Silly question, but I always used Decursive for my dispelling needs. It came with an icon for everyone and a sound played when you needed to take action. How does it happen now? Do you just have to guess when there is a dispelling needed? And do you have to keep an eye on the players avatars and look for icons that you can only guess are meant to be dispelled?
I haven’t touched a healer since the patch and this is the only reason keeping me from doing it!
Debuffs are shown on the frame as the icon of the ability with a colored border based on what type of debuff it is (generally, blue = magic, and that’s the important healer-specific dispel stuff). I know most addons can put a border around the whole frame in that color as well if that’s easier to spot for you. Don’t know if that’s an option in the default frames or not.
Also, Decursive is updated for 12.0.
Don’t know if the way it works has changed or not though.
Disspelling was off the charts horrific before spell correct. Vowels mess with me, hence Sumwun.
frame addons can be set up to show curses, presumably so can the in-game ones. This is what I use, which basically is the same concept as decursive but built into frames instead of decursive’s separate panel:
#showtooltip prismatic barrier
/cast [@mouseover, exists, noharm] remove curse; prismatic barrier
It doesn’t work, even the author said it’s useless in Midnight.
Gotcha. Why did they even push out an official 12.0 / 12.0.1 update in that case though?
If it’s worthless, leave it out of date.
I’ve always figured you were Dimsim’s lesser known cousin
Make a mouseover macro or use an addon like Clique if you don’t want to use one of the healing addons.
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,exists] Remove Curse
Curses are purple and depending on what party/raid frames you use debuffs can appear as icons or colored borders, etc. Bind the above macro to a key and use it on a party or raid member who has a Curse that needs to be removed.
Issue is that it’s not immediately obvious what should be dispelled. And debuffs on Blizzards frames are tiny. And Blizzard has an asinine 8s CD when something gets removed.
Same for me… I too used Decurives. Despite being updated for 12.0, it’s useless in Midnight. I’m using the default raid frames (including 5-man parties as raid frames) and I do see an ever-so-tiny debuff icon when someone gets cursed, but I also see a bunch of other icons that are NOT curses I can specifically remove (some are just buffs, not even a curse). The Blizz UI does not seem to have a way to filter the raid frame icons to only buffs you provide (so you don’t forget arcane intellect for everyone) and debuffs you can remove (so poisons don’t show because a mage can’t get rid of those, but a paladin could). I’ve also not seen a sound alert that you can set for other player’s debuffs. Maybe I just need to play with the settings more if it’s there and I just can’t figure it out.
This is the Interface / Raid Frame settings… the “Show Debuffs” section should have an option to play a sound alert when a new debuff is applied to a party/raid member that can be dispelled by your character. As it stands you have to just watch the raid frames. At least the Keybindings / Click Cast Bindings seems to work when I drag my dispel to an empty slot and assign it to CTRL-Left-Click, so when I see the debuff icon on a frame, I can just use that modified mouse-click to cast it without having to define a mouse-over macro, put that macro on a hidden action bar, and then assign the mouse-click to that action bar slot.
This is the native click-cast binding for my Evoker (Expunge is an 8s CD, the other one for Cauterize is 1min so I just manually click that as it’s not as useful).
I just use the in-game macro tool to make mouseover macros for dispels. That or just hotkey + click to make sure it goes through (since some of the hotkeys I use work a bit iffy with mouseover stuff).
There’s probably better ways of writing these macros, but they work, and have redundancies built into them, so… I’m happy with 'em.
My macros are ancient and likely bloated, but they operate exactly how I need. Lol
We don’t have as much control over buff/debuff filtering as we used to, but dispellable debuffs are one of the few categories we can still control.
Third party frames like Danders Frames or Grid2 can still highlight frames that have a debuff you can dispel and the default frames have new icons to show dispellable debuffs as well. I don’t know if they fixed it but I hated the shading the default frames have when someone has a debuff. Danders Frames does it pretty well. I just changed a few settings in Danders and am currently using that (moved the position of some buff/debuff indicators and changed how many max icons they could show and turned on the border so the frames don’t blend together).
I didn’t know people even used decursive anymore, most healers just had frames set up to clearly show who needed to be dispelled without having to have a separate/redundant thing on the UI. Decursive was only really useful in vanilla when you could mash one button to dispel automatically.
Yeah I love the “there it is - click that!” way that decursive functions. No need to give up the Healbot real estate to a cleansing spell. Bummer. But then again, Healbot is broken too - doesn’t show buffs on the frame and looks like authors either don’t care or are too busy to fix.
They trolling
Stop. Just stop.