So I’m pretty overwhelmed at how many skills resto has and usually I’m able to fit everything onto 2 rows of actions bars but I’m having trouble with resto. I understand that I don’t need to bind things like flametongue, lightning shield and primal strike but do totems like healing tide and mana tide require much priority? Also what about earth ele? Are there any other skills I don’t need to worry about?
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I’ll list out how I do mine:
1 - lava burst
2 - flame shock
3 - h surge
4 - riptide
5- chain heal
6 - healing wave
7 - dispel
Q - kick
R - healing stream
E - earth shield
T - earthbind
F - cap totem
G - astral shift
X - healthstones
V - covenant basic ability (door of shadows)
Alt1 - lightning shield
Alt2 - root totem
Alt3 - water shield
Alt4 - unleash life
Alt5 - covenant main ability
Alt6 - earth ele
Alt7 - spirit link
AltQ - ascend
AltE - spirit walkers grace
AltR - PvP trinket
AltF - tremor
AltX - earthen wall
AltC - healing tide
Shift1 - lightning bolt
Shift2 - chain lightning
Shift3 - ghost wolf
Shift4 - frost shock
Shift5 - mana tide
Shift6 - trinket
Shift7 - purge
Might be missing a couple
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damn ok I totally forgot about alt keys for some reason, thanks!
I’m more surprised that I needed to go beyond two full action bars tbh, but I guess that’s something I can easily get used to
I use mouse over macros for healing. Wave, Surge, Riptide, Cure, Earth Shield, etc. I use them for LvB, LB, FS as well.
Resto has a ton of spells, and you’re semi-forced to map both offensive and defensive spells. It’s one of the few specs that I feel the need to install an add-on to support my character. If I don’t use an add-on, I implement mouse-over macros (as Akston mentioned).
HealBot is a great way to manage mouse-over casting, without a lot of the technical setup. I can focus on physically mapping my offensive spells to the keyboard, and digitally mapping my healing spells to clicks.
The only drawback to leveraging an add-on is the eventual reliance upon its interface. After so long, you feel crippled should the add-on no longer be supported or available.
You shouldn’t need an addon! Mouseover macros work fine. I get to around 3k io every season and I’ve never installed a healing addon other than WA and ElvUI
You definitely don’t need an add-on, and I’m not saying one is required.
For me, I enjoy HealBot due to the cleanliness it affords my actionbars and otherwise, very vanilla UI setup.
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I swapped to VuhDo long ago in end WoD because HBot stopped getting updated and it went months without support, vuhdo usually always has something ready the day or or day after any big changes. ( someone else musta picked up the healbot project by now if people still use that dinosaur of an addon, just move to vuhdo tbh, I still make my vuhdo look like how my old healbot set up looked haha )
No one is saying you need addons, nor is anyone forcing anyone to play that way. There are many ways to successfully heal as long as you can react quickly to the dmg with the appropriate spells and see what is going on. Not everyone does mouse over macros, not everyone does addons, both styles ( and the other one I can never remember ) have been proven to work equally at any level of gameplay as long as the player is competent and can remember where they put stuff.
You usually make good points on here but telling people how to play the game when in reality it has been proven to not matter isnt one of them, though I am glad your set up is successful for you. 
The one issue with mouseover macros is they don’t work for mouse buttons, which can be amazing when healing. The addon Clique lets you bind mouseover macros for mouse keys, and is the only thing I use along with a custom UI (ElvUI)
I just discovered help/harm macros and Holy Thrall. Life changing.
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SAME.
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I’m sorry if I came across condescending on this one, I’ve just seen a lot of threads where healers are telling other new healers they have to play with an addon! Not my intention to try and tell anyone how to play the game.
I’m not sure what you mean by mouse buttons… I have a razor naga and I have 1-7 bound for mouseover, as well as scroll up and down!
VuhDo is a great alternative to HealBot, but in terms of raidframes, I like HB’s simplicity better. That being said, I think you can do more with VuhDo, as its customization is profound. Between the two add-ons, its hard to not find a healing solution.
HB went unsupported for a long time, but since BFA, I haven’t had any problems keeping it up-to-date via the Twitch platform.
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Clique is a nifty way to implement mouseovers.
It’s actually the reason I like HealBot so much, as it has Clique built directly into the frames (or a Clique-like clone).
Glad to hear it’s getting updates again! I liked the simplicity and that is why I mostly make my vuhdo bars look the same as the old healbot ones.
Vuhdo wasnt that much more complicated after watching a quick youtube video tbh, most of the tabs are the same in the end and you can ignore the extra fluff. It’s great there are so many options for healers tbh, the addon makers and updaters do good work!
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I expected somebody to swoop in already and mention multi-button mice. I will bite.
I pretty much exclusively play healers. I use a Logitech mouse with 13 side buttons for my thumb and a third click button for my pinky. Most of my binds are on the mouse. The 13 side buttons with no modifier pressed are my offensive spells. When I hold Left Alt as a modifier, the 13 buttons swap to my healing spells. If I hold the shift button as a modifier, the 13 buttons become support/utility spells. I use the third mouse click button for target swapping.
All of my keyboard binds are exclusively for movement and travel. This makes it so my right hand when I play is movement stuff and the left hand is targetting and using spells/abilities.
I do not use a click healing add-on at all. For all of my direct heals/buffs I just make a Mouseover macro. I do this for some of my ground target spells as well. Works pretty well for being flexible and consistent while playing healers in other MMOs that do not support addons.
EDIT: I have 12 side buttons, not 13. Brain fart.
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So, shamans are great for mouse over heal harm macros.
1- Healing Surge/Lava Burst
2- Riptide/Flame Shock
3- Healing Wave/Lighting
4- Chain Heal/Chain Lightning
5- Healing Rain
Shift-1: Healing Stream Totem
Q: Windshear
R: Cleanse
F: Purge
Shift-R: Earth Shield
The rest are easy to click buttons using bartender or bound to other shift or alt combos.
I set the tank as focus target, then target the enemy I want to damage and without switching targets mouseover unit frames to heal. No target = target self for heals.
Macros:
Heal/Harm
#showtooltip
/cast [@mouseover,help,nodead]Healing Surge; [@target,harm,nodead]Lava Burst;[@player]Healing Surge
Mouseover
#showtooltip
/cast [target=mouseover,help,nodead][]Purify Spirit
Works well for me.
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This has really piqued my interest and I’m going to look more into this style of macro’ing. I think this could shake up the actionbar setup I’ve had for years.
Thank you for the examples!
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I dont like using any number key passed 3 and I dont like using Alt modifiers. I do use shift modifiers and bind all keys surrounding WSAD. If you dont have one id get a MMO mouse. I use a Roccat Nyth.
i really like healbot but please tell me there is a way to change the horrible nameplates. i literally cant tell if someone is dying or next to me unless im watching it 24/7