If it is a good RL, they’d either A: know why the discrepancy exists and also knows that bigger numbers don’t equal better heals. B: try to find out why the discrepancy exists by researching online sources or talking to the players/classes he’s looking into. After which he’d understand why the phenomenon is there, and he can’t just go by the meters.

At this point in time, I think any self respecting raiding guild should have at least 1 dedicated person that takes the time after each raid, or before the next one, to browse through the parses, look for inconsistencies, things that stick out, reasons why wipes are happening and perform some general analysis on their members performance. If this is not the RL, this person should be an advisor to the RL for decision making, changing of tactics, changing of assignments, … And a RL should welcome that information and use it to the raidgroups advantage.

Knowledge is power!

And on top of that, it’s just plain fun to abuse the numbers on some fights as well, Vizier heroic for one, it’s definitely entertaining to play Disc on that fight. Heroic Windlord as well, esp. come 5.1 with super Atonement healing range I can imaging having a great time healing off of debuffed Windlord… 800k crit Atomenets, yes please!

So all in all, what I’m trying to say is, I’m a Heal/Heal specced priest, and I’ve had an absolute blast so far in MoP – and I have no idea why some players are calling Priests out to be in an apparently bad position. Glad to see I’m not the only one who raises an eyebrow and wonders why that is.

Yes, mistweavers are crazy OP in 25s (although I’ve only done LFR there). Yes, I can put out very high aoe healing. Garalon (with a pally and shaman cohealers) looks really unbalanced, but it plays to my strengths. Single target healing is painfully mana intense and can be easily topped by either the shaman or the paladin (with their eyes closed). The 5.1 should bring both back more toward the middle for monks (aoe lessened especially in 25s, single target improved).

5.1 should improve holy priest throughput in 25s. It should also make 10 man raids more painful for holy priests. The 10 man format requires much more switching between single target and aoe healing than is allowed with the Chakra cooldown. Holy feels like playing from a gimped hand… the increased buff to Chakra makes it more so.

This tier I have been consistently higher than him on most, maybe even all the fights. Below me, when I cheese the encounter as Disc OPness lol, are our two resto shamans, holy paladin and him(Mistweaver). Their percentages are relatively equal. He usually does quite a bit more overhealing but that’s the nature of their HoT.

When I look at logs of those ranking Mistweavers that do absurd HPS I always see 1-3 healers dragging really low HPS. To me it just feels like those teams are ones that carry weak link healers, and Misteavers are there to pick up the slack, which obviously they’re incredible at it.

So I don’t understand all these ‘Mistweavers are so powerful’ posts and hearsay. If every healer plays correctly then overall healing should even out between them.

First and foremost Rapture working with Mana Tide will be the first to go, unless it would be a recoding nightmare for blizz. Getting 2 70k+ mana return raptures per mana tide is absolutely ridiculous(if timed right), and we have 2 resto shamans so even more OP. Not to mention on StoneGuard, even though its farm content it’s still lawl to see 220k mana raptures, with an overall avg of 1.5mil mana returned for the encounter each week.

I’m glad they increased rapture to 200% spirit, but DA probably did not need to be buffed. I find it odd how Blizz goes from, using this example, an extreme bump of 30% to 50% instead of taking smaller steps and see how it plays out. My fear is, and it seems to be the circle of wow, they will now overnerf something else because they overbuffed DA and Rapture(could have easily done 175% instead and see how that felt for regen).

Only time will tell…at the moment I’m immensely enjoying Disc.

I think our perceived issue is because some classes can spam away without worry (I really watch my overhealing, and am often out overhealed by a DPS or a tank let alone the other healers) but at least as Disc I know I am having to watch my output (Only ilevel 47x so far so only 7k spirit).

Having said that in my inexperienced opinion I have always thought I was playing a well balanced class. I don’t even think SS is overpowered, it is just that it looks extra good on the meters because the fights seem to be fairly predictable in the raid wide damage stakes at the moment. If things were more random we wouldn’t look so great.