Above all, it’s just great to be able to check-in and make sure I’m somewhere in the ballpark of assigning things correctly – as well as taking on some new tricks and helpful stuff that you provide along the way.

Also, I wouldn’t be HUGELY fussy on the video’s being super clean – I mean it’s a bit different to uploading on a guild website for people to look at I can understand wanting to display an amazing kill, but when using videos as a guide, I personally love to see how guilds get over the finish line when things turn a bit chaotic.
I think these highly polished strat videos from the big websites (while excellent) can really paint a false picture for many raiders, I personally prefer ‘real’ footage ‘ with all the spills and thrills of a guild raid – which is probably why I’m enjoying your vid’s more than the average tankspot one at the moment. Sure, they are more suited for ME playing a resto druid which may tip my favor, but I prefer seeing a guild that is somewhat more realistic with their raiding schedule do these encounter – things don’t always go totally perfect! For example when you guys lost a tank to a break – I’d love a dollar for everytime that has happened to us. Learning how to cope with real raid curveballs is just as valuable as mastering a new strat.
…and I talk too much ><.

I am hoping to be able to get another posted over the weekend, just trying to decide which encounter to do! I have heroic footage of Maloriak, Conclave (note I am not on the wind platform) and Halfus. Do you have a preference?

I’ve been trying like the dickens the past couple of weeks for some atramedes and omnitron footage – but, uh, I haven’t gotten any “clean” cuts yet

My Grid shows timers for all of my HoTs except for WG – they are probably just hard to see in the videos (if you watch the highest resolution of the video on full screen, you should be able to see them). So you know what to look for, Rejuv is in the upper left corner of each raid frame and regrowth in the upper right corner. Both are numerical values for the duration of the HoT.

Wild Growth will just show as a green dot in the top center of my raid frame. The reason that I don’t have a timer for WG, is because I only need to know who WG is ticking on for mastery purposes, I don’t need to know how much time it has left. Having a timer for a “smart” healing spell just seems to add clutter to my raid frames. (The pink dot you see in the bottom right hand corner represents MotW).

At the risk of sounding big-headed or egotistical, and not that rankings really mean dick all for healers, but our first kill on this encounter I was ranked somewhere around 50th in the world on WoL – I think that’s since dropped to 120ish, but I’m still ranked for the fight (and we have some very strong and competitive healers!). Why I’m bringing this up isn’t to stroke my ego or to preen, but because it tells me that my raid frame set up works well for me and is effective for me.

I think it’s important that everyone finds a UI that works well for them and fits in well for their healing style, and no two people will have the exact same UI. Different people will have different things that suit them, and that’s perfectly fine.

It’s always nice to see a fellow druids PoV in tough fights like these.

So, looking at your UI i see there’s a subtle difference in the way we have set up our raidframes, and i think it influences the way we heal considerably.

Bare with me.

What you have: You have set up your raidframes to show if a hot is ticking, but you can’t see when it is going to expire (LB being the exception)
So, you hot a player if he needs some heals, and i’m guessing you’re making decisions on what to use based on what’s already ticking at that moment.

My grid looks similar, but here’s the big difference: my grid shows timers for each and every hot.
Im looking at a grid *full* of numbers, i.e. one corner shows Rejuv counting down, another corner shows WG counting down, another yet shows Regrowth.
My Lifebloom also counts down, but 1 stack is in green, 2 stacks is orange, and 3 stacks is red so i can see not only when LB expires, but howmany stacks are ticking.

As you can imagine my grid is very hectic looking.

Now, the difference in healing is the following: i will know when a rejuv is going to expire and build my rotation around it and re-hot that player if he needs another rejuv the moment it expires.

Similarly, rejuv and LB are both ticking on the tank and refreshed before they expire.

What i’m getting at is that our decision making process on what to use and on who is very different and based on different parameters.

I can’t help but wonder which one is the most effective

I can guess which one is more tiring though, maybe i should consider getting rid of numbers and just hit hots when they’re needed – it would certainly give me more time to look at my surroundings and less at grid.

Have you ever tried using numbers? whats your experience with that?