Comments on: Assigning Healing Strategy – Part 4: Addons to Make Raid Life Easy

By: Dagma

Dagma — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:00:09 +0000

Another newer option is Getting Things Healed, which has the advantage of allowing multi-phase assignments.

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info10457-GettingThingsHealed.html

By: Imalinata

Imalinata — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:21:03 +0000

I personally am fond of RaidHealer which can be found on WoWui (http://wowui.worldofwar.net/?p=mod&m=3228). I’m pretty sure the author stopped development, but the mod still works beautifully (there’s a piece of code in the comments that allows paladins to be selected as tanks which has to be inserted iirc.

Anyway, it’s a great mod if you’re good or practiced at setting up assignments.

Because I’m a much more visual person and am new to healing assignments (I only assign when our GM is out) I need to be able to sort out the non-healers and see who I have available visually so I use Heal Organizer. I don’t ever assign out of Heal Organizer as it’s mostly a tool for me to see how I want to set up the assignments in Raid Healer. To get around the non-healy button specced players, I just group them into their own little group (or groups) and then start sorting the actual healers.

By: Troen

Troen — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:18:29 +0000

“Warning: Feature may be subject to abuse by Huntards.”

By ‘may’ you really mean ‘will always be unless they’re too high to speak straight’.

“For those of you that donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t know, Matt will farm herbs and ore while we are doing Kara,Gruuls etcÃ¢â‚¬Â¦”

…, Bloodboil, RoS, Illidan, ….

By: DocHoliday

DocHoliday — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:09:41 +0000

No wonder I almost died

Had Matt healing me…

For those of you that don’t know, Matt will farm herbs and ore while we are doing Kara,Gruuls etc…

By: Matticus

Matticus — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:22:36 +0000

deathstryk: Yes, yes, I fail at numbers and at typing!

My guild uses a multitude of channels to echo assignments. Both of these addons have the option of writing to a channel of your choice.

The reason I use raid chat is because these were pug raids.

By: Sydera

Sydera — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:01:19 +0000

@deathstryk:

My guild uses a specific healing channel. Inside Heal organizer, there’s an option to report to channel or raid. Pick channel, and set it to the name of your healing channel. It works wonders. The healing assignments go out to the pertinent parties without confusing the dps or tanks. Our raid leader joins the healing channel as well, which is a really good idea. You don’t want two conflicting strategies.

By: deathstryk

deathstryk — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:04:07 +0000

Thank you for this article. I’ve tried to transition into assigning heals instead of just healing for our ssc/tk raids and it’s tougher than I thought.

I like heal organizer, but I have a question: our guild uses task channels (i.e. we have guildnamehealers set as a channel, and tank, etc) Does no one else do that?

P.S.
“Welcome to the third in a 5 part series here on World of Matticus” Isn’t this part 4?

“and I couldnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t very post healing assignment stuff without actual screenies now could I?” I think you need a well after that very.

By: John

John — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:36:35 +0000

You should be safe on the huntard issue, unless the program uses fuzzy spelling logic and sends the message in response to “healz”

By: Sydera

Sydera — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:07:28 +0000

I have been using Heal Organizer since Matticus posted about it on plusheal. My healing corps is very impressed. I keep getting whispers of “heal” just because they like the mod. I wasn’t as big a fan of Healing Assigner, but maybe I will bring it out for Illidan.

By: Pike

Pike — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:53:06 +0000

But we huntards just wanna have fun! =P Pikes last blog post..I Can Dream