Originally Posted by
Aoroc
I think before everyone hops on the bandwagon of hating on top ranking players, it's important to note that not EVERY top rank was from someone cheesing. Good healing practice, as you described it, can get you there too.
For example, as I posted earlier, I got a world 10th rank on my guild's first H Durumu kill last night. I had a 100% uptime on Lifebloom and Harmony, was keeping SM/WG on CD as best I could and was making sure to try to utilize my SotF in the most appropriate way possible each time I SM'd. I wasn't asking players to stand in damage (that'd be ridiculous for progression) and I didn't ask my partner healer to heal any less (he's a trial, I can assure you he was trying very hard to do as good as possible). I just healed to the best of my ability. I healed any damage I saw. I kept my raid alive as best I could. And my reward was a world rank.
I'm not saying that "omg top ranks are godz ctrl c ctrl v their playstyle fanboi" but I'm saying that anyone who ranks high ranked for a reason. Sometimes it's the reasons you said, but sometimes, it's just because they played their class very well and got amazing results. Sometimes, it's alright to follow their example. I was very aggressive with my RJ which I can afford to do because I have 16k spirit + meta proc. That's something that I would recommend to someone looking at my parses to better themselves to follow. I would recommend to that person to try to push as many RJ as possible and to be as intelligent about placing them as you can be.
Essentially, don't bow down and do exactly what every top ranking druid does, but at the same time, don't be a fool and reject perfectly good healing parses simply because they did good on them. Take everything with a grain of salt.
Just my two cents, at least.