Originally Posted by
Affiniti
If you think healing is a numbers race you may as well quit and play DPS while you still can. Healing parses are indicative of a few things: Your other healers suck, aren't healing, or you are underhealing content (or a combination thereof). Just because you are number 1 doesn't mean you are benefiting your other healers the most. Sure you can parse and say you are amazing, but you are creating issues for your other healers because you are playing selfishly to achieve said goals. Lifebloom may not be a LOLMETERS gain, but it's still beneficial to spend that global keeping LB active on your tank. Lifebloom healing can help out quite a bit on tank stability.
Healer logs can be useful to determine how to play better, but simply looking at the number 1 parse and going "LOL THAT'S HOW I MUST PLAY" is a wrong mentality. If you take 5 seconds to look further at Owld's Twin Consorts log, you'll notice they are doing split heroic raids (as we are) and have 3 resto shaman in the raid. I'd imagine it could be very easy to parse if you have 3 tides and ask your other healers nicely to let you parse [as well as using alt healers who may be undergeared and/or not as familiar with that class] (We did this a few times in Dragon Soul, that's how Nodoz had a number 1 Ultraxion parse for ages). Don't take this as me saying Owld is bad, just that he parsed for reasons unrelated to player skill.