I admittedly use Decursive in retail to mindlessly cure raid and group members with a single click. I dispel enemies from warnings from DBM. If my understanding is correct, these quality of life addons will not be available in Classic. I will be playing holy priest in Classic, and from my research, timely cures and dispels are paramount in many encounters. My question to those with healer experience in Vanilla is: how do you/will you be handling your cures and dispels? Will you just keep an eye on group raid/party windows for the debuffs to pop up, and use whatever method of target selection and hotkey binding to cure it? Is there a Classic addon that will provide notices and warnings for cures/dispells? I feel very confident in my research that I will do just fine managing mana and healing raids/groups, but the cures and dispels are something I am unclear on how to best approach. Any tips or suggestions are very appreciated. Thank you for your time.
P.S. I am not looking for a hand holding, faceroll addon like Decursive, I just want to be efficient at curing and dispelling and wanted to see how others will be approaching this as healers.
Why wouldn’t these addons be ported over for Classic? Also, nobody is going to take “healer points” from you for using Decursive or w/e, don’t worry about that.
I was under the impression addons such as Decursive will not function. It’d be great if they were available, and perhaps I have misunderstood some posts on that topic. I was asking the question under the assumption they would not be available.
I imagine it will be there in some form. It existed back in vanilla.
As I recall, Decursive worked early in vanilla as a true one-click. You pressed your Decursive keybind, it cast Cleanse or whatever on a random raid member with a cleansable debuff if anyone had one, it required no targeting or any other work by the player.
Later in vanilla, my memory is that Blizzard deliberately broke Decursive so that it didn’t provide this auto-targeting functionality. The addon-writer came out with a new version that would show you who needed to be cleansed, but the player had to click something to change targets. I definitely could be misremembering.
How does Decursive work now?
Honestly, I’m not sure. I never used it then or now. I just use a mouseover macro and drag my mouse around the raid health bars while mashing my macro lol.
The automated functionality of decursive won’t exist but the functionality it has similar to its retail version will.