I was asked to raid heal last night on my druid and I’ve not done that for a very, very long time. I think the last time I raid healed a boss kill was in Sunwell, at least on my druid.
I’ve done M+ healing but that’s a different situation as you’re running as many DPS traits as you can get away with.
Being so out of touch with raid healing I looked at the guide, chose talents I thought I could handle, chose the 2m tranquility talent as that was requested for better healing CD coverage and pressed the Find BiB button.
What I discovered seemed odd so I had a look at the boss script.
The optimiser has a real hard on for Vampiric Speed.

I don’t know if healing someone who’s damaged it triggers it or not but it matters not for this inquiry.
So what should I choose for a fight against just one boss?
I was thrown in the deep end for Mythic Abyssal Commander Sivara and there is nothing dying there except my team mates. ![]()
Looking at the results of BiS, with 415 ilvl azerite pieces and just heroic raid gear, it chooses three Vampiric Speed pieces, clicking on the traits shows 1.22% - 1.29% above the other option on that ring.
I’m not sure if that’s a ~1.25% total healing increase or something just relative to the traits on that piece of gear, whatever the case it’s not something I can get on a fight against just one boss.
If this was for DPS I’d have a better idea of how the other options stack up in a situation different from the script, but for healing I’ve got no idea, you could say I’m clueless!
The mythic version of the fight would probably make for a pretty good boss script, although executing like a script does would be difficult.
I think it would be handy to have an option for healing between the M+ boss fight and the Vectis script but understand that’s a lot of extra info to get across to end users, it’s also a lot of extra simulations.
Thoughts please @Swol. ![]()
I suspect you’ve got a much better idea of how things might change, you’ve probably got a few ways I could suck less at healing too!