Healing Efficiency Lab

Headlines since 1.31.2

Full support for Patch 12.1: Curse of Ula'tek, two new talents modelled, and a fix for the talent search telling you nothing was better when something was.

• Updated for Patch 12.1 — no longer shows as out of date
• All seven healers re-verified against live 12.1 tooltips
• Germination and Wavespeaker's Blessing are now modelled
• Fixed: "Find highest output" could say your talents were best while a better build existed
• Way of the Crane was being over-valued by about 21% — now read from your own tooltip
• Talent lists cleaned up: talents you cannot actually reach are gone

1.32.3

Talents you can't take no longer clutter the list

Fourteen talents that cannot be reached at level 30 have been removed from the planner and the Learn page, including Ancestral Reach and Flow of the Tides. Patch 12.1 made Wavespeaker's Blessing a two-point node, which pushed those two out of budget.

Honest headline when builds can't be used

If the search finds better builds but none of them can actually be spent in your tree, it now says "Your current talents are still the best build HEL can recommend" instead of "Nothing scored higher than your current talents". The second was simply untrue in that situation.

1.32.2

• /helab debug now names the specialization you are actually playing. It previously said "Holy Priest calculator" on every character.
• Germination's description no longer overflows its row on the Talents page.

1.32.1

"Find highest output" could miss a better build entirely

On Restoration Druid, moving a point out of Germination into an unmodelled talent such as Ironbark made the search report that nothing scored higher — across every build it tested — while swapping back was worth roughly 18% more healing.

The cause: Germination requires Efflorescence, and the planner was not told. The search filled its shortlist with builds that dropped Efflorescence and kept Germination. Those score well but are impossible to actually spend, so every one was rejected and nothing was left to recommend.

It now correctly suggests removing Ironbark and taking Germination, and the same class of bug cannot occur for other talents.

1.32.0

Patch 12.1 model update

Every healer re-verified against live 12.1 tooltips. Most of the patch needed no changes, because healing values are read from your own tooltips rather than hardcoded.

Way of the Crane was over-valued

Its damage-to-healing transfer was hardcoded at 340% and Patch 12.1 changed it to 280%, so Mistweaver builds using it were rated about 21% too highly. It is now read from your tooltip, so future tuning is picked up automatically.

New talents modelled

• Germination (Restoration Druid) — a second Rejuvenation on the same ally. It does not change how often you cast Rejuvenation; the second cast becomes its own heal-over-time instead of refreshing the first, and the extra effect also raises your Mastery healing on that ally.
• Wavespeaker's Blessing (Restoration Shaman) — Riptide duration and heal-over-time, read from your tooltip and scaled to the rank you have taken.

Documented rather than guessed

• Overgrowth is excluded: it works off Nature's Swiftness, a one-minute cooldown this repeatable test never casts.
• Flash of Clarity is excluded: it only pays off on free Regrowths from Omen of Clarity, and there is no defensible rate for how often that happens.

Removed

Calm Waters no longer exists in Patch 12.1 and has been removed. It could previously be suggested even though it cannot be taken.

1.31.3

Patch 12.1 compatibility

Interface updated to 120100 so the addon no longer shows as out of date.