Comments on: Happy Holy Healing, Hallelujah!

By: Hiero

Hiero — Mon, 14 May 2012 04:17:47 +0000

Nice article.

Vuh’Do with a Razer Naga mouse (12 buttons on the thumb) works nicely. Takes some dex learning to do it well, but it’s nice to drop alt/shift/ctrl. Best regards.

By: Nonprophet

Nonprophet — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:29:43 +0000

I use chopsticks when eating doritos or cheese puffs. Keeps that shit off my fingers.

By: Beshara

Beshara — Fri, 04 May 2012 00:59:12 +0000

Priest healing is a lot of fun. It’s good to hear holy is doing well again. I went Disc in Firelands due to regen issues.

Vuhdo is a really nice add on. I used to be a healer that prided herself on not using an add on to heal with. It was actually a post you made a while back that made me try out Vuhdo, and I have loved it ever since.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:51:54 +0000

Vuhdo is awesome! You are a bold bear to forego Heal as a bound ability :)

I will say, I recently hit 85 with a priest, was really gungho about holy, was excited to hit ilvl 353, and then tried out the HoTs, and was unpleasantly surprised by how anaemic holy felt. :(

For all the good it seemed to do me, I may as well have been bandaging people instead of casting PoH. The only spells worth their salt seemed to me to be PoM and Circle. And my mana was diving fast. The first boss in WoE in particular was a nightmare.

But Lordy do I ever not want to go back to regular heroic purgatory. :( Pointers would be appreciated! Also, some indication of what ilvl things will start feeling better at. Otherwise, I may just go back to pally heals – got an upandcomer at level 55 who will be waiting in the wings, presently.

By: Macnol

Macnol — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:07:53 +0000

I know what you mean by the Ctrl+button bindings not always being the fastest. Particularly, I’ve had some problems getting Shift/Ctrl mixed up, so I switched to using Shift/Alt instead. But mostly only Shift.

The secret is to using the 2 extra mouse buttons you’re woefully ignoring, Mr. Bear. :) WheelUp and WheelDown are just waiting to become your new bestest friends. Along with Shift+WheelUp and Shift+WheelDown, those are 4 very quick and very spam-friendly binds you could have been using!

If you’re used to zooming the camera with your wheel it may take a couple days getting used to (I bind it something else (like Ctrl+Shift+Wheel), but believe me, it’s REALLY worth it.

By: Gameldar

Gameldar — Wed, 02 May 2012 03:19:33 +0000

I use grid with mouseover macros to solve this. I tried Vuh’Do a couple of times, but I’m used to my grid configuration and didn’t need to learn a new system – and I also prefer to click my keys to cast than click mouse buttons. Basically the only really advantage over the default ui is that you can customize what is showing and what isn’t showing a lot more – in terms of buff and debuffs – or one of the most helpful – showing who has aggro. Admittedly I haven’t played with the new raid ui apart from a few times so perhaps these things are there now, but I remember the debuff/buff choices were a lot more of ‘you can dispel it or you can’t’ where-as I have it showing the things I can dispel plus important boss mechanics so that you know who is going to take damage.

I also use the same grid configuration when tanking to know when I need to taunt off the other tank etc.

But thanks for the post BBB – came at a time I was contemplating doing some more healing on my pally (yes in LFR and heroics) after being invigorated by joining a guild run (with a large contingent of ex-members from my guild) for normal Spine and Madness last week (as kitty dps, but I want to have all the roles covered if needed). And this has tipped me over to the ‘must actually do that’ category… after I help guildies out with School of Hard Knocks…

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:15:35 +0000

Honestly, what Vuh’Do does for me s allow me to effectively “cast on mouseover”, where what I’m mousing over is the name of the party member, without having to actually click on the nameplate first. I used to click a nameplate to select the target, then press a number for the macro or spell on the bar to cast, then click a different nameplate. I don’t think there is a whole lot of difference…

By: dubhe

dubhe — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:11:17 +0000

lol
“The time has come, the Bear Priest said, to speak of many things. Of buffs and wipes and long cooldowns, of loot rolls and of bling. Of why the Spine is such a pain, and how to heal through things.”

love it.

By: Xew

Xew — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:10:13 +0000

How important is it for priests at 85 to use add-ons? I use threatplates and DMB only on all my toons, including my resto-druid. I tried Healbot and Clique but didn’t like either one. I’m contemplating using Vud’hu, but with resto at least, I’ve never had any issue that simple macros haven’t solved (lifebloom on the MT, Innervate for myself (thanks blizz for making that useless with more than one druid in the raid). etc.)

Priests have a lot more options, but it still seems to come down to just a few spells used primarily and a few more used occasionally and a lot of them being circumstantial.

By: Elynea

Elynea — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:57:40 +0000

Thank you for this! My priest was raised holy (yep, I leveled holy…didn’t know any better, and only later learned I should have leveled her shadow…lol!), and was a fairly decent healer (no one died, even to Stupid) until Naxx Revisited, when my guild wanted me to switch mains to my druid because we had a truly awesome disc priest. When Cata came, I dualled into Shadow to level the priest, and haven’t healed since. Been trying to get up the nerve and the set up (mostly have used Healbot, but hearing such wonderful things from those using Vuhdo, Grid+Clique, etc.) to start healing with her again.

Hearing about your experiences might just be the inspiration I needed. :)