Confessions of a Toxic Elitist

[IttyBitty]

I'm like 99% sure that there's no difference between healing and overhealing, ie you generate the same enmity on a 10k heal whether it's 100% overheal or is completely used to restore health, but it's been a long time since I've actually had to care about the minutiae of healer enmity because it is such a non-issue these days.

[HyoMinPark]

I'm like 99% sure that there's no difference between healing and overhealing, ie you generate the same enmity on a 10k heal whether it's 100% overheal or is completely used to restore health, but it's been a long time since I've actually had to care about the minutiae of healer enmity because it is such a non-issue these days.

Regular heals generate 1.0x enmity, but overheals are 1.5x enmity generation. Generally, if your tank is paying attention, overhealing isn’t a big deal except in fights where boss aggro resets often (like V4S; WHM aggro so real in there after the Grand Crosses). Then you will want your healers to be careful about their overheal. Generally, though, you want to keep it to a minimum, since overheals are wastes anyways.

[Ghishlain]

Overhealing and effective healing generate the same amount of hate. 1HP healed = 0.5 enmity.

A 10K heal generate 5K hate.
A 10K overheal that effectively heals for 0 will generates 5K hate.
A 10K heal that has 5K overheal and 5K effective heal will generate 5K hate.

[IttyBitty]

Overhealing and effective healing generate the same amount of hate. 1HP healed = 0.5 enmity.

A 10K heal generate 5K hate.
A 10K overheal that effectively heals for 0 will generates 5K hate.
A 10K heal that has 5K overheal and 5K effective heal will generate 5K hate.

Yes, this is exactly how I remembered it being.

[Shurrikhan]

I'd like to note however that random parses are little more than a very, very broad hint.

I personally don't upload any logs and when I look myself up on my "main" (if you can call it that), I can score anywhere between the 99th percentile (lol Void Ark) to the 17th percentile (Cruise Chaser Savage). Other parses are scattered seemingly at random between those extremes.

That's not useful at all, neither for self-improvement nor for simply gauging where I stand. In order to make the parses useful, you first need to create a controlled environment, because a lot of factors beyond skill go into the raw DPS number, especially gear and comp. Well, or you just look at potency per second or something, but I'm not sure if FFlogs has that function anywhere. I couldn't find it at least.

The percentiles are certainly far from useful except in telling you what percentage of parses fell above or below you... which is itself hardly relevant. Heck, it seems a lot of people confuse their, say, 75% parse for their doing 75% of the highest parse for their class on the given encounter rather than merely above 74.9% of other players who've logged their parses.

It's why I've always insisted on, if an official parser were ever to be added, a relative potency metric by default, or at least as an obvious option, such that the effect of gear is at least greatly diminished and the RNG-based swing is omitted.

Once I'm near BiS, the percentiles are nice for signalling how much further yet I can push things, especially if able to influence the composition and encounter strategies, but until then -- and for the most part at any time -- the timelogs have always been my area of focus.