I have never healed before, especially back during vanilla, and I know that, as a Priest who is not level 60, I will be expected to be a dedicated healer when running dungeons. Therefore, I would love to hear what advice you pros can give me.
I have been making sure that I equip gear that has Spirit and Int whenever possible. I did put the 2 points into the Holy skill tree that reduces how much healing spells are interrupted in combat, as well as the Disc skill that reduces the probability of being stunned, silenced, etc. All the rest of my points are being put towards basic survivability skills, such as Wand Specialization. I’m only level 19, so I know that I have plenty of time to refine my skill points, and since I’ll be running my first dungeon as a healer soon, I hope it will be pretty forgiving.
How do I set up my UI “to show only debuffs you can remove”? Note that I don’t use addons at all, so I’ll only have available what the game’s settings let me see.
Yeah, I really don’t like the idea of augmenting a game, adding things that weren’t built into it. Addons should not be necessary, just a preference. And it’s my preference not to install any outside stuff into any of my games.
Addons were encouraged by Blizzard. It is not something that is frowned upon. Many of the QoL changes to retail were implemented because of addons that players felt they needed.
I can promise you this, if you plan on doing raid content, you are going to be at a huge disadvantage. I refuse to use addons that play the game for me, like Healbot and Questie, but things that make interacting with the game better is useful.
If you don’t like adding things to games, you really shouldn’t be playing on a PC. Get yourself a gaming console. That is a very static platform. PC gaming has always been about adjusting the game to your liking, and a HUGE part of the Vanilla experience was addons.
Just to chip in a moment, a lot of blizzard’s design / dev decisions took into account that people were making addons, and so they themselves didn’t “need” to implement it officially because it already existed.
Wow, thanks for that encouragement… So because I don’t like the idea of addons, I should just toss my laptop, awesome. WoW and GW2 are the only games I play on a computer. Everything else I own is on a console.
This is the elitist kind of attitude I don’t like that addons have fomented among the community - the “us vs them”. I can play the game just fine without addons. All I literally wanted to know was what heal skills to focus on when in a dungeon, how to manage mana, etc.
Not using add-ons is fine. Sure some make life easier, but they’re far from necessary, especially in classic. In retail I use them sparingly (dbm, details, weak auras and m+ related ones). Don’t feel obligated to use them. I dont use mouse over macros or healing add-ons like vuhdu and people act like it must be impossible for me, yet I do great. I’m not using anything in classic.
All that said, to answer your question, showing only dispellable debuffs is in the game’s interface options. I also recommend turning on raid profiles, displaying class colors, resource bars (to see allies mana/rage/energy) and displaying pet bars for hunter pets.
Additionally as the previous posts say, use fewer large heals and don’t worry about keeping everyone full all of the time. I haven’t really had to down rank spells much yet at lvl 32 but at 60 I will.
Hopefully this helps.
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So I assessed you as more of a console gamer, based on your apprehension to adjusting your game with any kind of enhancements, you then admit you are a console gamer…and then take offense at my assessment.
Rage much?
Sorry I tried to help. I’ll avoid assisting you in the future.
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OP, you don’t need any addons to play the game. Though some addons make the game easier you can play everything barring cutting edge content just fine with zero addons in both retail and Classic. Classic especially is super easy with no addons as everything was a lot easier and simpler back then.
Typically the people who say you NEED addons are those who are way too reliant on them and come major patch or new xpac launch day, when half of the addons are broken, have no idea what to do without their addons. Best to avoid becoming that reliant on things.
It was your suggestion that I shouldn’t bother playing games on a computer if I don’t like addons that I found unhelpful, unconstructive. That was the only thing.
All the settings you can change without add ons are located in the raid interface part of your game settings.
It’s very limited, hence the proliferation of add ons.
Personally I use Clique to mousebind a few things (dispel, pain sup, etc), Quartz for a cast bar with latency monitor, and have used but don’t currently use ShadowedUnitFrames to customise buffs/debuffs on raid frames.
And then I write mouseover macros for my main healing spells so I can cast heals on target frames without selecting them.
None of it is necessary but just little things that smooth the experience.
Update: I did both a DM and BFD run in the last week, and I am proud to say that nobody died for lack of trying. The only deaths in DM were a botched situation that no one could really be blamed for (at the end), and in BFD one person died by drowning. I’ve found that, especially in the BFD run, my main heal spells have been Heal and Renew, and used Dispel Magic when the tank got frozen in place in BFD. Didn’t use any addons, and feel quite accomplished for this being my first time healing…ever. In both runs, I made sure to ask who the tank was, so I could have them selected at all times (except when needing to heal a DPS quickly who was getting hit hard).
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Please do. Don’t bother helping anyone again if all you intend to do is trash someone because they don’t want to use addons.
Wow, that was weeks ago. Are you really this angry at the world? And not even correct in your assessment. Go back to retail you troll.
I use vuddo and mouseovers.
Down ranking is the biggest advice i can give you. I heal but i ask my tanks to compare my healing to other healers they see. The comment they make is healers dont know when to down rank properly and use full and down ranked heals at wrong times and run out of mana fast
One friend said that when in VC, the priest healer would pws renew and wand,
letting him get to 15% health before throwing a heal. This killed him several times. Obviously an extreme example of bad healing.
I took spirit tap and dumped into the disc tree until i got divine spirit (disregard what meylvl says, didint update when i transferred across realm). inner focus i save as much as possible for prayer of healing.
Vuhdo shows you debuffs. Dungeons like ZF you really need to know those debuffs as players are getting poly’d and dotted up by enemy casters.
A trick i found is to try and sneakily finish a mob off in a dungeon to proc spirit tap so you can drink less.