I did my first raid today as Disc spec (OS). I felt I managed to keep people alive as well as the druid and shammy in the group. We had some wipes (low dps said raid leader, so much so he booted one of them) but I wasn't the first healer down and in fact on a few occasions managed to keep both the other healers up. Also the off tank only died after I did never before so I was quite proud. However on healing meter I suck. I had 20% ish of overall healing compared to the 40% ish of the others.
I know the others have greater gear than me both having about 200-300 extra spellpower which adds up when you are churning out the heals and I also know I was throwing round a LOT of shields as well as pain suppression etc especially onto the cloth casters. The question is how do you know if you are doing well when your healing output on meters sucks so bad? Should I just trust my instinct? I kept my off tank alive whilst also throwing out the odd POM, pulling other healers and the main tank up with penance a couple of times and also throwing out several shields. It all sounds good to me especially as being disc spec half my buffs are designed to help reduce the damage others take as well (like grace which was almost perma on my offtank) so I do not need to heal as much as I might otherwise.
Am I destined to suck, or do I suck at all or should I reflect on the fact that healing meters will never be my friend? I'd be interested to know if any other disc priests can get themselves high up on the healing meter and how on earth they do it...