pagansaint

/shrug

My actual HPS/%Healed has gone down since I spec'd for agi line while my tanks have all had marked improvements in survivability.

Does that make me a worse healer than a Fury in a group full of squishies with higher HPS/%Healed?

There are, many many factors which cannot be totaled up by HPS, %Healed, Total Heals, # of Cures, and DPS. They all play a large part, but are they the only things that count? No.

Coordinated rezzing without overlapping others rezzes if your raid dies alot, maintaining debuffs on as many mobs as possible, curing what needs to be cured when it needs to be and not draining power trying to cure things that don't matter or a cure potion should be taking care of all matter.

It is a perception of worth role we all play. If you are perceived to be on top of your game, do not struggle to keep your groups healed/cured in normal AE/Aggro pull situations, and manage to output decent damage while doing both of those you are a good healer.

If either is missing, most importantly the second, you are not. If your group does not have faith in you, you are not a good healer. If your group believes you should be able to perform adequately in a given situation and you fall short, you are not a good healer. There are mitigating factors such as stuns and stifles, but those turn into excuses for being lazy or incompetent if used too much and when you know damn well you weren't stunned/stifled.

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Artwat

If your tank survives 3 or more hits and he dies, You suck.
If you parse under a necro/sk/etc, You suck.
If your group survives an AE (ie, not one shotted) and dies to the second AE, You Suck.
If you cant MT heal as an inquis, You suck.
If a clothie pulls aggro and lives for longer than 3 seconds, then dies, You and all the other raid healers suck. Oh, and so does your tank.
If your healers can only heal sham/cleric or sham/cleric/druid and cant do combos such as cleric/druid even on the MT group they suck.

If your healer cant budget power, they suck.
If your healer thinks their dps is more important than keeping a true dps up (yes even if they pull aggro, in which case, your tank sucks), they suck.

Anything I miss?

pagansaint

Yeah good recap!

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Joshisgreat

yes, i would like to add...

If your dps parse is 0.00 in ANY fight, you suck, as a healer.
I would just like to say "`" <---- auto attack dammit!!!!

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bighead222ed

All those point were great. guess time will tell if you have a good healer or not ...practice. is the best way to find ones weakness

Joshisgreat

wow, that was the necro post of all necro posts.

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hennyo

This is a little easier than you think, tho it does take looking at a raid wide parse breakdown from act. If its an offtank healer, check their heals and see who they are healing, how their healing, and how much they heal, and how much of their heals get used. Then check their dps fight by fight and zonewide, check their groups dps in comparsion to a differnt healer with the same groups dps. Check how often someone in their group died. Also check how they use their buffs, alot of healers can make bad buff decsions without realizing it.

I do realize there is alot there to check, but honestly as a healer there are alot of differnt aspects to it, so there are alot of things to check. Here are a few bullet points to watch:
- if people are dying in there group alot they dont heal enough
- if there avg heal is really low (ie direct heals doing less than 40 percent of there listed amount)
- if the dps of there group suffers, they either aren't curing enough, healing enough, or placing their buffs wrong
-they are posting good heal parses, but you notice they are doing alot of out of group healing that ISN'T the mt. Figure out why this is happening, other groups healer slacking, someone trying to buff their number on the heal parse etc
- does the healer take alot of damage, run out of power, or get stunned at the wrong time. Check gear and placement in the raid, as well as do they correctly dodge aoes and other negitive effects.
- Always check the total output of a healer, IE both heals and dps. A healer doing almost 3k dps wont have the same heal numbers of a healer doing 400 dps
- Last but not least, one of the most important aspect of any healer is, their ability to be dynamic when shit hits the fan. Carefully looking over parses where everything on a fight went wrong is a very good way to check the general skill of a healer