It's mostly the DPSers that go meter crazy, but you see it with healers every now and then. To be fair, the folks in our guild have always been good about checking healing meters just to ensure they were doing alright (ie, not being out-healed by the Retribution paladin), but it bears repeating - and this is from Ghostcrawler (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=13275278082&sid=1&pageNo=3#52):
Healing meters are a silly way of measuring healer performance. Often it's when and who you heal that is much more important than how much you heal. But measuring healing is very difficult, so players tend to go back to meters.
I agree that if a team is beating the boss then their setup works. But sometimes raids wonder if they should have brought a different person or what would happen if someone respec'd so they start to wonder who their best healers are.
Checking the meters for deathcount is probably the best indication that your healers are doing ok. :)
I go by assignment then meters then the healers deathcount. Not all healing assignments are the same and meters can be seriously skewed (*cough*CoH Priests*cough*). Also, a dead healer is a bad healer. So, staying alive is crucial. DPS dying is rarely the healers fault. Assigned healing targets dying usually is.
meters are not accurate any more period. proof of this is me being always near the top of any instance im in because of judgement of light. i did 20% of the raids healing in the 25 man archavon fight we did. and i didnt toss a heal or pop lay on hands.
Quote from: tulion on Sun, 2008-12-07 : 01:31
meters are not accurate any more period. proof of this is me being always near the top of any instance im in because of judgement of light. i did 20% of the raids healing in the 25 man archavon fight we did. and i didnt toss a heal or pop lay on hands.
Remember though, that's 20% of the total healing done, including healing yourself. Being a warlock I am used to having a high percentage of healing, it doesn't mean it's not accurate. A DPSer's healing doesn't count towards the raid healing, but the meters don't know the difference unless you tell them to not count self healing.
Meters are no more or less accurrate than they were in BC. That's just my two cents.
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'Nuf said.
I have not had a problem with that, really. If your meters aren't showing priests/shaman/druid/pally then spriest then other reactive healer then perhaps warlocks, the main healers are probably not being tasked and/or are slacking.
Archavon can be face rolled without much in the way of healing.