5 man group resto healing

[driftz]

Hey guys, recently started getting back into multiboxing again, having leveled plenty of teams of 3.
I am now going for a new team of 5 druids for farming, and made it to level 50.
The issue I am running in to is not being able to heal efficiently on my resto druid. My main tank is getting pretty low on boss fights, and my macro doesn't seem to work well for healing/throwing hots on my dps character.

I am wondering how you guys setup your healing macros. My tank and dps have a rotation macro on key 1 that is working very well, however if I throw my healing rotation macro on key 1 I run into the issue of running out of mana from too many hots, or not healing enough. Do people use healing macros on the same key as their dps, or strictly go by keybinds with grid+clique (which is what I'm using)

Sorry if my question seems a bit convoluted, I guess a tl;dr is to ask what macro's or clique setups you guys are running for a resto druid that lets me focus heals on my tank, and throw hots on the group, and if they are setup on the same keys as your dps macros.

[Wubsie]

Healing is one of those questions where there really is no one "correct" way of doing it. It's all down to trial and error to find what works for you.

Personally I use a mixture of the pro-config, virtualization of healing rotations and click healing.

My DPS rotations keys (1-6) all trigger my basic healing rotation on my healers. Then I have a keybind to cycle virtualization to change that rotation to other healing rotations e.g. Slow PVE healing, AOE Spam healing, DPS Mode, etcetc.

All my healing macros are set up with 2 tiers, so that if I have a focus set on my healers, they heal the focus. If no focus is set, they mainly cast on TargetofTarget. So for a simple example:



/cast [target=focus,help] Healing Surge
/cast [target=targettarget] Healing Surge


To set focus I use a good ol' repeater region over my party/raid frame and a macro with the addon Clique. Additionally I've setup external CDs, battle-resses, normal resses, some utility, and spot healing macros to be used through click healing.

Oh, and naturally I have separate keybinds for large healing CDs like Revival, pally wings, etcetc.

I always found only a combination of all the methods was really sufficient. With doing all the healing manually it took far too much focus to do efficiently and just relying on pre-set rotations was too inefficient most of the time. This gives me a decent, flexible setup with an underlying layer of auto-heals that require no real attention, but still gives me control over the healing.

[driftz]

Hmm, thanks for the reply Wubsie. I've been messing with my roations a bit more and it seems to be working pretty well. However, I have been looking at mirai's video's on the pro setup and it looks much better, but obviously will take some time to configure. It's probably something I'll end up having to do anyways, but my little setup isn't working horribly for dungeons so far.

The only thing I can't figure out is how to disable auto assist on my healer without messing up every other function. If I can keep a friendly target without it automatically assisting my tank+dps it would be amazing.

[luxlunae]

For a druid you definitely want a passive rotation running all the time with your hots and a videofx of your unit frames for spot healing.

I did a lazy druid setup following that advice a few years ago in a blog post, the spell specifics might have changed but the idea has not:

https://www.dual-boxing.com/entries/965-Lazy-Healing-Druid

[bgarisn]

/cast [target=focus,help] Healing Surge
/cast [target=targettarget] Healing Surge



Just FYI, you can also use the '@' syntax for macros so your macro can also be:


/cast [@focus,help] Healing Surge; [@targettarget] Healing Surge

So if you have a Focus target and it's friendly heal it. Otherwise 'try' to heal the current target's target.

This is what one of my macros looks like:


/cast [@focus,help] Healing Surge; [@targettarget,help] Healing Surge; Healing Surge

I'm still working on the 'best' way for me to heal. I really don't like Clique healing because my mouse is constantly moving to turn the camera or select adds to pick up. So I'm still trying to figure out a way to to that better.

Currently, I just have my Healer spam heals on their current target and I have a keybind for only the Healer to assist whoever I'm currently driving from. This works ... ok, but it lacks the control that others have mentioned. I really need to dive into the pro-system setup for healing that MiRai has a video on and understand it better.

Appreciate all the advice here.

[luxlunae]

or else:

/cast [@focus,help] [@targettarget,help] [] Healing Surge