#Preservation Raid Help

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wind veldt
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I'm new to raid healing having decided to take it up this patch and possibly in to the next expansion, however, looking at my logs i could be doing a lot better. My reversion healing is a lot less compared to other Prevokers. Any help and tips would be appreciated.

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/CapbBdfTwFmVt7z9#fight=7&type=healing (Gnarlroot)
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/CapbBdfTwFmVt7z9#fight=45&type=healing (Smolderon)
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/CapbBdfTwFmVt7z9#fight=last&type=healing (Tindral)

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Preservation Raid Help

humble lodge
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Hey!

Sorry it took me so long to get to this one - as a general take, you're doing fine, especially as someone newer to the spec. To answer your specific question, generally you want to spend echos on rev where possible this patch, and you are generally doing that, especially looking at your earlier fights, with 80%+ consumption of echos by rev on those earlier fights with lower, less spiky damage.

For the broader notes, though, you do have quite a bit of room for improvement in a couple areas:

Cooldowns:
Your communions generally are under 10 people, and you can pretty much always guarantee 15+. Since it's a 3min CD alongside a 1.5min stasis, if you load TA as the last spell in your stasis, you can release stasis, cast TA, and then spam manual echos to guarantee 15+ on every usage, which is way better raid coverage.

Stasis is also a weak point - you want it to be (in like 99% of scenarios) some combination of TA, DB, and Spiritbloom. Order can be varied depending on fight needs and slightly for personal preference, but you have a lot of stases with random verdant embraces, echos, etc. that cost you a lot of healing.

Dream flight - you miss over half the raid quite often, even on stacked fights, though I didn't review to see whether that was an issue from your end or your guild's

General healing:

You do a decent job of not overcapping on essence bursts, which is always the first thing I look at, though your empowered spells could be cast way more frequently (and should be, unless you're explicitly pausing to ramp for something else. For example, looking at your tindral (and discounting the intermission flights), you still could have cast them all way more often. https://www.wowanalyzer.com/report/CapbBdfTwFmVt7z9/59-Mythic+Tindral+Sageswift,+Seer+of+the+Flame+-+Kill+(7:10)/Melriegosa/standard

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Also, some general resources for pres beyond the FaQ/Channels/WH guide:
Wow Analyzer (https://www.wowanalyzer.com/) - not updated for every spec, really good for pres. Some folks in the disc also directly contribute, on top of the usual authors, to make it great for us. I used it to put together the above notes
QE Live (https://questionablyepic.com/live/) - sim site, I'm assuming you're already using
Spiritbloom.pro (https://spiritbloom.pro/) - newer site, run by @mortal shuttle from the pres team. Still growing in terms of content, but has good notes on specific fights in M+ and raid. Also has a free UI if you wanna steal parts, which is entirely personal preference but wanted to shout out as those are usually behind paywalls.

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@wind veldt I'm not home right now, so the above isn't as organized or in-depth as usual, but if you have further logs or questions feel free to shoot them my (or any of the others') way

wind veldt
# humble lodge Hey! Sorry it took me so long to get to this one - as a general take, you're do...

This is great stuff, thank you so much for your help. Agreed my dream flights have been turbo bad largely due to my positioning as well as my communions and me not setting up correctly or using stasis better for the communion set up so I'll focus on improving those.

Agreed my stasis could be better, I just had a quick look at some of the top logging prevokers to see what they do on fights. I do try to aim for a DB > SB > TA in most cases but if I'm desynced and don't want to hold I feel its safe to stasis a VE > DB > TA to guarantee a buffed DB to use on demand. I also like that combo on Tindral shield but I think overall I just need to preplan and read the situation better.

I do have a question though. Is it worth following up a TA with DB if Reversion is on CD?

I'll check out the Spiritbloom site as well

Once again, thank you for your help!