healing for me better way

[suicidesspyder]

Ok first of all let me say been tossing and turning for 2 hours because ive been thinking about this and cant sleep too lol. Also tried it for a short time not in an instance or pvp just running around killing mobs seeing how it works, and i love it. This is what i do. I add a keymap for my f8-f12 buttons ok. Next i make a macro for each button and bind it. Each macro just says /target toons name. After that all i have to do is hit 6-0 for w.e. heal i want to use. Oh snap another toon is in trouble hit say f9 i target that toon and give him a heal and so on and so on. Ive been testing it with my lock team and priest atm. Now i can just sit in a turtle spot and pop shield on each and a rejueve and dot dot dot life tap dot dot dot. If they really get in trouble i have circle of healing or greater heal. But for now the bubble holds long enough to get some dots off and a rejueve so that my toons can life tap at ease. Only toon that needs food now is priest. But with priest having good mana regen and 3k more mana then the locks i can go awhile without drinking. So if you want go ahead and try this way. I found out its better then click healing or making toons of healing macros. Just make 5 macros saying macro one /target toona macro two /target toonb and so on. Then like i said bind each one to f8 for toona f9 for toonb and thus. Then all u have to do is fight and if u hit those f buttons only your healer will target someone different and you can feel free to heal heal heal.

[ElectronDF]

If you just want to target a player, I thought F1-F5 already did that?
If you want to target a player to heal, fine, but guess what, you aren't doing any DPS while you target them. I like to not have to target anyone ever. I just let the mobs do it for me. /cast [target=focus-target-target] HealSpell works great for me. No thinking, no wondering if I have the correct person targeted, just push it when I want a heal to go off.

For my priest/4 locks, I use prayer of mending since it jumps and I don't have to watch it. Also, I have demo talent that lowers damage by 30% while locks heal the pet, so I tend to have the locks heal quite a bit (not amount of time, just number of times they do it versus the priest). Also, I made my priest shadow, so it can help DPS, heal and give mana back. I control my priest, so I can bubble if things get hard (still in shadow form) and then pop out to big heal if poop hits the fan.

The point the story, is it take latency time to target a player and latency time to target a mob all the while you are doing no DPS until you get back to the mob. You can auto-attack and still cast on a player if you put the target in the options of the spell instead of actually switching targets.

[suicidesspyder]

Well think av how many times are you in the same group with all your toons. Very rarely so thats why i did those buttons. Yea plus mine is only for bubbles and renews if im in trouble its basically cause i got to cocky and jumped in the middle of ten+ and feared and tried dotting the hell outta all of them meanwhile popping bubbles and renews so i can life tap and then have a chance to do some destro spells. i did it today in av and had pretty good success had over 130k damage on all locks most ever in a battle for me so far. Yea so like i stated before if your questing f1 - f5 is great but when your in a bg like av or wg you are rarely in group together so i needed another way to make sure my guys get heals and bubbles so i can life tap and kill to my hearts content. Oh yea lvl 65 and my locks are doing right below 700 dps so im happy 69 and bal is dead by me 4 locks priest and vws she is going down.

[alcattle]

Nice for a single team, what about when you change toons?

[Bloodcloud]

I use healbot on my Death Knight (main)

It shows me in a very compact form the health.

I configured HKN to use the area of the health bar of Healbot on my main to heal the partymember.

e.g. Health Area party member 1 -> right mouse -> greater heal, left mouse -> flash heal, middle mouse -> renew

so basically I made the healbot work remotely on my priest.

The priest has also buttons for each partymember for GH, FH, Renew.

I have my priest always as party1 (from the tank point of view) (thus no FTL)
so tank view:

player = tank
party1= priest
party2=toon3
party3=toon4
party4=toon5

Priest view:

player=priest
party1=tank
party2=toon3
party3=toon4
party4=toon5

which makes the [target=...] on priest macros very easy.

So the healbot "on screen buttons" press a "real" button on the priest client. I use Numpad0-9 and CTRL+Numpad0-9 for that.


<Template SHealer>
<If MouseIsOverWindowRect WoW1 %1%>
<SendLabel w5>
<Key %2%>
<EndTemplate>


<Hotkey MButton>
<PassThrough>
// HEALBOT !
//Bloodcloud
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 515 125 25" "Numpad7">
//Priestera
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 550 125 25" "Numpad8">
//Huntera
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 590 125 25" "Numpad9">
//Burnmana
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 630 125 25" "NumpadPlus">
//Daimon
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 665 125 25" "NumpadMinus">

<Hotkey LButton>
<PassThrough>
// HEALBOT !
//party
//Bloodcloud
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 515 125 25" "Numpad0">
//Priestera
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 550 125 25" "Numpad1">
//Huntera
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 590 125 25" "Numpad2">
//Burnmana
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 630 125 25" "Numpad3">
//Daimon
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 665 125 25" "Numpad4">
//pets
//Hunteras Pet
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 705 125 25" "Numpad5">
//Daimons Pet
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 743 125 25" "Numpad6">


<Hotkey RButton>
<PassThrough>
// HEALBOT !
//party
//Bloodcloud
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 515 125 25" "Ctrl Numpad0">
//Priestera
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 550 125 25" "CTRL Numpad1">
//Huntera
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 590 125 25" "CTRL Numpad2">
//Burnmana
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 630 125 25" "CTRL Numpad3">
//Daimon
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 665 125 25" "CTRL Numpad4">
//pets
//Hunteras Pet
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 705 125 25" "CTRL Numpad5">
//Daimons Pet
<ApplyTemplate SHealer "358 743 125 25" "CTRL Numpad6">


hope this helps.. More possibilities are possible with shift+ mouseclick to bubble e.g.

[suicidesspyder]

Seeing how i have one healer in grp no matter what toon i am on using isboxer only the priest will target who i want to target and heal them. So its basically paused on all toons but my priest the f buttons. Makes it easier for me to heal that way. I mean i like the healbot idea but i went for ease lol and thats what this does. Atm until i get more used to running with my priest with my lock team maybe later ill change it but not for now.

[Jubber]

focustargettarget, is nice but that only adresses your focus. Every now and then you get that stray that makes a beeline for one of your alt toons and your healer has to target them to heal them. It's always good to have a backup.