Terenas Raid Healing

[Sinomin]

The five different classes of healers (yes, there are five - priest, shaman, paladin, tree druid, and healing touch druid)

You forgot the bandaging Rogue :whistling:

I know I have a tendency to want to heal anyone once I see the HP bar drop. Its just a natural instinct as a healer to prevent death. I don't have first hand experience with the methods of healing of the other classes and I apologize for the times I overlap on other healing assignments.

Something I recently realized as a healer is the potential for the same problem I saw as a DPS class. Fight statistics have always been a great tool for reviewing and improving both personal and raid performance. The problem arises when the desire to improve personal performance interferes with the success of the raid. As a DPS class it was easy to see the effect when people would push too hard to be on top. Most common is the pulling of aggro, which too often leads to a domino effect of needless deaths. Managing threat should always be the number on priority of a DPS class, but would often get neglected to push ones personal numbers up.

When I first started some healing duty in Kara I found myself looking at the numbers, wondering how I was doing (it was intimidating healing next to our healing legends). It wasn't long before I started to gear up and the numbers started to rise. I found myself looking more at the numbers and pushing to get higher. However, when I started tanking as much as I was healing, I soon realized those numbers really meant nothing on a personal level. What I didn't realize was the potential to overlap on another healers job and more importantly their enjoyment of their class.

Now that we are running 25 mans it is clear that we each have to focus on a specific job. Unlike the old 40 man raids, these encounters dont have a lot of room for mistakes. It doesn't matter if its tanking, dpsing or healing each role has preformed properly or the encounter will fail. Personal numbers mean nothing here, plus the encounters are so wildly different that roles can change frequently. I think the most exciting raid experience I had was the first time we dropped Ragnaros, the final clearing of MC, it was a truly "epic" moment. Even though as a Rogue I wasn't the top DPS on that kill, it was still the most exciting thing to accomplish as a whole.

Anyway I kinda got of topic there but basically I wanted to say thanks for the good info Treesh. Being a healer is relatively new to me and I hope to improve my performance as part of the healing group.