Wednesday/Thursday (17 Jun) - Losing Track

Wednesday/Thursday (17 Jun) - Losing Track

Had a great time at the Padres game Wednesday night, even though they lost rather badly. It's a great park. Had a physical this morning (Thursday) and the Doctor said I was so disgustingly healthy she couldn't prescribe anything more potent than aspirin for me. I celebrated with a giant chocolate shake from McDonald's. Yes, they now make pretty decent (and cheap) shakes. We have one more evening with our visiting friends (likely Chinese food tonight), Texas Holdem likely on Saturday, and we'll be in Arizona Wed-Fri next week. I'm starting to lose track of where I'm supposed to be and what the Wild family are up to . . .

Philly was up to something, I'm told. She got into a VoA25 raid as a healer and had a good opportunity to compare her healing with the other four healers, two of which were priests. The two others were a paladin and a druid. We did the usual two boss fight, Toravon and Koravon. One priest item dropped, which got Philly excited because she rarely sees i264 drops, but she lost the roll to one of the other priests.

Since four of the five healers could use shields (excluding only the druid), this raid could also show the differences in pure healing and in "absorption" healing where a shield absorbs damage instead of healing it.

Philly was last in healing no matter how I counted it, which was expected, but I still find the numbers interesting. The first hps (heals per second) counts both pure healing and shield absorption, while the second hps counts only pure healing.

#1: priest, 5153 hps/24.9% of the healing (#2, with 3439 pure hps)
#2: paladin, 4814/22% (#1, 4592)
#3: priest, 3439/17% (#4, 2099)
#4: druid, 2977/16.6% (#3, 2977)
#5: Philly, 3280/10.7% (#5, 1184)

Counting shield absorption, Philly was well within range of all but the top two healers, even though her total healing was low (probably because she was on raid healing, which meant spamming shields on many raiders even if no damage was ever done to them). Looking at only the second hps number, the two higher ranked priests both dropped down and Philly's numbers looked a lot worse than they really were. Raid leaders who don't take shield absorption into account are missing out on what disc priests can bring to a raid.

We partied 'till pretty late Thursday night and only Happy got to see any game time.