Couple rambling points from Bode!~ Basically tiny modifications and ways of setting up to help avoid AOE.
1- /script SetCVar("cameraDistanceMax",30). This macro allows you to scroll your camera to a distance further than regular options in Blizzard UI allow for, don't worry its legal though. Always raid at max camera distance. Scroll back out if you die, and it resets to normal view. Having a birds eye view of incoming AOE is a key part of prevention. 2nd part is positioning camera to anticipate damage. For example turning camera angle so you have a view of sides on Sartharion so you can predict incoming waves without needing a raid leader to call it out for you.
2 - Buff/debuff bars, if you are a healer this should be right next to your heal ui/raid frames. Classtimers or Elk debuff bar should be fine. Class timers is a good way for watching Beacon/Sacred Shield up time either onyourself or your tank.
3 - Grid + Clique. If you are new to healing or at entry level raiding I would recommend Healbot. If you are looking to take the next step and go to a higher level of raid healing Grid + Clique. Here is a good overview of Grid and why it is such an enormously powerful tool by a Paladin in a top 100 guild.
4 - If you are a healer, put Grid reasonably close to your character!!! Because if you are staring at a corner of your screen and missing AOE you are bad, the less your eyes are darting to different corners of your screen the better, I don't know about you but I am on a 22inc screen and if I had my DBM in one corner, grid in another and was watching my toon at the same time I would be Walleyed and making mistakes.
5 - Click on my keylogger! - I keed, I keed. This is a ret pally, so who cares that his Grid is in the bottom corner (though even if you are dps you should be sporting raid frames at all times). Notice the timer to the side of it and more importantly the hotbar on top of it. I will freely admit to having a similar bar, because I am too lazy to keybind Healthstones or Mana Pots but having them pretty much connected to grid means easy access (manual clicking badness).
6. Drama vs General Vezax Hard Mode (Heroic) - notice the camera, max distance. More importantly the positioning so he can see incoming Shadow bombs and avoid. Basically repeating point number one but it is that important. With Quick Q/E keyboard strafing they don't have a single raider (mage elemental eats it though) get hit by splash damage. Simply by scrolling max distance and positioning cameras, a simple but powerful tool. Also look at where the focus target, player box etc are. Right by the persons feet, same reason why as a healer you want your Grid by your feet. Quick eye movements, the ability to absorb info while still keeping a focus on AOE. Players at this level take MINIMAL AOE damage, and I mean if they take more than 1 tick of AOE they will get sat for the night. There is no need to be that hardcore, but they tools they use to achieve that level can be employed by any level of player to improve his/her game. (kind of pulls all the previous points together! Dontcha think?)
7. DBM - /range will give you a box that will name anyone within 10yards range of you (range can be changed through settings). For Kel'thuzad, or any boss with chain lightning this is a blessing. Use it.
8. If you really suck at avoiding AOE and are tunnel vision prone - Bigwigs. The sides of your screen will glow and alarms will go off if you are standing in something, giving you time to run out of that aoe before you get splattered.
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Bode - 100 Holy Paladin - Lightbringer
Good post. I should think about a debuff bar, maybe move my debuffs a little closer to my character so I notice them that much faster. The rest of it I pretty much do already. I got into Grid/Clique a long time ago from one of your posts a while back. Slowly trying to convert the guild to it, or at least healbot (to my knowledge close to the same thing, especially for less advanced Grid users)
Question on healing: do you have /stopcast or anything like that, do you worry about your overheal, are you reactive at healing damage taken or do you just spam holy lights and occasionally 100% overheal people with it? What I mean is, I was thinking about some holy light macro with a stopcast that I could "loop" without landing it until I see the person actually needs heals. Maybe my reactions aren't all that, but if I fall into a reactive style of healing ("oh theres a 12k hit, cast a holy light now") it just seems to slow, so I'm more spammy then maybe I should be. But I don't think my reactions are terrible since I move out of all AOE immediately and almost never die in raids. So what kind of healing strat do you use when you're covering a tank who takes spiky, but not consistent damage? Just constant holy light spam, or stop the cast when unnecessary, or wait until they take damage to cast?
Question on healing: do you have /stopcast or anything like that, do you worry about your overheal, are you reactive at healing damage taken or do you just spam holy lights and occasionally 100% overheal people with it? What I mean is, I was thinking about some holy light macro with a stopcast that I could "loop" without landing it until I see the person actually needs heals. Maybe my reactions aren't all that, but if I fall into a reactive style of healing ("oh theres a 12k hit, cast a holy light now") it just seems to slow, so I'm more spammy then maybe I should be. But I don't think my reactions are terrible since I move out of all AOE immediately and almost never die in raids. So what kind of healing strat do you use when you're covering a tank who takes spiky, but not consistent damage? Just constant holy light spam, or stop the cast when unnecessary, or wait until they take damage to cast?
My stopcast button is simple to take a step forward.
I'll take a second when I get home tonight and go over how I approach fights and healing tonight.
I'll take a second when I get home tonight and go over how I approach fights and healing tonight.
Bode - 100 Holy Paladin - Lightbringer
I heartily endorse all these suggestions. It basically cuts to the quick as to what is necessary, what is useful, and what is a redundant waste of screen real estate (notice, no Recount...).
I still haven't found a buff timer I'm really happy with - I'm using Spell Reminder now, but I have to prune the buff list pretty regularly or it gets hard to pick my Lay on Hands cooldown out of the twelve bars it's showing. I have Power Auras available for my alt, so I might try to configure at least Beacon and Shield "icons" with timers to make it easier to pick out the important stuff.
Also, while it's perfectly possible to be an excellent healer (especially for a paladin) using the standard Blizzard frames, to get the same coverage of the entire raid, including pets, that I get from Grid would take up too much of my screen, especially the part under my feet where the fire is. And especially in 10-mans, we're all raid healers now at some point.
I still haven't found a buff timer I'm really happy with - I'm using Spell Reminder now, but I have to prune the buff list pretty regularly or it gets hard to pick my Lay on Hands cooldown out of the twelve bars it's showing. I have Power Auras available for my alt, so I might try to configure at least Beacon and Shield "icons" with timers to make it easier to pick out the important stuff.
Also, while it's perfectly possible to be an excellent healer (especially for a paladin) using the standard Blizzard frames, to get the same coverage of the entire raid, including pets, that I get from Grid would take up too much of my screen, especially the part under my feet where the fire is. And especially in 10-mans, we're all raid healers now at some point.
ElMuneco wrote:
I still haven't found a buff timer I'm really happy with - I'm using Spell Reminder now, but I have to prune the buff list pretty regularly or it gets hard to pick my Lay on Hands cooldown out of the twelve bars it's showing.
Make a dbm timer, or better yet a dbm timer macro:
/cast Beacon of Light
/dbm timer 60 Bacon Time!
When the timer bars appear, you can "/dbm unlock" to move them wherever you want.
I haven't tried it myself yet, but you can also make it so the beacon only hits a specific target at any time by making your beacon target your focus and adding [target=focus] to the macro.
/cast [target=focus] Beacon of Light
/dbm timer 60 Bacon Time!
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