Made up numbers don’t prove anything. I’m not trying to just butt heads on this but you’re still trying to argue that extra clicks are still just as efficient.
Do mythic ra’den while click healing then come talk to me. I healed it on a holy priest and I can promise you it wouldn’t happen
No, Im not. Im arguing that taking 2 actions in the space of a gcd is slower than taking 1, but not slow enough to matter at all.
Its not made up numbers, its determining how long you have to take an action with the lowest gcd.
Mousover is better IMO but if you can perform by clicking, it doesn’t matter.
Let’s say that anyone casts a spell about once per second. Choosing the right spell is crucial, some are instant, some might be dots or hots, some might have a long cooldown.
Let’s say that you have eight spells, that might be an average or close guess.
So, that is 480 specific decisions for every minute and let’s take it to the next step of an eight minute raid boss: 3,840 decisions on the right spell to cast and when and why.
Now, if you are a healer, in a medium raid, you have fifteen targets. So, that would be 57,800 decisions! Exhausting, really. Top that up with some pet healing because I can and do using my addon. And then everyone says, “dude, where is your dps?”.
So … for me … an addon to heal is necessary before the sheer number of choice makings become too much!
whatever, you people are crazy.
Keep clicking to heal, what do I care
I have gotten about 3k io every season on various healers with zero add-ons, they’re definitely not necessary
Basically, you should have your next spellcast lined up as soon as or before your GCD is through. It’s just practice and muscle memory.
This is correct
Exactly…why do you care how others choose to play a game?
You simply can’t mouse over, then click target, then press ability, then mouse over another target, then click, then press ability
The time separation between clicking a players frame, and pressing an ability, and making sure you don’t press the ability before clicking targeting them, is a liability. In high content you’re healing so fast this it is not possible to maintain the order of these steps and still perform at your highest level.
You need to be mousing over, ability, mouse over another, new ability, in rapid over. I don’t buy that it’s even possible to do manually when wide raid damage is going out
I mean, it’s factually incorrect. But they can be bad, I don’t care.
Nope, you really don’t. Gcd is way more time than is needed to click a new target and start spamming a button. Even if you start button pressing early, it does not matter because of the gcd. You just have to take the correct action within a set time, and it does not matter how many additional actions you take in that time.
It is not factually incorrect that most people are capable of pressing 2 buttons in .75 seconds.
Your GCD thing you keep harping on leaves out a lot of things like moving your character, abilities off the GCD, targeting the boss.
The thing that is great about mouseover is that you can keep the boss targeted and DPS or whatever and still heal with all of your spells with binds and not lose your target. Imagine an add needs to die and you guild is progressing badly through an encounter. You can’t help kill that mob because you’re clicking around like a crazy person.
It just calms things WAYYYY down so you can do things more steadily. Not saying it’s not possible, but you will be better doing it with an addon and mouseovers.
You realize that with a healing addon, you are still clicking around like a crazy person. The only additional clicks needed would be to target the boss, which is a fair point, but that can be solved in a number of ways.
If you solve the boss targeting problem by, say, using a macro, then the only thing being added to your required actions for healing is keyboard button presses, not clicks.
Not even a question of if you can help with dps but should you be at that given moment. It seems in your eyes that if you’re healing without addons, you’re handicapping yourself. This just isn’t the case.
It makes it easier, sure, but you can do just as well with the default ui.
You’re not though, you’re gliding your cursor over a block of health (in grid2) and using 1,2,3, one of your mouse binds, etc, while you keep your target as the boss, who MAY have casts and abilities they do that aren’t visible if you are targeting something else. Using your abilities doesn’t select the raid frame target, just heals it and you move on.
I’m aware of that. Are you aware that there are default raid frames that allow you to target players? Its still a block of health you can navigate easily.
I agree with you that boss targeting is easier with an addon