tirsdag den 21. oktober 2008

Healing addons - wot I haz in me bag

After playing WoW for about a year I've grown to really love the addons. Especially as a healer I've found it too be immensily usefull to be able to customize what information, when and where you want. You'll need to make decisions as to where your heals are going to do the most good and which part of the chain you can afford to loose.

In WoW I ended up using Grid and Clique in combination which made my Resto Druid very capeable of rolling lifebloom on four tanks while still moving from instance AoE damage. Nifty.
In WAR I found that the default UI was a bit better than Blizzards UI - if only because you can customize it to a very large degree. Still, I really missed my Grid and to a certain degree also Clique. In the fury of RvR it's really usefull to have a good overview of who's taking damage and where the f*** they're at.

So, what have I found so far to help with this?

1. Squared. Grid for WAR. This is hands down the best thing since dwarfs came sliced. Easy to use and with a brilliant overview of the battle/warband/party you're trying to keep alive.

2. Ishealbot. I must admit I haven't started using this addon yet, but it's only due to my innate Gobbo lazyness. Having a fan of heals right at a mouseclick it very handy once you've learned them - and fairly dangerous untill then :)

3. Mechanic Alert. Sounds a little ding (a bit too low, though IMO) when you hit your career mechanics maximum (Waaagh for me). It's handy as a reminder to fire of those instant Brain Burstas or Your Not So Tough. Also the other way around when in PvE, it tells me when I can haz instant big heelz.

These are my three favorite healing addons. I'll make another post concerning the rest of the junk I keep in my trunk, but for now I'll point you in the direction of the addon-post extraordinaire at Hammerofwar.com

Boatorious' Addon Roundup.

Informative and fun. Go have a look and if you like it, here's a link to his blog.

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