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best recomendation i could give you to help you heal well would be to read dilberts Sticky for holy paladins.... It got stickied for a reason....

Haha, I was gonna say something... decided he probably either isn't a native english speaker or is young. I'm hoping he isn't an American over the age of 10.... For someone from a non-english speaking country he did well enough to get his meaning accross.

i have noticed that this was a waste of a form....

meh that works

How do I heal good sounds country.

How do I hail gud. Kinda like 'Imma go light me a far'

do wish to heal better in raids? 5 man instances?

Do you wish to know HOW to be a better player for healing, how to tweek your toon for healing, or tweek your UI for healing?


to tweek yourself, you need to be more aware of what sort of special moves monsters/bosses have. This will help you "predict" incomming damage to tank or tank and other melee. This will help you be a PROACTIVE healer, rather than a REACTIVE healer.

if you know that the tank is about to take a 5k crushing hit, start the heal so it lands almost immediately after the hit. rather than waiting on the hit then start to heal it. This may lead to "overhealing" in some ui mod statics, but who cares. Stat junkies don't make the best players.

toon tweeking is spoken about in the sticky.


ui mods, lots of them, I personaly prefer a good mouseover macro and well placed hotkeys, with my hands well conditioned to the keypressing combos.

if you've played other games, and your hands are conditioned to specific key combos, try to "arrange" your ui/key mapping to accomodate your "preprogrammed" hands.

i guess a good example might be, your use to selecting a weapon with F1, then reloading it with "r"

well, in wow, f1 selects yourself as target, you could map a hotkey position (with a heal spell in it) to the "r" key.

these are some basic ideas

Healing gets better when you get keyed and geared for Kara because then you'll usually get assigned to heal only one target as a paladin, MT or OT.

I found that when I was healing multiple targets at the second boss of Slave Pens(damn those AoE frostbolts) I could hardly keep it up with FoL, so i needed to burn all of my mana using DI mixed with Holy Light.

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Edited, Jan 23rd 2008 5:59pm by Killerheals

Step 1) Click your group's tank (he's the big one with all the shiny armor, shield and sword).

Step 2) Locate Flash of Light in your spellbook

Step 3) Click repeatedly.

I use the function keys to pick my healing targets. The only time that's a problem is if I haven't pressed the function lock key before we get started, or if someone switches positions in the group midway through. If that happens, I get confused!

To the OP, to reiterate what others have said, practice, practice practice. My first few Outlands instance runs were disastrous because
a) I was not properly geared, and
b) I was not well-practiced
Both of these were the result of not running that many Azeroth instances as a main healer. Even in Outlands, my first few experiences were almost enough to get me to switch to protection, they went that poorly (some of it -- OK, a lot of it -- was my fault, but some of it wasn't). I've been running a lot of instances lately, so that I am much better in terms of skill, and the gear tends to take care of itself over time and with some planning.

I tried Healbot, and I hated it, personally.

I know how much my heals will do, so I found the feature where it shows predicted healing to be very annoying and confusing. Maybe that can be disabled, dunno.

I prefer Grid in raids, which has a similar layout, and just using my anally configured unit frame mod for everything else.

Burn some key bindings into muscle memory, and you'll be good to go no matter what, imho.

I would have to agree, Healbot is awesome. Saves a lot of time selecting AND hitting a button to heal.

In terms of gameplay, what was said above is correct, be PRO-active. Another useful tip especially when going into a tough pull is to keep Light's Grace active. In a typical boss fight, I would start with a downranked HL to trigger Light's Grace and switch back to FoL, using the downranked HK to retrigger as necessary. The 0.5 secs it saves on your HL cast can be the difference between life and death. Also, always keep your tank topped up with FoL, throw in a HL as neccessary to bring him back to full health and continue with the FoL.

Get yourself a threat meter and something that tells you who has aggro (healbot does this), this will give you a little warning on who is going to take damage next.

If the **** hits the fan, always keep tank up as a priority. Next is the biggest dps or anyone who can effectively cc. Sorry to say but melee dps are generally low on my list of priorities at that point.

happy healing

Just a couple of other points that I think should be tossed out.

1) Consumables are your friend - Elixir of Healing Power, Elixir of Draenic Wisdom, Golden Fishsticks, and all the appropriate health and mana pots. Healthstone if a warlock is in the group. It's far easier to pot yourself and heal others than to take the time to toss a heal on yourself.

2) Know when to take a potion. You'll learn the fights as you go - in long fights where you know you will run out of mana, take your first mana pot as soon as your mana bar drops low enough that none of the pot will be wasted. Take more every time it cools down. Alos remember that mana pots and health pots share a cooldown - if you're going to have to take mana pots, avoid using the health pot. (healthstone, various healing crystals or trinkets, even bandages are sometimes better substitutes.)

3) Illumination and Divine Illumination - yes, they have cooldowns, but the cooldowns are far shorter than the trash between bosses, and in many cases shorter than the boss fights themselves. Use them. Often. And again. Many healing trinkets also have extra +healing on use. Use them.

4) Don't forget Lay on Hands - Very nice for late in the fight, when all the priests and druids have run out of mana and you're just getting ready to take your next mana pot - free heal for the main tank to full health, then pot and keep going. Again, you may be able to use this two or (with Improved Lay on Hands) three times in a major raid, and at least once in an instance.

5) Don't forget your bubble. Bosses that polymorph everybody, things that do massive instance damage at a known time, even suddenly picking up lots of aggro, this will shed it very quickly leaving you free to focus on healing. Plus, you usually have time once you're free to dispel the effect off of one or two other people.

6) Cleanse - You can mitigate far more damage than you can heal in many cases just by cleansing off debuffs - polymorphs, fears, poisons and many effects that either cause squishies to die fast or cause the tank to run around helpless while the boss beats on the rest of the party can be stripped almost as quickly as they're laid on.

7) Know when to wait. Especially in large raids, there are a lot of situations where everyone in the group tries to heal anybody taking damage, and you end up with lots of overhealing and everybody running out of mana. If two of you are assigned to the same target, you can take turns healing - after 5 seconds of not healing, your mana starts regenning with spirit again. Be ready to jump in if the damage starts overtaking the other healer.

Lol - okay, a few more than a couple. Enjoy!