Guys, I have an announcement to make. This is a special day.
For the first time, I am not in the 75th+ healing percentile. I actually fell quite low. Ended up being 4th, in fact.
I’m sorry for letting you all down 
(and I got beat by a Druid, ugh)!
Here’s a snapshot from World of Logs in Mists of Pandaria. As was the case during the tail-end of Cataclysm, I’m getting spanked by holy Paladins. I’m not upset though. There’s a few reasons for this and it’s largely on me. This is against Gara’jal, the third and final boss in the first half of LFR.
The thinking for overhealing, mana management, and efficiency goes out the window at this stage.
It’s about survival.
The first pull or two on an encounter is going to result in low mana reserves because you have no idea how much you have to pace yourself. If you were told to run a marathon without any idea of the terrain, the length, or the conditions, I’d say you’d tired out too because you don’t know when to jog and when to sprint. Not only that, with the Mists class changes, it’s like getting new shoes, outfit, and weights attached to your body.
Thoughts
- My top spell was Circle of Healing right at the top followed by my holy mastery along with Prayer of Mending behind that.
- You can also see that I used Heal way more often comprising 10% of my healing done. I did run low a few times and there were periods where only light healing was needed.
- Not only that, I was unfamiliar with the fight. Didn’t know when the big damage phases were. Didn’t realize there’d be players being spiked. Way to do my homework.
- Kept forgetting to use my 1 minute Shadowfiend. I should just macro that to something.
- Suffered from mana problems towards the end when we hit the last phase of Frenzy.
- Used predominantly PvP gear.
- Lightwell and Lightspring usage is something I have to deploy earlier. Have to start working that cooldown early instead of waiting for health to get low. In the 3 minute span that Lightwell is active, the probably is high that Lightspring ticks will automatically trigger.
- Cascade is awesome in a 25 man environment.
I know I can do better next time.