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[Darian]

Combat stats are cute, but I place absolutely no faith in them nor consider them any indicator of who is doing "the work."[right][snapback]92089[/snapback][/right]

I don't in a lot of cases, and I don't count on them in any way for close measurement, nor do I rely on them in any way for damage stats. There are too many things which might happen outside a player's zone to place any sort of serious reliance on the numbers. However, they can be used to note serious spreads; if combat stats are showing that Rogue A has done 11% of the raid's DPS and Rogue B has done 4%, then the discrepancy is large enough to confirm that their damage outputs are indeed wildly divergent.

I do place a little more faith in them, to an extent, for healing because on a raid the truth of the matter is that 90% of all heals are going to go off within my collection radius. If you'd been 7th in healing and had been 9th on the overhealing list, I wouldn't have made that comment; it's the fact that you were way up on the healing list and not even in the top ten on the overhealing list which indicates to me that you were getting the work in. ;)

Landing a heal/shield on the tank or another healer just in time to save them from a The Bomb blast (and fall).  Remember that one time you were the Bomb (out of three) and landed with THREE PERCENT HEALTH?  On TS, people were saying "dayum;" myself, I was whooping in victory because I managed to save you with a shield and heal in time (after chugging a mana potion).

Heheh, that was awesome.

As far as I know, shields don't show up on healing lists, no?

Correct. ;D

What matters to me, Darian, are the results.  You died three times on my watch.  You might not have played with me enough to realize that I LOATHE THAT!

All the good priests do. ;D

While the Garr fight death might not have been saveable with better equipment, because I got aggro'ed twice after some tanks went down, the other two times you died could have been salvagable if I had better equipment.  I failed you three times and that's what counts, despite pulling out every trick I had in the book to extend my mana pool.

You failed me three times -- which, given the number of bosses we faced last night, would be about five fewer times than normal. We're going to die occasionally on raids; part and parcel. I know for a fact that I never died because you weren't healing, which is the important thing. ;D

I'm not about to deny that we need to get you geared up -- but you're already good enough that gearing you up is just going to make you truly formidable on raids. (This is no surprise; you've taken two priests to 60 the "right" way. It would be a surprise if you weren't one of the best priests, talent-wise, on the server.)