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any of you guys have ways that you like to shield? do most of you just click on the guys and shield or do you have it set up some way to do it. just asking have a 71 disc priest that i have been pvping with and thought their has to be a easier way of shielding guys in raids then clicking on each one. thanks guys
Are you using a healing mod? If not, you may want to look at the common ones such as Grid, VuhDo, Healbot, Clique, etc. I shield people the same way I cast heals.
The perpetual problem with being a healer is that you have to cast things on mutliple targets at all times, which means you must use your mouse in some way, and that impedes your movement. My current way to minimize the annoyance in PVP is that my keybound shield is attached to a macro that shields the current target if friendly, or the target's target if friendly, or if neither of those conditions are true, me. This allows me to use the keybind a lot of the time. But I use Clique with my unit frames to shield everyone else. Right click for Shield, left for Penance.
The perpetual problem with being a healer is that you have to cast things on mutliple targets at all times, which means you must use your mouse in some way, and that impedes your movement. My current way to minimize the annoyance in PVP is that my keybound shield is attached to a macro that shields the current target if friendly, or the target's target if friendly, or if neither of those conditions are true, me. This allows me to use the keybind a lot of the time. But I use Clique with my unit frames to shield everyone else. Right click for Shield, left for Penance.
You're right about there being easier ways, and a lot of them involve addons.
I highly recommend picking up Healbot, Vuhdo, or Grid and Clique. I've only ever used Grid + Clique, so that's what I'll talk about.
Grid takes the unit frames (the things that show portrait, health, mana, etc.) and replaces them with your own, which you can customize. with Grid, you can set it up to show whether or not they have Prayer of Mending, Weakened Soul, or just about any other buff or debuff in the game.
Clique allows you to bind certain spells to certain part of your mouse. For example, for me, left-clicking someone's Grid frame will make me cast Flash Heal on them. Right-clicking will make me cast Power Word: Shield on them. Shift-right clicking is Pain Suppression. And so on.
Addons make keeping people shielded, and healing large amounts of people in general, much much easier.
It'll take a bit of tinkering to get some of them to your liking, however. I recommend Googling some of them for guides on how to set them up, especially Grid.
It can take an hour or so to set up to your liking sometimes, but it is worth it.
I highly recommend picking up Healbot, Vuhdo, or Grid and Clique. I've only ever used Grid + Clique, so that's what I'll talk about.
Grid takes the unit frames (the things that show portrait, health, mana, etc.) and replaces them with your own, which you can customize. with Grid, you can set it up to show whether or not they have Prayer of Mending, Weakened Soul, or just about any other buff or debuff in the game.
Clique allows you to bind certain spells to certain part of your mouse. For example, for me, left-clicking someone's Grid frame will make me cast Flash Heal on them. Right-clicking will make me cast Power Word: Shield on them. Shift-right clicking is Pain Suppression. And so on.
Addons make keeping people shielded, and healing large amounts of people in general, much much easier.
It'll take a bit of tinkering to get some of them to your liking, however. I recommend Googling some of them for guides on how to set them up, especially Grid.
It can take an hour or so to set up to your liking sometimes, but it is worth it.
I'll put in my vote for Vuhdo. It works the same as Grid + Clique. It simply configures differently.
There are active forums for both Grid and Vuhdo.
Although I use Vuhdo now, I did write this grid setup post.
What ever you use, you need to know the status of your shield and weakend soul. Then you will know when you can shield again. I actually have configured a yellow border to shows up around people who have lost their shield and don't have weakend soul. I can spot them quickly and simply re-click when the yellow border shows up on them. It screams shield me now!! (well, not really, but it could...)
Edited, Jun 8th 2010 6:29pm by dadanox
There are active forums for both Grid and Vuhdo.
Although I use Vuhdo now, I did write this grid setup post.
What ever you use, you need to know the status of your shield and weakend soul. Then you will know when you can shield again. I actually have configured a yellow border to shows up around people who have lost their shield and don't have weakend soul. I can spot them quickly and simply re-click when the yellow border shows up on them. It screams shield me now!! (well, not really, but it could...)
Edited, Jun 8th 2010 6:29pm by dadanox
My main problem with Vuhdo has been that the configuration menu is so hideous I can't even get through to the part where I can change the colour of the health bars to something less obnoxious.
Since that experience, I've come to learn how to use Grid reasonably well - knowing who has which debuff in which bossfight is the newest thing I've come to love about it - and while I find it (at least the way I've set it up now) much prettier than Vuhdo or Healbot, it annoys me that its programming causes some colours to look awful and that you can't play with the opacity as much as I'd like.
I also use Clique for the click-healing (I believe a similar thing is built in for some unit frame addons such as Healbot and Vuhdo) but since my mouse buttons are quite limited and I've found using Alt as a modifier can result in me pressing the Windows button instead which renders my PC useless for 30 seconds or so, I use mouseover macros, too. Actually, I only use one for Pain Suppression, I should set them up for Prayer of Healing and Power Infusion, as well.
Thanks for reminding me.
Since that experience, I've come to learn how to use Grid reasonably well - knowing who has which debuff in which bossfight is the newest thing I've come to love about it - and while I find it (at least the way I've set it up now) much prettier than Vuhdo or Healbot, it annoys me that its programming causes some colours to look awful and that you can't play with the opacity as much as I'd like.
I also use Clique for the click-healing (I believe a similar thing is built in for some unit frame addons such as Healbot and Vuhdo) but since my mouse buttons are quite limited and I've found using Alt as a modifier can result in me pressing the Windows button instead which renders my PC useless for 30 seconds or so, I use mouseover macros, too. Actually, I only use one for Pain Suppression, I should set them up for Prayer of Healing and Power Infusion, as well.
Thanks for reminding me.
Aside from what the rest has mentioned so far - I tend to at least keep Renewed Hope up. On fights where shield-spamming means jackpot (Festergut, Lich King), I tend to... go wild. On 25-mans, I go wild in a controlled manner, though. I start shielding one group, then the next, etc. That way I make 'circles' through my interface. If you're unlucky and you're in group five, you're generally not going to get any shields - tough luck. On the other hand, these are generally the healers and our first aid team is good enough not to get themselves killed most of the time.
For the Lich King specifically, I tend to try and shield up 4/5 groups and time a PoH right after the Infest on the fifth group. Maximo profito!
For the Lich King specifically, I tend to try and shield up 4/5 groups and time a PoH right after the Infest on the fifth group. Maximo profito!
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thanks guys been using healbot my self will check out the others never thought of setting up the power word shield that way.
Mozared wrote:
If you're unlucky and you're in group five, you're generally not going to get any shields - tough luck.
So true. 25 people is just a lot to shield spam. One thing I like to do is put all the healers in one frame, and the tanks in another (with their targets). Then they are followed by the rest of the raid in my third frame. That way healers and tanks get shield priority.
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