Healers in my raid say i am hard to heal

Hello I have been running regular firelands for a couple months now in my guild. I am not a hard core player but i do try and get the best gear avaiable to me. So i switched raids to a run that is doing H Firelands and pretty much have been told to re-gem or re-gear or i will be left behide becasue the healers say that i am to hard to heal. i have read alot of post on this forums and others to see what i am doing wrong but cant figure it out. i use askmrrobot and rawr to see if i am making any big mistakes but still cant find any.

Here is my armory http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/f ... tus/simple

If there is anything i am missing some help would be very helpful thanks.

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My 0.02 (I'm a tier behind you because my RealLife limits my RaidLife; take this as a friendly but perhaps inexpert offering.)

I think you're going to need to do some logging to analyze your performance. The gear doesn't look wrong, and the spec/glyphs seem fine. I prefer HotR glyph over CS most of the time, but that's irrelevant to survival. I think the numbers say Gbtl > Consecration even with the cooldown, and that might help your survivability, particularly if you can pre-WoG the big hits. I see you're secondary Ret; are you perhaps neglecting to WoG at critical moments due to being programmed to respect Ret's priority on Inq? Are you using Holy Shield intelligently? Unless more experienced eyes see something, I suspect it is a question of optimizing your actions for survival rather than an issue with your gear or spec.

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Your gear is well made and there seems to be nothing wrong there, I would say it's ready for heroic modes. You have a lot of cooldowns to use and shouldn't be 'held' for harder times in the course of the fight.

Looking at your logs 1 & 2, your damage taken is higher than the druid (however in the logs you took more damage from Aylsrazor and less from adds). You didn't seem to use Guardian of Ancient Kings however in heroic mode you are more likely to have a need to use it. I can only imagine the healers complaining about you because lack of cooldowns, taking unnecessary environment damage or simply the healers are used to healing heroic geared tanks. It certainly isn't down to your gemming or gearing. (WoG is useful, threat shouldn't be an issue and removing those threat talents in favour of 'bad' WoG talents isn't going to do any harm)

Better CD usage is something to look into. Its something I had to improve upon when I switched from ret to prot full-time (was always a part time off-tank).

Also, you may just be suffering the 'new guy' syndrome. I switched groups a little while back too (we have 2 10 mans going). I was told my damage was spikey compared to the guy I replaced. I looked at the logs and determined I was not only less spikey, but taking slightly less damage overall than who I replaced. Its simply a matter of trust. Since you're new the healers are going to use you as an excuse until proved otherwise. Improve the CD usage and give it time, the critique should go away. Mine did.

thanks for all the input. will try and use CD's more often and have better awareness of my surroundings.

golfinguy wrote:Its simply a matter of trust.

i know when i am raiding with our full healing corps of a healadin, resto druid, and a shaman, i have full faith in them
i know when i need to use my cds, and i know they will keep me alive (as long as i am needed to tank anyway) as long as i do my part

once your healers get used to you, and your style of tanking, and you get used to them, that trust will build.
just keep at it and try to be intelligent about using cds