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Realistic? Depends highly on the encounter and the group makeup. You have to remember that some groupmembers have abilities that will give heals on characters while you are casting your own heal. Keeping a target below a certain percentage to get 100% mana to amount healed ratio isn't always a good idea. You'll be throwing HoTs on targets, and unless you ignore them afterwards, quite a few ticks of those will be overhealing.

There's tons of reasons for overhealing a target, and you should never be discouraged by the amount overhealed. This also changes from class to class as well, as different healers have different ways of healing and will thus produce different numbers in different situations. Personally, I set the goal to 10-15% overheal during instances. More if there's trouble and I need to spamheal to make sure a massive burst isn't going to nuke down the tank/group.

But then again, perhaps it is completely possible if you really focus on nothing but the overheals. But remember, that can be dangerous, as you'll have to keep people below 100%.

To track it, use Recount. It's a delightful little damage meter that shows everything. DoT Uptime, Hot Uptime, time spent casting, damage done, damage received, healing done and received, overhealing... It basically shows everything. It's a tiny little WWS report, with pie charts and all kinds of awesome setup options.

How to bring down your overhealing? Just practice healing. Get Recount, and keep an eye on your overhealing while adjusting it slightly. You'll find that you'll get better at judging the healing needed and the encounter's need for spamheals and so on. It just takes practice, is all.

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I don't worry about overheal. At all. There, I said it. I don't even look at the numbers on it (you can use a mod called Recount to track your healing stats).

I worry about whether I'm keeping my targets alive and managing my mana so I'm never standing there unable to cast a needed heal. That's really all I care about.


P.S. Grats on 80!!

Edited, Feb 2nd 2009 7:32am by teacake

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It's bad enough sometimes when you're on your own. You're still dealing with like PoM jumping (and thus healing) while you cast a Flash Heal on somebody, or a tank having a lucky series of dodges and parries that reduce his incoming damage to less than you had anticipated. Then there is Renew to top people off even though they don't need the full amount of healing, or for some reason not realizing that somebody has already a Renew on them, resulting in part of a Flash Heal being accounted to your overhealing.

I'd also suggest you ignore percentages and focus on HP deficit instead. There is a major difference between a bear tank sitting at 70% health and say a DK.

If for some reason you're still using the default UI, you should replace that asap with like xperl and set it to "healer mode" to see exactly how much health people are missing.

x-pear, pitbull. Thanks. Healbot does the same thing without having to add another ui to the mix.
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I second that!

Another option is to regear yourself. Trade spellpower for int, spirit, stam and mp5. Greater Heal is such a big hammer of healing that you don’t need lots of spellpower. Your overhealing will drop and your mana regen should improve markedly.

Note, however, that your stabilizing heals (Prayer of Mending and Renew) won’t be as effective, so you’ll have to really be on top of your GH’s. Spell haste might help with that. Also, you should probably keep your heavy spellpower gear around to swap in on the fights when you need to do AOE healing.

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This made me feel way better. Logic is something I get.

So 17% as a Holy Priest is actually just bad a@@.



This is good info.


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