The magic of WoW and my story therein!

[Rumelylady 188]

It's so pretty! You're making me want it even more. I have a giftcard for a book store. Maybe I should use it on this.

[Spacedeck 920]

On 8/28/2018 at 2:17 PM, Rumelylady said:

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If any of you guys are healing Vuhdo is the way to go, imo.

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With you recommending this, I take it you have played a healer class, or do play a healer class?  Do you have any tips?  I'm level 34 with my Human Priest but haven't done any dungeons yet.  Bit worried to do them in case I'm trash and get booted 😂.  Anything to know or anything I can do to get ready for dungeons?

[Diddums 4,346]

1 hour ago, Spacedeck said:

 

With you recommending this, I take it you have played a healer class, or do play a healer class?  Do you have any tips?  I'm level 34 with my Human Priest but haven't done any dungeons yet.  Bit worried to do them in case I'm trash and get booted 😂.  Anything to know or anything I can do to get ready for dungeons?

 

[The below is many years old so take with a pinch of salt]

 

I used Healbot because it was piss easy to use, upon entering a raid / dungeon it'd create a grid / roster with all the party members which gave me a nice oversight of what's what. I then had all my heals on various mouse buttons with modifiers, so left click = flash heal, right click = penance, shift + left click = greater heal, ctrl + right click = bubble, etc. It's all very easily configurable and made healing a doozy, if it's still being updated, give it a go. Many preferred multiple addons like Grid and whatnot but I found Healbot to be perfectly fine and I heal ICC25 with it. 

[Rumelylady 188]

2 hours ago, Spacedeck said:

 

With you recommending this, I take it you have played a healer class, or do play a healer class?  Do you have any tips?  I'm level 34 with my Human Priest but haven't done any dungeons yet.  Bit worried to do them in case I'm trash and get booted 😂.  Anything to know or anything I can do to get ready for dungeons?

 

36 minutes ago, Diddums said:

 

[The below is many years old so take with a pinch of salt]

 

I used Healbot because it was piss easy to use, upon entering a raid / dungeon it'd create a grid / roster with all the party members which gave me a nice oversight of what's what. I then had all my heals on various mouse buttons with modifiers, so left click = flash heal, right click = penance, shift + left click = greater heal, ctrl + right click = bubble, etc. It's all very easily configurable and made healing a doozy, if it's still being updated, give it a go. Many preferred multiple addons like Grid and whatnot but I found Healbot to be perfectly fine and I heal ICC25 with it. 

I think Healbot is still around, but I'm not totally sure it's as widely used as it once was. Vuhdo basically is the same as far as I know. It's really easy to set up the key bindings. Just open the mod menu and your spell list and you can drag and drop to the key bindings you want. I can't remember the set up I have on my priest as I haven't play it in a while, but for my Shaman I put my most frequently used spells for my base clicks, add shift for my next most used, then ctrl, then alt for whatever I have left over like rezzing. When I set up my key bindings I like to stand around for a while to get a feel for them just on my own. The set up doesn't always work comfortably when actually playing so either ask for the group to stop for a minute to adjust to just make a note to yourself to do it afterwards or during some downtime.

 

In terms of actually healing I don't like to let people get too much below 75% health (unless I'm really bored and want to see how fast I can get them back to 100%). Most often I'll start healing people when they hit even 90%, that way if thing get a bit out of control or the tank loses threat it's less of an issue. Might be overkill, but I rarely lose anyone unless the shit really hits the fan. I like to keep Earth Shield (Shaman ability. I think there's a priest bubble that's similar) on my tank as they are usually taking the most direct damage, as well as a HoT (heal over time) if I can spare it. If the tank doesn't need it or there is someone else that's taking damage consistently I put my HoT on them for support. Don't feel obligated to heal hunter pets if you set up your healing frame to show them. I'm sure hunters appreciate when healers do heal their pets, but they should be your lowest priority and only if you have mana to spare. Also, and this is important, don't forget to heal yourself. I am so bad for that. I get tunnel vision in keeping everyone else alive that sometimes I find my heal had dropped lower than I would like. 

 

If there's not much going on and you don't need to heal anyone don't be afraid to help out the dps. A little bit of extra damage is always welcome. 

 

I really love healing. It's a fun challenge and can keep you on your toes at times. I hope you go for it and give it a go. Leveling up as a healer makes it so much faster to get in dungeons. If you have any other questions I'm happy to answer what I can. Icy-Veins is also pretty helpful, though it's directed more for characters at level cap.

[Diddums 4,346]

^this. All of this. Couldnt have said it better myself.

[Spacedeck 920]

So I don't feel confident healing dungeons my lvl, so started doing the first couple of dungeons to heal and get a feel for it.  Going to continue moving up the dungeon levels to try improve until I reach a point where I struggle or make us wipe.