Need a few tips from Hpals

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Hey guys, I recently started to learn how to heal. Yes the day I said I want to learn to heal was the day the Mana nerfs happened. I didn’t plan on that happening but either way I am still trying to learn how to do this. I think my biggest issue is have is the proper way to trade CDs with my pally. I am not the greatest geared pally. I am 375, equiped, currently. I am asking what is the best way to not be so panicked to toss CDs? My Mana isn’t the issue, my issue is I just run out of things when I need it the most.

Now to clearify, I primarily heal 2s but I’ve healed some 3s and I am trying to break the first wall of 1400. In 2s, I play with a rogue and in 3s I play Cupid. I’ve only been healing for a week now. Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks guys.

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sounds to me like you gotta git gud m8

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JK but on a serious note Bool, its just something you have to learn to really be calm about, like you are with your DK or other DPS when you pop those cooldowns as your Healer tells you to. That sounds like two very different tasks, but instead of helplessly flinging things cause you’re scared you stay calm and have faith in your healing, same with your dps. You have to keep track of what they have and you also have to make sure which ones will properly rotate out with your own for certain burst cycles when you’re in trouble. It’s something that takes a lot of practice.

Edit: And remember, panic popping CDs happens, it’s a part of learning and practicing. I’m no expert at PvP and even I sometimes do that. As we’ve said, an overlap is better than not popping something. Also, you as a healer also have to learn when your CDs should be popped. The situations in which its needed to trade out, and what percentage of health its best to pop them on your partner to not let them die when you do use said CD.

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I think my issue may be a combination of comfort and healer awareness. I have no issue with key or raid healing. I healed a +8 last night /shrug. I will have to download my omnibar again.

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Omnibar is very useful, it helps you track kicks and juking is an essential part to not wasting CDs due to the fact that you got kicked and need to play catchup but your partner is so low that in order to do so you have to use a CD.

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A lot of cooldown trades will probably come from experience, but most of the time I’d say that you don’t want to trade more than one cooldown per crowd control DR (diminishing returns). Ex: If you’re being trained by an assassination rogue, and they pop Vendetta on you in a kidney, you may want to just trade Blessing of Protection out early in the kidney once you see Vendetta and respect their cooldown usage by using your own, rather than realizing you need a cooldown when you’re low already because you will need to heal that damage when you could have just prevented it from happening instead since BoP will remove both the Vendetta debuff and the kidney.
Try to use shorter cooldowns before longer cooldowns, because you may be able to trade something like Blessing of Sacrifice for a DR/enemy cooldown (2 minute cooldown) first and use your other cooldowns to live until BoS is up again. This way you can form your own rotation of cooldowns so that you will always have something up. When you don’t have anything, your dps can help you out with the gaps with their own offensive pressure or defensive cooldowns.
Avenging Wrath is very important to use when you know that you’ll most likely be out of cc, such as out of a kidney/polymorph/cyclone (as long as a separate cc is unlikely to be used). AW is a very effective tool to top off your entire team quickly, but you don’t want to be CC’d through it because it will put you very far behind, especially in dampening.

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dont use ur cds when people are already low, just trade one when the enemy team uses one basically to keep the momentum in your favor and prevent their “pressure.” Also ask your teammates to use their defensives when you cant

Example:
Cupid vs RMP

You see Kidney Vendetta, BOP it off. He can click it off too so the mage doesnt steal it after
You see the rogue trying to get into range for a blind, his kidney is off DR, mage is looking for a shimmer poly, priest is running at you to get ready to follow up fear, preSac your teammate.
They kidney bomb your teammate when your cds are down, then blind you, ask your teammate to trinket wall, run out, bop off the blind, so you dont have to position poorly and eat a poly.
They swap on you, try to predict with your devotion aura mastery, and ur wall you can use when stunned, maybe trinket and melee wings, or have your hunter mending bandage you.
Finally use bubble to break cc if you have to.

Since your running 2 pallies? it can be good to hoj 2 targets at the same time on your gos for cross cc.

Once you play enough you will get a feel for when the enemy team wants to go and when you should be looking to pre use some cds.

Theres some cool stuff you can do like pre freedoming root beams or hunter hookshots. The most fun I have on my pally and the most rewarding plays are predicting the enemy team.

It can be hard to catch up if you dont get your procs, so I feel like learning to predict will help you greatly. Using cds to mitigate high damage windows from the enemy will also help you in not overspending your cd budget and will let you rotate them as a team to play out full matches like you see in pro games. Its important not to overlap cds or cc either.

Also getting full hojs off cd is devastating and can easily get cds out of the enemy when you go off of them. You might feel like you run out of cds faster than your enemy if you arent playing aggressively enough to burn through their cds as well. Recognize your gos:

For Cupid its Hoj> Trap> rep on heal, with whatever other cc you have as cross CC, probs hoj the kill target if you have 2 palas, and doing burst in that window. Do this off of cd and focus on leaving no windows in the cc chain, get good at this and I guarantee you will get BFA elite quite easily by the end of the season.

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Oh noes where do I begin,

Try to trade cds early instead of late to keep your parnters high hp.

Keep track of kicks, when they have no kick just stand in there in cast.

A few good 2s comps are holy pally/arms warrior.
Hpally/dk
Hpally/destro lock
Hpally/mage

Just keep playing games and increase your understanding of all classes. You’ll figure out what talents work aginst what compa. But for sure gain an understanding of what classes do what in what comps.

Think about some of these things as a healer before the game starts:

What is the other teams win condition?
What is your teams win condtion?
How can you stop their win condition and succede in your win condition?
How does the other team want to land a kill/ what does their setup look like?

For sure become famillar with the other teams/classes offensive cds.

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These are all very good ideas guys. Thanks for the tips guys/gals! As an update for you all, I broke the first wall last night. Next wall is 1600 :slightly_smiling_face:.

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