal = (1442*(1/7+1/49*(4-tick_number))+SP*1.2*.115)*(1+2%*GoN+1%*Genesis)*(1+2%*MSS)*(1+6%*ToL)

The 1.2 is from ER (5/5 ER is required to reach WG). The 0.115 matches the wowwiki number.

Fully talented it turns into .115*1.2*1.15*1.04*1.06 = .175 which matches Norfair's number.

I don't use lifebloom very often. And when I do, it is only on tanks.

I felt like my hands were tied too often as a tree in scary situations, and unfortunately, that is quite often in my guild. The trick to being comfortable with the spec, for me, was finding the line between casting it too much and just enough. Only recently have I found that line. Sometimes I still cross it, and y'know maybe I'd be just as effective with Nourish, but during the weeks I tried it, it just didn't work for me.

I don't use Regrowth all that often anymore, and mostly it's just for extra hots on tanks, not for the initial heal, so the RG/Nourish crit talent is replaced by HT easily. I look at any crit bonuses as merely bonuses, and prefer speed greatly to that. The loss of NS+HT is not really a loss now that I use NS on my brez macro instead. Stopping to brez can be very disruptive if you are trying to rez an OT while the raid is taking big damage.

I encourage you to take a look at this parse for a sample of the spec in a typical raid. There are two other trees that were there part of the time as well, one with a much more "traditional" spec and style, Nebulx, (coincidentally, I think he recspec'd yesterday to drop the RG crit points, so don't look him up...), and the other has a long way to go and should probably be ignored.

If you see something I'm doing wrong, I am very open-minded about revisiting my spec and glyphs.

World of Logs - Real Time Raid Analysis

Like I said, I am not saying you are right or wrong. If it fits your style and you are successful then power to you. I just believe that Blizzard provides us with a certain amount of resources to do a job: so many gem slots, so many talent points etc. etc. and I don't necessarily believe you are maximizing that. BUT, that is just my opinion and that is all it is. Anyway, have fun and good luck to ya.

Hodir's swing timer is 2.4 secs. With quick response time I could get two HTs off in that time. For insurance I have my [Scale of Fates] macro'd into my HT. That would bring my GCD down to 1sec I believe. With rejuv glyph, that's about 16.5k healed before the next hit. In practice, I would probably have gotten only 1 of those heals off, or had a SM in there, before a pally or someone else was already finishing the job. But just sayin'...

It's hard to compare you two too much since Nebulx was only there for the last few fights, but here's what I see. Your HT crit 24% of the time for a total average healing of 4898 after 33.8% overheal. Nebulx crit on 48% of his 23 Nourish casts, averaging 5135 healed after 21.5% overheal. Aianea's Nourish averaged 1989 with 70.5% overheal. Adding the overheal back in your HT was hitting for 6545 Neb's Nourish was hitting for 6541 on average, and Aia's Nourish did 6742. Small sample size, but the Nourishes were being cast on a lot of different raid members and you all had 40+% healing from RJ so I'm sure the hots were all over the raid. For the way you are saying you use HT it seems like Nourish would fill the same niche without taking a glyph slot and talent points.

Your healing charts seem very strange. You have a paladin as almost the top healer which should not be happening if your other healers are doing their jobs (not to say pallies can't be up there, but it is almost always shamans, druids, and priests).

For Ignis, which is a very raid healer friendly fight, the pally is on top and your HPS is almost 1k lower than his which I find extremely odd. For Hodir you're at 3300 hps which is almost 2k lower than what I usually see trees at.

Here was a Hodir fight from last week: Wow Web Stats

Because a single druid cannot guarantee full hot coverage on 25 people. Also, GHT beats Nourish with a single hot both in terms of HPS and in terms of amount healed (at least with my gear), and it is not practical to maintain 2 hots on the raid (and at any rate it would take 3 hots for Nourish to do better than GHT).

That paladin was judging light. If you have to have a holy judging light, it'll bring their numbers up quite a bit. Normally you have a ret do it since theirs is much much more powerful.

edit: I'm surprised hardly anyone runs the regrowth glyph anymore. I personally prefer it over the nourish glyph because I cast regrowth a lot more and having a 20% stronger hot on the tanks is nice.

What do you use Regrowth for, aside from keeping it up on tank?

My experience with Regrowth: 10-15% healed, glyph generally adds 10% to this number (so 11-16.5% ish). HPS gain on the tank isn't very high because Regrowth has low HPS compared to other hots.

The worst fight I can think of in terms of threat is Thorim arena, and I seem to have no problems with a competent DK tank. Threat is a non-issue the vast majority of the time in Ulduar.