Manic

Sure, if you look merely at how much healing a person did, then yes, healing meters are pointless.

Back when I was raiding t6 (pre-nerf), I was one of my guild's healing officers, and I ALWAYS used healing meters as a way of determining who was pulling their weight and who wasn't, and as a means of improving our healers in any way possible. Did it work? Yeah, it did. Running with generally undergeared healers, we still never had a problem in that department. You need to consider several things such as overhealing (not the overall number like some people will stupidly focus on, but the percentage of overhealing they did in comparison with their overall healing), healed targets (because a healer that isn't able to spread out their heals AND focus on an assigned target simultaneously is generally useless), dispels (if you can and don't, then why should we bring you along?), spells used (which showed us who was uselessly spamming, and who had room for gear improvement based upon crit chance and average heal size), and more.

Hell, I encouraged my guild's healers to download and use Recount, and to do their best to top the charts. By encouraging competition we added our own level of fun to raids and at the same time guaranteed that our healers were always putting forth their best.

In my experience, the only people that ever found fault with this system were the ones that I confronted after seeing their activity (or rather their lack thereof). They were the only ones that ever complained that healing meters were useless, but the tanks and DPS that saw the benefit of their use never did.

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