Healing Pars?

[EnfinitiStarr8]

<p>Hello all,</p><p>I'm a level 80 Mystic with Full T2 & Fabeled Epic along with a few other nice/decent items. I've been doing a lot of pick up groups/raids and I've run the gambit of being told I'm a great healer to I suck. I was wondering what people think is a 'good' healing pars for a level 80 Mystic? I have ACT but don't have my HPS to put up at the moment. The only non-game thing I can think of is I have an OLD computer and sometimes it just bogs out on me and I start healing half a second after I hit the button. Any help would be great!</p>

[Arcanemundi]

<p>The highest heal parse I have seen in an instanced zone fight was 5500 HPS, but that was in Palace of Ferzhoul in the Fire Room during the Varsoon fight.   Typically a healer can range from 1000 to 2000 HPS, sometimes a bit higher.  Although there is no typical heal parse number to shoot for since all zones and fights within them are different.  </p><p>DPS parses are black and white usually, but HPS parses are not.  If you spend most your time during the fight curing, and you have a well geared tank that holds agro, your HPS parses will be low.  However, if you spend most your time healing, and the tank looses agro or has poor gear and takes hits, your HPS parses will be high.  If you are in pick up groups often, then HPS is going to be inconsistent since the gear level and composition of the group are going to change a lot from group to group.  For example, if you have a Coercer in the group you might get Coercive healing and get a boost to casting haste and also bigger wards, or Empathic Aura boosting your crit chance.  Dirges have stoneskin which randomly block hits on the group.  Illusionists have Time Compression, etc...</p><p>With all that being said, the main thing to look at is if agro is being controlled by the tank and DPS people, and if so, are you keeping people alive?  If those two things are <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #ffff00;">not</span></span> happening, no one should be pointing fingers at you.  If agro is out of control and people die that is usually not your fault.  If your casting all your heals as fast as you can, and agro is in control, and the tank dies, then it could be the tank's lack of gear/spells, or it could mean you need to upgrade your spells.  Adept III, or whatever they call it now, should be adequate for most instanced zones.</p><p>Make sure your graphic detail level is turned all the way down if you are getting lag.  If you still get the same lag it might be your computer or internet connection.</p><p>Edited the <span style="color: #ffff00;">yellow</span> text.</p>

[Banditman]

<p>Not enough data to really give you any meaningful feedback tbh.</p>

[Wullail]

<p>My best heal parse is where everyone lives and we kill the mobs.</p>

[Arcanemundi]

<p>What I like about ACT heal parses is how it breaks down your heals into a percentage basis in a pie chart once the chaos is over.  That lets you know what proc wards are important so you know which gear to keep equiped, and what spells are more important to cast.</p>

[Baccalarium]

<p><cite>ArcaneMundi wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>What I like about ACT heal parses is how it breaks down your heals into a percentage basis in a pie chart once the chaos is over.  That lets you know what proc wards are important so you know which gear to keep equiped, and what spells are more important to cast.</p></blockquote><p>It is easily deceiving to assume that that the spell that the pie chart says you did the most healing with is the best spell to use.    Often it is interesting, but  If someone casts their single target heal repeatedly during a fight and see a parse that says it did the most healing,   its hardly an indicator that it was the best spell to cast.   It just means someone was casting an ineffecient spell frequently.   </p><p>To the op,   its often the groups that can't control the mobs that claim the healer sucks.   This isn't always the case, but often is, and is sad because the group that cant keep the mobs beating on the tank,  is making the healer's job particularly difficult.   When looking at parses I often turn it around and only look at who put what heals on the MT.   Its generaly not my job to absorb AE damage,  and an AE damage fight tends to parse much differently than a tank fight.</p><p>The real question is when the fight stayed on the tank, and the tank still went down,   what kind of HPS were you producing.    Did you miss time wards so you were casting a group ward when the tank needed a quick ward,    did you forget to use your emergency wards and torpor when you could have.    Those fights are the ones to look at closely.</p>

[Shoushin]

<p>ooooh, i cant agree more to the above post. Ppl who simply love to keep dps-ing regardless of the group setup and pulling the mobs on themselves will make the healer's life real hard and they will just say "you suck" and "you dont know how to do your job" etc. Dont mind them. In my view those are the idiots who cant play according to the setup / situation.</p>

[Arcanemundi]

<p><cite>Baccalarium wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>ArcaneMundi wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>What I like about ACT heal parses is how it breaks down your heals into a percentage basis in a pie chart once the chaos is over.  That lets you know what proc wards are important so you know which gear to keep equiped, and what spells are more important to cast.</p></blockquote><p>It is easily deceiving to assume that that the spell that the pie chart says you did the most healing with is the best spell to use.    Often it is interesting, but  If someone casts their single target heal repeatedly during a fight and see a parse that says it did the most healing,   its hardly an indicator that it was the best spell to cast.   It just means someone was casting an ineffecient spell frequently.</p></blockquote><p>The opposite is also true.  The heals you cast the most may not show up on the heal parse as much, and that will also help determine what was ineffecient.  For example, I keep my group ward up all the time.  Sometimes I cast it as soon as the recast timer is up, and sometimes I wait until it almost times out.  I also keep an eye on it with ProfitUI.  If I see that my group ward is not getting hit that much on the ACT pie chart after the fight, next time I fight that mob I might cast the group ward less, and instead heal or cure other groups, or maybe debuff more.  If I spam heals on the MT and it doesn't show up on the graph, next time I might instead DPS or debuff more.</p><p>In a hard fight, typically I cast most my wards and heals since I spam them.  So, seeing a summary at the end of the fight is useful (to me) at least.</p>