why people still suggest ohers to use addons and macros for healing?
since the updated UI i deinstalled my healing frames which was necessary before.
sure the blizzard frames are not perfect, mainly in displaying enough hots if you play rdruid, but they are very good for every other healer.
I am also surprised that so many people play with mouse over stuff as that is not necessary either.
healing is quite slow, you can easily click the frame and start healing. avoids a lot of mistakes as well.
there is absolutely no need for stuff like vuhdo or healbot.
the basic you can easily be configured to do the same while looking cleaner than those addons. as bonus you will never have to worry about your broken ui after a patch or especially when a new xpac releases.
if you want to easily start to heal, just play shaman and prrss chain heal all day. if people are still dying they just just terrible.
general rule of thumb:
if you need to heal a tank, the tank is bad. You 99.9% never need to heal a tank, even in a +10. yes there are tanks who will blame and flame you because they are terrible and think this is vanilla wow where tanks actually need heals.
if a dps dies 100% to 0, it is their fault
if unavoidable dmg brings them to 40% and they die in the next 3 seconds, it is their fault. they got hit by something avoidable.
if you consta tly have to heal the group, they are a bunch of bad players. most mob groups do not do unavoidable dmg. it is mainly boss fights that have intervalls with unavoidable dmg eith decent pauses inbetween to let you heal people up
the frog as some mechanics to pay attention to.
it does 2 aoes, 1 is just aoe dmg but not very high just to heal off. the second heavy aoe is when he spawns frogs.
in m0 you dont need to react so quickly as nobody will die from the aoe.
once the frogs spawn just run beding the boss and drop a slow totem in the middle.
and no you dont need to dispel. shamans cannot dispel poison anyways. if people do get stacks, they play bad.
but to help out those potatoes, you can drop a poison cleanse totem that basically dispels the whole group and only cost you a gcd.
fun part about that boss is that many play it wrong and thus the dmg gets unhealable.
tank will let the boss enrage
boss doesnt eat up all the frogs and people getting meleed by the frogs
people standing in narnia
so if those 3 things happen and you cannot heal it, it is normal if you are a new healer.
people just dont know mechanics
Healing isnât always slow. Some healers have a lot of instant casts (heals, external buffs, dispells, battle-rezes), and when youâre playing harder content, youâll need to be able to fire those off as quickly as possible because youâll also need to deal with dodging boss mechanics etc. Every millisecond saved is important in higher M+ keys and mythic raids.
And this doesnât only apply to healers. When Iâm playing with my protection or retribution paladin, being able to quickly off-heal an ally with Word of Glory or Lay on Hands, or battle-rez a fallen ally, while keeping my enemy targeted is really valuable.
I donât think mouse-over casting is more difficult, so Iâd recommend new player (not just healers) to get used to it right away. In harder content, the benefits will become obvious. But yeah, Iâd tell new players to avoid addons like Vuhdo or Healbot because theyâre bloated with features you donât need anymore because theyâre available in the default UI.
For some healers, custom party frames may be very valuable though. I think (de)buff icons shown by the default UI are really hard to see, and some healers like resto druids spam people with multiple buffs. So at some point, healers will probably need to invest time into configuring an addon for this.
its not about cast time it is about time till someone dies.
there are rarely big hittera followed by another big hitter in 2 seconds.
instant casts alao dont do enough to top people anyways.
define harder content?
I am already playing above max reward content and still dont need 0.1s reaction time.
in that case mouse over is also by far not the fastest way.
so far i didnt see any healer playing with specific target player macros which would be the absolut fastest way but requires way too much effort, reaction and memory
no its not. we are talking about scripted fights. you know exactly when what happens.
thats why people in pvp use target macros to exactly save that time.
not more difficult but can lead to more error, especially if you first verify where your stupid cursor actually is.
for me, my cursor is mostly not visible
at least you can see basically every r1 healers just playing with standard frames.
they just have a metric tons of weakauras now, but no need for special frames anymore which is great
mouse over as dps is very sketchy.
Just usie focus interrupts and you are gucci.
dispelling team mates its certainly enough to click frames, but sure would be a little more efficient to mouse over that
I have not been playing retail so not 100% of how different it is from classic but the Healbot addon is great. You can set up hotkeys separate from your hotkeys on your action bars to heal groups or raids. People get highlighted when a buff is missing or something you can cleanse hits them for example very helpful.
He did 178m healing, he took 289m dmg. On a prot paladin if you heal more chances are you drop active mitigation to do so which in turn means you need to heal more⌠(so not viable).
So thats the 0.01%. If you move to what most people are doing the likelihood of the tank needing heals would just increase.
Yes, you have âhurr durr tank and 4 dps runsâ but the tanks are playing well within their limits for that and they also take talent choices that massively reduce their damage done which never happens in your standard run (and nor should it)
All of your logs prove the same thing. Youâve done 9âs with a 521 (overgeared) bear tank that still took more damage than they self healed.
