Originally Posted by
solidbear
As a resto druid, there are a few things you should be looking at to evaluate your healing.
1) Harmony uptime. It should be 99.9% uptime on every fight. If its below 90%, its something you need to adjust and work on.
2)Lifebloom uptime. This spell should also be very high at 90%+ If it is below that, it is something you need to adjust and work on.
3) How many casts of Mushroom did you get off vs the length of the encounter? This isn't super strict, but gives you an idea of your uptime on your mushroom during an encounter. On a 6 minute fight, you should be getting at least 2 mushrooms off per minute, so ideally you should have ~12 casts of mushroom on a 6 minute fight (Mushrooms is 30sec)
4) Personal CD usage. This doesn't evaluate your healing, but it shows if you're using abilities. Everyone should be using personal CDs, so your barkskin usage should be used as much as possible. With a 1 minute CD, on a 6 minute fight, ideally it should be around 5-6 casts.
5) Nature's vigil usage (if talented)--another Mathy one. 1.5 minute CD. It should be used on CD. If you've got one use on a 6 minute fight.. thats bad!
6) How many clearcasts did you gain during a fight vs how many regrowths cast during an encounter. If you had 15 clearcasts on a fight, you should also have 15 regrowth casts as well!
This isn't end all, be all, but these are a few things that you can look at on your own very easily every fight and make adjustments based on that knowledge of where you should be as a resto druid. HPS/Rankings are a decent indicator, but doesn't really equate to a "better" healer. Its like DPS... Some DPS "look good" because they pad meters, but are actually bad because they aren't doing their job! If you're really high HPS, but your tanks are dying on an encounter, does that still mean you're a good healer?