With a severe lack of healing it my raid runs and on mythic runs I have decided to try healing for the first time since Pandaria. I used to run a Druid and I slowly lost the confidence of healing after having been an anchor of our raid team.
So, what resources would be helpful? Where should I start (normals)? And finally how gimped am I going to be if I am a “clicker”?
Thanks for your time.
Well for one, I’d go ahead and stop being a “clicker”.
You’re going to have people die as a healer if you’re a clicker where you could have saved them otherwise.
Holy is in a good spot, and most places share the same concepts of strategy.
You can look up Method’s Holy Paladin if you’d like and compare it with Icy Veins and go with what you prefer.
You cannot click and do anything remotely difficult as a healer. So don’t even bother unless by raiding you mean normal and m5s.
You can be many of the healers and be a clicker with mousover macros/clique.
Hpal seems like it would be very hard to pull it off with however since its so fast paced and needs to also DPS/melee
When someone says clicker what does that mean? Like I click the party frames to heal people. Is that considered clicking
It’s when you mouse over each of your spells and click on them with the mouse to activate them instead of binding them to a key.
i’d definitely recommend levelling a hpal from level 1 and levelling through dungeons to learn the flow and not be overwhelmed right off the start with all the different ability and passive interactions.
so unfortunately right now holy is very dependent on its builder-spender playstyle and that mainly involves using crusader strike on an enemy target to generate holy power so that you can use word of glory on an ally.
clicking the enemy, then clicking crusader strike, then clicking the ally and then finally clicking word of glory is going to be really painful no matter how efficient you get at it and its going to have suboptimal results.
what could help ease you into keybinds is getting a mouse with a couple of side buttons, 6 or 12 or whatever, and binding your main abilities and learning to use mouseover macros (meaning you just have to hover over a party frame to cast holy shock or word of glory on them without having to deselect your current target).
to each their own when it comes to healing, but you’re definitely going to have a horrible time dpsing as hpal to build power if you’re clicking. other healers apart from disc priest are definitely more clicker friendly than current hpal.
You bind 5 people to a key? Seems excessive. And a raid ?
Edit: I think clicker entails clicking on abilities which I agree is not good at all. Binding group me where though is news to me
That takes me literally a millisecond to do though. It’s not hard at all actually.
just get vuhdoo i personally think its the best healing addon out there. Ive tried both clicking and using a healing addon i am way faster with vuhdoo.
I clicked until cata and got really quick at it too - its still way less efficient than keybinding and its just making the experience more difficult than it has to be
Key binding abilities is a must I agree. But to do party members is overkill. It’s probably easier to click a party frame than it would be to ctrl f1 I think too. For me at least.
So instead of clicking a party frame then clicking (or pressing your actual keybind) to get a heal off you’re doing two “clicks” so to speak.
With the clique addon you can just do mouseover clicks which makes things much quicker imo.
Once I learned about clique I never looked back. Especially when I played disc priest in bfa for a bit.
There are other healer addons that have the clique functionality (vuhdo, grid) but those change your party frames where clique does not.
Also you could use mouse over macros in game to achieve the same goal, I’m just a simpleton and don’t understand how to make mouseover macros work so I just use clique because if I can understand it, anyone can lol
wouldnt a shaman be better for raid / mythic? I know HPal is good in mythic running Ven but it seems a bit harder considering if you dont have dps that do mechanics it is alot harder to get people up.
Get an addon called Clique, get a mouse with at least 6 buttons. One button is word of glory, one is holy light, one is flash heal, one is cleanse, the other 2 are your beacon/beacons depending on how you talent. There you can click nameplates with heals. You should really learn to use the keyboard though. That way you can make everything have a cancel cast if you need to stop casting holy light to do something else etc. mouse over targeting with /stopcasting and grouped with non GCD buffs is so much better.
You should absolutely at least get your keybinds for your spells (ideally all of them, but at least he ones you are using 90% of the time on a fight). The most common ones should be the easiest to cast (i.e. without using modifier keys).
Also, you should get an addon or some macros which autocast, for at least 2-3 of your spells, which you can easily use WHILE you’re moving with WASD (i.e. without needing to stop pressing any particular movement direction). You want to bind your defensive magic dispel, and 1 or 2 of your instant casts. For Holy paladin, I recommend Cleanse, Holy Shock, and Light of the Martyr. This allows you to move for mechanics while also continuing to do things.
For instance, my main healing spells are assigned to “1-6”: FoL, HS, HL, LoD, LotM. #6 I have assigned to a cooldown, which is currently Ashen Hollow.
Then, I assign the SHIFT+“1-6” to cooldowns; AW, HA, Aura Mastery, and LoH. CTRL+“1-6” are assigned to various defensives: BoS, DP, DS, BoP, BoF. Also, I have my Beacon of Virtue assigned to “Z” since it also needs quick access (Divine Steed and HoJ also falls into this category of needing quick access. I assign the middle mouse button to my interrupt on all of my characters; Holy doesn’t have one, so I put HoJ in that slot)
For melee attacks, I have “R”=Crusader strike, SHIFT+R = Judgment, and CTRL+R=Hammer of Wrath.
I have vuhdo, and I have the mousebinds set up:
Left click = select target (no cast)
Right click = Light of the Martyr
Shift + Left click = Cleanse
Shift + Right click = Holy Shock
Most of the other spells in your toolkit won’t be a hinderance if you have to leave WASD to cast them.
I have created a comprehensive Holy Paladin key and click configuration guide in the following thread:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/holy-paladin-key-and-click-configuration-guide/842317