[:1]I'm interested in leveling a healer, But I'm not sure what ui would make healing easier.
Anyone know of any ui addons that make healing easier, or make health levels easier to see etc?|||Well I use Healbot personally which can be found on Curse.com or other additional sites, easy to use some keybinds are set for your class but you can tweak them as you'd like just click on there name or right click on there name for different heals or spells, I know alot of people use grid as well but I go by the saying "if it aint broke dont fix it" so I stick with HB...
or you can go to a site like Wowinterface.com and look under healing packages or compiliations to get a whole group of addons in one..|||I too use healbot, not just for my healers, but my other chars as well (including my pally tank), because it is just so usefull. the interface is small, so even in a 25-man it takes up very little room on my screen. It then tells me if people are in range of my spells, and if they have my buffs on them or not. It shades the player's bars a different colour if they have a certain type of debuff on them that I can cure. for example, they turn purple if they have a magic debuff, so I instantly know who has it and can dispell it just as quickly.
key bindings are so easy as its all done with mouse clicks. there are various combinations like shift-right click, ctrl-left click, which I can set to different spells, making healing so easy. finally, it shows me who has aggro, which comes in very useful on my pally tank, because I can just click the combination for my taunt on the player who has aggro without taking my targetting off the mob I'm attacking.
imo its all you could want from a raid healing addon by combining 2-3 addons into 1 package.
there are various other addons you can try like xperl, clique and grid but I found them all too combersome to work with.|||As already mentioned Healbot is an excellent choice.
I used it myself for a long time, but have recently switched to a combination of Grid + Clique.
Why?
Quite simply: Looks and customizability.
While Healbot is very customizable, I could never find JUST the look I wanted. That I can with Grid. Grid offers the looks and setup of the group/raid panels, while Clique offers the click-to-cast options.
These two addons together offer what Healbot does in a single addon. However, they are a little more costomizable, both in looks and function. The downside however is that they are also more timeconsuming and complex to set up. I highly recommend looking at Llyra's Grid setup tutorial to see if this addon might appeal to you.
Whether you go for Healbot or Grid/Clique (or any other option available), there's one additional addon that should be in ANY healer's addon-list:
Decursive!
Decursive adds a set of small boxes (one for each group/raid member). When a player is hit by a debuff that you can remove the corresponding boz lights up and start counting how many seconds has passed since the player got the debuff.
You simply click on it with the left, right or middle button to remove the buff. Which button depends on which debuff, and the box is colorcoded to let you know which button to hit with. On my priest I click left button on red boxes (dispell magic) and blue boxes with right button (Cure disease). Couldn't be easier. Highly recommended!
You could use Healbot or Grid/Clique to do remove debuffs, but that would both tie up precious key-modifiers AND you'd have to remember them while already in a stressful situation.|||I don't know what class you heal with but on my priest I have more than enough click combinations to cover all my healing spells (with loads to spare). yes it is alot of combinations to remember but after a while you don't even have to think about what you're pressing, your fingers just do it the moment you decide what spell to cast.|||...which is true of all truly good healer. ;)
But it's not natural for all. Personally I use Decursive mainly because it lists the time each debuff has been up, making it easier for me to prioritize when things are really hectic.|||Grid is my flavor of choice. One click stop. Just find out who your main target is... Set Focus up on that toon and if raid heal - just follow grid. Simple.|||I have always used Grid and Healbot until the past month or so after I discovered Vuhdo. I believe you can find it on curse. Vuhdo alone has made me such a better healer on my druid.
I leveled from 15 to 80 as a resto druid just healing instances and pretty much bounced back an forth between Grid and Healbot the entire time. Somewhere after level 75, when healing became a little more serious in the newer dungeons, I started searching for addons. Right about the time I hit 80 on my druid, I found Vuhdo and never looked back.
It's got all the of the features that make a real healing mod great and practically zero setup time. Simple drag and drop of my raid bars and then typing the names of spells into my mouse binds was it. It tells me when to decurse, when to remove poison, and how long each and every hot will be on a given target.
I'm not saying person to person it's the best mod out there. Everybody is different. But I can say, you would be a fool not to at least try it cause it's as good as it gets.
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