Ask WoW Insider: Should healing be competitive?

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9-07-2007 @ 5:40PM

Tridus said...

Healing meters are not accurate at all, they're meaningless. On a fight like Void Reaver, I'm #1 by a mile.

Is it because I'm the greatest healer ever?

No. Its because I've got Circle of Healing, and my job is spamming heals on the melee DPS group after pounding. That means I do a ton of healing, but it doesn't make me better then the tank healers, who do less but more important healing. On another fight the melee might take less damage, and I'm now in fifth on the meters. I didn't suddenly become a worse healer, the situation demanded less healing.

The bottom line is that healing is cooperative. All the healers are a team, working together. Trying to make it competitive is counterproductive. Trying to make it competitive by using meters is flat out stupid.

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