I've been healing as my shammy last evening and decided that's the path I want to take, but I'm still using the vanilla UI, still getting used to all the new stuffy Blizz added from last time I played. What add-ons should I be getting now? It's so hard to find solid advice on the interwebs, since a lot of it is pre-cata.
From scratch, what add-ons do you recommend? At the moment I pretty much just heal in instances, occasionally do other quests, sell a lot of stuff at the auction house, and chat to people. Might start doing battlegrounds as well today.
I've got a metric tonne of marking to do, so hopefully by the time I've finished you lovely peeps will have suggested some stuff for me to try out.
I like to heal with just a grid-layout mod and mouseover macros. There's a built-in grid frame for raids now, it can be used for the party as well, but I like something like VuhDo or Grid for it.
When I played my shammy I had them bound to F, alt-F, shift-F and some other key combos within easy reach. Then I just mouse over who needs healing and press a button.
There's also Clique, which lets you bind spells to mouse buttons for the same deal.
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SenshiBALLING OUT OF CONTROLWavefrontRegistered Userregular
edited December 2010
Shaman addons?
ShieldsUp is boss.
Also, fucking CLIQUE. Grid isn't necessary if you have good raidframes setup with either Pitbull or whatever. Also, Grid needs a lot of extra plugins to be worth a damn and it's fairly ugly out of the box, so to speak. Still, if you feel it does what yo want it to do, that's great.
General addons that are a good idea to have are Dominos (actionbars), Quartz (castbars), and SLDataText (modular info text, e.g. ping, gold, fps, durability status).
You people really are helpful! Is there an easy way to set up a macro so I can hit one key and cast the shammy instaheal on myself without changing my target? Literally never used macros before, never been healing before and had situations like this pop up where I'm trying to keep a tank alive with timed heals but then suddenly take some damage and want to stop myself from dying
Also, don't listen to Senshi, the failiest healer to ever fail at healing.
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SenshiBALLING OUT OF CONTROLWavefrontRegistered Userregular
edited December 2010
>implying I'm not a great healer
also casting with yourself as the target is /cast [@self] SPELLNAME
you should be able to add a modifier to only cast on yourself if you're holding down e.g. shift. I think this is how you do it: /cast [mod:shift,@self] SPELLNAME
I've only just discovered the beauty of Clique. Question, is there any reason to have skills on your bars after you've got a clique bind for them? Riptide aside because it has a cooldown.
Maybe possibly for healing people not in the raid/party since it's slow to click-target them and then clicky-heal their target frame... but if they wanted heals, they should be in your raid. So clearly they don't deserve heals.
As someone who has used Clique a lot, I am now trying to move away from it to mouseover macros, they just make more sense and are more flexible.
Clique only works on unit frames, mouseovers work everywhere, even on the player models itself.
When I don't have my mouse over something, it defaults to my target, and when I have no friendly target, it defaults to me.
So I don't need to mouse over my unitframe awkwardly to heal myself.
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SenshiBALLING OUT OF CONTROLWavefrontRegistered Userregular
edited December 2010
I'm starting to doubt that we're as casual as we say we are
someone asks a question and like a bunch of us swoop in and answer with equally good advice
I'm starting to doubt that we're as casual as we say we are
someone asks a question and like a bunch of us swoop in and answer with equally good advice
fuckin' posers is what we are
Hey speak for yourself, I don't give nobody nothing.
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SenshiBALLING OUT OF CONTROLWavefrontRegistered Userregular
edited December 2010
You play a death knight. There's no way you have helpful advice for anyone wanting to play better unless said advice is "cut off your nose, it increases your face:keyboard ratio for dps HEHUEHUEHUE"
You play a death knight. There's no way you have helpful advice for anyone wanting to play better unless said advice is "cut off your nose, it increases your face:keyboard ratio for dps HEHUEHUEHUE"
Cutting off your nose is actually suboptimal, you want as many hard angles on your face as possible. A thick pair of glasses and a ten sided die taped to your forehead is how pro dks (such as myself) do it.
The results speak for themselves.
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Well, saying that, I've gotten one character to like level 12 or something before, and then just gotten bored. Just made a trial account, I'll probably upgrade at the end of the 10 days.
Seems like I got an itch to get back into WoW and all my old guildmates are no longer playing. Do you have a heart for rerollers? Any low-level Priests who want to be my private Healer while I level?
Thinking about maybe doing the Goblin thing, permanent bank access sounds handy ...
So we need another deeps and a healer and we can start doing heroics.
Also does anyone need chaos orbs for anything? I can make me and Daz some pretty decent tanking epics but need 3 for the chest, 2 for the belt and 1 for the shield.
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My fucking only bank card expired and they didn't send me a new one. To top it off, the snow has disrupted all the mail around here. :<
Are you me?
The same thing happened to me, luckily, I still had my paypal that I used to buy a key off of ebay.
From scratch, what add-ons do you recommend? At the moment I pretty much just heal in instances, occasionally do other quests, sell a lot of stuff at the auction house, and chat to people. Might start doing battlegrounds as well today.
I've got a metric tonne of marking to do, so hopefully by the time I've finished you lovely peeps will have suggested some stuff for me to try out.
Mouseover macros are easy:
/cast [@mouseover,help] [] Healy Spell
When I played my shammy I had them bound to F, alt-F, shift-F and some other key combos within easy reach. Then I just mouse over who needs healing and press a button.
There's also Clique, which lets you bind spells to mouse buttons for the same deal.
ShieldsUp is boss.
Also, fucking CLIQUE. Grid isn't necessary if you have good raidframes setup with either Pitbull or whatever. Also, Grid needs a lot of extra plugins to be worth a damn and it's fairly ugly out of the box, so to speak. Still, if you feel it does what yo want it to do, that's great.
General addons that are a good idea to have are Dominos (actionbars), Quartz (castbars), and SLDataText (modular info text, e.g. ping, gold, fps, durability status).
also casting with yourself as the target is /cast [@self] SPELLNAME
you should be able to add a modifier to only cast on yourself if you're holding down e.g. shift. I think this is how you do it: /cast [mod:shift,@self] SPELLNAME
maybe it's /cast [mod:shift,@self][] SPELLNAME
otherwise there should be a key that you can set in your bindings that'll modify for self-cast
none of this is particularly useful if you've got clique installed, however, as clique will let you do it smoothly.
What is this the Burning Man festival?
Clique only works on unit frames, mouseovers work everywhere, even on the player models itself.
This is how my macros look: When I don't have my mouse over something, it defaults to my target, and when I have no friendly target, it defaults to me.
So I don't need to mouse over my unitframe awkwardly to heal myself.
someone asks a question and like a bunch of us swoop in and answer with equally good advice
fuckin' posers is what we are
Hey speak for yourself, I don't give nobody nothing.
Cutting off your nose is actually suboptimal, you want as many hard angles on your face as possible. A thick pair of glasses and a ten sided die taped to your forehead is how pro dks (such as myself) do it.
The results speak for themselves.
that's how awesome us rogues are
Well, saying that, I've gotten one character to like level 12 or something before, and then just gotten bored. Just made a trial account, I'll probably upgrade at the end of the 10 days.
Still cool for me to join, right?
Thinking about maybe doing the Goblin thing, permanent bank access sounds handy ...
Also, geared up for heroics now.
Also does anyone need chaos orbs for anything? I can make me and Daz some pretty decent tanking epics but need 3 for the chest, 2 for the belt and 1 for the shield.
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Sup.
Anyone feel like facerolling the Ulduar 10 hardmodes during the week for the rusted proto? Should be a joke at 85.