I’ve been playing priest (disc, mainly) since Cata and am trying to get back into resto druid by doing some M+. I feel like I have a problem that most people don’t talk about, or perhaps talk about indirectly: I feel like my eyes have to be glued to party frames all the time to be effective. There are so many hots to keep track of, and each one has its own countdown timer! Even with addons like Enhanced Raid Frames, it’s a lot to keep track of.
I feel like part of the problem may be that I feel like I have to have a Rejuv on everyone all the time, because if anyone takes a spike of damage and they don’t have a HOT on them already, it takes a lot longer to heal them up and they are in much greater risk of dying to a follow-up hit.
What this means is that I feel like I can’t “watch the battlefield” nearly as much as I can on other healers. With my priest, I can just cast Radiance to apply atonements to the party and then “watch the battlefield” while going through my damage rotation for 6 seconds. It is easier to anticipate and avoid mechanics - and easier to get a sense of who is about to take damage.
Is this just something I have to (re)learn?
Honestly, I wish Effloresence auto-applied Rejuvenation to anyone within its radius once every second. It would solve a lot of the issues I seem to have with resto
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Or at least some button we could press that was just “applies rejuv to whoever in your party doesn’t have it” without needing to target somebody. I wonder if there is a macro somewhere for that…
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Would that walk the fine line of macro vs automation?
Like, I know you still have to hit it, but it feels really close.
I know we Hunters can set macros to call a pet, mend a pet or revive a pet based on pet states, but I’m unsure if you could retool that for what’s essentially a buff.
I do know I have a macro that pulls a mount from the ones I entered into that macro based on world states, like if I’m aquatic, ground bound or if you can fly.
Macros have always been really like… complex? In my eyes. I’m sure there’s guides that break down all kinds of use cases, but macros are largely intimidating to me.
It won’t be possible to write such a macro, or addon for that matter. Very early on, Blizzard restricted the ability for macros and addons to make decisions on spell choice or target, they want players to have to make those decisions. Only heals that are built as smart heals will do that.
You could probably make a macro that goes down your party one by one if you’re just looking to get the mastery stack across the board. But if you want to be able to select a target based on their current rejuvenation state, you’ll need to select the target yourself.
I move everything, including frames, close to the center of my screen. That way I can see what’s going on in my peripheral vision. I am always focused on the frames but I can see well enough for mechanics. It does kind of feel like I’m playing the game without really experiencing the game though.
Yeah, moving the party frame to a more central position helps a LOT. I feel that those being in the corners of the screen are really weird, and I’m not sure how people heal on those while paying attention to the center of the screen.