I can only bind about 16 keys and also I find requiring healers to DPS is absolutely asinine.
Right now I have 1-6
RT, Healing Surge, CH, Healing Wave, well spring, Earthen Wall Totem (admittedly I don’t use as much as I should)
Mouse button + 1-6 I have
Earth Shield, Necro Cov, Spirit Link Totem, Healing Stream Totem, Mana tide totem
Scroll up/downm+mouse button scroll up/down
Cloud burst, healing rain, dispel and windshear
I have tried remapping keys but I just can’t get used to it. I also need to find a way to DPS in mythic+ and while flame shock+LVB is fine, I see other healers doing 1.5k dps and that rotation doesn’t do nearly enough.
Any advice? I use mouseover macros of course.
You could try the keybinds you already use with alt and shift modifiers. It really opens a lot of posibilities
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I have those bound to mouse button because it was too cumbersome.
This is probably the easiest way to double or triple your available keybinds.
Sometimes you just have to keep trying until you do. It’s relearning muscle memory, so go sit at the healing dummy for a couple of hours (not at once or you’ll go insane) and retrain yourself.
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If it makes you feel better, I had bound roar to Q and kept hitting it on sludgefist…
Using something like clique allows me to ignore bindings for all heals (RT, HS, HW, Pwave, etc).
It can also be used for mouse over macros for dps as well. I have flame shock/lightning bolt/lavaburst used for that.
It frees up a bunch of keybinds.
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Healbot is helpful. My left is healing wave, left shift healing surge, middle earth shield, right chain heal, shift right purify disease etc. Makes it way easier especially for healing others in arena. Totems are 1-4 and alt e alt r alt f alt q, offensive shift 1-4
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Wasn’t aware healbot was unbanned. Not a fan of addons that do all of the work for me tbh.
Is that an addon that chooses heals for you like healbot did before it got banned?
I use Vuh’DU, and I imagine it’s similar.
It replaced the raid and party frames, which you can then position. Then, after a little set-up, it will cast the keybound spell when you click on that raid frame.
Like the other person, everything I can use on myself or an ally is pretty much off my bars. The only thing on the bars are totems, dps spells, and utility spells.
That still fills things up pretty good, but it would definitely be far worse without the add-on.
You can double up keybinds with heal/harm macros
I use stuff like:
#showtooltip Healing Wave
/cast [@mouseover, nodead, noharm]Healing Wave
/cast [@mouseover, nodead, harm]Lightning Bolt
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No, it allows you to set healing spells to mouse buttons when you click on a raid frame. For instance on my shaman I have riptide set to cast when I left click on a raid frame (depending on what addon you use it may give you it’s own frames I use clique with default raid style party frames). It opens up new keybinds and allows you not have to manually target and then cast. It doesn’t do any of the work for you it just adds QoL to healing. Healbot, and Vudho are good if you want it to come with frames for you. I recommend clique if you want to keep using default frames or a different frame addon. Cheers.
Use the help/harm conditionals of macros, that should help.
For example, I have Lightning Bolt and Healing Surge on 1, but I also have Spirit Link as well under Ctrl (Fire Elemental if I go Ele)
/cast [mod:ctrl,spec:3] Spirit Link Totem ; [mod:ctrl,spec:1] Fire Elemental ; [mod:alt,@player][help] Healing Surge; Lightning Bolt
This helps a lot as we have a few abilities that we want only when we explicitly target an enemy.
Note: I use Clique, so if I hover over the tank unitframe, even with an enemy targeted, 1 will still trigger Healing Surge. In order for lightning bolt to trigger, I need to move the mouse off the unitframe.
So yeah, a combination of Clique and help/harm macro’s helps me keep the button counts down.
Going to have to try these macros. At least me I have about 20 binds with q r t g e f c, all with shift modifiers, and then 1-5. Have smaller hands so things past G or 5 get to be a bit much. Harm macro should help take off 2 binds as resto (lava burst/flame shock) as I would just click lightning bolt.
We have quite a few harms in our list:
- Flameshock
- Lava Burst
- Lightning Bolt
- Chain Lightning
- Hex
- Frost Shock
- Purge
- Wind Shear
If you have any button that’s dedicated to any of the above, you can help/harm macro them to reduce button clutter.
FYI, I use 1-4, X, Q, E, and 6 buttons on mouse (Steelseries Rival 500, I’m not using the addition 5 buttons on it).
Not sure if someone mentioned this or not but look into harm/help macros
Basically if you are targeting a friendly player it will cast a heal. If you are targeting a enemy it will cast a harmful spell. Cuts your key binds in half.
I’ve been playing off and on since release and never knew about heal/harm macros!
This is a game changer!
Most of my suggestions are already covered in this thread. I prefer to use shift modifiers for large cooldowns and/or abilities I don’t use much. I save alt for targeting myself unless the ability can’t focus me. For example, my Q is frost shock so I made Alt+Q Earthgrab.
Consolidating harm/help spells is a cool idea I had not thought of. I did consolidate purge and cleanse though, making a macro that purges if the target is harmful, cleanses if its an ally, and cleanses me if I hold Alt.
My buddy started playing healer for the first time in his WoW career and he found macros that will heal the target of target when he has an enemy selected. Obviously this has limitations, but I think he consolidated that into other abilities.
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I tend to have abilities I use a lot around my wsad keys. For example I have LB on E, flame shock shift+e. Lightning bolt on q, chain lightning on shift+q. riptide on x healing wave r, cov ability t, healing rain x, healing surge shift+r.
Purge/purify, totems and interrupts are on my mouse, shields are not bound.
I dont use any macro’s aside mouse over for healing.