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post a ss of your interface

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why? i'm not ever going to say "use my interface". You missed my point entirely. I mean that you make a hard effort to make your interface blend with your style of play.

One of the major problems i have seen is inexperienced players.

Most people just level as a dps spec, run Toc/HToC for gear and shazam, They now think they can heal.

You will have the occasional honest player who respecs due to interest in being a healer but the "Get to 80 then l2heal" mentality is extremely rampant.

In short never pug unless it's a friends list / guild alts run. Let the bads run with bads.

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Wahhna needs a ride in the waaaa-mbulance.

If a healer doesn't use add-ons, they can't heal a 2-man quest. If they do use addons properly, they can pug 7/14 in Ulda and all the way through non-heroic Crusader. That's just the way it is.

Healers and AH mules *must* have addons -- for everyone else, it's optional.

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I hope your kidding, i heal perfectly fine without addons. I know healers with all kinds of healing addons who fail horribly, healing addons are a crutch, a good healers exist who don't have addons.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Scarlet+Crusade&n=Eldereagle- link to my healer who obviously is my alt, but i do quite well with no addons(except DBM, that doesnt count...)

I was going to post my sexy clicker interface, but I forgot my photobucket password again.

Healing addons are tools, not a crutch.

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Wahhna needs a ride in the waaaa-mbulance.

If a healer doesn't use add-ons, they can't heal a 2-man quest. If they do use addons properly, they can pug 7/14 in Ulda and all the way through non-heroic Crusader. That's just the way it is.

Healers and AH mules *must* have addons -- for everyone else, it's optional.

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Saying addons are mandatory for healers is absurd.

I have been using solely recount to heal all T9 content. I am not even using DBM because I am that lazy. I can still pull over 6k HPS easily on fights like 25 man Koralon.

I generally top the healing meters. No healers need addons, just drag the default raid frames out onto your screen.

Hard to say whether tanking or healing is more difficult. Tanks need to know everything about boss fights in order to tank them correctly, healers can kinda wing it as long as they know the basics.

I think healing's difficulty is based soley on the skill lvl of the rest of the raid. If all the dps are smart don't ever pull agro, keep themselves out of the fire and you only have to heal them after un-avoidable AoE's healing is very easy all you have to do is spam on the tank for the most part. At the same time if dpsers pull and don't avoid the fire/aoe then you wind up having to heal mutliple people, which becomes extremely difficult and somtimes even impossible if too many people are newbing it up.

first?

Red Text: Check my siggy Zarhym. :)

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When I'm DPSing, I'm always trying to figure out why nothing good is on t.v.

Wait, I think I made a wrong turn somewhere. ^.^

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I read forums between fights...

ok, I havent spent much time on my healer since wrath, as I've had more fun with my dk & rogue... BUT...

This was my first toon, and my main from launch through wrath...

I've never used healing addons, and I've healed just fine... if you think healing addons turn 'bad' healers into 'good' healers, you're wrong.

learn the fights, learn your spells, PAY ATTENTION, .... success.

no addons needed.

Addons (and I use dbm, omen, & recount, among others) are only an assistant, to make some things easier to manage, they are NOT the difference between success and failure in the game if you take your role seriously and learn to play your class.

...I suppose I should start playing my healer again, his gear sucks...

Short version, healing addons have made it far to easy in the past to play a healer and any fight that requires any amount of true attention to what is going on they suffer.

Honestly healing isn't hard (YEAH THE DRUID SAID IT QQ PRIESTS). I've done it on a pally and shaman and still find myself half healing and half watching what ever movie i can put in. This is in part because blizzard always adds some retardedly simple gimmick to each fight that proves to me that 98% of the people that play wow should never reproduce. Probably the most engaging fights i've seen as a healer is most of 25 man heroic ToC, champions and beasts fight dont count, but everything on that I feel challenged and thus enjoy myself.

Then again its usually the retard dps or tank bathing in the fire screaming about how bad the healers are so w/e.

Add-ons are not required, never have been. If without them you can't perform within proximity of what you do so with them, then there's something amiss with you, not the native UI.

When a clear, earth-shattering difference comes about on account of add-ons, such as existed with Decursive (I'm fairly sure that was the culprit) and it's ability to auto-select who needed healing or cleansing the most and also then proceeded to perform the heal/cleanse for you, then as we've already seen with the example I've just used, the LUA enabler that makes this possible will be altered by Blizzard.

I've seen far too many people in timezones that don't have to deal with the >= 650ms latency I do still fail to cleanse (though I often wonder if this is a byproduct of the "it's someone elses job to do that" mentality that many DPS and healing classes have on this topic) or heal people either in a timely - or even better, a predictive manner. For reference, this has nothing to do with throughput, but timely action.

With the launch of The Burning Crusade, the native UI has had - for the most part, all the warnings presented for one to view if they but take the time to actually look for them (or even just listen, for the abilities that are linked to the raid warning channel).

Pick your add-ons for aesthetic reasons, sure. Don't be bullied into using them because some halfwit that can't function without them tells you they're positively mandatory, and that fire and brimstone will be shoved down your gullet if you do not comply.

Cheers,
Shimono

I don't use addons. I have healbot installed, but to be honest, I can't get it to work right, so I just F1, F2, etc + 1, 2, 3, etc. If I don't have to run around alot (PVE), I just click on them on the left side and press 1 or 2 or 3.

I am nowhere near geared enough for raiding, so I can't comment on that.

Also, I'm not the type to jump right into TOC or H TOC. I'm 80 and still haven't run a single heroic. I'm not even 1k spellpower yet, hardly ready for that. I'm not looking to get carried.

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When I'm DPSing, I'm always trying to figure out why nothing good is on t.v.

Wait, I think I made a wrong turn somewhere. ^.^

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Quoting for the truth, when ur dps u slam keys, dont lie, when ur tanking ur watch ur health and use CD's when u see ur arse fall below 30%, healing ur totally enguflled in the "health frames". The attention span of a healer is 100% different than a tank or dps. I still dont get why ppl yell at healers for "not doing yerr jerb" when you can't read an EJ post that tells you how to push your buttons. Oh as a tank too i laff, whats so hard about picking up an add? If your not getting healed for 2 seconds use a Cooldown, you know, that healthstone, healing potion, regen, shield...