I let people die then brez them its more fun.
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for healing, you dont even need a mouseover anymore thanks to the GCD.
dbm is needed. that is about it.
dont heal for your friends unless you want to be a healer AND they are going to carry you through your daily chores.
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Proving Grounds is the best education you can get, so try that.
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you do not “need” any addons what so ever to be a competent and efficient healer.
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you do not “need” special macros to be a competent and efficient healer either.
That out of the way… the addons may make things “easier” in the eyes of those who use them, but in actuality there is no real gain. The most useful thing those addons do is make it easier to tell who needs a cleanse and who doesn’t…
Mouseover macros add some convenience to healing, by allowing you to just hover your mouse over a party member to target them with a heal instead of clicking to change your hard target… but this convenience can also be a hinderance for newer players who might mouseover the wrong target or forget to mouseover anyone and heal either themselves or someone else who needs no healing at that time.
Best way to learn healing is to hop into a low level dungeon on a healer (preferably with a tank that you know personally if at all possible, if not that’s fine just solo queue) and try your best… read how everything works and use your best judgement to determine what to use on who and when, if things don’t seem to work out revise and try again… sometimes healers have to change up healing strategies on the fly even, so quite frankly, guides won’t do much. You just have to hop in and try if for yourself.
Once you are comfortable with healing without macros or addons, then looking into macros and addons that convenience you is something you can consider… but honestly I’d avoid it when starting out as they absolutely will overwhelm you and over complicate things.
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Playing “properly” entails staring at a graph of constantly moving lines, waiting for bright flashes in order to keep any of the moving lines from disappearing.
If you are only going to be doing small groups with your friends, I would say just do what you enjoy, and keep the addons in mind if you find you have trouble in any areas. Aside from the basic addons, like weakauras, and DBM, I don’t really like using a lot of them.
You really don’t need a bunch of fancy addons to heal. You will do fine just without! However, if you do decide on using a lot of addons while learning to heal, make sure you also know the fundamentals without the addons because you don’t want them to randomly break and then going ??? while trying to heal. I have seen it happen once lol
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Use (or don’t) whatever you like. Try a few things and if you don’t like it, get rid of it. I ended up settling on Grid (which i already used as raid frames) and Clique. I used Decursive as well but it’s hardly essential.
You are absolutely not required to use any addons, mouseover macros, etc. if you don’t want to.
Really, the best way to learn to heal is to just do it. Everyone has different ways of healing and different specs are different with their own strengths and weaknesses.
You don’t need add ons at all. Basic UI party and frames is enough. I do recommend some sort of UI add on for tracking hots and debuffs but that’s for convenience rather than a necessity. I use grid2 myself for that because it’s nice and compact vs basic UI.
I say start with 5man healing first. It can be daunting due to being only healer but you also only got 5 people to worry about. Run with group of friends or at least one friend. The friend does not need to be the tank. A good DPs can go a long way too.
Oh ya. Get familiar with spells of your class. Identify your primary heal, your aoe heal, your hots, your cd etc. As mentioned, different heal specs play differently. In the end though, healing isn’t for everyone. So play what you like.
I’ve healed mythic raid bosses without using specific add ons. It’s definitely possible. Is it optimal? No… no it isn’t.
My recommendation is to start healing, then start noticing when you’re having trouble with something. Are having trouble dispelling specific debuffs? Are you having trouble remembering your CDs? What about maintenance spells like efflorescence? That’s where you can start looking into add ons to further augment and improve your play.
As for add ons like clique and Vuhdo, that’s sorta like the clicker vs keybinder argument. Sure you can play the game as a clicker, but you’ll never be as fast as a keybinder. Having a mouse over add on or mouse over macro’s will make you noticeably faster than manually selecting nameplates. You also won’t have to deselect the boss so you can keep throwing out damaging spells easily.
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You do not need anything other than mouse over macros. If you plan to arena then maybe have target party 123
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A brand new player wouldn’t know
what an auction house is ?
is there a bank ?
e.t.c
They reach 15 and get prompted you can do LFDS
and you expect them to know how to heal ???
The BEST way to learn to heal is to roll a new character from level one. As soon as you can, queue for random dungeons as healer only (level 15?). Level all the way to 120 by doing nothing other than dungeons. After that, start looking through the healing addons and see if any of them sound like they would make your life easier.
No guides or addons are necessary. They might help you get better.
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You don’t “need” mouseover macros. I use them, but I didn’t always, and many people don’t.
There is nothing that is mandatory per se but there are definitely addons that will make it easier to keep track of things like CDs and debuffs that need to be dispelled. The one thing you should do is get comfortable with mouse over macros, whether that’s through Vuhdo/Clique or just writing macros yourself.
Without mouse over macros, you will likely hit a wall at some point in your progression due to it being much more cumbersome to manually click targets to dispel and heal.
You don’t NEED anything.
I use mouseover macros and in the past used elvui to better see who has what buffs and hots on them easier but otherwise nothing more is needed.
DBM’s everyone who wants to seriously play should have anyways so thats not really a healer thing.
This is true. But it’s true in the sense that you don’t “need” keybinds. You don’t need them but it’s a severe handicap
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I agree. But I still say he should level up and figure out what he thinks he “needs.”
I would cordially disagree on that point. I would definitely say start using mouseovers asap. What’s the point of learning something only to have to unlearn and relearn something else later? My 2 cents
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OP, I laughed at your name way more than I should have. 10/10 well played.
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You aren’t really learning anything, you are just able to hover over the unit frame instead of clicking on it. I think it’s just a quality of life issue, but it can be time consuming creating the macros, when he could be running through dungeons. He might not even like healing at all.