I’d subtract the healing done from the mace the same way I subtract JoL healing for a paladin when comparing two healers. There’s no point in giving credit for something that can’t be controlled!

From our logs, the mace *does* do noticeable healing on the meters, but it doesn’t make or break a healer. Actually, notice on the first image I posted, the two “raid healers”. The one with Valanyr is second.

I actually haven’t seen much of phase 3 so I can’t comment on that. I’ve also only tanked on 10 man, so I’m not sure how different that version of the fight is.

For the 87% active time, I wouldn’t worry about it much unless it’s causing your output to suffer. The time you weren’t casting, you could have been moving, trying to get in range, have interrupted unneeded spells or, if a wipe was called, died before everyone else.

To know when WoL thinks you died, you can check the survivability page like in the image in the post. (I did photoshop it a little so it would fit into a blog post, but you should still be able to find your way around the page.)

I have to mention that the Active Time numbers on WoL can be a little strange. Sometimes it shows someone active more than 100% of the time. The numbers might also not line up with other log parsers you may be using. I really question how accurate it is. Active Time is the first thing I look at when someone has an usually low output, but it’s not applicable to every situation.

I hope that helps!

I really enjoyed reading it–I always like looking at the numbers, and having the on-hand “this is what happened with the event” was really great.

I know healing meters aren’t the most accurate, but they still make me cranky and not want to heal.

I’ve been following your blog for a bit and really like your writing style. I play a HL paladin on The Scryers server and while my guild isn’t yet to the 25 man encounter for this, we are working on the 10 man version. Got him down to 8% before we had to call it last week. Hopefully he’s going down this week.

I’m not sure how much of a difference there is between the two fights, but I definitely did notice a range issue, as well. And boy did I feel hella embarrassed the couple of times I got hit by Goo. Having to say over Vent ‘Somebody cover the tank for me, I suck’ is not a fun experience.

I’m looking at my own logs and I, too, am saddened by my performance. We 3-heal it at this point, and with all three of us having to pump out 3-4k HPS I don’t see it dropping to 2 healers any time soon, though we did discuss it because we were hitting the enrage timer.

I’m noticing on the log I have, I’ve only got 87% healing time, which begs the question… what the hell was I doing 12% of the time? The druid has 100% uptime which isn’t surprising – his HoTs were rolling through the stun. But two stuns does not account for 12% of the battle, and I don’t remember dying. I do remember not having much to heal until green slimes got missed or gas caught up with someone, then healing like a crazed monkey for a few seconds, then back to trying to not stand in stuff.

P3 was a different beast, of course. I don’t remember having time to do anything (aside from healing!) but strafe out of ooze during that phase. I’m going to try popping a LoH on one of our tanks during that phase to give them the damage buffer, see if that helps keep them alive longer. Unfortunately there’s not much I can do about the berserk. At least… I assume there isn’t.

Curious to know your thoughts on this, and if you have a moment I’m happy to link a log for you to look over.

I did use that trick, but noticed my beacon often failing while the tank was out of range. Whether this was due to my targets being too far away from the tank or due to my beacon expiring, I’m not sure. When “Other” and I use beacon on the same target, I end up relying on my battle text to tell me when to refresh my beacon.

I should add in my recommendations: Get a beacon timer.

So, if you’re assigned to heal a target that occasionally goes out of range, Beacon them, and heal people closer to you.

It is definitely easier to analyze your own performances! When you know exactly what was happening in their raid, assignments and human errors, it makes the task so much simpler. I think everyone should analyze their own performances, especially on progression fights.

It’s also easier to target a specific problem than to do a general analysis of someone’s play. I really didn’t intend for this to be a response post to yours! This doesn’t address general evaluation and is really targeted at how I figured what I was doing wrong on this fight.

I look forward to the next time I try this fight to see if my healing has improved.

Enjoyed reading another analysis–it is SO much easier to analyze your own performance, but it definitely helps when reading other class/specs sheets–especially the healers.