As an addition I feel like really understanding damage patterns and then how your specific healer’s cooldowns can be used/timed to counter them is a huge aspect to being a decent healer.
Proactive healing also goes a long way before high damage phases. Don’t be scared of a little overhealing.
Also use healing cooldowns liberally, most are on very short cooldowns 1-3 min and can get A LOT of use in a 25 minute dungeon.
This is all really good advice. Yea you have to know what the big damage events are on fights and how to time your cooldowns around them.
Proactive healing – ramping – is essential. You want to have your HoTs out before any damage goes out, so that you can spend time hard casting big heals during the damage event instead of casting your HoTs. Liekwise, you want to time your first hard casted heal so that it lands exactly as the damage event goes out, to maximize the number of hard casts you can land before everyone is healed up.
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Yes in dungeons you should be using cooldowns liberally, especially if you dont need them. This will only happen as you learn where the damage patterns are and where you need to actually save your CDs
In low dmg scenarios, I will just pop cocoon on CD because its 1 global for like 3 seconds worth of casting and also chi ji on CD even without Invoker’s Delight is going to do passive healing that will allow you to DPS instead
Of course, you have to learn when to save these CDs too
Don’t blame me for your parents failures.
Im not lol.
Ive been saying youre a troll whose validation comes from grammar checks on the internet.
Its like you havent even been paying attention. /sigh
You try to help ppl
Edit: and uh isnt it parent’s not parents? DO YOU EVEN GRAMMAR BRO
Thanks Confucious.
Except we all know the healing role is trash right now, by design.
The only WAs I use are “incoming spells” and just some custom ones I made to make sure I am standing on my stomp, stack tracker for like 6-7 spells. Raid frames positioned off the left of my center screen. Never felt I needed more
Yes, as a fellow Monk this is the way. If you see an AOE is going to happen in 4 seconds, that’s enough time to pop some enveloping and get some chi harmonies. Extend with a RSK and now you’re set to pop chiji, sheluns, etc and get insane value.
Just do a follower dungeon as the healer.
/shrug.
As a healer main I’ve enjoyed DF and TWW healing to many past iterations.
It’s fun and engaging.
And good way to make sure your frames show up appropriately and the overall feel in a follower with no one upset. Plus you can just sit there until it looks right
My other issue is what I call busy eye.
Where are your eyes. Middle top or left frame.
Default UI causes my eyes to get tired and I have to make us of mouseovers to not lose sight of the tank. Because I have to watch my tank, watch myself and the DPS. And also not fall off a cliff because I’m healing while being distracted
This is why healing is hard for me. Maybe if managing all those things is natural, but for me it was exhausting even on a good run
The healing classes are fun, but the curve is much higher than tanks or DPS.
You made a comment about people failing basic things while you can’t even spell. That is all I pointed out. Now you have kept this alive for days because you are embarrassed about your lack of education. Like I said, talk to mom and dad.
Healers are gods iykyk
I set up my ui so that my health bar is directly to the left of my cast bar, then my target is to the right of the cast bar.
I set the party frames right above my nameplate.
This way I can see my cast time, character, ground effects, health, and party all in roughly the same viewing area.
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Also I think you should try to heal without mouseover stuff or addons like healbot or whatever. They’re actually super unintuitive especially for new healers. You’re better off just sticking to the basics imo. It’s too much to try and remember which of your shift alt right click is what heal. Just click and press the heal.
by far the most important add on to min max healing would be deadly boss mods, simply because you will have perfect understanding of the timing of incoming damage to plan your heals.
Outside of that details, but otherwise adding not really needed to be a good healer. The default ui and clicking works fine I’ve never had any issues target switching or losing DPS using just regular clicking heals.
Weakauras are just fluff but not really needed either. You can heal all the content without needing to track any special buffs or what not
Actually I made a comment about how healing isnt actually that hard to get into.
You dialed to 11 with a troll reply addressing nothing about getting into healing, failed in reading comprehension since and now here we are.
Idk WHY you come back or think im particularly embarrassed or shamed by anything youve said. But its getting to the point im starting to feel sorry for you now and slightly bored.
But i look forward to your next response regardless. I feel like i must be the only thing keeping you going. Cheers mate.
again, that’s nice.
Unfortunately, we all know the healing role is trash right now, by design.
I click on peoples nameplates to heal them I don’t even know what this advanced stuff is where it reads your mind when you press buttons.
#showtooltip Renew
/cast [@mouseover,exists,nodead,help,][exists,nodead,help][@player] Renew
Replace renew with your HoT of choice and give it a shot Padgarre.
Mouse over the nameplate, press button the heal is bound to, profit.
I’ll warn you that it’s a slippery slope though. Once you try it you can’t go back. Macros like this make playing specs like discipline truly fun. Never have to drop target on the boss so I flow between direct heals and DPS for atonement without a break or a change of target.
Is that spanish or french?
I have no idea I copy/pasted it from it wowhead I think. I’m not fluent in macro I just use them to make the game easy.
I’m a weirdo that likes making games harder for himself. When I play Souls games I don’t usually play the absolute easiest one shot builds. I go in blind and stubbornly stick with what I chose even if it takes 100s of wipes. Of course I can learn too.
I get macros are a tool though that in the end if required due to bad game design I’d use.