Downranking and mathFollow

I think you have missed something here. The level 20 penalty is applied as a coefficient to your downranking penalty, the second formula simply restates the first one for spells above level 20.

The formulas are repeated over several wiki pages, also here:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Downranking or here: http://www.wowwiki.com/Formulas:Downranking

EDIT:
I have slapped together a quick and dirty spreadsheet for all pallie heals, allowing to play with player level and healing bonus.

The spreadsheet is here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p1RnksEW--cpvZiCmS_EvcA&hl=en

And if needed, I wrote some contextual blah on my blog here: http://altitis.treehuggers.info/2008/01/09/paladin-healing-calculator-spreadsheet/

Any feedback telling me where exactly I fail at maths (because I am bound to have made mistakes somewhere) is appreciated, whether in this thread or on the blog.


Edited, Jan 9th 2008 2:43pm by Alastaironsiren

Dear God, the only part of this whole thread I understood was this:



I fail math so hard...

heh. i always used max ranks of all skills to eliminate any guesswork involved with this.

ummm, sounding like a major noob here, but what does downranking mean? Thank you.

True.. but for the sake of confusing newbs I feel like adding more.

There are items in the game that add to your spell damage and healing abilities. These are used to make your spells more powerful with the same mana cost, and thus more efficient.

A good long while ago, these +healing (for example) items had a uniform impact on all of your healing spells.

(Maximum potentials used)

Flash of Light, R1 = 72 / 35 mana = 2.06 health/mana
Flash of Light, R6 = 383 / 140 mana = 2.74 health/mana

Now if someone had enough +healing to add 1000 to Flash of Light, those would become:

R1 = 1072 / 35 = 30.63 health/mana
R6 = 1383 / 140 = 9.88 health/mana

See how Rank 1 became over 3x more efficient under the old system?

Now skribs' question is about the *new* system. The new system has a coefficient for every spell. Flash of Light, for example, only gets 43% of the +healing benefit. Also, if the spell can be learned before level 20 (notice FoL 1 is at 20) there is another coefficient applied to make the benefit even less.

The idea of the new system is to make it less efficient to use Rank 1 spells than something a little more powerful.

Downranking is a matter of juggling mana-efficiency with time-efficiency. Higher ranks heal more health/second, lower ranks heal more health/mana. Using the most efficient rank that can keep up with your tank's hits means you don't run out of mana as quick and can survive in the longer boss-fights.

Granted, none of this answers the OP's question -- but it gives some of newer healers who posted something to think about.

Spreadsheet has been revised and will also allow to set Healing Light talent points. Two more column will take your crit rate into account when calculating the average healing and HPM per spell.

I'm starting to get worried here, nobody has yet pointed out where I phail at maths, and there is bound to be some errors.