You have to put time in to learn. I recommend Clique, that has been the single best addon for me for many years of healing. Map 9 spells to mouse actions and hit those player profile bars with your jam.
And just learn to shrug off PuGs who get one-shot to mechanics. You really can’t help them.
It’s a video game, not a chemistry class at a master’s level.
Players should be able to pick a class or spec and be proficient immediately…in a video game.
u probably aren’t playing ur dps class well if you’re scared of a 30 minute video tutorial
You can, for like 90% of the content in WoW.
Cell has click cast built in.
I only use it for dispels, myself, because I have no desire to set up a billion click casts when I can use mouseovers.
This x10000.
Healing and DPS are very overwrought.
This thread has kinda got me wanting to try healing some small stuff now on my shaman(one of them) so I’m tried out the mouseover way on a Doomwalker kill, and ran part of Rookery on follower dungeon. Think I’ll do this throughout the anniversary event so I can get a (hopefully) good hang of the skill set.
Nah it’s the most fun role by far
Don’t expect to be good at it your first try, especially in modern wow which is so fast paced. Just keep practicing!
Healing role requires the most “wisdom” about the game, as well as reflexes
Because you are new, people’s health bars drop, and you don’t know how to heal them back up and it can be like “ah ah what do I do?” And then lock up and everyone dies.
Just need to start experimenting with “combos” and then learn the “flow” of how to heal up different types of healing patterns
Over time you
Will learn how to respond to damage better and it will be less scary
Here’s my advice for learning to heal:
Go out into the world and aggro some mobs. Start off with like 1-2 and then just try to heal yourself.
1-2 mobs represents a very small amount of damage so this will let you understand about how much your HoTs or your instant cast heals can do.
3-4 mobs represents small damage so you can start to understand about stacking HoTs and then weaving in some occasional hard casted heals.
5-6 mobs you’ll learn more about chain casting hard heals to keep someone alive while also maintaining your maintenance HotS.
7-8 mobs need to start using your healing cooldowns to keep yourself alive.
This way you won’t have to deal with the annoying rush rush rush mentality of modern dungeons while trying to learn how much your spells heal for.
After this basic practice with your spells, you can start to see how to keep up maintenance HoTs, respond with your instant cast heals, and learn when you need to tunnel heal a target or use a healing cooldown.
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One of the most important skills as a healer will be learning how to anticipate damage and “ramp”. This is where, ~5-10 seconds BEFORE the damage event (depending on the size), you are placing HoTs on the party beforehand AND then you want to be casting your largest AoE heal in such a way that it finishes casting right when the damage lands. This is a skill shot but when you learn it basically you can be passively healing land your heal right after the explosion without having to be like “oh crap oh crap” and then this leaves you room for actual “oh crap” moments.
I think the biggest difference between healers and the other folk is that healers can have 20 targets. Where dps might change specs for AoE vs Single Target, they focus on one-at-a-time – healers are doing all of their (too) many spells and reacting to very many targets throughout the whole fight.
DPS have rotations once they’ve chosen a target, healers have rotations too with all of the combos and cooldowns but spread way out. And, even though I’ve wanted to ignore “certain” players, we have smart heals too.
Can tell you’re not a healer main (in a friendly way).
Raid healing (especially in pugs) is a ruthless padding snipe fest where you gotta heal someone before another healer does so that you top the meter
Raid healing is almost entirely centered around cooldown and resource management → specifically making sure that you get the most number of casts of healing cooldowns at the best possible times, then not running out of resources during the in between periods while also making sure that no individual drops too low while working as a collective
Its not hard brother, Clique is your friend. Dont download voodoo or grid or healbuddy. All you need is clique, Go into your spells and set your bindings.
You can set your left click ect to your main heal and for time walking you could just spam it. All I been spamming is holy nova on a priest and Ive gone from 1-75 in a day. So. JS.
If you need help learning lmk and I can help. Im not a R1 healer or a raid healer anymore. but I was for years.
Healing while watching the meters is like stroking it in front of a mirror. Padding numbers is dumb. Heal the fights, amigo. Tracking heals-per-second is dumb too.
lol did you get sniped by another healer in raid and have low HPs?
So sad, better get better
dude really? hard? This is what’s wrong with healing, ppl like you. But I’m thrilled you aren’t going to try because the last thing we need is another ‘healer’ that doesn’t:
dispel
mass rez
know how to hit chain heal/swiftmend and drool
Pick a healer you like and level one from scratch. By the time you get to 80 you’ll be comfortable enough.
My problem with healing is that the difficulty is about on par with DPS specs from 10-80, the same really with delves and heroics… but good lord healing a M+ key is like pulling hair at times…
I hear its so much better in the higher keys, but I cant learn the dungeons in higher keys and I need to increase my IO to get in higher keys. Sooo basically I quit healing and exclusively tank or run DPS.
There are at least a couple healer specs that really should not be the first healer you try, and a couple that are a bit more straightforward. If you decide to try again, I suggest Holy Priest or Resto Shaman. Both are mostly reactive (they don’t require you to take steps in advance of incoming damage), and both do OK with fresh 80 gear (Totemic Shaman seemed especially strong with not so great gear).
Idk I main healer and am 2950 IO currently, this is my first tie PVEing in retail since Legion. It doesn’t seem overly complicated, as a Vanilla/Cata main prior to this
I keep seeing the complication that either you have a healer’s mind, or you have a dps’ mind. My main is a healer and when I DPS I can’t stop looking at the grid and suffering because they don’t dispell someone, or because they don’t heal them.
The only way I have found is to go with another character to do dps.
If you are going to play healer: one eye on the tank (they have a lot of self-healing), another on the cloth, dispell what you see, keep them with dots, use AOE heals, and the button with the panic skill at hand.
There are players destined to die and you must accept it. The one who pulls before the tank, for example. Pray for him. The one that remains standing completing its damage rotation. Poor guy. We aren’t God.
And never play dps and healer with the same character. Otherwise you will confuse your mind and muscle memory too much.