Comments on: Healing a Raid: A Priestly Perspective

By: Shyraia - Icecrown

Shyraia - Icecrown — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:25:41 +0000

Late as well on the response, but hey

As a little tip for PoM, if it ends up on you and you want to send it on, SW:Death is less costly than casting a new PoM in a lot of cases.

To Talt: Clique is a mod that allows you to clickcast on a frame. So if you’re using grid/xperl/ag_unit or something like it you can simply use a button+mouseclick combi to cast the heal on that target.

To Matt: Thanks for this blog, many great posts I’ve seen so far

By: Curtis

Curtis — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:06:56 +0000

I’m very late on this one but I enjoyed reading it and learned a bunch. Along with having a Prot Warrior I have a SP and have to heal every now and then.

Two comments:

1–if your tank is getting critted you need a new tank. It’s totally unacceptable for a tank NOT to be crit immune.

2–Prayer of Mending should be thrown on SOMEONE every 30 seconds. It’s just too good of a heal/mana spell. Last night in Karazhan MH was throwing it on MT and I was throwing it on OT for all the trash. Not only does it heal that first hit but it also counts as threat for the tanks. Priceless!

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Totally Off Topic « For the Horde — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:00:00 +0000

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By: Matticus!

Matticus! — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:50:18 +0000

Attia: Typically it all depends on the encounter. Usually about 3 – 4 per boss.

By: Attia

Attia — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:36:29 +0000

This was very helpful. I’m about to start my first raid healing and I was concerned about alot of these issues.

What do you consider must-have add-ons for raiding priests? And about how many mana pots etc… do you typically blow thru on a raid?

By: Matticus!

Matticus! — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:16:51 +0000

Talt: No, but others use a series of macros or something where all you need to do is mouseover on someone and then press a button and it heals the prson you mouse over’d.

As for time, you have to be quick and decisive. I could write a whole book on raid healing. But the only way for sure to improve yourself is to get hands on experience. Set up your healing targets with your other healers. Use renew often.

By: Talt

Talt — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:07:43 +0000

I am just starting to raid heal on my priest. I was wondering how you have time to individually select specific players, determine whether to heal or to move on, and then cast heals if that be the case. It seems like after all those decisions your target could be already dead. DO you use an addon that allows you to switch selections easily without removing a click option on your mouse for raid healing?

By: Matticus!

Matticus! — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:27:55 +0000

Wynthea: XPerl Unit Frames.

By: Wynthea

Wynthea — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:00:02 +0000

Which mod is it that is showing who specifically is targeting your mouseover?

Thanks!

By: Matticus

Matticus — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:35:14 +0000

It’s a practical reason more than anything else. If you take a look at my targeting frames, you will notice that I display both health and percentages on players I look out for.

But to do that on an entire raid windows would mean I need to increase the size of each raid group individually. Otherwise, the individual players health would begin to overlap each other and begin cluttering my screen.

So I just use percents!