controlling with healer

[suicidesspyder]

Ok i have always led with my tank can someone give me some pointers how to lead with my healer. I have seen it on videos and it looks so much better to do it this way.

[smalltanker]

For melee just take the healer off IWT... basically your melee team will go for what ever you have targeted and will IWT to it. I use all mouse over healing so I will mouse over my grid (when I use it) or the basic WOW party interface. your healer stands around casting and what not and all you do is click a target and then spam your DPS key with ITW on it.

[JackBurton]

http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/4...l=1#post361036
Message that dude

[MadMilitia]

Driving from healer is the best methodology.


Several reasons for this.

1 - Avoid the cluster strat. Only cluster when necessary.

2 - You don't have to choose targets. In-game /target functions do that for you.

3 - You can heal optimally instead of secondary to tanking and grid broadcast.

4 - Debuff monitoring works better.


Only con here is that tank won't be optimally played. I use a DK so yeah.. No problem for me.

My team comp:

DK - Blood
WAR - Arms
SHM - Resto
HNT * 2 - BM


I hotkey an AE broadcast drop which is 2 * explosive traps + D&D.

I then hit my spam button. Misdirect hits tank, tank picks a target, hunters start spamming ST or AE dump (whichever I had selected). 9/10 times the pack lands right in the AE zone.

Both WAR and DK are on IWT so they do their thing.

I have shift and alt modifiers for range and melee respectively. I have a third ctrl just for melee so when cleave bosses are on the menu you can maneuver the melee behind the boss.


Then I have a roundrobin interrupt spam key with a 1.5 second lockout on it. It does the range interrupts first because melee always need a bit to catch up to the target. SHM first, then hunters, then DK then WAR. It has a reset of 15 seconds I think or whatever wind shear is.



Works pretty good. I did all the heroic end time runs driving from the healer. DK or Feral would be my guess as to the best tanks for the job. No idea on paladin. Wouldn't try it with WAR tanking.

[boxblizzardd]

removed, see below

[boxblizzardd]

ok, im too having some problems driving from the healer, i have been for a while but it causes interruptions.

how can you heal/click heal or manage healing if your toons keep targeting your toon for healing hence stopping dps/tanking.....

[Asterix]

you always keep the mob in target so your toons can /assist you and attack / tank your target
then you create macros for each toon like:

/cast [target=toon1] Lesser Healing wave

so you don't need to target toon1 and can stay on your target.
just klick the macro and it will heal the member stated in 'target=...'

alternative:
there had been an addon where you can just click on different spell-icons next to each group member to
cast the spell on the icon on the member, but don't know if this addon is still available.

[boxblizzardd]

+1

this works, thank you, something so simple i missed over all this time. (used to drive from tank with pre-nerf cast sequences)

i'll pass on the addon however im happy to re-macro.

ax

[boxblizzardd]

question for you if you can answer.

anyway you can add a modifier say, alt? and then click the party members who need healing without changing target like the above macro you advised? if i macro above, i got to create multiples of multiples to cover the whole group healing.

[boxblizzardd]

ok sorted it, i've been playing with some mouse over macros and put this together.

#showtooltip healing wave
/cast [target=mouseover, help] healing wave; [target=target, help] healing wave; healing wave

simply, when you mouseover your target, it will cast the spell you keystroke on your target without changing targets.

addition to this, when you dont target a player with mouseover and press the same key it will cast upon yourself!

genius!

ax